Are you new to FreeRepublic? Saw you have a fairly new sign up date.
“Are you new to FreeRepublic? Saw you have a fairly new sign up date.”
I found FR the year leading up to Obama’s 1st election. I don’t know why it took me so long to sign up. (Thank you for your kind words, God knows our heart’s cry)
Aquamarine. These may be a good source of information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videos_and_audio_recordings_of_Osama_bin_Laden
October 29, 2004
Main article: 2004 Osama bin Laden video
Shortly before the U.S. presidential election on October 29, 2004, Arab television network al Jazeera broadcast an 18-minute video tape of Osama bin Laden, addressed to citizens of the United States. According to the English translation distributed by the BBC and other media outlets, he tells viewers he personally directed the 19 hijackers,[14] and describes his motivation:
I will explain to you the reasons behind these events, and I will tell you the truth about the moments when this decision was taken, so that you can reflect on it. God knows that the plan of striking the towers had not occurred to us, but the idea came to me when things went just too far with the American-Israeli alliance’s oppression and atrocities against our people in Palestine and Lebanon.[15]
Bin Laden claimed he was inspired to destroy the World Trade Center after watching the destruction of towers in Lebanon by Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War.[16]
May 23, 2006
Al Jazeera broadcast a 5-minute audiotape from bin Laden, where he claims he, alone, assigned the hijackers to perform the September 11 attacks. bin Laden comments on the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, and the imprisoned journalists Sami al-Hajj and Tayssir Alouni, denying that any of them (apart from a few Guantanamo Bay prisoners) were connected with al-Qaeda.[19]
bin Laden tells viewers that Zacarias Moussaoui “had no connection at all with September 11. I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission. I am certain of what I say because I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers... with the raids.”[20]
POTUS TRUMP has talked about disclosing at least a lot more of the truth.