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Transcipt of bin Laden Videotape
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Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001
WASHINGTON – Following is the Pentagon's transcript of the videotape
in which suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is heard discussing the
Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
The tape is believed to have been made Nov. 7. It was found in an
abandoned house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after that city fell to
anti-Taliban forces, according to Pentagon officials.
The 39-minute video begins with the end of bin Laden's remarks at a
business dinner in Afghanistan because the amateur photographer ran
out of tape and rewound it to capture the end of bin Laden's remarks.
Therefore, the chronological beginning of bin Laden's remarks is
missing.
The tape was not apparently intended for public consumption.
For accuracy's sake, the low-quality video was translated by four independent Arabic
interpreters over the course of the last week, according to Pentagon spokeswoman
Victoria Clarke.
The Pentagon did not provide a translation for the Arabic word "fiqh," which United
Press International translates as "understanding, comprehension or jurisprudence
regarding Islamic law."
The following was provided by the Pentagon:
(Transcript and annotations independently prepared by George Michael, translator,
Diplomatic Language Services; and Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic language program
coordinator, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hop
kins University. They collaborated on their translation and compared it with
translations done by the U.S. government for consistency. There were no
inconsistencies in the translations.)
Background: In mid-November, Osama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, possibly
in Kandahar, Afghanistan. These comments were videotaped with the knowledge of bin
Laden and all present.
Note: The tape is approximately one hour long and contains three segments: an original
taping of a visit by some people to the site of the downed U.S. helicopter in Ghazni
province (approximately 12 minutes long) and two
segments documenting a courtesy visit by bin Laden and his lieutenants to an
unidentified Shaykh, who appears crippled from the waist down. The visit apparently
takes place at a guesthouse in Kandahar. The sequence of the
events is reversed on the tape -- the end of his visit is in the beginning of the
tape with the helicopter site visit in the middle and the start of the Osama bin Laden
visit beginning approximately 39 minutes into the t
ape. The tape is transcribed below according to the proper sequence of events.
Due to the quality of the original tape, it is NOT a verbatim transcript of every word
spoken during the meeting, but does convey the messages and information flow.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 39 minutes into tape, first segment of the bin Laden meeting, begins
after footage of helicopter site visit.
Shaykh: (...inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope and we
thank Allah for you. We don't want to take much of your time, but this is the
arrangement of the brothers. People now are supporting us mo
re, even those ones who did not support us in the past, support us more now. I did not
want to take that much of your time. We praise Allah, we praise Allah. We came from
Kabul. We were very pleased to visit. May Allah bl
ess you both at home and the camp. We asked the driver to take us, it was a night with
a full moon, thanks be to Allah. Believe me it is not in the countryside. The elderly
... everybody praises what you did, the great ac
tion you did, which was first and foremost by the grace of Allah. This is the guidance
of Allah and the blessed fruit of jihad.
OBL: Thanks to Allah. What is the stand of the Mosques there (in Saudi Arabia)?
Shaykh: Honestly, they are very positive. Shaykh al Bahrani (phonetic) gave a good
sermon in his class after the sunset prayers. It was videotaped and I was supposed to
carry it with me, but unfortunately, I had to leave
immediately.
OBL: The day of the events?
Shaykh: At the exact time of the attack on America, precisely at the time. He
(Bahrani) gave a very impressive sermon. Thanks be to Allah for his blessings. He
(Bahrani) was the first one to write at wartime. I visited hi
m twice in al Qasim.
OBL: Thanks be to Allah.
Shaykh: This is what I asked from Allah. He (Bahrani) told the youth: "You are asking
for martyrdom and wonder where you should go (for martyrdom)?" Allah was inciting them
to go. I asked Allah to grant me to witness the
truth in front of the unjust ruler. We ask Allah to protect him and give him the
martyrdom, after he issued the first fatwa. He was detained for interrogation, as you
know. When he was called in and asked to sign, he told
them, "don't waste my time, I have another fatwa. If you want me, I can sign both at
the same time."
OBL: Thanks be to Allah.
Shaykh: His position is really very encouraging. When I paid him the first visit about
a year and half ago, he asked me, "How is Shaykh bin Laden?" He sends you his special
regards. As far as Shaykh Sulayman 'Ulwan is con
cerned, he gave a beautiful fatwa, may Allah bless him. Miraculously, I heard it on
the Koran radio station. It was strange because he ('Ulwan) sacrificed his position,
which is equivalent to a director. It was transcribe
d word-by-word. The brothers listened to it in detail. I briefly heard it before the
noon prayers. He ('Ulwan) said this was jihad and those people were not innocent
people (World Trade Center and Pentagon victims). He sw
ore to Allah. This was transmitted to Shaykh Sulayman al (('Umar)) Allah bless him.
OBL: What about Shaykh al ((Rayan))?
Shaykh: Honestly, I did not meet with him. My movements were truly limited.
OBL: Allah bless you. You are welcome.
