11/8/2001

“An interview with Bin Laden was published in a Pakistani newspaper [on November 8, 2011]. ‘We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent…if America used them against us we reserve the rights to use them [too]… The American people should remember that they pay taxes to their government, they elect their president, their government manufactures arms and gives them to Israel and Israel uses them to massacre Palestinians. The American people had risen against their government’s war in Vietnam. They must do the same today. The American people should stop the massacre of Muslims by their government.’ ”

 – Rowenna Davis, “Bin Laden: The War in His Words,” The Guardian, May 2, 2011