Bush denies al Qaeda at pre-September 11 strength
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U.S. President George W. Bush denied on Thursday that al Qaeda is as strong today as it was before the September 11 attacks.
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President Bush said in a television interview the United States was safer from terrorism but whether it can ever be fully safe was &quot;up in the air.
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DUBAI/WASHINGTON  - Osama bin Laden said in a new video marking the sixth anniversary of al Qaeda's September 11 attacks that the United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power, but he made no specific threats.
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President George W. Bush made a   pilgrimage to New York's Ground Zero on Sunday on the eve of   the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a milestone   that has sharpened an election-year debate over whether America   is safer.
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President George W. Bush said that finding Osama bin Laden is not the principle aim of the war on terror.
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Terrorists today would have a tougher time plotting and carrying out attacks like the ones of Sept. 11 because of security improvements in the past five years, President Bush said Thursday.
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Five years after the September 11   attacks, the United States is safer but "we are not yet safe"   from a significantly degraded yet still dangerous al Qaeda   threat, the White House said in a report on Tuesday.
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Five years after the September 11   attacks, the Bush administration still does not fully   understand the threat from al Qaeda, a congressional report   released on Wednesday said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - President Bush said on Tuesday  the war on terror could be won by America and explained away an  earlier comment that it could not be by blaming his lack of  articulation.
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said in a video issued ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks the United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power.
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The White House said on Friday it   was not U.S. policy to threaten Pakistan after the September 11   attacks despite Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's   complaint that Washington warned it would bomb his country.
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NEW YORK - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today there is no &quot;hard evidence&quot; linking deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan yesterday rejected a claim by the US intelligence chief that Osama bin Laden and his deputy were hiding in northwestern Pakistan, and that Al Qaeda was setting up camps near the Afghan border.
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Al-Qaeda's number two calls George W Bush a "liar" who has failed in his war against the group, reports say.
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President George W. Bush said on   Friday he knew of no U.S. threat to bomb Pakistan following the   September 11 attacks.
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has eluded a U.S. manhunt, is plotting against the United States but has been isolated and driven into hiding, President George W. Bush said on Thursday.
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President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was troubled by a U.S. intelligence report that al Qaeda has become entrenched in a safe haven in Pakistan's tribal region near Afghanistan.