ZOT! Don't support Bush, hear Osama Bin Laden out.

Following is the full English transcript of Usama bin Ladin's speech in a videotape sent to Aljazeera. In the interests of authenticity, the content of the transcript, which appeared as subtitles at the foot of the screen, has been left unedited.

Praise be to Allah who created the creation for his worship and commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate against the oppressor in kind. To proceed:

Peace be upon he who follows the guidance: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results.

Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom.

If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike for example - Sweden? And we know that freedom-haters don't possess defiant spirits like those of the 19 - may Allah have mercy on them.

No, we fight because we are free men who don't sleep under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours.

No one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure. Whereas thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.

But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred.

So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, for you to consider.

I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.

The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.

I couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.

The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn't respond.

In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.

And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.

And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance.

This means the oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children - also in Iraq - as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages.

So with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary?

Is defending oneself and punishing the aggressor in kind, objectionable terrorism? If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us.

This is the message which I sought to communicate to you in word and deed, repeatedly, for years before September 11th.

And you can read this, if you wish, in my interview with Scott in Time Magazine in 1996, or with Peter Arnett on CNN in 1997, or my meeting with John Weiner in 1998.

You can observe it practically, if you wish, in Kenya and Tanzania and in Aden. And you can read it in my interview with Abdul Bari Atwan, as well as my interviews with Robert Fisk.

The latter is one of your compatriots and co-religionists and I consider him to be neutral. So are the pretenders of freedom at the White House and the channels controlled by them able to run an interview with him? So that he may relay to the American people what he has understood from us to be the reasons for our fight against you?

If you were to avoid these reasons, you will have taken the correct path that will lead America to the security that it was in before September 11th. This concerned the causes of the war.

As for it's results, they have been, by the grace of Allah, positive and enormous, and have, by all standards, exceeded all expectations. This is due to many factors, chief among them, that we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents.

Our experience with them is lengthy, and both types are replete with those who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation of wealth. This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Sr to the region.

At a time when some of our compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits would have an effect on our countries, all of a sudden he was affected by those monarchies and military regimes, and became envious of their remaining decades in their positions, to embezzle the public wealth of the nation without supervision or accounting.

So he took dictatorship and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot Act, under the pretence of fighting terrorism. In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors, and didn't forget to import expertise in election fraud from the region's presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty.

All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.

This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.

So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.

Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.

And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.

And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [When they pointed out that] for example, al-Qaida spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost - according to the lowest estimate - more than $500 billion.

Meaning that every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs.

As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan - with Allah's permission.

It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is ... you.

It is the American people and their economy. And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, before Bush and his administration notice.

It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face those great horrors alone, the time when they most needed him.

But because it seemed to him that occupying himself by talking to the little girl about the goat and its butting was more important than occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers, we were given three times the period required to execute the operations - all praise is due to Allah.

And it's no secret to you that the thinkers and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the war and told him: "All that you want for securing America and removing the weapons of mass destruction - assuming they exist - is available to you, and the nations of the world are with you in the inspections, and it is in the interest of America that it not be thrust into an unjustified war with an unknown outcome."

But the darkness of the black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.

So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future. He fits the saying "like the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under the earth".

So I say to you, over 15,000 of our people have been killed and tens of thousands injured, while more than a thousand of you have been killed and more than 10,000 injured. And Bush's hands are stained with the blood of all those killed from both sides, all for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business.

Be aware that it is the nation who punishes the weak man when he causes the killing of one of its citizens for money, while letting the powerful one get off, when he causes the killing of more than 1000 of its sons, also for money.

And the same goes for your allies in Palestine. They terrorise the women and children, and kill and capture the men as they lie sleeping with their families on the mattresses, that you may recall that for every action, there is a reaction.

Finally, it behoves you to reflect on the last wills and testaments of the thousands who left you on the 11th as they gestured in despair. They are important testaments, which should be studied and researched.

Among the most important of what I read in them was some prose in their gestures before the collapse, where they say: "How mistaken we were to have allowed the White House to implement its aggressive foreign policies against the weak without supervision."

It is as if they were telling you, the people of America: "Hold to account those who have caused us to be killed, and happy is he who learns from others' mistakes."

And among that which I read in their gestures is a verse of poetry. "Injustice chases its people, and how unhealthy the bed of tyranny."

And know that: "It is better to return to the truth than persist in error." And that the wise man doesn't squander his security, wealth and children for the sake of the liar in the White House.

In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No.

Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.

And Allah is our Guardian and Helper, while you have no Guardian or Helper. All peace be upon he who follows the Guidance.

For American, it's a dark day. The entire system of checks and balances is now non-existent. Bush and the right wing wacko Christian right rule this country, dispute being a self-righteous nation that it claims, this country retains the single most evil entity in the world. (Nothing in this essay should be confused with a knock on religion or God, only criticism to use them as an excuse to do evil.)

