On September 3, 1996, “the United States launched a modest number of cruise missiles against Iraqi military targets after Iraq moved tanks into the northern part of the country. The coalition (essentially down to the United States and Great Britain) also expanded the southern no-fly zone to further reduce Saddam’s ability to control his country […]
Category: quotes
9/3/1996
” ‘Our missiles sent the following message to Saddam Hussein,’ remarked the president [Clinton] in his [September 3, 1996] statement announcing a 1996 strike in retaliation for Saddam’s aggression in Northern Iraq. ‘When you abuse your own people or threaten your neighbors, you must pay a price.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, […]
8/23/1996
” ‘I say if the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S.,’ said bin Laden [in his ‘Declaration of War Against America‘ on August 23, 1996], ‘then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims. Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, […]
8/23/1996
“In August [23] 1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia. The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings […]
8/23/1996
Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) wrote, quoting Frontline: “On August 23, 1996, from his base in Afghanistan, bin Laden issued a Declaration of Jihad, outlining his organization’s goals to drive U.S. forces from the Arabian Peninsula, to overthrow the government of Saudi Arabia, to ‘liberate’ Muslim holy sites, and to support Islamic revolutionary groups around the […]
8/23/1996
Summarizing bin Laden’s Declaration of Jihad on August 23, 1996: “Al-Qaeda had declared war on America.” – Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, Intelligence Matters, Page 31 […]
8/23/1996
“On August 23 [1996], Osama bin Laden signs a declaration of jihad against the United States.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 303 […]
8/23/1996
“From his new refuge in Afghanistan bin Laden issued a slew of ever more radical pronouncements, beginning with ‘The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places‘ on August 23, 1996. …’The latest of these assaults is the greatest disaster since the death of the Prophet Muhammad…that is the […]
8/23/1996
Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in a treatise written from Afghanistan. ” ‘You are not unaware of the injustice, repression and aggression that have befallen Muslims through the alliance of Jews, Christians, and their agents, so much so that Muslims’ blood has become the cheapest blood and their money and wealth […]
8/23/1996
“[I]n August [23] 1996, bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. The stated cause was the continued presence of United States forces in Saudi Arabia five years after the first Gulf War. …He presumed to speak on behalf of all Muslims, and even directed some of his lengthy fatwa to Secretary […]