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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 26, 09:12:17am
Author: b
Subject: 1500 Days since Bush Declared: Wanted:Dead or Alive

It's been 1500 days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!'

Bush Wants Bin Laden, Dead or Alive

Monday, September 17, 2001

STORIES BACKGROUND
�U.S. Tries to Return to Normal But Will Never Be the Same�New York Goes Back to Work�Major Developments: Tuesday, September 18�Americans United as New Week Begins
Promising never to be defeated in spirit and vowing to defeat terrorists throughout the world, Americans went back to work Monday, six days after the hijacked airplane attacks that devastated the Pentagon and destroyed the World Trade Center.

"We will win the war and there will be costs," President Bush said in a midday visit to the Pentagon, where military planners were readying call-up orders for 35,000 reservists.

"I want justice," said Bush. "There's an old poster out West that said: 'Wanted, dead or alive.' "

Bush cautioned the nation it faces "a different type of war ... a different type of enemy than we're used to. ... Their network is extensive. There are no rules. They slit the throats of women who are on airplanes."

Asked about his comment about a wanted poster, he replied, "All I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid. I remember they used to put out there in the Old West wanted posters that said 'Wanted dead or alive.' All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what I want."

Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer later said that a presidential directive barring the U.S. government from engaging in assassination "does not limit the United States' ability to act in its self defense."

As Bush vowed that the nation's military would "defend freedom at any cost," Pakistani diplomats halfway around the world traveled to Afghanistan at the urging of the United States, seeking to have Usama bin Laden turned over to American authorities.

Bush reiterated that bin Laden is the prime suspect in last Tuesday's terrorist attacks in which hijacked jetliners were flown into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. More than 5,000 people may have been killed in the attacks.

"The people who house him, encourage, provide food, comfort or money are on notice," Bush said. "The Taliban must take my statement seriously."

The president spent part of his day trying to reassure the nation's Islamic adherents. Visiting a mosque at the Washington Islamic Center, he observed the custom of removing his shoes and spoke against prejudice. "Islam is peace," he said. "These terrorists don't represent peace."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34469,00.html

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Re: Don't forget, "Bring them on" or "Mission Accomplished"... -- BJ, Wednesday, October 26, 11:16:46am