Posted on 05/30/2007 7:08:38 AM PDT by AnnaZ
A complete transcript of the 7 minute, 57 second long tape follows.
The video can be downloaded here.
Legitmate demands
A message from the mujahid brother Adam Yehiye Gadahn (Azzam)
This is not a call for negotiations. We don’t negotiate with baby killers and war criminals like you. No, these are legitimate demands which must be met
All praise is due to Allah creator of the heavens and the earth and prayers and peace be upon the messenger of Allah, and his companions, family, and followers until the day of judgement.
Bush. You thought you would be remembered by history as the President who waged a series of successful Crusades against the Muslims. Instead, you will go down in history not only as the president who embroiled his nation in a series of unwinnable and bloody conflicts in the Islamic world but as the President who sent the United States off on its death march towards breakdown and disintegration.
Oh, I’m sure there will be some partisans who believed your lies and some fanatics who shared your murderous Crusader ideology who will remember you fondly and mourn for you when this world is at long last rid of you, just as there were those who heaped praise on your fellow bloodthirsty nation destroying crusaders Milosovich and Yeltsin when they passed on to Allah’s anger but such minority sentiments can do nothing to cover up the ugliness of your crimes, the truth about your Empire of Evil, and the colossal failure of your Global Crusade.
You may or may not be aware of it but today, nearly four years after you hastily declared victory in Iraq, and more than five and a half years after you fell into the Afghanistan trap, things aren’t going too well for your Crusader Coalition. In fact, things are going really bad.
From Kanduz to Diyala, you and your mercenary hirelings and loyal but stupid allies are easy prey for our martyrdom-seekers. In East Africa, where many of the wars opening battles were fought years ago, the blood of your Ethiopian proxies is making the sand run red from Mogadishu to Ogadeen, and from the Levant, Egypt, and the Sudan to the Islamic Magrhib and Nigeria new fronts are being opened and old fronts are being reinvigorated and you and your are feeling the heat.
And, as confirmed by a new poll of Muslims in four major regional countries conducted by the Center for International Security Studies at the University of Maryland, Muslims continue to support and defend the goals, efforts, and sacrifices of their brothers and sisters, the Mujahideen and continue to demonstrate broad awareness of the evil nature of America and the threat posed by it.
This despite your worst efforts to distort out image in the eyes of Muslims and camoflauge your true intentions
In other words, you’re losing on all fronts and losing big time.
Bush, the die has been cast and the blood has been spilled and there is no way to undo what you have done.
There are, however, some steps you can take to curtail your losses and prevent the number of American casualties at home and abroad from rising even higher.
The Champions of Islam, defending their faith and brethren against your evil doing have repeatedly made clear these steps but because I know you live in a cocoon of your own making, and prefer to remain ignorant of what goes on in the world, I shall summarize them here. I strongly suggest you heed and implement them for your own good and the good of your people.
One, pull every last one of soldiers, spies, security advisors, trainers, attaches, and so on out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar. Should so much as one single American soldier or spy remain on Islamic soil, it shall be considered sufficient justification for us to continue our defensive jihad against your nation and people.
Two, stop all support and aid - military, political, economic, or otherwise – to the fifty-six plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world and abandon them to their well-deserved fate at the hands of the soldiers of Islam. Should you fail to comply in full we will deem it sufficient justification to continue to fight and kill Americans.
Three, end all support, moral, military, economic, political, or otherwise to the bastard state of Israel and ban your citizens, Zionist Jews, Zionist Christians, and the rest from traveling to the occupied Palestine or settling there. Even one penny of aid will be considered sufficient justification to continue the fight .
Four, cease all interference in the religion, society, politics, and governments of the Muslim world and leave us alone to establish the Islamic Shura State which will unite the Muslims of earth in truth and justice. A single word of American protest shall be silenced by a thousand Islamic bombs.
Five, put an end to all forms of interference in the educational curricula and information media in the Islamic world and impose a blanket ban on all broadcasts to our region, especially those designed to alter or destroy the faith, minds, morals, and values of our people.
And six, free all Muslim captives from your prisons, detention facilities, and concentration camps regardless of whether they have been recipients of what you call a fair trial or not. Your refusal to release them will mean the continuation of our just struggle against your tyranny until the last kidnapped Muslim has been liberated.
This is not a call for negotiations. We don’t negotiate with baby killers and war criminals like you. No, these are legitimate demands which must be met. And your failure to heed our demands and the demands of reason means that you and your people will - Allah willing- experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Virginia Tech.
And let us be clear. A pull-out from Iraq alone in the absence of compliance with the remainder of our legitimate demands will get you nowhere and will not save you from our strikes.
