“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.”

— Osama bin Laden

Video interview, quoted in Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists by Diane E. Holloway page 325 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jc7CY1yV1g8C&pg=PA325, with NPR transcript https://www.npr.org/news/specials/response/investigation/011213.binladen.transcript.html (9 November 2001) <br class="br">2000s, 2002

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