"Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of……" — 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 for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them."
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35 Quotes by Robert Fisk
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