“As bin Laden put it in a speech to the American people [on October 29, 2004]: ‘The jihad fighters have recently forced [President] Bush to resort to an emergency budget in order to continue the fighting in Afghanistan and in Iraq, which proves the success of the plan of bleeding [America] to the point of bankruptcy, Allah willing.’ “
– Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 290