U.S. RELEASES VIDEOTAPE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN **Full Text**

US Department of Defense ^ | 12-13-01

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The U. S. government released today a copy of a videotape of Osama bin Laden obtained by U.S. forces in Jalalabad, Afghanistan in late November.

The video was filmed by unknown persons.

"There was no doubt of bin Laden's responsibility for the September 11 attacks before the tape was discovered," said Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

The release of the tape was made after balancing the concerns about any additional pain that could be caused by its release against the value of having the world fully appreciate what we are up against in the war against terrorism.

The tape was released with an English translation and English subtitling, prepared independently by George Michael, translator, Diplomatic Language Services; and Dr. Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic language program coordinator, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. They collaborated on their translation and compared it with translations done by the U.S. government for consistency. There were no inconsistencies in the translations.

The English translation is on the Web at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2001/d20011213ubl.pdf

[Republican Wildcat]

Right, right. His numbers had dropped from a whopping 87% to just a measly 86%. You are so correct with that intelligent hypothesis of yours.

[Ridin' Shotgun]

... 'a great' advertising rep.

[LarryLied]

He is into Christmass greetings, and Bible meeting attacks (not to mention sympathy with the prayer in the school). And probably he has connections with public creche Al-Catho terrorist display network.

Oh naive you are. I have it on good authority Jerry Falwell is doing far more than this. He is genetically engineering Christians. He wants to breed billions of little Christians. Microbe, or smaller,sized. No way to keep them out of public schools when they are the size of viri, is there?

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Terrorist apologist.

[Ridin' Shotgun]

Please allow me to take back my earlier post alleging that you deserve to be a sovereign citizen. 'Vigilance' is the thing you may need to refresh in your computerized robot mind.

[FR_addict]

These guys quote their evil directly from the Hadith and Kuran. "Religion of Peace", yeah, right.

It sounds like the Saudis are up to their eyeballs in support of this terrorist. The Saudi also provided the money for the thousands of Mosques that have built in the USA in the last decade.

[HopieAnn]

I'm kinda with you on the poem thing. Another thing I noticed was that earlier when UBL and the sheik were talking it appeared they were talking to eachother. But then when the sheik started talking all messianic and all he was looking at the camera, pointing his finger at it, and saying how the second hit would come from the true believers. It worries me.

[ctdonath2]

Its taken them all this time and they still can't get it right? Not verbatim?

If that concerns you, then find someone who speaks the language (or learn it yourself) and decide if the translation is accurate enough in critical parts. Obvously our government did.

[Bryce Buchanan]

The history of the world is the history of religious idiots doing this back and forth to each other. If these lunatics had nuclear weapons, they would destroy the world... for God.

Fanatical faith is possibly the most dangerous thing in the world. Reason is the antidote.

[agrace]

ROFLOL

Uncontrollable laughter, thank you. :)

[ctdonath2]

How many times are we going to anhilate entire nations to get one 'evil' man

Each time that one 'evil' man is clearly responsible for acts of war, and the nation in question refuses to hand him over even when we ask nicely.

Even if he gets away, no country will willingly harbor & assist him after the last one got pulverized.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Let's refresh your twisted void of a mind, your comrades the national socialists and the communists hold the record for killing innocents.
You are still an apologist for terrorists.
Remember, if your fanatic friends had their way, stalinists such as yourself would get a one way trip to the Kabul football stadium.

[Ridin' Shotgun]

And you can call me Bill Clinton too.... bahahahahaha.... ... and the meaning of 'is' is?......

[Ridin' Shotgun]

.... and the nation in question refuses to hand him over even when we ask nicely. ...without providing one iota of evidence (to them OR to us).

[Amore]

You're right, the names of the hijackers DON'T matter. His pointing out that hijackers were misidentified initially (and even assuming they are still misidentified at this point in time) is meaningless. I don't think even the biggest looney is contesting the fact that there were 19 hijackers who attacked us on September 11th. (Of course as we've already seen, there will be lots of smaller-scale loonies who will continue to deny that bin Laden is behind it. . . . )

[Ridin' Shotgun]

Rave on fool.

[Stone Mountain]

Sorry, I guess you missed my point. The point was that most people do not hold an entire religion responsible for the statements and actions of it's extremists.

[Ridin' Shotgun]

... most people do not hold an entire religion responsible for the statements and actions of it's extremists.

good point, but IMHO you missed an important word in that statement: most sane people do not do so. Unfortunately sanity isn't exactly pandemic in this country anymore.

[veronica]

Thanks for passing that info along to anyone curious enough to want to take a peek at it.

I doubt many people here want to expose themselves to such swill. Decent people, anyway.

[Baseballguy]

Sorry, I guess you missed my point. The point was that most people do not hold an entire religion responsible for the statements and actions of it's extremists.

Could you explain who "most people" are? I think if you read the transcripts it was stated that there where phone calls of congratulation's!!!

There are more out there. The size of the "extremists" seem to be very large...