#laden

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. ↗

— Bill Nelson

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I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden. ↗

— Barbara Olson

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I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.' ↗

— Leon Panetta

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I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

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The more we captured, the more we learned and eventually it destroyed the organization that attacked us on 9/11 and allowed us to get bin Laden. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

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We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

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We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

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