"You know, I was born at night but not last night, sir. There is no operation at the CIA that is conducted without app…"

"I happened to do the research on the links between al Qaeda and Iraq. (MATTHEWS: And what did you come up with?) SCHE…"

"Bin Laden's long-standing support for the Palestinians against Israel also appears to have been learned at his father…"

"The Afghan jihad confronted the theoreticians of democratic Islam with a hard reality. The Red Army was not defeated …"

"On balance, the Islamic media's taste for what the West terms sensationalizing and conspiracy mongering is less than …"

"In 1993 Osama bin Laden began speaking in detail to Muslim and Western journalists about his beliefs, goals, and inte…"

""Bin Laden, of course, learned his military skills in Afghanistan, not on the Iran-Iraq border, and, as a result, his…"

"The data in the public domain suggest the truth about bin Laden's activities in Afghanistan is much closer to the pic…"

"Before the [1990 Iraqi] attack [on Kuwait], bin Laden angered Saudi authorities by making a public "prophesy ... [tha…"

"His motive—his motive is to change our policies, sir. Notwithstanding what the president or Mr. Kerry said during the…"