Posted on 10/31/2004 6:48:42 PM PST by twntaipan
The tape of Osama bin Laden that was aired on Al-Jazeera(1) on Friday, October 29th included a specific threat to "each U.S. state," designed to influence the outcome of the upcoming election against George W. Bush. The U.S. media in general mistranslated the words "ay wilaya" (which means "each U.S. state")(2) to mean a "country" or "nation" other than the U.S., while in fact the threat was directed specifically at each individual U.S. state. This suggests some knowledge by bin Laden of the U.S. electoral college system. In a section of his speech in which he harshly criticized George W. Bush, bin Laden stated: "Any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security."
The Islamist website Al-Qal'a explained what this sentence meant: "This message was a warning to every U.S. state separately. When he [Osama Bin Laden] said, 'Every state will be determining its own security, and will be responsible for its choice,' it means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote for the white thug Bush as president has chosen to fight us, and we will consider it our enemy, and any state that will vote against Bush has chosen to make peace with us, and we will not characterize it as an enemy. By this characterization, Sheikh Osama wants to drive a wedge in the American body, to weaken it, and he wants to divide the American people itself between enemies of Islam and the Muslims, and those who fight for us, so that he doesn't treat all American people as if they're the same. This letter will have great implications inside the American society, part of which are connected to the American elections, and part of which are connected to what will come after the elections."(3)
Another interesting aspect of the speech is the fact that while bin Laden made his specific threat to each U.S. state, he also offered an election deal to the American voters, attempting to influence the election by these means rather than influencing it through terrorist attacks.(4) This peace offer is a theme that follows up on his April speech directed to Europe, in which he offered a truce.(5) The Islamist website Al-Islah explains: "Some people ask 'what's new in this tape?' [The answer is that] this tape is the second of its kind, after the previous tape of the Sheikh [Osama bin Laden], in which he offered a truce to the Europeans a few months ago, and it is a completion of this move, and it brings together the complementary elements of politics and religion, political savvy and force, the sword and justice. The Sheikh reminds the West in this tape of the great Islamic civilization and pure Islamic religion, and of Islamic justice..."(6)
Another conspicuous aspect of the tape is the absence of common Islamist themes that are relevant to the month of Ramadan, which for fundamentalists like bin Laden is the month of Jihad and martyrdom. Noticeably absent from the Al-Jazeera tape was his usual appearance with a weapon, and more importantly the absence of references to Jihad, martyrdom, the Koran, the Hadith (Islamic tradition), Crusaders, Jews, and the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad on the duty to wage Jihad against the infidels. For the followers of the Al-Qa'ida ideology, this speech sends a regressive and defeatist message of surrender, as seen in the move from solely using Jihad warfare to a mixed strategy of threats combined with truce offers and election deals.
The following are the relevant excerpts from the speech; for the full excerpts visit the MEMRI TV Project at www.memritv.org:(7)
"Oh the American people, I address these words to you regarding the optimal manner of avoiding another Manhattan, and regarding the war, its causes, and its consequences. But before this, I say to you: Security is one of the important pillars of human life, and free men do not take their security lightly, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him explain why we did not attack Sweden, for example. Clearly, those who hate freedom have no pride, unlike the 19 [suicide hijackers of 9/11], may Allah have mercy on them. We have been fighting you because we are free men who do not remain silent in the face of injustice. We want to restore our [Islamic] nation's freedom. Just as you violate our security, we violate yours.
"But I am amazed at you. Although we have entered the fourth year after the events of 9/11, Bush is still practicing distortion and deception against you and he is still concealing the true cause from you. Consequently, the motives for its reoccurrence still exist...
"We had no difficulty dealing with Bush and his administration, because it resembles the regimes in our [Arab] countries, half of which are ruled by the military, and the other half are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents with whom we have had a lot of experience. Among both types, there are many who are known for their conceit, arrogance, greed, and for taking money dishonestly.
"This resemblance began with the visit of Bush Sr. to the region. While some of our people were dazzled by the U.S. and hoped that these visits would influence our countries, it was he who was influenced by these monarchic and military regimes. He envied them for remaining in their positions for decades, while embezzling the nation's public funds with no supervision whatsoever. He bequeathed tyranny and the suppression of liberties to his son and they called it the Patriot Act, under the pretext of the war on terrorism.
"Bush Sr. liked the idea of appointing [his] sons as state governors. Similarly, he did not neglect to import into Florida the expertise in falsifying [elections] from the leaders of this region in order to benefit from it in difficult moments.
