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What would he say about the civilian men and women, the moms and dads, the children who died in New York City on Sept. 11? He might say, as he said to ABC News in 1998, "In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets."

--With reporting by Hannah Bloch/Kabul, Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Simon Robinson/Nairobi, Douglas Waller/Washington, Rebecca Winters/New York and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar

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