Shaykh: (Describing the trip to the meeting) They smuggled us and then I thought that
we would be in different caves inside the mountains so I was surprised at the guest
house and that it is very clean and comfortable. Th
anks be to Allah, we also learned that this location is safe, by Allah's blessings.
The place is clean and we are very comfortable.
OBL: (...Inaudible...) When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature,
they will like the strong horse. This is only one goal; those who want people to
worship the lord of the people, without following that do
ctrine, will be following the doctrine of Mohammed, peace be upon him.
(OBL quotes several short and incomplete Hadith verses, as follows): "I was ordered to
fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Mohammed."
"Some people may ask: why do you want to fight us?"
"There is an association between those who say: I believe in one god and Mohammed is
his prophet, and those who don't (...inaudible...)
"Those who do not follow the true fiqh. The fiqh of Muhammad, the real fiqh. They are
just accepting what is being said at face value."
OBL: Those youth who conducted the operations did not accept any fiqh in the popular
terms, but they accepted the fiqh that the prophet Mohammed brought. Those young men
(...inaudible...) said in deeds, in New York and Wa
shington, speeches that overshadowed all other speeches made everywhere else in the
world. The speeches are understood by both Arabs and non-Arabs -- even by Chinese. It
is above all the media said. Some of them said that
in Holland, at one of the centers, the number of people who accepted Islam during the
days that followed the operations were more than the people who accepted Islam in the
last 11 years. I heard someone on Islamic radio
who owns a school in America say: "We don't have time to keep up with the demands of
those who are asking about Islamic books to learn about Islam." This event made people
think (about true Islam) which benefited Islam gr
eatly.
Shaykh: Hundreds of people used to doubt you and few only would follow you until this
huge event happened. Now hundreds of people are coming out to join you. I remember a
vision by Shaykh Salih al ((Shuaybi)). He said: "T
here will be a great hit and people will go out by hundreds to Afghanistan." I asked
him (Salih): "To Afghanistan?" He replied, "Yes." According to him, the only ones who
stay behind will be the mentally impotent and the
liars (hypocrites). I remembered his saying that hundreds of people will go out to
Afghanistan. He had this vision a year ago. This event discriminated between the
different types of followers.
OBL: (...Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the
enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the
floors that would be hit would be three or four floor
s. I was the most optimistic of them all.
(...Inaudible...) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire
from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse
the area where the plane hit and all the floors above
it only. This is all that we had hoped for.
Shaykh: Allah be praised.
OBL: We were at (...inaudible...) when the event took place. We had notification since
the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our
work that day and had the radio on. It was 5:30 p.
m. our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu al ((Khair)). Immediately, we heard the
news that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We turned the radio station to the
news from Washington. The news continued and no me
ntion of the attack until the end. At the end of the newscast, they reported that a
plane just hit the World Trade Center.
Shaykh: Allah be praised.
OBL: After a little while, they announced that another plane had hit the World Trade
Center. The brothers who heard the news were overjoyed by it.
Shaykh: I listened to the news and I was sitting. We didn't ... we were not thinking
about anything, and all of a sudden, Allah willing, we were talking about how come we
didn't have anything, and all of a sudden the news
came and everyone was overjoyed and everyone until the next day, in the morning, was
talking about what was happening and we stayed until 4 o'clock, listening to the news
every time a little bit different, everyone was v
ery joyous and saying "Allah is great," "Allah is great," "We are thankful to Allah,"
"Praise Allah." And I was happy for the happiness of my brothers. That day the
congratulations were coming on the phone non-stop. The m
other was receiving phone calls continuously. Thank Allah. Allah is great, praise be
to Allah.
(Quoting the verse from the Koran)
Shaykh: "Fight them, Allah will torture them, with your hands, he will torture them.
He will deceive them and he will give you victory. Allah will forgive the believers,
he is knowledgeable about everything."
Shaykh: No doubt it is a clear victory. Allah has bestowed on us ... honor on us ...
and he will give us blessing and more victory during this holy month of Ramadan. And
this is what everyone is hoping for. Thank Allah Am
erica came out of its caves. We hit her the first hit and the next one will hit her
with the hands of the believers, the good believers, the strong believers. By Allah it
is a great work. Allah prepares for you a great re
ward for this work. I'm sorry to speak in your presence, but it is just thoughts, just
thoughts. By Allah, who there is no god but him. I live in happiness, happiness ... I
have not experienced, or felt, in a long time. I
remember, the words of al Rabbani, he said they made a coalition against us in the
winter with the infidels like the Turks, and others, and some other Arabs. And they
surrounded us like the days ... in the days of the pr
ophet Mohammed. Exactly like what's happening right now. But he comforted his
followers and said, "This is going to turn and hit them back." And it is a mercy for
us. And a blessing to us. And it will bring people back. L
ook how wise he was. And Allah will give him blessing. And the day will come when the
symbols of Islam will rise up and it will be similar to the early days of al Mujahedin
and al Ansar (similar to the early years of Isla
m). And victory to those who follow Allah. Finally said, if it is the same, like the
old days, such as Abu Bakr and Othman and Ali and others. In these days, in our times,
that it will be the greatest jihad in the history
of Islam and the resistance of the wicked people.
