On September 9, 2001, “Two days before the World Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks, Osama bin Laden telephoned his adoptive mother and told her that he would not be in touch again for some time. ‘In two days you’re going to hear big news and you’re not going to hear from me for a while,’ the prime target for United States military retaliation is quoted as telling Al-Kalifa Bin Laden, the woman who brought him up.”
– Rowenna Davis, “Bin Laden: The War in His Words,” The Guardian, May 2, 2011