Chapter 1077 The Americans’ Weakness

Call for divination. Americans round up gangsters. It started a few years ago.

Before supporting the terrorist attacks, Japan had already carried out the bombing of the US military camp and the bombing of the Kenyan embassy. Since bin Laden's base was bombed by U.S. cruise missiles, he has moved his new base to a dusty mountain village near the town of Famata, a few kilometers south of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad near the Pakistani border. Bin Laden lived here, accompanied by his three wives, thirteen children and hundreds of fanatical and loyal elite guards.

Bin Laden, who was on the run, lived an extremely simple life as before.

Of course, since Bin Laden is the declared number one enemy of the United States, and intelligence agents are hunting him all over the world, in contrast to his simple living habits, Bin Laden spends a lot of money on security. Although Taliban officials insist that the millionaire, who was born into a wealthy Saudi family, has been in trouble since the United States froze his bank accounts and cash flow. But people close to bin Laden say his charges for a day on the run could be as high as $50,000. This includes secure housing, military training facilities, communications facilities and an elite force of 250 people.

Bin Laden's personal bodyguard is basically composed of Sudanese, including some fanatical Iraqis, Saudis, Pakistanis, Tunisians and Egyptians. Each of these people has high morale, is very loyal, and is well-equipped. The weapons they used included rocket-launched howitzers, anti-aircraft artillery, automatic rifles and a multiple rocket launcher.

The most ironic thing is that Bin Laden now always carries Blowpipe and Stinger anti-air missiles with him. The Stinger missiles were specially equipped for Bin Laden by the CIA in the 1980s.

For safety reasons, Bin Laden often lives in no fixed place, but recently, due to his deteriorating health, it has become difficult to move. He may have felt that his time on earth was numbered, but he still insisted on fighting the Americans to the end. Recently, a Qatari satellite TV station broadcast a video interview with him. On television, Bin Laden once again called on all Muslims to attack American targets.

In the eyes of Americans, Bin Laden is the incarnation of the heinous devil. As long as he lives in the world, Americans will never have peace for a day. Now, Bin Laden has taken the initiative to seek bad luck on the Americans. The U.S. government is really furious. I vow to get rid of this thorn in my side as soon as possible.

Since the Afghan Taliban regime recognized that Bin Laden was still in Afghanistan, the United States immediately launched an operation to hunt down Bin Laden. At present, intelligence collection personnel from the US Central Intelligence Agency have arrived in Afghanistan's neighboring countries, Pakistan and Central Asian countries. Monitor bin Laden's activities.

After figuring out Bin Laden's specific location, the United States may launch another missile attack on Afghanistan. At the same time, the United States also announced sanctions on the Taliban to force them to hand over bin Laden. Previously, the FBI had put Bin Laden on its ten most wanted list and offered a $5 million reward to anyone who provided useful information.

The U.S. government believes that

Bin Laden was protected by the Taliban Islamic armed group that rules Afghanistan and has been able to escape justice to this day. Therefore, the United States has been exerting pressure on the Taliban and demanded bin Laden be deported, but the Taliban refused.

However, due to lack of recognition in the international community, the Taliban's position has softened. Last year, it negotiated with the United States, hoping to arrest bin Laden in exchange for a bargaining chip in exchange for diplomatic recognition by the United States. Although the deal did not go through, ordinary Afghans have viewed Bin Laden as yet another scourge since the Soviet invasion.

Villagers at a military base that was attacked in US retaliation complained that the Taliban failed to protect them and said bin Laden's presence posed a threat to them. Villagers said that if the Taliban wanted to activate the base again, they would close it themselves.

To further put pressure on the Taliban. The U.S. government has begun to consider a comprehensive strike against Afghanistan through war.

At this time, the clouds of war have focused on the Afghan regime, which is not recognized by most countries in the world.

This time, the Americans were really angry.

In addition to the loss of property and life, the biggest impact it caused was that it interrupted the two main nervous systems of the United States. Although it was only a brief interruption of a few days, the United States was already in a state of turmoil, and for the first time, the main body of the United States experienced paralysis in its entire body. and a syndrome that causes depression and feelings of Armageddon.

These two main nervous systems are the most important blood vessels of modern industrialized rich countries. They are particularly sophisticated in the United States and are a hundred times more important than in other countries. One is the aviation and transportation system, the other is the financial system, and the latter is more important than the financial system. The former is important.

