Chapter 1072: Unpredictable Blessings and Disasters

Jia Zhan! The current senior officials simply don’t have time to see what’s new in the country: the main newspapers in the state are still sparing no effort to glorify the leaders, but at this time of year, what the leaders are most concerned about is what will happen to the United States after suffering this sudden blow. What was the reaction?

In the past few days, Russian President Vladimir Putin has just visited China. Chief No. 1 and Boss Zhu met with him respectively and expressed the need for China and Russia to keep in step on many international affairs, and the traditional relationship between China and Russia Friendship should also be promoted, border trade should be strengthened, and military and economic cooperation should also be strengthened.

When Fan Wubing went back, he was surrounded by senior executives in the company, asking what the inside story was about this time.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, no one has yet figured out who planned this incident. Judging from the handwriting, it is indeed remarkable. They were able to hijack four aircraft at almost the same time, break through the North American air defense system, and successfully collide. The two World Trade Center buildings and a corner of the Pentagon were knocked off. This ability and action ability are very amazing.

It is conceivable that without a strict organization and a first-class full understanding of the relevant American systems, this matter would not be possible.

"It's probably Fan Wubing who did it because he didn't make it too clear. After all, the matter has not been finalized yet, and he himself can't seem too prescient." After hearing this, he still felt enlightened.

Osama ** was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1955. His father is Awad **, the richest construction tycoon in Saudi Arabia. His father amassed a fortune of US$5 billion in the construction industry. Bin Laden inherited US$350 million and turned it into capital for financing terrorist activities.

Bin Laden worked as an engineer and earned a huge fortune from the oil and construction industries. He owned several companies in Saudi Arabia and Western countries, involving many industries such as construction, oil, manufacturing, and gemstones. It is said that he also engaged in drug trafficking and smuggling of nuclear materials. , chemical weapons and arms trading, etc. These various businesses have brought him huge wealth, and his personal fortune is estimated to be in the billions of dollars.

Bin Laden noticed that Arab countries would either become a card in the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for hegemony, or become a target of American suppression. Bin Laden was extremely disgusted by this and decided to use his huge wealth to seek justice. He highly advocates violent terror methods. He studied this carefully and gradually became a fanatical fundamentalist.

After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the young Bin Laden left his comfortable family in Saudi Arabia and traveled to the Hindu Kush Mountains. He gathered people to raise flags and launched a struggle against the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

In this war, Bin Laden showed his strategic genius. He realized that Afghanistan lacked both the equipment and the manpower to deal with this protracted war, so he immediately took action to solve these problems.

In the early 1980s,

Bin Laden co-founded an organization with a Pakistani Brotherhood member to provide soldiers and funds for Afghan resistance organizations. The organization established recruitment centers around the world, including the United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and sent tens of thousands of fighters to participate in the war against the former Soviet Union.

After Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saudi Arabia was afraid that it would become a target of Iraq, so it invited the US military to station. After hearing the news, Saudi Arabia requested to meet with the Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia to provide suggestions for protecting Saudi Arabia's national security, saying that it was not necessary. Americans helped defeat Iraq. He spread out a map in front of the defense secretary and laid out his plan for defeating Iraq without American help. When the Secretary of Defense asked him how to deal with Iraq's aircraft, tanks and biological and chemical weapons, President Xi Jinping said seriously that we will defeat them with faith.

Naturally, the Saudi government rejected his extremely absurd suggestion. Bin Laden was very angry about this and moved to Yemen in anger, where he lived in exile for about a year.

In 1988, the Communist Party established Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Within ten years, 30,000 people were trained in Bin Laden's base camp in Afghanistan. These people come from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan and Pakistan.

In fact, the war in Afghanistan is not just racial hatred. It is an integral part of the long-term confrontation and global hegemony between the two superpowers, the United States and the former Soviet Union. At that time, Americans and Japanese guerrillas had a common goal to drive the former Soviet troops out of Afghanistan.

Therefore, it is ironic that the terrorists at that time not only received strong support from the United States and Western countries, but were allies of the CIA. Some people even called him a hero. Many of Bin Laden's conspiracies and violent methods originated from Learned it from CIA personnel.

