10/7/2001

A videotape of Osama bin Laden aired on October 7, 2001, the same day the U.S. launched its bombing campaign against Afghanistan. He said “that the Americans and the British ‘have divided the entire world into two regions–one of faith, where there is no hypocrisy, and another of infidelity, from which we hope God will protect us.’ “

 – Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 69