Posted on 11/01/2004 9:16:15 AM PST by HereComesTheGOP
I had not read what was omitted from the Bin Laden tape until this morning after getting an email and freep mail about it.
I am reposting this grim reality again so more Freepers can read it.
al Kerry is worse that Tokyo Rose. He is apparently backed by the same group that funds and backs OBL. The MSM failed to tell America that OBL threatened every state which votes for the "White Bush Thug". al Kerry's agenda and OBL's is the same, "Defeat GW at any cost!"
This is outrageous that OBL threated states which vote for GW, and the traitors at ABCNNBC BS failed to let us know.
Now FoxNews is informing us of the threat from OBL.
Special Alert - No. 14
November 1, 2004 No.14
Osama Bin Laden Tape Threatens U.S. States Not to Vote for Bush
By: Yigal Carmon*
The tape of Osama bin Laden that was aired on Al-Jazeera(1) on Friday, October 29th included a specific threat to "each U.S. state," designed to influence the outcome of the upcoming election against George W. Bush. The U.S. media in general mistranslated the words "ay wilaya" (which means "each U.S. state")(2) to mean a "country" or "nation" other than the U.S., while in fact the threat was directed specifically at each individual U.S. state. This suggests some knowledge by bin Laden of the U.S. electoral college system. In a section of his speech in which he harshly criticized George W. Bush, bin Laden stated: "Any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security."
The Islamist website Al-Qal'a explained what this sentence meant: "This message was a warning to every U.S. state separately. When he [Osama Bin Laden] said, 'Every state will be determining its own security, and will be responsible for its choice,' it means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote for the white thug Bush as president has chosen to fight us, and we will consider it our enemy, and any state that will vote against Bush has chosen to make peace with us, and we will not characterize it as an enemy. By this characterization, Sheikh Osama wants to drive a wedge in the American body, to weaken it, and he wants to divide the American people itself between enemies of Islam and the Muslims, and those who fight for us, so that he doesn't treat all American people as if they're the same. This letter will have great implications inside the American society, part of which are connected to the American elections, and part of which are connected to what will come after the elections."(3)
Another interesting aspect of the speech is the fact that while bin Laden made his specific threat to each U.S. state, he also offered an election deal to the American voters, attempting to influence the election by these means rather than influencing it through terrorist attacks.(4) This peace offer is a theme that follows up on his April speech directed to Europe, in which he offered a truce.(5) The Islamist website Al-Islah explains: "Some people ask 'what's new in this tape?' [The answer is that] this tape is the second of its kind, after the previous tape of the Sheikh [Osama bin Laden], in which he offered a truce to the Europeans a few months ago, and it is a completion of this move, and it brings together the complementary elements of politics and religion, political savvy and force, the sword and justice. The Sheikh reminds the West in this tape of the great Islamic civilization and pure Islamic religion, and of Islamic justice..."(6)
Another conspicuous aspect of the tape is the absence of common Islamist themes that are relevant to the month of Ramadan, which for fundamentalists like bin Laden is the month of Jihad and martyrdom. Noticeably absent from the Al-Jazeera tape was his usual appearance with a weapon, and more importantly the absence of references to Jihad, martyrdom, the Koran, the Hadith (Islamic tradition), Crusaders, Jews, and the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad on the duty to wage Jihad against the infidels. For the followers of the Al-Qa'ida ideology, this speech sends a regressive and defeatist message of surrender, as seen in the move from solely using Jihad warfare to a mixed strategy of threats combined with truce offers and election deals.
The following are the relevant excerpts from the speech; for the full excerpts visit the MEMRI TV Project at www.memritv.org:(7)
"Oh the American people, I address these words to you regarding the optimal manner of avoiding another Manhattan, and regarding the war, its causes, and its consequences. But before this, I say to you: Security is one of the important pillars of human life, and free men do not take their security lightly, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him explain why we did not attack Sweden, for example. Clearly, those who hate freedom have no pride, unlike the 19 [suicide hijackers of 9/11], may Allah have mercy on them. We have been fighting you because we are free men who do not remain silent in the face of injustice. We want to restore our [Islamic] nation's freedom. Just as you violate our security, we violate yours.
"But I am amazed at you. Although we have entered the fourth year after the events of 9/11, Bush is still practicing distortion and deception against you and he is still concealing the true cause from you. Consequently, the motives for its reoccurrence still exist...
