From an interview with Bin Laden by reporter John Miller in Esquire
Magazine, 1999:
* "We are sure of our victory against the Americans and the Jews as
promised by the Prophet: Judgment day shall not come until the Muslim fights
the Jew, where the Jew will hide behind trees and stones, and the tree and
the stone will speak and say, 'Muslim, behind me is a Jew. Come and kill
him.' "
* "We believe that the biggest thieves in the world and the terrorists are
the Americans. The only way for us to fend off these assaults is to use
similar means. We do not worry about American opinion or the fact that they
place prices on our heads. We as Muslims believe our fate is set."
* "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and
civilians; they are all targets in this fatwa."
* "So we tell the Americans as people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers
and American mothers in general that if they value their lives and the lives
of their children, to find a nationalistic government that will look after
their interests and not the interests of the Jews. The continuation of
tyranny will bring the fight to America. . ."
- Osama bin Laden, Esquire magazine, February 1999
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"No doubt internal Arab politics had something to do with the massacres, but
in the end there is one reason why the United States is the target: We are
the only nation in the world [backing] Israel."
- David Gelernter, National Review Online, 9/14/01
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