SO stop wasting your time, and trying to save face with these futile, farsical maneuvers on Capitol Hill and start making some serious moves.
It’s your choice, Bush, cutting your losses and saving some face by getting out now with what you’ve still got, or continuing to coun t your dead and pursue a bloody fight to the very end. Your end, not ours.
By the grace of Allah, and with his help and power, we’ve struck back hard these past several years and with Allah’s permission we shall continue to strike back hard.
This year, next year, the year after that, and so on, until the last Crusader goes home whether waving a white flag or lying in a flag covered casket.
And our final prayer is that all Praise is due to Allah, who gives victory to the believers.
Who are the 56+ "apostate regimes"? And maybe they should be nicer to us.Two, stop all support and aid - military, political, economic, or otherwise – to the fifty-six plus apostate regimes of the Muslim world and abandon them to their well-deserved fate at the hands of the soldiers of Islam. Should you fail to comply in full we will deem it sufficient justification to continue to fight and kill Americans.
Shouldn’t this dork be playing Dungeons and Dragons or something?
Pull his finger!
Never mind. I thought the headline was about Bush’s attack on conservative America.
Damn Democrats.
So I’ll guess he’ll be voting democrat in ‘08?
Do you still believe that anything America could do would stop terrorism except hunting and killing these lunatics?
I liked the six demands. They will continue attacking us until each and every one is completely implemented. It does do a good job of pointing out what we would have to do to appease them.
One, pull every last one of soldiers, spies, security advisors, trainers, attaches, and so on out of every Muslim land from Afghanistan to Zanzibar. Should so much as one single American soldier or spy remain on Islamic soil, it shall be considered sufficient justification for us to continue our defensive jihad against your nation and people.
Islamic soil is considered by Islamists to include any land that ever was Muslim. This would include the Balkans to Vienna, Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Sicily and parts of southern Italy and France. Not to mention all of India.
Yes, it is. Frankly, just pointing out 9/11 would suffice, but tagging VT onto the list is quite odd.
*adjusts foil*
Who was Ismail again?
*removes foil*
As you know, any American - no matter how removed from geopolitics - is considered a spy by Muslims.
The eradication formula is the only one to use on vermin like this.
He’s the first American to be indicted for treason since 1952.
What’s his DU screen name again?
Hmmm... so I guess this is war then. Wish the "apostate regimes" would start taking care of themselves, but a fifteen-minute sense of history probably makes seeing the approaching danger a little difficult.
Are his parents liberal? If so, they must be proud.
It's becoming abundantly clear that it's a fight to the finish.
Finally, a centrist the democrats can support.
Link.WINCHESTER – It was 1988 and Michael Rowe had just moved to this dusty, one-stoplight town in rural Riverside County.
Rowe bought a place southeast of here, so far out in the country that it's reachable only by driving one-lane dirt roads.
While out walking his property one day, he met his neighbor, who lived about a mile away, and they shook hands across a barbed-wire fence.
The neighbor was tall and thin, with long hair and a beard. He said his name was Seth Gadahn and that he and his family raised goats. Rowe told Gadahn that he had moved here from Tustin because Orange County, with all its sprawling strip malls and furious freeways, was getting too crowded.
Gadahn said he, too, was originally from Orange County.
"He said, 'I left Orange County so I wouldn't have to deal with people, and you're all moving out here now,' " Rowe recalled. "When I moved in, he thought he was being invaded."
Sixteen years later, the fiercely private Gadahn faced an invasion of another kind. In May 2004, reporters and FBI agents found his Riverside County farm and peppered Gadahn, 57, with questions about his son, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who they said was affiliated with al-Qaida.
Suddenly Seth Gadahn was pulled into a social spotlight he had run from 25 years before. Born Phil Pearlman, the son of a prominent Orange County doctor, Seth Gadahn turned his back on his father's nice homes, middle-class lifestyle and traditional career.
Then, just as he had rebelled against his father, Seth Gadahn's son rebelled against him. Adam Yahiye Gadahn became Azzam the American.
A product of the 1960s, Seth Gadahn was a peace-loving hippie who ultimately found Christianity. Completely counter to that, his son talks constantly of war and, in a Sept. 2 video, outlines the "errors" of Christianity and Judaism, the faiths of his father and grandfather.
Seth Gadahn shares many characteristics with his son – a love of obscure music, a name change to signify a fresh start, and disdain for conventional society.
But now, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the son of a man who believed in "live and let live," rants of death and destruction to all those who don't convert to the violent vision of Islam created by Osama bin Laden.
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