Osama Bin Laden Tape Threatens U.S. States Not to Vote for Bush

MEMRI ^ | November 1, 2004 | Yigal Carmon

[Just Lori]

That was Moore's focus of that heinous piece of propaganda. The only difference was that Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw-Haw were presumably working for the other side. Moore is presumably American, but his propaganda film follows an enemy's propadanda piece point by point.

The enemy within.

And Kerry too! Have you seen "Stolen Honor"? Another piece the MSM wants to keep America from seeing..... truth hurts.... well it hurts SOME, anyway.

[OXENinFLA]

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)

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I don't think the Dems or Camp Kerry would, as Dan Rather would say, "touch that line with a 12-foot pole, which as you know is the pole I reserve for those things that I certainly wouldn’t touch with an 11-foot pole."

[Milligan]

Its a win-win situation for Osama.
If Bush gets elected, recruitment will be high for Osama because they will have to fight for their lives.
If Kerry gets elected, recruitment will be high for Osama because he successfully scared voters to pick a Quisling candidate who will back off from terrorism.

[KMC1]

Yes it was reported...

[BigSkyFreeper]

The video only serves to show just how much in disarray Al Qaeda is. The video will only serve to harden the base of Bush, because OBL is still alive.

[twntaipan]

Agreed--but I think it will bring a few "leaners" to W too.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Agreed--but I think it will bring a few "leaners" to W too.

Of course there is chance that may happen.

[Rutles4Ever]

Soooo... al Qaeda's not going to attack New York, Washington D.C, or California -- but "look out Wyoming"?

This is utter bull --

I would buy the notion that Ohio and Florida are being implied here (and maybe Michigan).... but not all the states.

[JesseHousman]

That gaggle of misfits who support sKerry will fall into line, just as the Spanish, scared that the evil muslims will blow them up if sKerry isn't elected.

Let's pray that this hollow, leftist gigolo isn't elected, because that would mean that through intimidation the majority of American voters are appeasers of the evil islamists.

[Stateline]

Osama the dog log.....

[twntaipan]

Perish the thought of a Kerry presidency. Clinton was a draft dodger-- but Kerry by all accounts gave aid and comfort to the enemy.

[Moleman]

Somehwere at the end of this message I read "I'm John Kerry, and I support this mesage...:-)

[Aquinasfan]

This has NOT been reported by the MSM, but certainly needs to be.

Heard it this morning. Maybe it was Fox. Doubt this will be picked up by the MSM.

Anyway, OBL needs a new schtick. He's putting us all to sleep.

[American Infidel]

I watched FahrenHYPE 9-11 last night

I did as well. It was much better than I thought it would be. I would love to see it side by side with moore's propaganda piece on the shelves of videostores so that people who rent moore's movie can also rent FahrenHype911 to see moore's propaganda piece ripped apart.

[Moleman]

Just checked a couple of MSM sites (Yahoo, MSN, Detroit News) NOTHING! on this story at all. WTF, biased media, spit.

[Freepdonia]

Its a win-win situation for Osama. If Bush gets elected, recruitment will be high for Osama because they will have to fight for their lives. If Kerry gets elected, recruitment will be high for Osama because he successfully scared voters to pick a Quisling candidate who will back off from terrorism.

Can we agree that it will be more of a win if sKerry is elected for Osama? Yeah, he'll get many recruits if Bush is elected, but their life expectancy will be shortened greatly. :-)

[Freepdonia]

No matter what happens tomorrow our country has to come together against Radical Islamic Fundamentalists.

Amen.

[af_vet_1981]

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.

That would have to be a deliberate mistranslation. Anyone knows wilaiyah means "state" in the context of America, hence alwilaiyat almutahadah, The United States.

[af_vet_1981]

Pretty brilliant actually. UBL is trying to divide America. He's taking advantage of the polarity of this election.

Brilliant and evil. If the Democrats win, BinLaden wins because they won't fight anyone except Republicans.

No matter what happens tomorrow our country has to come together against Radical Islamic Fundamentalists.

The Dems would stage some PR ops, with MSM assistance, but their real war will be against the Republicans. They already have their cance to come together and almost 85% of them are choosing BinLaden.