“The information they turned over helped us to track down aspects of the [black-market] network and contributed to the shutdown of parts of that network in Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.”
“This disclosure has the potential to create the perception among the American public that the war in Iraq has replaced Saddam Hussein 's repressive regime, dominated by Sunnis, into a repressive regime dominated by Shiites.”
“It seems that there's some relationship between this tape and the (U.S.) strike (in Pakistan), both in the content and the timing. Over more than the past year, ZAWAHRI has been the one issuing tapes, and BIN LADEN has been very careful not to appear at all, and now all of a sudden he's deviated from that.”