| August 10, 2008 | - A U.S. military jury in Guantanamo rejected the 30-year minimum sentence called for by the Bush Administration and sentenced Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, to five more months in prison atop the 61 he has already served.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| July 9, 2008 | -
Osama Bin Laden’s teenage son Hamza wrote and posted online a poem asking God for help against Western “gangs of infidels.”
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Telegraph UK
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| February 27, 2008 | - A man who calls himself “Osama bin London” was convicted of running terrorist training camps in England.
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Washington Post
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| January 21, 2008 | - Omar Osama bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, announced that he is organizing a multi-month horse race across North Africa to promote peace.
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CNN
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| July 13, 2007 | - The Senate voted to double the bounty on Osama bin Laden to $50 million.
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BBC
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| May 10, 2007 | -
Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan was charged with being a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
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AP via Yahoo
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| February 23, 2007 | - It was revealed that the British Ministry of Defense once hired psychics to find Osama bin Laden, and Defense Minister Des Browne announced that Prince Harry, the 22-year-old son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who is third in line to the throne, would be deployed to Iraq.
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Daily Mail
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Washington Post
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| September 16, 2006 | -
President Bush insisted that the search for Osama bin Laden had not slackened its pace.
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Reuters
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| July 7, 2006 | -
President Bush denied that the closing of the CIA's
Bin Laden unit was significant. “We got a lot of assets looking for Osama bin Laden,” he said. “It's a matter of time, unless we stop looking.”
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Reuters
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| May 24, 2006 | -
Osama bin Laden released an audiotape in which he claimed that convicted terrorist conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was not involved in the September 11 attacks. "Brother Moussaoui was arrested two weeks before the events," said bin Laden, "and if he had known something—even very little—about the September 11 group, we would have informed the leader of the operation, Mohamed Atta, and the others . . . to leave America before being discovered."
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The Washington Post
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| April 23, 2006 | - Via audiotape, Osama bin Laden called on his followers to travel to Sudan and fight against the U.N. forces in Darfur.
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The New York Times
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| January 19, 2006 | -
Osama bin Laden released a tape in which he warned of new attacks on the United States and offered a truce. "Your president," said bin Laden, "is misinterpreting public opinion polls which show that the vast majority of you support the withdrawal of your forces from Iraq." Bin Laden also encouraged Americans to read the book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum. Bin Laden's deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri released his own tape and recited a poem called "Tears in the Eyes of Time."
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BBC News
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The Scotsman
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CNN.com
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| June 15, 2005 | -
Osama bin Laden was safe.
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Seven News
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| May 4, 2005 | - It was revealed that soon after September 11, 2001, the CIA sent a team of agents to Afghanistan with orders to “capture Bin Laden, kill him, and bring his head back in a box.”
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BBC News
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| April 4, 2005 | -
Britain announced that it will pull 5,500 troops from Iraq and increase its presence in Afghanistan, to help with the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Telegraph
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| February 25, 2005 | - A Swiss court lifted the ban on using “Bin Ladin” as a brand name. The name is registered to Osama bin Laden's half-brother.
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CANOE
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| January 31, 2005 | -
John Kerry claimed that Osama bin Laden cost him the presidential election.
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The New York Times
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| January 10, 2005 | -
Osama bin Laden was rumored to have returned to Afghanistan.
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USA Today
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| December 28, 2004 | -
Osama bin Laden named the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as Al Qaeda's "emir," or prince, in Iraq, and the largest Sunni party in the country withdrew from the election.
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New York Times
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| December 16, 2004 | - and Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to attack oil facilities in Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
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TurkishPress.com
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| October 29, 2004 | -
Osama bin Laden released a new video message and said that it was U.S. foreign policy, particularly U.S. support for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, that led him to plan the September 11 attacks. "Bush says and claims that we hate freedom, let him tell us then, 'Why did we not attack Sweden?'"
