Chapter 1072: Unpredictable Blessings and Misfortunes
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In fact, the current top leaders do not have time to read any domestic news, although the major domestic newspapers are still sparing no effort to add glory to the leaders, but at this time of year, the leaders are most concerned about what will be the reaction of the United States after this sudden blow.
In the past few days, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just visited China, and Chief No. 1 and Boss Zhu have met with him separately and said that it is necessary for China and Russia to keep the same pace in many international affairs, and that the traditional friendship between China and Russia should also be carried forward, border trade should be strengthened, and military and economic cooperation should also be strengthened.
When Fan Wuxian went back, he was unanimously surrounded by the executives in the company, and they asked what was the inside story of this incident?
Due to the suddenness of the incident, no one has figured out who planned this incident, but judging from the handwriting, it is really amazing, and it is very amazing to be able to hijack four planes at almost the same time, break through the North American air defense system, successfully hit two buildings of the World Trade Center, and knock off a corner of the Pentagon.
It is conceivable that this would not have been possible without a well-organized organization and a superhuman full understanding of the relevant systems in the United States.
"I guess it was done by **-" Fan Wuxi didn't say it too clearly, after all, this matter is still inconclusive, and he himself is not good to be too prescient.
"**Oh-" The listener still realized something.
Osama. Root. Osama bin Laden was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1955, to the son of Awad, the country's richest construction tycoon. Root. Bin laden. His father amassed a $5 billion fortune in the construction industry, and bin Laden inherited $350 million, which he used to finance terrorist activities.
Osama bin Laden, who worked as an engineer and earned a fortune from the oil and construction industries, owned several companies in Saudi Arabia and the West, involved in construction, oil, manufacturing, and gemstones, as well as legend drug trafficking, smuggling of nuclear materials, chemical weapons, and arms trafficking. These various businesses have brought him a huge amount of money, and his personal fortune is estimated to be in the billions of dollars.
Bin Laden noted that Arab countries would either become a card in the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony or a target for US suppression. Bin Laden was extremely disgusted by this and decided to seek justice with his huge fortune. He was a great advocate of violent terror, studied it carefully, and gradually became a fanatical fundamentalist.
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the young bin Laden left his comfortable family in Saudi Arabia and traveled into the Hindu Kush Mountains, where he gathered a crowd to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
In this war, bin Laden showed his strategic genius. Realizing that Afghanistan lacked the equipment and the manpower to deal with this protracted war, he immediately sprang into action to address these issues.
In the early eighties, bin Laden co-founded an organization with a member of the Pakistani Brotherhood to provide troops and funds for the Afghan resistance. The group has set up recruiting centers around the world, including in the United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, sending tens of thousands of fighters to fight in the war against the former Soviet Union.
After Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saudi Arabia was afraid that it would become Iraq's bag, so it invited the US team to station. After hearing the news, bin Laden asked for a meeting with the Saudi Arabian defense minister to offer advice on how to defend Saudi Arabia's national security, saying that Iraq could be defeated without the help of the Americans. He spread out the map in front of the Minister of Defense and told about the plan to defeat Iraq without the help of the Americans. When the Minister of Defense asked him how he would deal with Iraq's aircraft, tanks, and chemical and biological weapons, Ben Brown. Osama bin Laden said in all seriousness that we defeat them with faith.
Naturally, the Saudi government rejected his extremely absurd proposal. Annoyed by this, bin Laden moved to Yemen, where he lived in exile for about a year.
In 1988, al-Qaeda was founded in Afghanistan, and within a decade, 30,000 people had been trained at the bin Laden base camp in Afghanistan. The men came from countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan and Pakistan.
In fact, the war in Afghanistan is not just about racial hatred, it is part of a long-standing confrontation and global hegemony between the two superpowers, the United States and the former Soviet Union. At the time, the Americans and Ben. Bin Laden's partisans had a common goal of driving the former Soviet army out of Afghanistan.
So, ironically, at that time, Ben. Bin Laden not only received strong support from the United States and Western countries, was an ally of the CIA, and some even called him a hero, and many of bin Laden's intrigues and violent methods were learned from CIA personnel.
The CIA allocated $500 million a year to arm and train poor and defenseless guerrillas, and the most promising leaders of the time were favored and supported by the CIA.
