Terrorism without bin Laden

Author of the New York Times bestseller, “Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America,” Yossef Bodansky recently discussed the future of terrorism against the United States with WND talk-show host and writer Geoff Metcalf.

Bodansky is director of the congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, as well as author of “Target America: Terrorism in the U.S.” and “Terror: The Inside Story of the Terrorist Conspiracy in America.” According to Bodansky, bin Laden’s articulate – and accurate – message of the plight of Arabs and inspirational call to “perpetual jihad” have motivated “hundreds of thousands” of fundamentalist Muslims to continue his war against the West – with or without Osama bin Laden.

In the interview, Bodansky explains bin Laden’s high position in Afghanistan and how the drug trade fuels his cause.

“Bin Laden and the Islamic Jihad are living off of drug money – the Taliban’s drug money. They (the Taliban) have got exports of about $7 billion to $8 billion a year. Bin Laden’s share is about 15 percent, or somewhat over a billion dollars a year. He does not need a handout.”

Bodansky goes on to describe bin Laden’s role in global Islamic terrorism.

“Bin Laden inspires. Bin Laden outlines the logic. Bin Laden is the guy who is convincing the Muslim world today that the only way to save Islam, as they perceive it – a radical Islam, a militant Islam – from the onslaught of Judeo-Christian values and the ultimate destruction of Islam is a cataclysmic world war. But he’s not the guy who trains the people who eventually end up fighting the war. That’s done by the sponsoring states.”

Visit WorldNetDaily tomorrow to read Metcalf’s entire interview and gain new insight into the man President Bush calls “the evil one.”