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CNN
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| September 2, 2004 | - Investigators reported that Osama bin Laden apparently does not fund Al Qaeda operations with his personal fortune, as was previously believed.
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Associated Press
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| July 31, 2004 | - It was reported that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a close associate of Osama bin Laden, retracted his claim that Iraq helped Al Qaeda with weapons of mass destruction, and
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New York Times
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| June 25, 2004 | -
Al Gore said that George W. Bush is a liar for repeatedly suggesting that Saddam Hussein was allied with Osama bin Laden and that the president's "consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie."
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Reuters
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| May 8, 2004 | -
Osama bin Laden offered a reward of 10,000 grams of gold for the head of L. Paul Bremer.
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Associated Press
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| April 9, 2004 | - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified publicly and under oath before the commission investigating September 11; Rice acknowledged that President Bush had received a classified CIA briefing on August 6, 2001, entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States," though she characterized the report as "historical information based on old reporting." She also acknowledged that the report mentioned the existence of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States but "there was no recommendation that we do something about this." Rice also admitted that Richard Clarke, whose book on the Bush Administration's antiterrorism failures prompted her public testimony, sent her a memo in January 2001 in which he mentioned sleeper cells. Again, Rice said, "there was no mention or recommendation of anything that needs to be done about them." Rice said that she couldn't remember whether she had ever mentioned the existence of the sleeper cells to the president prior to August 6.
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New York Times
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| January 4, 2004 | -
Osama bin Laden released a new audiotape calling for Muslims to "continue the jihad."
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Associated Press
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| November 26, 2003 | -
Israeli customs officials confiscated 400 singing and dancing Osama bin Laden
dolls as well as 50 that looked like Saddam Hussein.
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Reuters
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| October 20, 2003 | -
Osama bin Laden released two new tapes and promised a new wave of suicide bombings.
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Voice of America
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| September 11, 2003 | - A new Osama bin Laden videotape was released.
Bin Laden called on his "mujahedeen brothers in Iraq" to "devour the Americans just like the lions devour their prey."
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New York Times
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| September 8, 2003 | -
President George W. Bush made a televised address to the nation and declared that Iraq was now the "central front" in the war on terrorism.
He called for national resolve and national sacrifice and said that he will ask Congress for $87 billion in emergency funds for the occupation.
It was noted that this new request, which comes on top of $79 billion already approved, will probably push the current budget deficit up to $600 billion. Howard Dean said the speech, which made no mention of Osama bin Laden, was "outrageous" and said it reminded him of Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.
Senator Bob Graham observed that Bush now wants to spend more on Iraq this year than the federal government will spend on education.
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New York Times
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| February 18, 2003 | -
Al-Jazeera, the popular Arab television station, broadcast another Osama bin Laden tape; Bin Laden, or someone who sounded like him, made the usual denunciations of the United States and called on the Iraqi people to resist the upcoming American invasion.
Colin Powell claimed that the tape was proof of an alliance between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, even though Osama referred to Saddam as an “apostate.”
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Yasir Arafat denounced Osama bin Laden and told him to stop using Palestine to justify terrorism.
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| November 26, 2002 | -
“Osama bin Laden is still alive and plotting more attacks while we play bureaucratic shuffleboard,” Byrd said.
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| November 26, 2002 | -
American intelligence experts decided that the new Osama bin Laden tape is probably genuine.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
The letter was somewhat hostile, referring to the Americans and the British as a “gang of evil,” and it declared that the Security Council “has now been transformed into a kitchen house for big power bargaining, providing cover for war, destruction, blockades, and starvation to be inflicted on peoples.” The letter also contained the following proverb: “He who remains silent in the defense of truth is a dumb devil.” Al-Jazeera television received a new audiotape from Osama bin Laden in which he threatened more attack on citizens of countries supporting the United States; Bin Laden referred to George W. Bush as “the pharaoh of the time” and to the Bush Administration as a “gang of butchers.”
