09/11/1989
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"In addition to the terrorists held at Guantanamo, a small number of suspected terrorist leaders and operatives captured during the war have been held and questioned outside the United States in a sepa..."
"For al Qaeda, Iraq is not a distraction from their war on America, it is the central battlefield where the outcome of this struggle will be decided."
"The other thing the President Bush wants to do, and he couched this in language today, saying preserve national security, which was keep the evidence away from the defendant."
"As soon as Congress acts to authorize the military commissions I have proposed, the man our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on September the 11th, 2001..."