Smith is an Arabic speaker who moved to Cairo after 9/11 determined to find out what motivated the al-Qaeda attackers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Al-Qaeda makes the statement: how can my identity dominate and destroy your identity?

基地组织声称：,如何能使我的身份支配并摧毁你的身份？

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Al-Qaeda has a big idea and it's absolutely opposite of religious pluralism.

基地组织拥有一个重要的观点,而这个观点与宗教多元主义完全相反。

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We charted a new way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and made good progress in taking the fight to al-Qaeda across the globe."

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

And as you know, there are fighters among Al Qaeda.

如你所知，基地组织中还有。

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The audio recording,posted on the on an Islamic website, includes a undated photograph of the al-Qaeda leader.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

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The Taliban had given safe haven to al-Qaeda, which had carried out the hijacking of four airliners to attack New York and Washington, in which more than 3,000 people died.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

s very interesting if you go back and you read about al-Qaeda, one of the things that you read about is that Arabs, after World War Two saw the United States as standing for values of liberty and democracy and equality.

有一点很有趣，It’,如果你回头读读看看关于基地组织的报道，肯定不难发现,二战以后，阿拉伯人,将美国视为,自由，民主，平等的象征。

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"There was,after 2001, a change of approach, a form of mission creep, whereby we took on far more priorities than simply security and removing al-Qaeda and the Taliban as their host,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

The latest audio recording, attributed to Bin Laden, again attempts to justify al-Qaeda's September 11,2001, terror attack on the United States as being part of the group's quest for the liberation of Palestine.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

And as a consequence of its own autocracy, the battle against terrorism and the efforts to confront the local affiliates of al Qaeda have been undermined by a regime that is seen as remote and repressive."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19