September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack – World Trade Center
But only about two weeks before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Ab’d Al-Mun’im Murad, a columnist in Al-Akhbar, a daily newspaper sponsored by the Egyptian government, wrote:
“The conflict that we call the Arab-Israeli conflict is, in truth an Arab conflict with Western, and particularly American, colonialism. The U.S. treats [the Arabs] as it treated the slaves inside the American continent. To this end, [the U.S.] is helped by the smaller enemy, and I mean Israel.”
And in another column, also published in late August, Mr. Murad gave us an inkling of what he had in mind for America:
“THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, IN NEW YORK HARBOR, MUST BE DESTROYED. THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN COLLAPSE HAS BEGUN.”
For example, the mufti — or chief cleric — appointed by the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat has prayed that God will “destroy America,” while the editor of a leading Palestinian journal has proclaimed: The American “murderers of humanity, the creators of the barbaric culture and the bloodsuckers of nations, are doomed to death.”
Source: The Wall Street Journal