Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death…

The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.

— Peter Bergen

Bush administration officials, of course, deny that they didn't take the threat urgently enough, but there is no debating that in their public utterances,…

— Peter Bergen

The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda videotape that the group's media division released in…

— Peter Bergen

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen…

— Noam Chomsky

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

— Elliott Abrams

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

— Michael Hayden

Success means eliminating Al Qaeda's ability to launch terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies.

— Eric Greitens

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Bin Laden is dead, and most of his friends are dead. But did it need to cost a trillion dollars and two land wars,…

— Richard Engel

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that…

— John Yoo

And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no…

— Dennis C. Blair

Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache…

— Barton Gellman

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr