"What's that you say? You've got another video tape?"
Posted on 11/01/2004 12:57:52 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON - 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."
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"What's that you say? You've got another video tape?"
We'll get OBL by Christmas. We're on his trail near the China border. I say a couple weeks of reconnaissance, and then time to attack his group. I'll guess 3 weeks.
Keep faith.
The Lord will not be mocked forever.
-Thomas Jefferson
Well I guess they can breathe easier in CA, MA, NY, IL, and VT.
New York City is in a blue state and I'll bet that this skinny pig-eater hasn't given up on Manhattan.
MSM have been very selective in the video segment and transcripts released.
MSM haven't fully reported the threats OBL made.
MSM doesn't want to remind America that terrorism is the top priority issue the next Presidential administration will have to deal with.
Very interesting. We had a long discussion of this on another thread, but since none of us knew the Arabic original (or, for that matter, reads Arabic), we weren't sure if he meant "states" or "nations." Now it is clearly apparent that he is threatening us on a US state level.
bttttttttt
I will. I won't need FR any longer.
Let's imagine for a minute that you lived in Minnesota and you are a soft Bush voter. You here this and think that means it's open season on the Mall of America. You'd probably vote for Kerry. The undecideds are more like the Spaniards than they are like us.
I hope MN turns out to be red this time, and then I've got a couple words for Elvis: Screw you!
TN red state bookmark
Wow, osama endorses kerry. Big suprise. Nice for the terrorists to come out and actually admit who they want to win.
How do you figure?
If, god forbid, we are like the Spaniards, we deserve to die like them.
So, apparently bin Laden is getting his strategy from Michael Moore. I bet that fat slob is really proud of himself.
Last time someone picked a fight with Tennesseans, we got Texas. :P
Oh, I understood full well what the old bully was saying.
. . and now they're picking on Tennessee . . . We've always
been known as THE VOLUNTEER STATE, and we keep in practice
shooting our food.
Some people in this country have a lot of growing up to
do . . fast.
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