We shall inform you of the results when it is concluded. We regret these killings and strongly assert that this is not the work of the Taliban who will never do harm to genuine aid workers… as soon as we manage to apprehend those responsible for this act, we shall subject them to whatever punishment our laws prescribe.- Qari Malang, the representative of the Western Nuristan Taliban. He said that commanders from Nuristan had not carried out the killings of 10 aid wprkers and they had launched an investigation to find out who had.

We have checked the facts regarding these foreigners, and our people in the area have confirmed that they were bona fide aid workers and had been providing assistance to the population. Furthermore, we have learnt that among the killed foreigners, was Dan Terry, who had a long history of helping our people, including in Kunar and Laghman provinces and that he had previously provided welfare assistance to the families of those civilians martyred in bombardments… We pass on our condolences to the families of those killed.- Qari Malang (the representative of the Western Nuristan Taliban)
( My wife and I were entertained by the Terrys in their Kabul home four years ago)

If you start teaching aggression to the whole community, you end up pandering to the negative elements in everyone.  You know what that leads to: Such people will assault us. -Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) (In Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi's _His Holiness: John Paul II And The  Hidden History of Our Time_ [1996])

In today's world, no one is innocent and no one is neutral. George Habash, leader of the PFLP, c.1970s-80s

We are the soldiers of God and we crave death...Violence will remain our only path. - statement issued by Islamic Jihad, 1980s

Often, the more you understand, the less you forgive. - Jillian Becker, Director, Institute for the Study of Terrorism