Bin Laden made his first admission of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks in a tape released to Al Jazeera on October 29, 2004. ” ‘We decided to destroy towers in America so they may taste what we have tasted,’ he says, clearly referring to the World Trade Center.” – Alex Johnson, Pete Williams, Tamara Kupperman, […]
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10/29/2004
On October 29, 2004, a new videotape by Osama bin Laden was aired on Al Jazeera. In it, he said: ” ‘As you spoil our security, we will do so to you. …Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or [President] Bush or Al Qaeda. Your security is in […]
10/29/2004
On the campaign trail on October 29, 2004, “Calling attention to presidential elections scheduled in Iraq in January [2005], [President] Bush told voters, ‘Think how far that country has come from the days of torture chambers and mass graves. Freedom is on the march, and we’re more secure for it.’ Echoing his State of the […]
10/29/2004
On October 29, 2004, Al Jazeera aired a videotape of Osama bin Laden, his first in over a year. He said: ” ‘Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry, or [President] Bush, or al-Qaeda. It is in your own hands and any state that does not violate our security […]
10/29/2004
“In a videotape released in October [29] 2004, bin Laden pointed out that for al-Qaeda’s $500,000 investment in the 9/11 attacks, the United States economy sustained a $500 billion loss. Bin Laden crowed over al-Qaeda’s investment: ‘Every dollar al-Qaeda invested defeated a million dollars.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 209 […]
10/29/2004
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 […]
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 […]