” ‘On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,’ [President] Bush said in a televised statement from the White House at 1 P.M. [on October 7, 2001], a little more than a half hour after the first explosions were reported in Kabul, the Afghan capital.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 166