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He makes a clever point about bin Laden’s latest message-tweaking:

And thus Osama becomes yet another billionaire complaining about the growing gap between the rich and the poor, a sort of George Soros with a Closed Society Institute, and a Peter Lewis, who instead of insuring cars blows them up.

Ah, I love that. But then!:

Still, it’s funny (in a horrible sort of way) to watch bin Laden promote economic disadvantage as a grievance against what he considers a corrupt Muslim regime. For Osama, version 2005, poverty is the root cause of terrorism. For the rest of us, we know it’s Osama.

Right, because he tried to take down the world’s economy because poverty is a horrible thing. Pffff