Quote Originally Posted by CocaCola
Can someone explain how one man couped up in the mountains of a small country could have set up this operation, spanning over what... three different countries?
Bin laden had lots and lots of money - everything from phony charities to trust fund accounts, inherited business interests he divested, and who knows what else. They probably picked the Afghanistan economy clean, especially the yearly millions in foreign aid that Americans gave them - but these cash sources are just chump change compared to the Poppy/Heroin monopoly that Afghanistan had - which made them the number one supplier of junk to Europe.