The CIA allocates US$500 million in military expenditures every year to arm and train poor and unarmed guerrillas. The most promising leaders at the time were identified and supported by the CIA.

The organization of ** was one of the seven main, second-grade, and second-team factions at that time. Many cutting-edge American high-tech weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, have continuously entered Bin Laden's arsenal. Most of the weapons are still there. It is estimated that bin Laden's organization received US$250 million in military aid from the United States during the war in Afghanistan.

Most of the guerrilla training camps in Afghanistan are still functioning and they provide mercenaries to many countries at war.

Afghanistan is still seen as the heart of the guerrillas, and fighters trained there are sent wherever they are needed. Former guerrilla fighters began to appear in battles in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya.

In 1996, Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan. After consolidating his base in Afghanistan, Bin Laden quickly put his vast international network to work. Through high-tech means such as telex, satellite phone and the Internet, he was able to communicate with followers he had never met throughout 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 posted on the Internet that year.

Because of these reasons, *** still has a great influence in the world, especially as a terrorist leader that Americans hate with itch. Americans have always wanted to catch him and execute him. It is a pity that Not only is he as cunning as a fox, but he also has a large number of followers to protect him. More importantly, he is very familiar with the CIA's methods. As soon as the Americans raise their tails, the police know what they want to do.

Facing such an opponent, Americans will really feel pain again.

Not long after, the State Council convened another expert meeting, and Fan Wubing was also invited to attend. The main discussion was about how much impact the incident would have on the domestic financial market.

Most people believe that the impact of the incident on the US financial market is not very clear now. The instability of the social atmosphere directly affects 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 countervailing complaints, which will weaken the international competitiveness of China's exports and have a significant impact on my country's economic growth and employment.

mouth. After the incident, the closure of the U.S. stock market was of great significance to its financial stability. However, after the stock market reopened, even though the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank suddenly cut interest rates by 0.5 percentage points each to stabilize people's confidence and support the stock market, the Dow Jones still fell that day. 7.1 percentage points, and then fell slightly for two consecutive days, indicating that people's confidence has not yet stabilized.

The U.S. government and the international community quickly took measures to stabilize confidence and revive the economy and stock market. After the incident, the financial market closed quickly, which demonstrated the effectiveness and appropriateness of the US mechanism and system, and was conducive to the financial security and stability of the United States. The US government has planned to increase expenditures by US$40 billion in the next two years for anti-terrorist activities. As well as reconstruction efforts in New York and Washington, the World Trade Center in New York will be rebuilt.

The President's Financial Market Emergency Group established after the 1987 stock market crisis quickly activated the Federal Reserve's special discount window to provide bank financing at any time. On the day of the attack, the central banks of the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries at least invested 100% in the world currency market. US$120 billion to increase market liquidity.

The Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut of 0.5 percentage points before the U.S. stock market reopened. This was the eighth time this year that the United States has lowered interest rates. The European Central Bank, which has always been hesitant, also cooperated with the Fed's actions and quickly lowered interest rates by 0.5 percentage points. , the Bank of Japan also increased the amount of currency.

"From another perspective of economic development, the loose monetary and fiscal policies and reconstruction efforts of the United States may turn corruption into magic, increase stimulus to the U.S. economy, alleviate the pressure of inventory backlog, adjust the balance of international payments, and make Quoting, the incident has become an opportunity to revive the economy. Fan Wubing 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 incident will It will inevitably have a negative impact on the U.S. economy. Credit Suisse First Boston estimates that this incident will cause the U.S. GDP to drop by one percentage point each in the third and fourth quarters of this year compared with the previous quarter. However, if we consider that the U.S. This estimate may be too high given the impact of already adopted loose monetary and fiscal policies, relatively stable oil prices, and reconstruction efforts.

In fact, Fan Wubing feels that every war is a great opportunity for American wealth, and this time will be no exception, with Japan's counterattack. At least it gave Uncle Sam a reason to march into the Middle East. The arms dealers were so excited that they couldn't sleep after the incident.