Ali Quote by Robert Fisk

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

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

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

“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

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to…

— Mona Eltahawy

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

— Coretta Scott King

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

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords…

— Senator John Kerry

But more important, I think, is the criticism bin Laden has made publicly over the past 10 years that Muslim governments cannot even protect…

— Michael Scheuer

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,

— 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 constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got…

— Robert Fisk