Al Jazeera released material from an Osama bin Laden videotape on October 29, 2004. “As part of the ‘bleed-until-bankruptcy plan,’ bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by […]
10/29/2004
“The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday [November 1, 2004] of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group’s goal is to force America into bankruptcy. Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday [October 29, 2004] but released the full transcript of the […]
10/29/2004
“October [29] 2004: Osama bin Laden broadcasts on Arabic TV [Al Jazeera], taking full responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] News reported that this 18-minute video is the first time that the purported Sept. 11 mastermind actually took responsibility for the terrorist act. The al-Qaeda leader explained that the group planned and […]
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 […]
10/29/2004
“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 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
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
“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
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 […]
10/29/2004
“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 […]