
The Year of the Locust

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.
Terry Hayes • The Year of the Locust
Turkey they have an expression for such a task: they say it’s like digging a well with a needle.
Terry Hayes • The Year of the Locust
As Dorothy Parker once said, ‘If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.’
Terry Hayes • The Year of the Locust
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.’