Less than two weeks after a White House message on October 10, 2001, Osama bin Laden said in an interview on Al Jazeera: ” ‘The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic [twin] towers that spoke of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke. The proof came when the U.S. government pressured the media not to run our statements that are not longer than a very few minutes. …They forgot all about fair and objective reporting and reporting the other side of the issue. I tell you freedom and human rights in America are doomed…’ “ [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Raymond Ibrahim, ed./trans., The Al Qaeda Reader, Pages XII-XIII