11/5/2002

“…in early November 2002, Al-Jazeera broadcast a long diatribe from Osama, and within days National Security Agency specialists confirmed the voice on the audiotape was his. Chillingly, he praised a new wave of recent terrorist operations stretching from a car-bomb attack on a tourist nightclub in Bali to an explosives-laden speedboat attack on a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen.” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Jonathan Randal, Osama, Page 31