Here is a new piece from Jill St. Claire's site. It offers an interesting arab take on the usama tape which aired on al jazeera Friday. The last paragraph tells it all.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.net
The surprises of the Al-Qaeda leader tape - Abd Albari Atoan
11-3-2004
Is still it is impossible for us the knowledge of the influence size that the tape that the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin the Al-Qaeda Network leader issued on the American public opinion caused, and the course of the presidential elections, but what its saying is possible now and before two days of its holding that it whatever the result of these elections and any the winner was in it, the Al-Qaeda leader will go out the older winner .
We explain a more and say we it if the democratic candidate John Kerry won, he will point that he was behind George Bush 's defeat when am about to throughout this tape that he is still alive he grants and in good health, and capable assuming that he is a main player in the international policy, as he revealed also that the destructive war that George Bush launched on the terrorism, and entrusted until now 250 billion dollars and thousand and five hundred American soldiers, was crowned with the complete failure .
And above this and with the Al-Qaeda leader mocked the president Bush and said that he was distracted from the American security and the protection of his citizens lives with the narration of the goat story to one of the pupils to more than twenty minutes, the matter that enabled the general prince for the battles of New York and Washington from the execution of his task in the destruction of the World Trade Center successfully .
As for if the president Bush won the elections for a second rule, the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin can confirms that he was preferring his winning, and that showed clearly the statement that issued it in the last end of the month of March, and said in him Bush 's winning pours into the Muslims interest because he will continue his reckless politics in the launch of the wars on the Arabs and the Muslims, the matter who will lead to the increase of the hatred to the Americans in the world, and the events of the required awakening in the Islamic world by what leads to the overthrow of the systems of corruption and the inability and the judging dictatorship now, and broadening the scope of wars and the revolutions by what leads to the collapse of The United States as Soviet Union collapsed .
The Al-Qaeda Network leader tape, was on a big degree from the importance, whether with respect to its content or with respect to its timing, and the summarization of the main stations is possible in it the one that the stop on it becomes necessary is with care in the next points :
First : the Al-Qaeda Network after three years on the eleventh events from September is still strong, and the eradication of it did not take place totally as the president Bush said, then the organization leader appeared in good health, and wears the traditional Arab clothes, and it was self-confident that speaks in a sound language and did not commit solecism at all, the matter that means that it is not chaser, or afraid or confused .
A second : the Al-Qaeda Network repeated the organization of its lines and the collection of its forces, and Bat moves with greater confidence, by a proof that the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin and its deputy doctor Ayman Zawahiri they issued more than 24 audio tapes and visible throughout the three last years, and they succeeded in the delivery of these tapes to the Arab satellite Tv and AlJazeera a special, proficiently and without the American intelligence agencies managing and she is the most qualified in the world from the observation of the men place or the arrest on them .
A third : the ribbon timing and before few days from the start of the American presidential elections, and its inclusion of the goat story that came in Michael Moore 's tape around events eleventh from September, confirms that the Al-Qaeda Network leader Bat a clever political player, follows up the world events closely, and wants the investment of these events for the service of the cases that believes in them . He has addressed the American people this time in an effective way and a civilized, and not by the threat language and the threat the previous, when it said that its security is between its hands and is not between my hands Bush or my oldness and that the problem is not with the American people but with the politics of its unjust external government that kills the Muslims . And he gave for example that the Al-Qaeda Network did not attack Sweden, because Sweden did not attack the Arabs and the Muslims .
A fourth : it is clear that the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin with his addressing of the American people by this friendly way, abandoned and if temporarily, about the fatwa that issued it in February in year 1998 with the killing of Jewish and Christians, and she is the fatwa that raised several criticisms Fi Ousat the Islamists .
A fifth : the Al-Qaeda leader did not appear in this the line with dressed jacket the spotted War Ministry, as that he did not carry the favorite Klashinkov at him the one that seized it from a Russian general was killed in one of Afghanistan confrontations, but he appeared as a political leader that wears civilian clothes, as he appeared in good health, which confirms that all previous novels around his injury with a failure as Loi-Lem are accurate .
A sixth : the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin in this tape recognized the sound and the picture and the time the initial without any a reservation, with his responsibility and his organization about the planning and the execution of the eleventh attacks from September, after he was in the past blessing her and supports it only .
A seventh : staying sheikh Ben Laden is alive, and also doctor Ayman Zawahiri, and their publication of two tapes, the first in the third memory to the eleventh from September ( Al-Zawahiri ), and the second just before the American elections they give a credibility for accusations senator Kerry the democratic candidate of the president Bush with the failure in carrying out the arrest of the Al-Qaeda leader with the transfer of the task to the war lords the Afghans, which wasted a historical opportunity, because these are bad and bribed .
An eighth : the care of sheikh Ben Laden in this tape on the exposure of the Arab leaders, and their accusation of the corruption and the busyness with the bequeathing, and the forgetfulness of the massacres that is committed now in Iraq and Palestine . Also he maintained the presentation of himself that it is the defender about the nation cases, when he said that he thought about hitting the American towers started in year 1982 when the Israeli forces devastated Lebanon and occupied an Arab capital by a light that an American became green, then why they destroy our towers while their towers remain a safe . As he said in the tape .
A ninth : the sheikh Ben Laden and his deputy Ayman Zawahiri, succeeded in the gain of minds and many of the Arabs hearts and the frustrated Muslims, whether because of the massacres that are committed in Palestine and Iraq or because of the corruption of the ruling regimes . And the attracting is that the last tapes reflect a change on the thought of the men, then while the Al-Qaeda Network was concentrating on the parties cases in the Islamic world ( Chechnya, Kosfo, the Philippines is Thailand and Bosnia ) it started now that approaches the main essential case that the Arabs and the Muslims unites behind them and she is Palestine case then the case of Iraq occupation . And this direction started in the attack on the Israeli hotel and the attempt of dropping El Al plane in Mombasa, and the last attack since three weeks on the Israeli tourists in Taba region in north of Sinai .
In the end we say and unhesitatingly, that the first time in the history of the Arab relations the American the one that there is a factor an Arab or Islamic influence in the American elections and its results, negatively or positively . The habit has run that the Arabs and the Muslims are in the spectator site and it is not in the effective site . But appears that the Al-Qaeda Network leader tape, and the huge media care by it, an important precedent record in this framework, regardless of its size or the size of its influence .
Jerusalem Arab
1/11/2004
http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/surprises_of_the_al.htm
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