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| October 15, 2002 | -
Fifteen people were charged with aiding the attackers, one of whom left a videotape in which he claimed to be a member of Al Qaeda, which last week released two audiotapes, one recorded by Osama bin Laden, to Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite television station, threatening to carry out new attacks on the United States and its allies.
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| September 10, 2002 | -
German officials refused to allow a Turkish couple to name their baby Osama bin Laden, and it was noted that President Bush has spent 42 percent of his term at Camp David, Kennebunkport, and his ranch in Texas.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
A number of videotapes made by Al Qaeda were discovered; several contained footage of dogs being killed by what appeared to be chemical weapons, and one contained a documentary in which Osama bin Laden called Saddam Hussein a bad Muslim.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
It was reported that an F.B.I. agent in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote a memo last summer warning his superiors about the enrollment of possible terrorists in American flight schools and cited Osama bin Laden by name.
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| April 23, 2002 | -
A Saudi newspaper editor who grew up with Osama bin Laden said that his old friend loved watching American TV shows, particularly “Fury” and “Bonanza.”
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| March 19, 2002 | -
A report revealed that in the past several months, the United States secretly extradited dozens of terrorism suspects to other countries, such as Egypt and Jordan, where they can be subjected to torture, threats to their families, and other interrogation tactics that are illegal in the U.S. The Pentagon revised the bounty for Osama bin Laden after determining that the average Afghan could not comprehend the magnitude of the previous reward, $25 million, rendering the incentive meaningless. The new prize is “anything the Americans think the Afghans would like to have,” including cash, a flock of sheep, or help in drilling a well.
President Bush reflected, “[Bin Laden] is . . . you know, as I mention in my speeches, I do mention the fact that this is a fellow who's willing to commit youngsters to their death, and he himself tries to hide, if, in fact, he's hiding at all.”
France went on full hijack alert because an air-traffic controller misunderstood a warning message in English, believing the pilot was reporting “five men on board” instead of “fire on board.”
The Immigration and Naturalization Service issued student visas for Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi six months after they crashed planes into the World Trade Center; President Bush reported that the imbroglio left him feeling “plenty hot.”
People were complaining about “The Fighting Whities,” a basketball team at the University of Northern Colorado whose white jerseys sport an image of a white man in a suit above the slogan “Every thang's gonna be all white!”
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| February 26, 2002 | -
There were new rumors that Osama bin Laden is alive.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Evidence of the bombing of Afghan civilians by United States forces continued to emerge; American officials tried to justify the killing of Daraz Khan, known as “Tall Man,” who was hit by a missile as he gathered scrap metal near the village of Khost.
They said that because the man was tall and appeared to be treated with deference by his companions, it was assumed that he was Osama bin Laden, who is six feet four.
“We're convinced that it was an appropriate target,” said a Pentagon spokesman, “but we do not know yet exactly who it was.” “There's not much to add,” said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “except there's one version and there's the other version.”
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| February 12, 2002 | -
Speculation continued about the fate of Osama bin Laden; Senator Bob Graham said that “the best intelligence is he is still alive but where he is continues to be a question mark.” A British man had his name changed to Hong Kong Phooey.
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| February 5, 2002 | - CNN aired a video of Osama bin Laden in which he gloated that “freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people and the West in general into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”
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| January 29, 2002 | -
A Saudi Arabian poll revealed that 95 percent of educated Saudis between the ages of 25 and 41 support Osama bin Laden.
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| January 15, 2002 | -
It was reported that the patriotic teenager who flew a small airplane into a Tampa, Florida, office building, dedicating his suicide to Osama bin Laden, was taking Accutane, a prescription acne medication that has been linked to suicides.
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| January 1, 2002 | -
“I don't spend a lot of time looking in the mirror, except when I comb my hair.” A Pakistani newspaper reported that Osama bin Laden had died “a peaceful, natural death” near Tora Bora from a “serious lung complication.” An Afghan functionary said that bin Laden had escaped to Pakistan and was under the protection of the extremist Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islam party.
