Bin Laden's Modest Objective: 4 Million Americans Dead

Well, at least it doesn't have anything to do with reproducing the Holocaust (i.e. 6 million dead). Graham Allison:
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Bin Laden's objective for America--and it is to kill 4 million Americans, he says, quote, "Four million Americans, including 2 million children."

And you think, Where in the world does somebody get such an estimate? As I point out, he puts it up on their website. This doesn't come out of thin air. This is what he believes is required to balance the scales of justice for the Muslims who have been killed by what he calls the Jewish-Christian crusaders, by which he means Israel and the United States. And he goes through all the battles and incidents--Jenin, this many; Shatila, this many; sanctions against Iraq, this many--and gets this calculation. So I would say on the negative side, not only do we have the factors out there that there's plenty of places where they might get a weapon, but if there's any doubt--as there was in some people's minds before--that there's somebody out there who would like to kill large numbers of Americans, I would say that story should be concluded.