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March 9th, 2006

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Driving bin Laden? Cato Institute by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren 03/09/06 When you drive alone, do you drive with bin Laden? A growing number of foreign policy analysts seem to think so, and the president himself said as much in an interview with CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer a few days before his much-ballyhooed 'State of the Addiction' speech to a joint session of Congress. Unfortunately, the widespread belief that conservation and alternative fuels will cripple Islamic terrorism is wishful thinking. The fundamental problem with the argument is that terrorists don't need oil revenues. The fact that catastrophic terrorism can be undertaken on the proverbial dime (a few hundred thousand dollars paid for the 9/11 attacks) suggests that choking off financial resources to al Qaeda effectively is a hopeless task... http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5872 Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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