9/17/2001

” ‘Do you want Bin Laden dead?” a reporter asked President George W. Bush six days after the Sept. 11 attacks [September 17, 2001]. ‘I want him–I want justice,’ the president answered. ‘And there’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, *Wanted: Dead or Alive.* ‘ ”

 – Kate Zernike and Michael Kaufman, “Osama bin Laden was the Most Wanted Face of Terrorism,” The New York Times, May 2, 2011