10/14/2001

“In an Al Qaeda video released on October 14, 2001, [spokesman] Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said: ‘[Secretary of State Colin] Powell and other members of the US administration know that when Al Qaeda promises, it delivers, and the information is what we see not what we hear. The storm of airplanes will not be calmed, if it is God’s will. The storm will not calm, especially as long as you do not end your support for the Jews in Palestine, lift your embargo from around the Iraqi people and have left the Arabian Peninsula, and stop your support of the Hindu against the Muslims in Kashmir.’ ”

 – Rohan Gunaratna, Inside al Qaeda, Page 218