Shaykh: By Allah my Shaykh. We congratulate you for the great work. Thank Allah.
(Tape ends here)
(Second segment of Bin Laden's visit, shows up at the front of the tape.)
OBL: Abdallah Azzam, Allah bless his soul, told me not to record anything
(...inaudible...) so I thought that was a good omen, and Allah will bless us
(...inaudible...). Abu al Hasan al ((Masri)), who appeared on al Jazee
ra TV a couple of days ago and addressed the Americans saying: "If you are true men,
come down here and face us." (...inaudible...) He told me a year ago: "I saw in a
dream, we were playing a soccer game against the Ameri
cans. When our team showed up in the field, they were all pilots!" He said: "So I
wondered if that was a soccer game or a pilot game? Our players were pilots." He (Abu
al Hasan) didn't know anything about the operation un
til he heard it on the radio. He said the game went on and we defeated them. That was
a good omen for us.
Shaykh: May Allah be blessed.
Unidentified man off camera: Abd Al Rahman al (Ghamri) said he saw a vision, before
the operation, a plane crashed into a tall building. He knew nothing about it.
Shaykh: May Allah be blessed!
Sulayman ((Abu Guaith)): I was sitting with the Shaykh in a room, then I left to go to
another room where there was a TV set. The TV broadcasted the big event. The scene was
showing an Egyptian family sitting in their liv
ing room, they exploded with joy. Do you know when there is a soccer game and your
team wins, it was the same expression of joy. There was a subtitle that read: "In
revenge for the children of al Aqsa', Osama bin Laden ex
ecutes an operation against America." So I went back to the Shaykh (meaning OBL) who
was sitting in a room with 50 to 60 people. I tried to tell him about what I saw, but
he made gesture with his hands, meaning: "I know,
I know..."
OBL: He did not know about the operation. Not everybody knew (...inaudible...).
Mohammed ((Atta)) from the Egyptian family (meaning the al Qaida Egyptian group) was
in charge of the group.
Shaykh: A plane crashing into a tall building was out of anyone's imagination. This
was a great job. He was one of the pious men in the organization. He became a martyr.
Allah bless his soul.
Shaykh (Referring to dreams and visions): The plane that he saw crashing into the
building was seen before by more than one person. One of the good religious people has
left everything and come here. He told me, "I saw a
vision, I was in a huge plane, long and wide. I was carrying it on my shoulders and I
walked from the road to the desert for half a kilometer. I was dragging the plane." I
listened to him and I prayed to Allah to help him
. Another person told me that last year he saw, but I didn't understand and I told him
I don't understand. He said, "I saw people who left for jihad ... and they found
themselves in New York ... in Washington and New York
." I said, "What is this?" He told me the plane hit the building. That was last year.
We haven't thought much about it. But, when the incidents happened he came to me and
said, "Did you see ... this is strange." I have an
other man ... my god ... he said and swore by Allah that his wife had seen the
incident a week earlier. She saw the plane crashing into a building ... that was
unbelievable, my god.
OBL: The brothers, who conducted the operation, all they knew was that they have a
martyrdom operation and we asked each of them to go to America but they didn't know
anything about the operation, not even one letter. But
they were trained and we did not reveal the operation to them until they are there
and just before they boarded the planes.
OBL: (...inaudible...) then he said: Those who were trained to fly didn't know the
others. One group of people did not know the other group. (...inaudible...)
(Someone in the crowd asks OBL to tell the Shaykh about the dream of ((Abu-Da'ud)).
OBL: We were at a camp of one of the brother's guards in Kandahar. This brother
belonged to the majority of the group. He came close and told me that he saw, in a
dream, a tall building in America, and in the same dream h
e saw Mukhtar teaching them how to play karate. At that point, I was worried that
maybe the secret would be revealed if everyone starts seeing it in their dream. So I
closed the subject. I told him if he sees another drea
m, not to tell anybody, because people will be upset with him.
(Another person's voice can be heard recounting his dream about two planes hitting a
big building).
OBL: They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to them: be
patient.
OBL: The difference between the first and the second plane hitting the towers was 20
minutes. And the difference between the first plane and the plane that hit the
Pentagon was one hour.
Shaykh: They (the Americans) were terrified thinking there was a coup.
(Pentagon note: Ayman al Zawahri says first he commended OBL's awareness of what the
media is saying. Then he says it was the first time for them (Americans) to feel
danger coming at them.)
OBL (reciting a poem):
I witness that against the sharp blade
They always faced difficulties and stood together ...
When the darkness comes upon us and we are bit by a
Sharp tooth, I say ...
"Our homes are flooded with blood and the tyrant
Is freely wandering in our homes" ...
And from the battlefield vanished
The brightness of swords and the horses ...
And over weeping sounds now
We hear the beats of drums and rhythm ...
They are storming his forts
And shouting: "We will not stop our raids
Until you free our lands"...
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