"We agreed with the general commander Muhammad Atta, may Allah have mercy on him, that all operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, before Bush and his administration would become aware. We never imagined that the Commander in Chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face this great horror alone when they needed him most. It seemed to him that a girl's story about her goat and its butting was more important than dealing with planes and their 'butting' into skyscrapers. This allowed us three times the amount of time needed for the operations, Allah be praised.
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al-Qa'ida. Your security is in your own hands, and any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security."
* Yigal Carmon is the President of MEMRI.
Endnotes: (1) Al-Jazeera (Qatar), October 27, 2004. (2) "Wilaya" refers specifically to a U.S. state; it would never refer to an independent country. The term for such a country is "Dawla." (3) https://www.qal3ati.com/vb/showthread.php?t=115812 (4) To illustrate this principle, he uses Sweden as a model of a country that was never attacked by Al-Qa'ida. (5) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 695, April 15, 2004, "Osama Bin Laden Speech Offers Peace Treaty with Europe, Says Al-Qa'ida 'Will Persist in Fighting' the U.S." http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP69504 (6) www.islahi.net/vboard/showthread.php?t=116432 (7) To view the full tape aired on Al-Jazeera or read the transcript, visit http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=312 .
It's the divide and conquer strategy. Trying to break the US down into parcels to make people feel more vulnerable as opposed to feeling part of one powerful entity.
Message to bin Hiden:
"We're waiting for you and your raghead buddies;
you won't take us by surprise this time.
And thanks for the pro-Bush message!"
Not according to either thet CBS or NBC results that show more voters would choose Bush as a result of the tapes. A small portion would choose Kerry, but the vast majority would stick with their original pick.
Kinda late for NYC, huh? NY will go for Kerry 65-35.
I thought they were fools, but now I know that they are.
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS abdul!!!!
Wonder if Michael Moore is PROUD that his horrific take on President Bush's desire to not alarm a classroom of children while he gathered his thoughts for a few minutes-what was it...seven minutes?...and that, after the second tower was hit, so it was assumed to be an attack- is being used a propaganda by Osama.
What a wicked web michael moore and john, the metro-sexual, kerry have woven....may they be caught in it for the rest of their lives.
And what a mouse Osama bin pigpen is...living in caves and hiding in private homes and constantly living in fear of being caught has twisted his mushy brain into liquid paranoia.
Poor baby...sounds as if Osama has a lot riding on our presidential election. hehe.
Yes, this would make Florida the #1 target because of Bush the Governor and the plentiful number of Jews that live there. But if I was dropping hints in Osama's ears, I would tell him CNN Center is based in Atlanta.
Lock and load. Time to run out the muslim perpetrators from American soils. If Bin Laden wants a fight, I guess his people are willing to die and it is a good time to start giving them their wishes.
I can understand why the bad people hate President Bush.
But I cannot understand why so many good people have a hatred for Bush. The muslims of the world have propegated their hatred for the man Bush that stands in their way of converting the world. Too many people are blindly jumping on the hate Bush bandwagon. But they cannot explain why.
It is the religion of peace, the muslims who spew hatred and death. They must be beat back with force.
I think the thing I'm going to remember the most about this election is the terror attack that doesn't look like it's going to happen.
It's past the prime time for effectiveness....any attack tomorrow or Tuesday gives the election to Bush on a silver platter.
F%#$ you, Osama.
States DON'T vote. People vote.
I been shot before. You won't be gettin' no virgin.
But if you can't bite, then you had best not growl.
Kerry's campaign strategists: Carville, Begala, and Bin Laden.
> This has NOT been reported by the
> MSM, but certainly needs to be.
Yes, as usual, they think all Americans are idiots and this would influence the election. Well, duh, ALL news will influence the election, but Americans have to inevitably make up their own minds. We should have seen the whole thing, accurately translated, unless there is some true danger that some part is "triggering" terrorist action.
In this case some will be stupid enough to cave out of this "threat" while some will vote Bush with all the more conviction, not willing to submit to the threats of a terrorist. In almost every case, this will not be changing someone's vote, the Kerry supporters are the sort to surrender on demand to anyone, like Kerry himself, while Bush supporters typically have at least some shred of patriotism.
The MSM has no purpose anymore, they are like a dying dinosaur.
Or Arizona either you little dishrag on your head wearin' bitch!
Big BIG place the Grand Canyon Usama. Guy could get lost for a long time in a place that big - without his camel, or his koran, or his bong, or his boy toys, or his dialysis machine.
molan labe rag head
Et Tu F&F?
Shortly after 9/11, a local woman was investigated for helping some illegal ME men living in NY obtain TN drivers licenses. She worked at the DMV.
You are always going to have some people willing to sell out for $$ but it's my opinion that these guys work somewhat like the mob. Through connections and contacts and willing to kill to cover their tracks.
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