Bush insists Bin Laden won’t influence US election
Updated 09:39am (Mla time) Nov 01, 2004
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- US President George W. Bush late Sunday dismissed the notion terror mastermind Osama bin Laden could seriously influence the outcome of the US presidential election and renewed his promise to eventually "get" the Al-Qaeda leader.
"First, he is not going to intimidate or decide this election," Bush told NBC News in an interview two day before Tuesday's vote.
In his message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television on Friday, bin Laden warned of a possible repeat of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and said the election would have no bearing on Al-Qaeda operations, whether Bush or Democratic challenger John Kerry won it.
Bin Laden appeared confident and healthy as he urged Americans to refrain from hurting Muslim interests.
Bush said the United States was systematically destroying the Al-Qaeda network all around the world, starting with Afghanistan.
"And we'll eventually get Osama bin Laden," he promised. "In the meantime, we are destroying -- slowly but surely, systematically him."
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"In the meantime, we are destroying -- slowly but surely,systematically him."
pResident George W. Bush