“One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.” FeelsKindJesusLinesSituationComedyExampleJudgingTasteCrossesMy FavoriteWorking ItFormulasUnlikelyBin LadenInappropriateGood TasteOsama Bin LadenHandicapsRetardedGood JudgesGynecologists Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsHas BeensStatesPainAmericaForceSolutionsRighteousBin LadenOsama Bin LadenWhatever It TakesTehranRighteous Anger Author:Rich Lowry
“There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.” Has BeensFocusEventsEvidenceAlsSaddamHusseinBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin LadenHorrificSept 11 Author:Robert Byrd
“Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.” IfsHumansNamesHuman BeingsLeaderWonderClaimsRight ThingBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.” Has BeensSpecialMissionsAccomplishedUnitsCiaBin LadenOsama Bin LadenMission AccomplishedDisbanded Author:David Letterman
“[S]ince their candidate lost, many [Democrats] have allowed their hatred of George W. Bush to put them in the tragic position to be cheering for the same result in Iraq as Osama Bin Laden and al Zarqawi.” LostResultsPositionHatredDemocratIraqCandidatesTragicAlsCheerBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Joe Scarborough
“Fom the out set, the War on Terror was sharply different from other U.S. military actions in the strong support it received from American women. Normally, men back military action by 10 to 20 points more than women do. But, after 9/11, women felt more endangered by terror and backed action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden as strongly as men did.” MenDifferentWarActionStrongFeltSupportMilitaryTerrorBin LadenTalibanWar On TerrorOsama Bin LadenAmerican WomanMilitary Action Author:Dick Morris
“What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.” InvolvedAngryLondonDeniedThreatenedGuardianBin LadenOsama Bin LadenMake Me Angry Author:Kola Boof
“I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.” KnowsWantedWishSecretCareersGravesDestroyedClosetsBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Kola Boof
“George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."” EvilLanguageSidesStruggleMirrorsBin LadenOsama Bin LadenGood Against EvilMirror Image Author:Sam Hamill
“There isn't a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.” NeedsWellsCausesGoalClearRootsOrganizationSightIndependentTerrorismCampaignsTerroristDefinedPreciseBin LadenSurveysOsama Bin LadenSpunRoot CauseClear Goals Author:Edward Said
“Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.” PeopleStatesFactsUnitedEffortUnited StatesIncludingAfghanistanEightyBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Edward Said
“Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.” FeelsForceLandSacredProphetPatriotBin LadenArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisOsama Bin LadenProphet Mohammed Author:Edward Said
“I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his parents to give. It validated for the Muslim world virtually all of bin Laden's rhetoric. He had always said the Americans will destroy any strong Muslim regime, and we did.” IfsWorldGivingSaidWantedChristianStrongParentIraqExpectedRegimesRhetoricBin LadenOsama Bin LadenMuslim WorldChristmas Present Author:Michael Scheuer
“I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.” ThinkingHas BeensCharacterTermPartyLeaderSecurityCivilizationDestructiveExceptionBin LadenMadmenGangstersApocalypticOsama Bin Laden Author:Michael Scheuer
“He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.” MenWorldRunningThreeSpeakCenturyHugeUniqueOrganizationReputationGenerosityCombinationOddIslamicPoeticCombatWoundedCeo21st CenturyVeteranTheologianThree TimesBin LadenEloquentOsama Bin LadenMultinationalsCombat Veterans Author:Michael Scheuer
“The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.” IfsThinkingStatesImplicationsBin LadenGrotesqueOsama Bin Laden Author:Tariq Ali
“First, I would say, is ideology. I have never spoken to any member of these groups, not just ISIS, but also Al Qaeda, Shabab, etc., who wasn't driven by the ideology. Beyond that, a lot of people are wounded in some way - they've fallen out of society in some manner. All of the ones I've spoken to seem to have veered off course from lives we consider acceptable and successful. Of course, there are others like Osama bin Laden, who was a wealthy and successful businessperson.” PeopleWayFirstsSeemsCoursesSuccessfulGroupsMembersDrivenIdeologyFallenEtcWealthyAlsAcceptableWoundedIsisBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin LadenSuccessful Business Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi
“I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.” WorldStatesGovernmentFightingFeltSpaceUnitedUnited StatesWillingLettersMagazinesAround The WorldComparisonPrintEditorsArrogantPointingWorldviewBin LadenCowardlyCoalitionsDefendersOsama Bin LadenHordeGood FightHelmTime MagazineOrcsSaruman Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I regret not finding Osama Bin Laden.” RegretFindingsBin LadenI RegretOsama Bin Laden Author:George W. Bush
“There was a striking example of this in Pakistan when the US sent in Special Forces, to be honest, to kill Osama Bin Laden. He could easily have been apprehended and caught but their orders were to kill him.” Has BeensOrderForceSpecialHonestExampleCaughtBeing HonestPakistanBin LadenOsama Bin LadenSpecial Forces Author:Noam Chomsky
“I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and night praying to Allah that the Americans will invade." And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause - the cause of terrorism - than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.” SaidNightThreeCoursesCausesMorningWeekPrayingLettersIraqTerrorismNewspapersKneesAbsurdityInvasionAustralianBin LadenOsama Bin LadenMorning And Night Author:Bob Hawke
“People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.” PeopleKnowsWantFactsAmericaHateKnowingCriticizeHate YouBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:R. Kelly
“It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that kind of thing. I don't care if it's a pope or a bin Laden. As long as investigators must go to a judge - an independent judge, a real judge, not a secret judge - and make a showing that there's probable cause to issue a warrant, then they can do that. And that's how it should be done.” IfsKnowsWantShouldKindLongRealDoneCareCausesCan DoSecretIssuesJudgingIndependentDon't CarePlanningI Don't CarePopeBin LadenOsama Bin LadenWarrantsInvestigatorsProbable Cause Author:Edward Snowden
“Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists' presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.” NeedsWellsCausesRootsOrganizationIndependentTerrorismCampaignsTerroristDefinedPreciseBin LadenSurveysOsama Bin LadenSpunRoot Cause Author:Edward Said
“Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.” PeopleStatesFactsUnitedEffortUnited StatesIncludingAfghanistanEightyBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Edward Said
“Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.” HandsIndividualBloodBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Barack Obama
“Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans learned that the United States had carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for. And what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics.” ThinkingStatesRunningLastsPastNightNationsDifferencesUnitedPartyUnited StatesAchievePrideUnityDeeperOperationsSuspectsCaptureLast NightDisagreementBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Barack Obama
“If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.” IfsThinkingGovernmentSecuritySightPrioritiesCrushAlsNational SecurityBin LadenUnwillingAl QaedaOsama Bin Laden Author:Barack Obama
“We need to look at [Osama bin Laden killing ] as a great victory for the American military and intelligence personnel and for the American people. A lot of bravery and courage displayed by those folks on behalf of all of us. It's also a good day for the administration. I think President [Barack] Obama and his national security team acted on the intelligence when it came in, and they deserve a lot of credit, too.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksPresidentTeamSecurityMilitaryVictoryDeserveBraveryKillingFolksCreditAdministrationBarackNational SecurityBehalfGood DayBin LadenPresident Barack ObamaOsama Bin LadenPersonnelBravery And CourageAmerican MilitaryGreat Victory Author:Sarah Palin
“I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well supplied, that the strategy is clear, that the coalition is strong.” KnowsWellsStrongClearHonestStrategySoldierBeing HonestWorriedBin LadenCoalitionsOsama Bin Laden Author:George W. Bush
“Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and then it goes down the list. You get Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, you don't get Obama, or in fact any western leader. The public doesn't want the whole imperial project. So if you had democracy, it would be all over.” IfsWantLooksWholeFactsWould BeLeaderOpinionDemocracyFiguresProjectsWesternListsMinistersPrimeSaddamPrime MinisterPublic OpinionHusseinTurkeysPollsBin LadenOsama Bin LadenErdogan Author:Noam Chomsky
“One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the kind of decisive, permanent victories in this fight against terrorism that we would get from fighting another country. We're not going to get that MacArthur/Emperor moment, because by definition, even after decimating Al Qaeda in the Fata, even after taking out [Osama] bin Laden there's still people there who have both the interest and the capacity if we don't maintain vigilance to strike against the United States.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindStillsCountryStatesMomentsFightingInterestUnitedUnited StatesVictoryCapacityDefinitionsTerrorismStrikesPermanentI've LearnedAlsEmperorBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin LadenVigilanceMacarthur Author:Barack Obama
“Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.” WorldTryingResponsibleBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?” WorldWarProblemEvidenceTradeGuiltyConvincingBin LadenParagraphOsama Bin LadenWorld Trade CenterWell SaidGoing To War Author:Robert Fisk
“Osama Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do in response to this attack 9/11. I'm sure he wanted America to attack Afghanistan. Once you do what your enemy wants, you are walking into a trap, whether you think it's the right thing to do or not.” ThinkingEnemyWalkingResponseRight ThingAfghanistanSophisticatedBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking this does not look like the type of guy who walks to the top of a mountain with a mobile phone and says, "Operation B, attack."Now he is America's number one enemy. He's always wanted to be that.” ThinkingRememberGuyEnemyMountainBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“At the end of the day, Osama bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud. There's a great deal of resentment, even inside the royal family, at the continued military presence of the United States there.” HouseInterestMilitaryResentmentBin LadenOsama Bin LadenRoyal Family Author:Robert Fisk
“Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.” WorldChildrenFeelingsDyingInjusticePalestinianDictatorHumiliationBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“Whether Osama bin Laden is doing it cynically and has no interest in these matters, or whether he's doing it out of genuine conviction, his voice has a tremendous resonance throughout the Arab world. One editorial in a Lebanese paper said it is a matter of great humiliation for the Arabs that the only man who can outline, truthfully, what our humiliations are is an Arab who has to say it from a cave in a foreign country.” MenWorldCountryInterestConvictionHumiliationBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“I've lived in the Middle East for twenty-five years. I know exactly how these issues come up. Even my landlord, who is a moderate Lebanese guy, says, "But bin Laden says what we think." These people believe that Osama bin Laden is being targeted not because of the World Trade Center and Washington; they are not convinced by the evidence that has been produced. They believe he's being targeted because he tells the truth.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveGuyEvidenceTradeTelling The TruthBin LadenOsama Bin LadenLandlordWorld Trade Center Author:Robert Fisk
“We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West. Look, international capital has been globalized, so Osama bin Laden is globalized. It's not surprising to find followers of bin Laden in all these countries.” MenCountryKillingSoldierThings HappenViolentBossMafiaBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Robert Fisk
“When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months of attacking Afghanistan, Bush clearly moved on to get ready for Iraq, long before Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda were dispensed with. There was never any serious debate in the press about whether even the notion that every Taliban was our enemy was valid. A lot of assumptions about that war were never challenged.” LongWarEnemySeriousMovedDebateAssumptionAfghanistanBin LadenAl QaedaTalibanOsama Bin Laden Author:Seymour Hersh
“It is easy now for critics to claim that the work was poor; they haven't produced their own analyses or confronted any of the hard questions. For example, would they say that no technique beyond shouted questions could be used to interrogate a high-level terrorist leader, such as Osama bin Laden, who knows of planned attacks on the United States?” EasyPoorLeaderCriticsTerroristBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:John Yoo
“I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy, and have a flourishing economy, and to do away with al-Qaida, and to capture Osama bin Laden.” ThinkingActionEconomyDemocracyMilitaryAfghanistanJustifiedBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Jimmy Carter
“Abu Musab al Zarqawi had such a view of holy war. More barbaric, more monstrous even than Osama bin Laden. So much so that Bin Laden opposed many of his ideas. And he did not join al Qaeda, except for one brief period after 2004 where he agreed to be badged as al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.” WarHolyBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin Laden Author:Michael Ware
“Look, President Clinton had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. President Bush had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. I know how to do it and I'll do it. And I understand and I have the knowledge and the background and the experience to make the right judgments. Sen. Obama does not. He was wrong on Iraq. He underestimated Iran. He has no knowledge or experience or judgment. That's - he doesn't know how - how the world works nor how the military works. I do and I can lead and I'll secure the peace.” WorldOpportunityPresidentMilitaryJudgmentClintonPresident BushBin LadenOsama Bin LadenUnderestimatedPresident Clinton Author:John McCain
“In Germany, people are saying, "George W. Bush is an asshole. Osama Bin Laden is an asshole." But then I make jokes about Auschwitz, and how the Germans are lederhosen-wearing sausage freaks - and they hate me for this! And I'm like, "You all are sitting there because you want to relax and have a nice evening, and now you're pissed because I put also a mirror in front of you."” PeopleHateNiceLike YouJokesRelaxFreakBin LadenHate MeOsama Bin LadenAuschwitz Author:Uwe Boll
“From the standpoint of a Middle Eastern citizen, Americans look like a bully forcing our way of life on the Islamic way of life. The notion of purity is very important in Islam, and a lot of the negative warlike actions taken against us have to do with our physical presence in the Middle East. Osama bin Laden was trying to get the American, or protesting the American military presence in Saudi Arabia. It's not surprising that our strong presence in Iraq has produced a wave of resistance anger, extreme anger in some cases, and a permissive atmosphere that allows these people to go undetected.” PeopleTryingImportantActionStrongTakenMilitaryNegativeIslamWaveAtmospherePurityIslamicBullyEasternBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:John Updike
“Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.” WarLastsNightEvilStuffComedyHeardDemocraticDebateSatanAlsUsualTapeLast NightBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Jay Leno