Root. Osama bin Laden's organization was one of the seven major partisan factions of the time. Many cutting-edge products of US high-tech weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, have entered bin Laden's arsenal one after another. Now most of the weapons are still there. It is estimated that bin Laden's organization received as much as $250 million in U.S. aid during the war in Afghanistan.
Most of the training camps for guerrillas in Afghanistan are still functioning, and they provide mercenaries to many countries that are at war. Afghanistan is also seen, as before, the heart of the guerrillas, from where trained fighters are sent wherever they are needed. Retired partisan soldiers began to appear in fighting in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya.
In 1996, bin Laden returned to Afghanistan, where he quickly put his vast international network to work after consolidating his base. Through high-tech means, such as telex, satellite phones and the international Internet, he was able to reach out to his followers in the Arab world, Europe, the United States and Canada.
During this period, bin Laden issued three orders calling on his subordinates to take up arms against the Americans, including a declaration of war against the United States published on the Internet that year.
Because of these reasons, ** in the international influence is still very large, especially as the leader of the terrorists that the Americans hate so much, the Americans have always wanted to catch him and execute him, but unfortunately** is not only as cunning as a fox, but also has a large number of followers to protect him, more importantly, he is quite familiar with the CIA's set of methods, and the Americans know what they want to do as soon as they their tails.
In the face of such an opponent, the Americans really have a headache.
Not long after, the State Council convened another meeting of experts, and Fan Wuxian was also invited to attend, during which the main discussion was to discuss the impact of the 911 incident on the domestic and international financial markets.
Most people believe that the impact of 911 on the US financial market does not seem very clear, and the instability of the social atmosphere has a direct effect on the US financial market and has an impact on the global financial market. At the same time, the U.S. economic recession will lead to increased trade protection pressure, and Chinese manufacturing will face more anti-dumping and anti-subsidy lawsuits, which will weaken the international competitiveness of China's export goods, which will have a significant impact on China's economic growth and employment.
After the 911 incident, the closure of the U.S. stock market was of great significance to its financial stability, but after the stock market reopened, although the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank each abruptly cut interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to stabilize people's confidence and support the stock market, the Dow Jones fell by 7.1 percentage points on the same day, and then fell slightly for two consecutive days, indicating that people's confidence has not stabilized.
The U.S. government and the international community have taken swift steps to stabilize confidence and revive the economy and stock market. The rapid closure of financial markets after the 911 attacks demonstrated the effectiveness and proportionality of the United States mechanisms and institutions, and was conducive to the financial security and stability of the United States, which has planned to spend an additional $40 billion in the next two years on counter-terrorism activities and the reconstruction of New York and Washington, D.C., and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in New York.
The plan of the presidential financial market emergency team established after the stock market turmoil in 1987 was quickly launched, and the Federal Reserve set up a special discount window to meet bank financing at any time, and on the day of the attack, the central banks of the United States, Europe, Japan, and other countries invested at least $120 billion in the world money market to increase market liquidity.
The Federal Reserve announced a 0.5 percentage point cut in interest rates before the reopening of the U.S. stock market, the eighth time this year that the U.S. has lowered interest rates, and the European Central Bank, which has always been hesitant, also cooperated with the Fed's actions to quickly lower interest rates by 0.5 percentage points, and the Bank of Japan also increased the amount of money put in.
"From another perspective of economic development, the loose monetary and fiscal policies and reconstruction work of the United States have the potential to turn decay into magic, increase the stimulus of the American economy, ease the pressure of overstocking, adjust the balance of payments, and make the 911 incident an opportunity for economic recovery." Fan Wuxian also has some opinions on this, but he believes that this incident is not a bad thing for the United States, or even a good thing, "but in the short term, this matter will inevitably have an adverse impact on the economic development of the United States, Credit Suisse First Boston estimates that this event will make the gross domestic product of the United States in the third and fourth quarters of this year fall by one percentage point compared with the previous quarter, but if you take into account the loose monetary and fiscal policies that the United States has adopted, the relative stability of oil prices and the impact of reconstruction efforts." This estimate may be overestimated. ”
In fact, Fan Wuxian felt that every war was a good time for Americans to get rich, and this time it would naturally be no exception, **'s counterattack, at least let Uncle Sam find a reason to enter the Middle East, and the arms dealers were so excited that they couldn't sleep after the 911 incident.
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