“People of America, I direct this statement to you. It concerns how to prevent another Manhattan [9/11] and deals with the causes and effects of the war against America. Before I begin, I say to you that contrary to Bush’s claim that we hate freedom, security is an indispensable pillar to human life. Free men do not forfeit their security. If we hate freedom, then explain why we did not strike, for example, Sweden. We know that those who hate freedom do not possess the defiant spirit like those of the nineteen [September 11 highjackers]. May God have mercy upon them.”
Osama bin Laden, “Second Statement to the American People,” in Osama bin Laden: America’s Enemy in His Own Words, ed. Randall B. Hamud (San Diego: Nadeem Publishing, 2005)
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