“In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.”
William Hull
“Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.”
Ayman al-Zawahiri
“They do not want a truce unless it is from our side only ... they insist on continuing their Crusader campaign against our nation and to loot our wealth.”
Bin Laden
“It certainly lends credence to the truce that he was standing there.”
Capt. Richard Conklin
“Even if the issues discussed transcend the confines of the text of the original truce, they cannot be construed as amendments.”
Anton Balasingham
“The truce ... could easily dissolve by November.”
Kevin Spillane
“The aim of this escalation is purely political to oblige the Palestinians to accept an everlasting truce, accept unilateral solutions and temporary state, borders forever.”
Saeb Erekat
