http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/33124.htm
Osama bin Laden warned in his October Surprise video
that he will be closely monitoring the state-by-state
election returns in tomorrow's presidential race — and
will spare any state that votes against President Bush
from being attacked, according to a new analysis of
his statement.
The respected Middle East Media Research Institute,
which monitors and translates Arabic media and
Internet sites, said initial translations of a key
portion of bin Laden's video rant to the American
people Friday night missed an ostentatious bid by the
Saudi-born terror master to divide American voters and
tilt the election towards Democratic challenger John
Kerry.
MEMRI said radical Islamist commentators monitored
over the Internet this past weekend also interpreted
the key passage of bin Laden's diatribe to mean that
any U.S. state that votes to elect Bush on Tuesday
will be considered an "enemy" and any state that votes
for Kerry has "chosen to make peace with us."
The statement in question is when bin Laden said on
the tape: "Your security is up to you, and any state
that does not toy with our security automatically
guarantees its own security."
That sentence followed a lengthy passage in the video
in which bin Laden launches personal attacks on the
president.
Yigal Carmon, president of MEMRI, said bin Laden used
the Arabic term "ay-wilaya" to refer to a "state" in
that sentence.
That term "specifically refers to an American state,
like Tennessee," Carmon said, adding that if bin Laden
were referring to a "country" he would have used the
Arabic word "dawla."
MEMRI also translated an analysis of bin Laden's
statement from the Islamist Web site al-Qal'a, well
known for posting al-Qaeda messages, which agreed that
bin Laden's use of the word "ay-wilaya" was meant as a
"warning to every U.S state separately."
"It means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote
for the white thug Bush as president, it means that it
chose to fight us and we will consider it an enemy to
us, and any state that will vote against Bush, it
means that it chose to make peace with us and we will
not characterize it as an enemy," the Web site said,
according to MEMRI's translation.
--- Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What tape was that? The only one I've seen recently
> he said it didn't
> matter who was elected and that our security was
> directly related to
> our foreign policy. He said stay out of our
> business and we'll stop
> attacking you.
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