Al Quote by Richard Engel

Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's…

— Alexander Siddig

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

He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in…

— Michael Scheuer

Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or…

— Graham T. Allison

Osama bin Laden is very shrewd. But he struck me, even in 1997, as being remarkably out of touch. I remember thinking this does…

— Robert Fisk

I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi…

— Frank Carlucci

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to…

— Barack Obama

Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's…

— Malcolm Nance

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al.…

— William Blum

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the…

— Irshad Manji

Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed…

— Argus Hamilton

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