Sunday, October 31, 2004
GLOBAL JIHAD
Bin Laden to
states:
Don't vote for Bush
Speech
mistranslated by most media as threat against foreign countries
Posted: October 31, 2004
9:06 p.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The tape
of Osama bin Laden that was aired Friday on Al-Jazeera included a
specific threat to "each U.S. state," designed to influence the outcome of
Tuesday's election, according to the Arabic translators at the prestigious
Middle East Media Research Center.
The U.S. media have mistranslated the words "ay wilaya" (which means
"each U.S. state") to mean a "country" or "nation" other than the U.S.,
says MEMRI, while in reality bin Laden's threat was directed specifically
at each individual U.S. state. MEMRI specializes in translating Middle
Eastern documents, speeches and the like for Western consumption.
Translated correctly, bin Laden's speech suggests some knowledge of the
U.S. electoral college system. In fact, notes MEMRI, in one section of his
speech where he harshly criticizes President Bush, bin Laden states: "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 [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."
While bin Laden threatened each U.S. state, he also offered an election
deal to the American voters – a sort of amnesty for states that don't vote
for Bush, similar to the ultimatum he directed toward Europe in April, in
which he offered a truce.
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 ..."
Analysis of the speech by MEMRI's president, Yigal Carmon, reveals 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."
Thus, for al-Qaida's followers, bin Laden's speech sends a regressive
and defeatist message of surrender, concludes Carmon, as seen in the move
from solely using Jihad warfare to a mixed strategy of threats combined
with truce offers and election deals.
Here are key sections of bin Laden's speech:
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.
