I ran across this piece of history today and was amazed that I didnt know it. Now you can know it too. Osama bin Laden made clear why he attacked us. In a videotaped statement broadcast by Al Jazeera on October 7, 2001, a few weeks after the attacks, he gave three reasons for his enmity against the United States. The U.S.-imposed sanctions against Iraq from 1991 to 9/11: One million Iraqi children have thus far died although they did not do anything wrong; American policies toward Israel and the occupied territories: I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine...; the stationing of U.S troops and the building of military bases in Saudi Arabia: and before all the army of infidels [American soldiers] depart the land of Muhammad [Saudi Arabia]. Not a word about Muslim rage against Western civilization; no sign that his followers were motivated by, as the president would put it, hatred for the values cherished in the West [such] as freedom, tolerance, prosperity, religious pluralism, and universal suffrage; no support for New York Times correspondent Thomas Friedmans contention that the hijackers had left no list of demands because they had none, that their act was their demand. On page 3 of Chalmers Johnsons Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:05:40 +0000
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