Answers Quote by Ahmed Rashid

We are starting to learn more about Osama bin Laden. For his birthday one year, somebody gave him a $4 Timex. We know that.…

— David Letterman

[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him…

— Ahmed Rashid

What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates…

— David Letterman

The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul but few…

— Rory Stewart

“Egyptian mujahideen had a rich experience in Afghanistan. Thousands of young Egyptian men lived in Al-Sindh and the Punjab regions, and among populations that…

— Tarek Osman

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not.…

— Lisa Ling

Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort…

— Jack Keane

I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation…

— Thomas Friedman

“He found a job as an independent contract and business negotiator for a number of well-to-do Saudi families of Yemeni extraction, including the powerful…

— Kamal Al-Solaylee

“But the average Kabuli was prepared to sacrifice some liberty for greater security and a measure of dignity. That's what the Taliban promised. It's…

— Marc Vachon

Probably the single most commen response I get from my readesr, be it through e-mails or letters, is that they did not know much,…

— Khaled Hosseini

Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is…

— Peter Bergen