Relevant Links:
"Report: Intel Officer Links War, Religion" - Yahoo News, 16 October 2003
"Senior General Says Muslims Worship 'Idol'" - Yahoo News, 16 October 2003
"The Pentagon Unleashes a Holy Warrior" - Los Angeles Times, 15 October 2003
Recalling a U.S. Army battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia in 1993, Deputy undersecretary of defense Gen. Boykin told one audience: "we missed him by seconds. He walked out of the facility that we raided, he walked down the street and blended in with the crowd and we missed him. “And then he went on CNN and he laughed at us, and he said, ‘They’ll never get me because Allah will protect me. Allah will protect me.’ “Well, you know what I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol. But I prayed, Lord let us get that man. “Three days later we went after him again, and this time we got him. Not a mark on him. We got him. We brought him back into our base there and we had a Sea Land container set up to hold prisoners in, and I said put him in there. They put him in there, there was one guard with him. I said search him, they searched him, and then I walked in with no one in there but the guard, and I looked at him and said, ‘Are you Osman Atto?’ And he said ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘Mr. Atto, you underestimated our God.’”" - from MSNBC.