Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.
Posted on 01/19/2006 8:49:06 AM PST by snowrip
Bin Laden Offers Truce in Purported Tape Terrorist Leader Threatens New Attacks Against U.S. By Yara Bayoumy, Reuters
DUBAI (Jan. 19) -- Osama bin Laden warned that al-Qaida was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audiotape attributed to him on Thursday.
Al Jazeera television, which aired the tape, said it was recorded in the Muslim month that corresponded to December.
"The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete, God willing," said the speaker on the audiotape, who sounded like bin Laden .
In the tape, broadcast by al Jazeera television, bin Laden said al-Qaida was willing to respond to the fact that public U.S. opinion favored withdrawing troops from Iraq.
"We have no objection to responding to this with a long-term truce based on fair conditions," he said.
Bin Laden issued an audiotape in April 2004 in which he also offered a truce -- on that occasion to Europe, but not to the United States. Bin Laden Messages, Past and Present
AFP/Getty "The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete, God willing." -- Audiotape, purportedly by Osama bin Laden, aired by Al-Jazeera Jan. 19
Timeline: Bin Laden's Messages
Analysts saw the move at the time as an attempt to drive a wedge between the United States and its allies and to scare wavering coalition members out of Iraq.
In the brief segments aired on Thursday, bin Laden ridiculed President Bush for misreading public opinion which he said showed Americans wanted U.S. forces to quit Iraq.
He also said Iraq had become a recruiting ground for militants. Al-Qaida in Iraq, led by one of bin Laden 's deputies, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is one of several insurgent groups fighting U.S. and foreign forces. U.S. and Iraqi officials say many of their members are non-Iraqis.
"Your president is misinterpreting public opinion polls which show that the vast majority of you support the withdrawal of your forces from Iraq," bin Laden said.
"He (Bush) disagreed with this desire and said the withdrawal of troops will give the wrong message to the enemy and that it is better to fight them on their ground than on our ground."
"Reality shows that the war against the U.S. and its allies is not just restricted to Iraq as he claims, but Iraq has become a gravitational point and a recruiting ground for qualified (mujahideen)."
A U.S. counterterrorism official said U.S. intelligence was assessing the tape to determine its authenticity.
Bin Laden 's last audiotape was in December 2004. The interval between then and now is his longest public silence since al-Qaida's September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.
Saudi-born bin Laden and his right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding in a mountainous area on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
On Thursday, Pakistani intelligence sources said four top al-Qaida militants were believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike last week which U.S. officials say was aimed at Zawahri.
The Dims are empowering this guy and we the people need to hold them accountable.
Probably high altitude recon. She may have had a pivital role in this.
Watch it, rookie!
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Already secular academia has replaced the Christ-referenced B.C. and A.D. with the pathetic B.C.E. and C.E. Your prediction is not at all unrealistic.
"There can be no doubt as to who the leader of the Democratic Party is. It is Osama bin Laden. "
The message in this tape is pretty sophomoric... which is what we all expect from the Democrat party and the DUmmies supporting them.
Could be a ploy to buy some time to re-group. As Rush once said, "truce" is just Arabic for "We're out of ammunition."
If he is asking for a truce, it means that Al Queda is hurting and needs time to regroup. If there were plans for a terrorist attack (and I have no doubt that there were), this means that they have been seriously disrupted by the recent killing of some of the top Al Queda leaders.
By the way, will you be in DC for the March for Life (Jan 22-23)?
If OBL ran in the 2008 primaries, he'd get 70% of the DU vote. And I'm not being even slightly facetious.
Let up, hell. Time to stamp down.
Obviously he hasn't gotten the Dems memo about separation of church and state.
Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.
Yeah! The condition is that they can attack us anytime, anywhere, and we can't do a thing about it!
POUR IT ON!
Intepretation of the tape (To al-qaeda supporters):
"We're all dead now, get busy!"
That we all convert to Islam, and nuke Israel ourselves.
Binni hears the footsteps of justice coming up behind him. You want a truce, sure lets talk over dinner, we will send you the coordinates.
The US response: "NUTS".
Osama bin Laden warned that al-Qaida was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audiotape attributed to him on Thursday.
For every American killed we will take an Arab leader...
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Do you honestly think that would work? Osama and his ilk are OPPOSED to most of the leaders of the Arab world, calling them apostate and kaffirs.
No doubt.
And let him have Iraq.
All he had to do is the following:
1.) Surrender those involved in sponsoring and exectuting the murders of 9/11.At the full agreement broadcast to the world by Bin Laden himself, a defensive-fire-only order will be issued to our troops. Ninety days after the full compliance by his forces, all US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and staged for those two areas in the region shall return to their home bases.
2.) Permanently Renounce his Fatwahs calling for the terror campaign.
3.) Surrender Zarkowi for his crimes.
4.) Instruct all that have followed his Jihad worldwide to peacefully depart to their homes retaining their weapons, but promising to work for representative government in their homelands peacefully.
5.) Endorse the elected Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan and conclude a written peace with both.
6.) Declare a Fatwah against those involved in treaty violations in nuc development in Iran and elsewhere in the Muslim world.
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