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Rear Admiral John D. Stufflebeem said that looking for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan was like “searching for fleas on a dog.”
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| December 18, 2001 | - Hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters made their last stand in Tora Bora, Afghanistan; Osama bin Laden was not found, however, and there were reports that he had escaped to Pakistan.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Afghan refugees, particularly children, were dying in great numbers; Uzbekistan finally agreed to allow humanitarian aid to cross its border at the “Friendship Bridge.” The CIA asked Pakistan for help in finding Osama bin Laden, whose mother told a Saudi newspaper that she was disappointed in her son.
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| December 4, 2001 | - American warplanes apparently missed the Tora Bora cave complex, where Osama bin Laden might be hiding, and bombed a nearby village called Gudara; survivors said dozens, possibly hundreds, of people died.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Bush's action was widely denounced as dictatorial and un-American, and law professors speculated that the administration was afraid that the evidence against Osama bin Laden was too weak to hold up in court.
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| November 20, 2001 | - American Special Forces were roaming the hills of Afghanistan on horseback searching for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Muhammad Omar, who were on the run after the Taliban lost most of its territory.
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| November 20, 2001 | -
Schoolchildren in India
voted overwhelmingly to name a white tiger cub in the Lucknow Zoo Osama bin Laden; Hitler was another popular choice.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden told a Pakistani newspaper that he didn't know anything about the anthrax
attacks in the United States.
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| October 30, 2001 | - Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld warned that Osama bin Laden might get away: “It's a big world,” he noted.
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| October 23, 2001 | - In New York, four of Osama bin Laden's colleagues were sentenced to life in prison in connection with the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.
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| October 16, 2001 | - The image of Bert from Sesame Street showed up in an Osama bin Laden poster used by protesters in Pakistan; “This is not at all humorous,” said a spokesman for the Sesame Workshop.
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| October 16, 2001 | - The major American television networks agreed, out of patriotism, they said, to a request by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice not to broadcast future statements by Osama bin Laden; Rice said she was concerned about secret messages being communicated to “sleeper” terrorists in the United States but did not reveal how she would prevent such evil-doers from viewing the speech via the Internet or satellite television.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden taunted the United States in a televised statement and said, “America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Mohammad, peace be upon him.” A suicide
truck bomb killed 26 people at the Legislative Assembly of Kashmir.
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| October 2, 2001 | - Thomas L. Friedman, the
New York Times columnist, suggested hiring the Russian Mafia to assassinate
Osama bin Laden.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
President George W. Bush declared that all the nations of the earth must choose sides in the coming crusade against terrorism, and he promised to attack Afghanistan if its leaders refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the famous terrorist, whom the President has described as “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that the preliminary brand-name of the American military campaign, Operation Infinite Justice, would probably be changed, because it was offensive to Muslims, for whom infinite justice is a divine attribute. Some Christians also found the name offensive.
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| September 25, 2001 | -
Afghanistan's leading clerics said they would try to persuade Osama bin Laden to leave their country voluntarily, an offer that was quickly scorned by the White House. There was a report from Islamabad that bin Laden was last seen in a training camp outside Kabul, just before he rode off into the desert on the back of a horse.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Mullah Muhammad Omar, supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban, condemned the Attack on America and claimed that Osama bin Laden was not responsible. “Mullah Omar condemns this act. Mullah Omar says Osama is not responsible,” said a Taliban spokesman. “We have brought peace to this country and we want peace in all countries.”
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| September 18, 2001 | - Strikes against Iraq were being planned to punish Saddam Hussein for smuggling millions of dollars to Osama bin Laden.
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| September 11, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden, the famous CIA-trained terrorist, quickly became the prime suspect as federal authorities identified the hijackers, many of whom had been in the United States for years, learning to fly big jets in Florida.
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