Osama Bin Laden released a tape to the American people explaining why he attack New York, and how to prevent more attacks, and the government suppressed it, because made to much sense. When Al Jazeera released part then the whole transcript they were threaten by military attack. I guess our “New, Free Iraq won’t get the right to free speech and press? The government would rather have you believe we never did anything to Bin Laden or his people to cause that attack on 9-11, and that the reason why Bin Laden dislikes American is simply, because we have freedom. I never bought into that line to of horseshit for one second, and anyone who has, well for you there is no hope. You fall into the category of American people that A) bought so deeply into the belief that America is a holy nation with nothing but moral values and good or even Godly intentions, or B) are so comfortable living your undisturbed life, your completely comfortable being ignorant to anyone else's suffering as long as you don't have to see or hear it. Politics in boring, and you want nothing to do with it. For you people, I say excitement is having the power hungry American government rule every aspect of your life threw the means of a police state because no one cared enough to stop it. But by the very nature of this forum, I will assume for most of you in disagreement with me, it is the latter of the two.

The founders of the land stole it away from the Native Americans, something we claim to be greatly shameful of. I don't so much spend time feeling sick in the fact that the government has slowly taken away every bit of compensation away that they gave the Natives, as they say none that are alive today felt the effects of the mass murders and stealing of the 1700 and 1800s, though I disagree with the notion. Is it not true that without the "white man's" invasion on this soil, those ancestors would still own this beautiful land, and not be fighting to keep it safe from the pollution and misuse the Bush Administration is now suggesting? Though disgusting in itself, I focus more of my concern and ill feelings toward the Americans help and involoment with a modern day slaughter and land invasion in the Middle East. The Jews are taking land occupied by the Arabs for generations on the authority of the Bible, an ancient text, and we, in the spirit of robbing the land for the native Americans have to problem aiding the Jews with the grace of God. God Bless America. We level their towers, kill their women and children, aid with money and the 6th fleet, and while the murders and terrorism continues, we bless our self as doing Gods children. Funny, so does Bin Laden.

I am reminded of Axle Rose of Guns N Roses when he said "Freedom is not in your hands when everyone is fighting for the promised land," and that's what's happening. Bin Laden's people have been murdered by the Jews and Americans on the authority of the Bible which states the land in question indeed belongs to the the Jews. But if this is so, why did the Jews abandon the land? And now the fighting back and forth has turned the most beautiful land in the Middle East, green and fruitful land, to a disgusting pile of waste and death.

To see the connection between this and what happened on 911, read Bin Laden's words, not mine. But don't be confused, I am not a terrorist. I am not encouraging or promoting or applauding the attacks on American soil. I am an American, and that remains true despite this distain for the empowering government. And please don’t send me emails saying “well if you don’t love his country leave it” because ill call you a dumbass. Not to question your government is un-American, NOT SPEAKING OUT AGAINST IT is un-American. This country was founded on the idea and beliefs that we will not settle for what we have, we will fight for the best that we can obtain. We will allow people to do things that we don’t like, as long as they don’t directly harm our freedom. This country has moved away from that line of thinking. And to sit back and fund a government with your tax money that murders and lies to you, well that’s beyond un-American, that’s out right disgusting. To have so apathy and be so ignorant to not watch and control your Government is startling, and to be ruled by our very creation is embarrassing. That right, I’m becoming embarrassed of the title “American”. I thank all you for that.

As far as the election, do I feel Kerry would have made a difference? Would he have made all Bushes wrongs right? Would he have saved 200 years of a declining society? No. But I believe more so than Bush, he would have stopped this country from spiraling out of control. He would have been MORE honest than Bush. I believe he would have begun to mend some ties that Bush destroyed. He would have made being an American a little more honorable. Bill Maher, how about this for a “NEW RULE!”…. no more cowboy presidents! They seem to be so quick to fight, but the first to dodge one if they have to fight in it.

The American Government is, in my mind, without a doubt the most evil government in the world ruling over either the most dumb or appathic people in the world. Usually after an unfavorable election, I would support the idea of coming together as a nation and solving the problems. In this instance I wont. I will tell you to remain divided, because I would rather see America fall divided, with self respect intact, then to support this evil empire that is the United States. I rather see this nation dissolve and join the N.W.O then to be a puppet for the Bush. I rather let the rest of the world know, I am Andre Verdun, an American, not stupid, not a murder, not a terrorist, even if others are. This country doesn’t control me. I will exercise my rights to protest, till the point of being arrested for not taking off my “Bush is a terrorist” T-shirt despite my “guaranteed rights” to do so. So when all the smoke clears, I can live with myself. I know I did the right thing. I didn’t give in to get the label "patriot", I defied my government, and I saved my own personal freedom.

America’s founding father would be proud of me, I know it.

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Thank you.

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