Afghanistan Quote by Barton Gellman Download Open image “Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.” — Barton Gellman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afghanistan Bin Bin laden Expelled May Sudan
In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Osama Bin Laden was found hiding in a house compound in Pakistan by American forces. Muammar Gaddafi was captured by rebel militia while hiding… — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a protracted guerrilla… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Judicial Watch previously obtained documents from the Department of State ('Terrorism/Osama bin Laden: Who's Chasing Whom?') showing that as far back as 1996, the… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was once targeted by President Clinton. President Clinton wanted to kill him but couldn't get him. Of course not, we all know… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“In the spring of 2004, the FBI arrested Mohammed Junaid Babar, an al Qaeda agent, as he returned to the U.S. from a terrorist… — John Price Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
