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12.13.2001

The bin Laden Tape Listen Listen


Osama bin Laden shown in a video released by the U.S

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The Bush Administration released the "smoking gun" video tape of Osama bin Laden, in which the world's most wanted man boasts of having been involved in the September 11th attacks. On the tape, bin Laden reveled in the collapse of the World Trade Center and of the hijackers he said: "We asked each of them to go to America but they didn’t know
anything about the operation...we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there and just before they boarded the planes."

The administration is hoping that the video tape will erase any doubt about bin Laden's guilt in the terrorist attacks on the United States. This hour, we dissect the bin Laden tape and examine how the world is reacting to the evidence the U.S. hopes will strengthen international resolve against terrorism.

Guests:

  • Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College
  • Dr. Jerold Post, Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology at George Washington University
  • Lawrence Korb, Former Secretary Defense in the Reagan Administration
  • Robert Kaplan, author of "The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War"
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    Bush Administration meeting

    Forums: What do you think of the job President Bush has been doing throughout this crisis?

    Read the ABM Treaty that the Bush Administration is leaving

    Listen to the entire speech by General Wesley Clark featured this hour

    The Transformation of the Bush Administration Listen Listen

    One year ago, George W. Bush was limping out of a month-long fracas over the 2000 election, the President-elect of a deeply divided nation. His first several months in office were considered unremarkable by many. But an unprecedented attack on the United States and an ambitious and so-far successful war on terrorism have pushed the President's approval ratings through the roof and have led to comparisons with FDR and other great American leaders.

    This hour, a look at the Bush administration before and after September 11th. How are our leaders rising to meet the first major crisis of the 21st century?

    Guests:

  • Mickey Edwards, lecturer in legislative practice and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; Republican member of Congress for 16 years
  • Allan Lichtman, history professor at American University and the author of The Keys to the White House

    Plus, The Washington Post's Dana Millbank on the announcement that the Bush Administration will back out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

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