The attacks on 9/11 cost al-Qaeda less than five hundred thousand dollars while the War on Terror has cost the US over ten trillion dollars.

Abu al-Zarqawi established al-Qaeda in Iraq with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in seed money from bin Laden. That’s always been the problem – terrorism is warfare on the cheap.’

Turkey they have an expression for such a task: they say it’s like digging a well with a needle.

As Dorothy Parker once said, ‘If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.’