"They’re after us because we’re a Christian nation."

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“Well, is he the enemy? Next slide. Or is this man the enemy? The enemy is none of these people I have showed you here. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He’s called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.”

“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”

“Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.”

“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.”

“Terrorists strike like lightning- hard, fast, and without warning.”

“I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.”

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