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There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. -- George Clooney
The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network. -- Kay Granger
Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. -- Lindsey Graham
I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat. -- Barack Obama
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America. -- Van Jones
Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers. -- John R. Allen
Al Qaeda still remains a threat. -- Leon Panetta
Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens. -- Barton Gellman
Staying in a very public fight with the U.S. is exactly what Al Qaeda wants. -- Richard Engel
Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor. -- Ed Royce
Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision. -- George W. Bush
Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda. -- Howard Bloom
Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed. -- Rand Paul
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely. -- Christopher Hitchens
That's Al Qaeda's new plan: to destroy America one period at a time. -- Chelsea Handler
If I were an Al Qaeda guy, I wouldn't go out for a pizza -- Bryan Hilferty
There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government -- Dick Cheney
Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media. -- Michael Chertoff
It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. -- Robert Greenwald
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. -- Douglas J. Feith
All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. -- Peter Schuyler
If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda. -- Christian Finnegan
One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend. -- George Tenet
It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq. -- Peter DeFazio
There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. -- Barack Obama
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. -- Brad Thor
We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month. -- Julian Sanchez
God told me to strike at Al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. -- George W. Bush
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. -- Dave Matthews
We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer. -- Craig Ferguson
The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields like Afghanistan. -- John O. Brennan
I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. -- Stanley A. McChrystal
It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan. -- Jill Stein
If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj. -- Bob Enyart
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive. -- Robin Cook
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK. -- Barack Obama
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda. -- John Boehner
Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are. -- Max Cleland
When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. -- Michael Mullen
You know who's upset now with ISIS? Al Qaeda. It's because ISIS is getting more attention than Al Qaeda. So now, Saturday night will be Ayman al-Zawahiri bobblehead night. -- David Letterman
Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... -- Tom Ridge
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. -- Sarah Palin
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense? -- Joe Biden
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. -- John Yoo
Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people. -- Condoleezza Rice
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. -- Barack Obama
Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there. -- Jo Bonner
Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform. -- Alan Dershowitz
We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own. -- Barack Obama
There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda. -- Jimmy Carter
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is. -- Aslan Maskhadov
Theyâ??ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house. -- Argus Hamilton
And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears -- John Culberson
But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly. -- Clare Short
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears. -- John Culberson
It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them. -- Barack Obama
Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. -- Elliott Abrams
Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim. -- Debbie Almontaser
No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable. -- Michael Scheuer
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. -- John Yoo
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. -- John Yoo
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations. -- Cofer Black
Al Qaeda has no place in Pakistan. It's a threat to Pakistan. And there should be a convergence of interests between the Pakistani state and the West on security issues, but also on wider economic and social issues. -- David Miliband
Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center. -- Michael Scheuer
No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense. -- Christopher Hitchens
Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world. -- Kenny Marchant
I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS. -- Yanar Mohammed
It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world. -- Russ Feingold
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. -- Colin Powell
The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa. -- Rory Stewart
When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry, -- Dick Cheney
John Walker, while he was in Afghanistan, told people his goal was to have four wives. ... Do we need any further proof that this guy is out of his mind? Four wives? That's how al Qaeda gets you to become a suicide bomber. -- David Letterman
Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was. -- Keith Olbermann
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties. -- John Yoo
As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities. -- Jane Harman
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. -- Barack Obama
Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart. -- Marsha Blackburn
Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has. -- Richard Holbrooke
Given that the Al Qaeda core has been significantly destroyed or disabled, and that the leadership seems to be essentially on the run or in hiding, it would lead me to think that probably it is one of the less centralized groups that might be the greatest danger. -- Graham T. Allison
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations, -- Osama bin Laden
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. -- Gore Vidal
We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda. -- Aslan Maskhadov
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. -- Douglas J. Feith
The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq. -- Ed Royce
What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda. -- Denis McDonough
The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model. -- James Comey
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary. -- Richard Engel
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus. -- Al Franken
Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence. -- John McCain
Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda. -- Rudy Giuliani
The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face al Qaeda. -- Roger Ailes
There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box. -- Bill Bailey
There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda. -- Joe Lieberman
Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda. -- John McCain
Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together -- Colin Powell
Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Al-Qaeda's resurgence brings out the worst in the Bush Administration's math and logic. -- Jon Stewart
We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader. -- Hoshyar Zebari
Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan. -- Keith Olbermann
It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs. -- Janet Napolitano
There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing. -- Barney Frank
At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan. -- Peter L. Bergen
At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan. -- Peter L. Bergen
The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope. -- Lindsey Graham
In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list. -- Chris Christie
We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority. -- Barack Obama
I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders. -- George W. Bush
I heard this rumor that al Qaeda is merging with Hamas. Yeah, I got that tip from Martha Stewart. -- David Letterman
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. -- Ron Suskind

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