"We had no difficulty dealing with Bush and his administration, because it resembles the regimes in our [Arab] countries, half of which are ruled by the military, and the other half are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents with whom we have had a lot of experience. Among both types, there are many who are known for their conceit, arrogance, greed, and for taking money dishonestly.
"This resemblance began with the visit of Bush Sr. to the region. While some of our people were dazzled by the U.S. and hoped that these visits would influence our countries, it was he who was influenced by these monarchic and military regimes. He envied them for remaining in their positions for decades, while embezzling the nation's public funds with no supervision whatsoever. He bequeathed tyranny and the suppression of liberties to his son and they called it the Patriot Act, under the pretext of the war on terrorism.
"Bush Sr. liked the idea of appointing [his] sons as state governors. Similarly, he did not neglect to import into Florida the expertise in falsifying [elections] from the leaders of this region in order to benefit from it in difficult moments.
"We agreed with the general commander Muhammad Atta, may Allah have mercy on him, that all operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, before Bush and his administration would become aware. We never imagined that the Commander in Chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face this great horror alone when they needed him most. It seemed to him that a girl's story about her goat and its butting was more important than dealing with planes and their 'butting' into skyscrapers. This allowed us three times the amount of time needed for the operations, Allah be praised.
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al-Qa'ida. Your security is in your own hands, and any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security."
* Yigal Carmon is the President of MEMRI.
Endnotes:
(1) Al-Jazeera (Qatar), October 27, 2004.
(2) "Wilaya" refers specifically to a U.S. state; it would never refer to an independent country. The term for such a country is "Dawla."
(3) https://www.qal3ati.com/vb/showthread.php?t=115812
(4) To illustrate this principle, he uses Sweden as a model of a country that was never attacked by Al-Qa'ida.
(5) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 695, April 15, 2004, "Osama Bin Laden Speech Offers Peace Treaty with Europe, Says Al-Qa'ida 'Will Persist in Fighting' the U.S." http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP69504
(6) www.islahi.net/vboard/showthread.php?t=116432
(7) To view the full tape aired on Al-Jazeera or read the transcript, visit http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=312 .
20 posted on 11/01/2004 9:19:17 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When will ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps stop Rathering to America? Answer: NEVER!)
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Kinda but this STILL HELPS Bush!
Virginia's not a blue state
What about reds states that want bush but Kerry wins? Are we all hunky dory then?
He truly wants a civil war within our own borders
And if democrats don't quit betraying our country, he just might get one.
Don't have to read it. Osama is not, nor has he ever been, trustworthy. Anyone who would vote for Kerry because of this has no more sense than a potato.
Amen Brother, You could play sweet home alabama, while nugent follows up with weekend warrior. I think osama might be a dueling bangos fan though. All the video clips I have seen of him he is either in a pack of dudes or in a tent with them.
So is this being reported in the MSM? I am sure it isn't.
I hadn't thought about Soroass being behind this. But he probably would be the only Kerryite with the ways, means and contacts to arrange this stunt.
Wonder if the tape was real or produced by expert computer imaging?
Instead, we got days of "OBL wants Bush reelected" and "Bush failed to capture OBL" nonsense. Dems will jump on even a bad story for them and the GOP has to learn not to permit that to go unanswered.
I like Republicans being red states.
Red is the color of courage and the blood of patriots.
HereComesTheGOP
I LOVE red v blue! It is incredibly well thought out!
Thanks for the laugh. I'll have to show this to my 13 year old son!..
LOL at R vs B
Sarge: "We have to break this never ending cycle of attack and retalliation, either by A) convincing the two sides to live in peace or B) by getting ourselves completely involved in kicking some serious @$$. I vote B!"
My kind of leader. :D
Only fox has thus far
Geographically the Pentagon may be on the Virginia side of the "box". But the seat of power, which is DC, was the target.
The jihadists will fail. We are not France.
OBL threatening us? Come on over here big boy! I'll give you my name and address. If I have to die for voting Republican...so be it but I'm taking a lot of them with me!
There was an earlier post on FR that contained more info on the re-translation. According to this article, the arabic word used was originally translated as "state" meaning a nation or a country. But a more accurate translation would be a unit or political subdivision of a country, e.g. a state as in the United States. This article went on with a conclusion that OBL has an understanding of US politics and is implying that those states that vote for Kerry (blue) would not be attacked and those states that vote for Bush (red) would be attacked.
They should raise the terror alert now.
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