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...High-Profile Attacks" and "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly." Or that CIA chief George Tenet looked around in the summer of 2001 and saw that "the system was blinking red." Or that the FBI's chief of counterterrorism said he wished he had 500 analysts tracking the army of Osama bin Laden in those days--"instead of two." Or that few of the 56 FBI field offices around the country could remember receiving any of the special alarms that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she ordered up before the Twin Towers came crashing down. Had Americans known then that...
...We’ve done more to fuel Islamic terrorism than anything in history,” he also said, adding later, “George Bush has been very good to [Osama] bin Laden’s movement...
...those who reject reconciliation and want war, we are ready. For those who want reconciliation, we have given them a chance. Stop shedding our blood so as to preserve your blood." Anonymous speaker said to be OSAMA BIN LADEN, on an audiotape aired by the Arabic TV stations al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, offering European countries, but not the U.S., a truce...
...think we need Osama bin Laden to start telling us how to handle our political affairs." TONY BLAIR, British Prime Minister, rejecting bin Laden's offer. The German, Italian and Spanish governments turned it down...
...understanding your enemy can lead to defeat. We will have little success in overcoming terrorists unless we better comprehend their motives. The Afghanistan war was a proper reaction to 9/11, but the Iraq invasion must have pleased Osama bin Laden, as it brought greater numbers to his side. The U.S. is not safer as a result of the Iraq war; we are in greater danger. Bin Laden's active followers may be a small minority of Arabs and Muslims, but a small minority of 1 billion people can still be a huge number. Our free and open society...