In a bin Laden videotape aired on October 29, 2004, “al-Qaeda’s leader responded directly to President Bush’s frequent claim that his group was attacking the United States because of its freedoms rather than its foreign policy. The terrorist leader said sardonically, ‘Contrary to what Bush says and claims that we hate your freedom. If that […]
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10/29/2004
“The unexpected reappearance of bin Laden [in a videotape on October 29, 2004] did remind Americans that the Bush administration still had not caught the terrorist mastermind, but it also reminded them of the threat from terrorism, an issue on which Bush was seen as stronger than his rival [in the upcoming presidential election], Senator […]
10/29/2004
Then-President George W. Bush recalled: “On October 29 [2004], the al Qaeda leader [Osama bin Laden] released a videotape threatening Americans with ‘another Manhattan’ and mocking my response to 9/11 in the Florida classroom. It sounded like he was plagiarizing [filmmaker] Michael Moore. ‘Americans will not be intimidated or influenced by an enemy of our […]
10/29/2004
“In a speech addressed to the American people on 29 October 2004, he [Osama bin Laden] rather gleefully noted that ‘al Qaeda spent $500,000 on the event [9/11] while America lost, in the event and its subsequent effects, more than $500 billion dollars; that is to say that each of al Qaeda’s dollars defeated 1 […]
10/29/2004
“As bin Laden put it in a speech to the American people [on October 29, 2004]: ‘The jihad fighters have recently forced [President] Bush to resort to an emergency budget in order to continue the fighting in Afghanistan and in Iraq, which proves the success of the plan of bleeding [America] to the point of […]
10/29/2004
In a videotape aired by Al Jazeera on October 29, 2004, “bin Laden explained how al-Qaeda was exploiting America’s political gullibility, economic power, and corporate interests for its own purposes and how unintentionally cooperative the Bush administration had been. It is easy, said bin Laden, ‘for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that […]
10/25/2004
On October 25, 2004, “CBS and The New York Times reported that the Iraqi government had warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were missing from one of Iraq’s most sensitive former military installations, a complex called Al Qaqaa. The explosives, which could produce bombs strong […]
10/25/2004
“A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, administration officials said Monday [October 25, 2004]. …They said the opinion would essentially allow the military and the C.I.A. to treat […]
10/25/2004
“In October [25] 2004, the New York Times reported that 380 tons of the high explosives HMX and RDX had disappeared from an Iraqi weapons site called al Qaqaa, which had been identified as a possible location for weapons of mass destruction. With the U.S. presidential election in its closing days, the news caused a […]
10/24/2004
President Bush “asserted at a campaign event in Colorado in [October 24] 2004, ‘We are fighting these terrorists with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq and beyond so we do not have to face them in the streets of our own cities.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 166 […]