Arab spring Quote by Paul Wolfowitz

If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda's ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally large nail…

— Peter Bergen

Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the conying so. And, tinued occupation of Palestinian…

— Robert Fisk

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New…

— James Buchan

Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk…

— Robert Fisk

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

Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes.…

— Peter Bergen

“on December 7, 2001, Osama announced that he was leaving. “He deserted us,” remembers Al-Hubayshi bitterly. “After five weeks his people came round telling…

— Robert Lacey

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

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

There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his…

— Bob Hawke