I Still Wonder If The United States

The Americans May Think They Have 'liberated' Baghdad But The Tens Of Thousands Of Thieves - They Came In Families And Cruised The City In Trucks And Cars Searching For Booty - Seem To Have A Different Idea What Liberation Means.

If It Is Bin Laden, He's A Very Intelligent Guy. He's Been Planning His War For A Long Time. I Remember The Last Time I Met Him In 1997 In Afghanistan. And Bin Laden Said To Me "from This Mountain, Mr. Robert, Upon Which You Are Sitting, We Beat The Russian Army And Helped Break The Soviet Union. And I Pray To God That He Allows Us To Turn America Into A Shadow Of Itself." When I Saw The Pictures Of New York Without The World Trade Center, New York Looked Like A Shadow Of Itself.

At The End Of The Day, Osama Bin Laden's Interest Is Not Washington And New York, It's The Middle East. He Wants Saudi Arabia. He Wants To Get Rid Of The House Of Saud. There's A Great Deal Of Resentment, Even Inside The Royal Family, At The Continued Military Presence Of The United States There.

I Suppose, In The End, We Journalists Try - Or Should Try - To Be The First Impartial Witnesses Of History. If We Have Any Reason For Our Existence, The Least Must Be Our Ability To Report History As It Happens So That No One Can Say: 'we Didn't Know - No One Told Us.'

When I Saw The Pictures Of New York Without The World Trade Center, New York Looked Like A Shadow Of Itself.