Quotes of the Week - Sept 2, 2008:
"It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain
doesn't get it." -- US Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama at his party's Denver convention.
"No way. No how. No McCain. Barack Obama is my candidate. And he
must be president." -- Hillary Clinton backs Obama at convention.
"In international relations, you cannot have one rule for some
and another rule for others." -- Russian president Dmitri Medvedev
on recognizing independence of Georgia's breakaway regions, saying the
West set a precedent by treating Kosovo the same way.
"I wanted to show myself as I am. I couldn't care less about the
camera." -- Designer Valentino Garavani, in a new warts-and-all
portrait documentary of half century in fashion.
Authors:
Osama bin Laden Quotes, Osama bin Laden Quotations, Sayings
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reaction might take place as a result of the US government's
hitting Muslim civilians and executing more than 600,000 Muslim
children in Iraq by preventing food and medicine from reaching
them. So, the US is responsible for any reaction, because it
extended its war against troops to civilians. Osama bin Laden CNN interview 1997
Acquiring
weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I
have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling
me to do so. And if I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying
out a duty. It would be a sin for Muslims not to try to possess
the weapons that would prevent the infidels from inflicting
harm on Muslims. Osama bin Laden Asked if he was trying to acquire chemical
and nuclear weapons, Time Magazine, Dec 1998
As
for their accusations of terrorizing the innocent, the children,
and the women, these are in the category of 'accusing others
with their own affliction in order to fool the masses.' The
evidence overwhelmingly shows America and Israel killing the
weaker men, women and children in the Muslim world and elsewhere.
A few examples of this are seen in the recent Qana massacre
in Lebanon, and the death of more than 600,000 Iraqi children
because of the shortage of food and medicine which resulted
from the boycotts and sanctions against the Muslim Iraqi people,
also their withholding of arms from the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina
leaving them prey to the Christian Serbians who massacred and
raped in a manner not seen in contemporary history. Not to forget
the dropping of the H-bombs on cities with their entire populations
of children, elderly, and women, on purpose, and in a premeditated
manner as was the case with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Osama bin Laden In Nida'ul Islam magazine October-November
1996
God
knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after
the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice
and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people
in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events
that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that
followed -- when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon,
helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers
in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way
(and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of
what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women. Osama bin Laden Admitting responsibility for attacks on US
on September 11, 2001, on videotape shown on Al Jazeera, October
29, 2004
I
have benefited so greatly from the jihad in Afghanistan that
it would have been impossible for me to gain such a benefit
from any other chance and this cannot be measured by tens of
years but rather more than that. Praise and gratitude be to
God. We saw the brutality of the Russians bombing Mujaheddins'
positions, by grace of God, we dug a good number of huge tunnels
and built in them some storage places and in some others we
built a hospital. So our experience in this jihad was great,
by the grace of God, praise and glory be to Him, and the most
of what we benefited from was that the myth of the superpower
was destroyed not only in my mind but also in the minds of all
Muslims. Slumber and fatigue vanished and so was the terror
which the U.S. would use in its media by attributing itself
superpower status or which the Soviet Union used by attributing
itself as a superpower. Osama bin Laden CNN interview 1997
If
the American government is serious about avoiding explosions
inside the U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of
1,250 million Muslims. Osama bin Laden CNN interview 1997
In
our religion, there is a special place in the hereafter for
those who participate in jihad. Osama bin Laden In Time magazine May 6, 1996
It
is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than
to squander his efforts on other activities. Osama bin Laden Answering questions posed by followers at
his mountaintop camp in Afghanistan, May 1998
To
kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military
-- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any
country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate
the al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] and the holy mosque [Mecca] from
their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all
the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. Osama bin Laden In Fatwa entitled Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement, February 28, 1998
We
believe that the biggest thieves in the world are Americans
and the biggest terrorists on earth are the Americans. Osama bin Laden On ABC's Nightline, June 10, 1998
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