12/23/1998

” ‘I had no hand at all in the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania,’ he [Osama bin Laden] said [on December 23, 1998], ‘but I feel no sorrow over the blasts.’ He did claim credit for inspiring the attacks, however. ‘Our job is to instigate and, by the grace of God, we did that–and certain people responded to this investigation.’ “

 – Roy Gutman, How We Missed the Story, Page 157