This is only a trick question if you happen to be a Democrat. If, as he now insists, Clinton was all over bin Laden once he became known, how is it ABC managed to get to him on camera for an interview in 1998, while lil' Willy was busy hosting Arafat in the Lincoln Bedroom? Bin Laden not only acknowledges his terrorism, he states clearly the US is a prime target. Maybe Clinton should have appointed Sam Donaldson from ABC instead of Sandy Berger. If nothing else, at least he might not have stolen documents from the National Archives.
In the first part of this interview which occurred in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Osama bin Laden answers questions posed to him by some of his followers at his mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan. In the latter part of the interview, ABC reporter John Miller is asking the questions.
An extended transcript available at video link above. Also see Allah for more.
The terrorism we practice is of the commendable kind for it is directed at the tyrants and the aggressors and the enemies of Allah, the tyrants, the traitors who commit acts of treason against their own countries and their own faith and their own prophet and their own nation. Terrorizing those and punishing them are necessary measures to straighten things and to make them right. Tyrants and oppressors who subject the Arab nation to aggression ought to be punished. The wrongs and the crimes committed against the Muslim nation are far greater than can be covered by this interview. America heads the list of aggressors against Muslims.
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