“We don’t know where he is. He might be anywhere.”
— Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf, speaking to CNN about Osama bin Laden, the leader and figurehead of al-Qaeda.
“Mission Accomplished,” read the sign aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, as Bush announced that “from Pakistan to the Philippines to the Horn of Africa, we are hunting down al-Qaeda killers,” and that “al-Qaeda is wounded.”
—Mimi Hanaoka
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