At the time of the collision, more than 6,000 civilian aircraft were flying in U.S. airspace. As soon as the news of the collision reached the power command center, it is estimated that the owner of the White House who did not fly back to the White House immediately gave the order. Call me all to come down. If you don't come down, I'll shoot you down. Then he paid one base period in a row. Domestic planes are not allowed to take off, and foreign civil aviation aircraft are not allowed to approach. Air transport came to a complete standstill. The chaotic American sky suddenly fell silent, and Da's economic system regressed back to a backward era without airlift.

The cruelty is that without declaring war in advance and giving the United States a psychological preparation time, it suddenly cut off and paralyzed two living main nervous systems of the United States.

Although the paralysis caused by this surprise attack lasted only a few days, its deep scars will take a long time and can only be healed without recovery. The importance of these two main nervous systems in the United States is far greater than in other countries. It can be said that other countries in the world can withstand several surprise attacks without falling, but the economic structure and social operation of the United States will not be able to withstand a second or third attack.

The aviation industry and the financial industry are the lifeblood of the US economy. They cannot be touched. If they are touched, the whole situation will be affected. After the building crash, air transportation fell into an unprecedented state of complete paralysis. The entire economic motivation of the United States suddenly braked urgently, and it fell into an idling state even without a dead engine.

The United States is the country with the most developed air transportation in the world. In a country with such a large land area as the United States, the economic function and benefits of air transportation are maximized. The time-sensitive logistics system of large enterprises and large-scale production has an increasing demand for air transportation. Time-sensitive logistics management is to straighten the logistics of production and consumption through efficient information transmission and instant planning and scheduling of modern sea and air transportation tools, saving the bloated and expensive retention of intermediate links, and greatly reducing the unnecessary inventory of semi-finished products in production bases and goods on the sales front. Therefore, the cost is greatly reduced and the price competitiveness is improved.

In addition to freight, passenger transportation is also very important. Politicians carry briefcases and engineers carry notebooks. The advantages of air transportation are growing, and the contribution to economic globalization is very large... After the suspension of US air traffic control, American bigwigs who were on business and travel abroad could not return home, including the central bank governor who could not fly back after a meeting in Switzerland. He can retire in Switzerland. Politicians from other countries who visited the United States were also stranded in the United States and could not leave, causing false alarms for several days.

Having learned from experience, the United States has allocated funds for anti-terrorism in a big way.

Air anti-terrorism can be successful in African countries because there are no two planes taking off and landing in a day. In the United States, it is just the opposite and it is impossible to succeed.

It is impossible for all the four or five hundred commercial airports in the United States to truly establish a strict inspection system that meets anti-terrorism standards. Airports and airlines have already quarreled with the government about who will pay for security costs. Only then did I think of the loveliness of the country. When making money, the less intervention from the country, the better. At its busiest, there may be 10,000 civil aircraft flying in the US airspace. Even when the Soviet Union's military was at its strongest, it did not have 10,000 intercontinental missiles. No matter how to fight against terrorism in the air, it is technically impossible to fight back and prevent it, unless the US reduces the number of take-offs and landings of civil aircraft to the same level as Afghanistan.

The blow to the financial industry is far greater than the blow to the aviation industry. After this blow, the physical insecurity weaknesses of the New York financial center were exposed, which is a fatal thing. Finance needs a sense of security the most. The wealth of the United States is built on credit. Others do not have credit, but the United States has a highly developed credit culture.

A highly developed credit culture must be built in a highly developed financial system, and a highly developed financial system must be built in a highly secure safe haven.

At the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 1960s, Kennedy once played a head-on game with Khrushchev to see who was stronger. In the end, Khrushchev was defeated and Kennedy won.

In fact, the big bourgeoisie circle in the United States was also scared at the time, and they will try to avoid playing this game again in the future. At that time, the US financial system was not as developed as it is today, and the international financial wealth it controlled was still limited, far less powerful than it is today.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States thought that as long as it did not take the initiative to play the head-on nuclear threat game, it would be the safest haven in the world. When there was unrest in any corner of the world, most of the capital flight went to it, that is, to New York. No matter how strong the wind and waves, the United States sat firmly on the fishing net.

Unfortunately, Cool ruthlessly and briefly overturned the United States' Diaoyutai, and a large group of fishing enthusiasts fell into the water.

Someone found the soft spot for the United States. Many soft spots were found, but no one saw the Diaoyutai of the financial system and the hardest and softest soft spot of the financial system.

However, it is obvious that **, the old enemy of the US government, saw it and took action.

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