In a bin Laden videotape aired on October 29, 2004, “al-Qaeda’s leader responded directly to President Bush’s frequent claim that his group was attacking the United States because of its freedoms rather than its foreign policy. The terrorist leader said sardonically, ‘Contrary to what Bush says and claims that we hate your freedom. If that were true, then let him explain why we did not attack Sweden?’ “
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 342