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Text: Alleged Bin Laden Tape
Associated Press

Posted on 11/12/2002 3:33:42 PM PST by RCW2001

The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 12, 2002; 5:56 PM

Following is a transcript of an audiotaped message purported to be that of Osama bin Laden praising terrorist strikes in Bali and Moscow and threatening Western nations over possible attacks on Iraq.

In the name of God, the merciful and the compassionate, from the servant of God Osama Bin Laden, to the peoples of the countries allied with the unjust government of the U.S., greetings to those who followed the right path. The road to security is passed with resisting the aggression, for it's fair to return the same treatment since the two crusades of New York and Washington until the present day, such as the Germans in Tunis and the French in Karachi, and the experience of the French oil tanker in Yemen and the killing of the U.S. Marines in Hilacha (ph) and the killings of Britons and Australians in Bali, and the latest operation in Moscow, with some small operations here and there.

These are only a reaction, and it did foretell treatment carried out by the zealous sons of Islam in defense of their religion, and in response to the call of their God and prophet, peace be upon Him.

What Bush is doing in terms of killing our sons, and what Israel, U.S.'s ally, is doing from bombing houses on the heads of those in them, on the heads of those in them, from elderly women and children, with American planes in Palestine was enough to those prudent among your leaders to stay away from this criminal gang. For our people in Palestine are being killed and have been suffering all kinds of torture for almost a century.

If we defended our people in Palestine, the world goes up in arms and allies itself against Muslims under the pretext of combating terrorism, unjustly and unfairly. So what's the business of your government to ally themselves with the criminal gang at the White House against the Muslims? Don't your governments know the White House gang are the biggest butchers of this age?

So here is Rumsfeld, who fought in Vietnam. He killed more than 2 million people, not to mention those injured and here's Cheney and Powell, who killed and wreaked destruction in Baghdad that overshadowed what Holacho (ph) did in Baghdad. What's the business of your governments to ally themselves with the U.S. by attacking us in Afghanistan, and I specifically mention Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia -- that Australia that we warned before not to participate in the war in Afghanistan, not to mention its contemptuous efforts to separate East Timor.

It ignored the warnings until it awoke to the sounds of explosions in Bali. Then its government alleged deceitfully that they are not targeted. If you can't look at your dead and the dead of your allies in Tunisia and Karachi and Filaca (ph) and Bali and Aman (ph), then remember to look at our dead from among the children in Palestine in Iraq. And remember our dead in the mosques of Hoste (ph), and our dead who were deliberately killed in weddings in Afghanistan.

If you can't look at your dead in Moscow, remember to look at our dead in Chechnya, until when we'll fear killing, destruction, desperation, orphanage and widowhood will be a monopoly for us, and peace and security remain a monopoly for you. This is an unfair state. It's time that we are -- it's time that we become equal. As you kill, you get killed, and as you bomb, you get bombed. And be sure you will be harmed, for the Muslim nation has begun with God's mercy to send you its sons who have vowed to guard, to continue the jihad with all their means to achieve victory and defeat injustice, as long as they have an eye that sees and a heart that beats.

In conclusion, we ask God to lend us his support to achieve victory for his religion, and to continue the jihad for his sake until we meet Him. While he is pleased with us, he alone is capable of that. And the last of our prayers is that thanks be to God almighty.

© 2002 The Associated Press


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 11/12/2002 3:33:42 PM PST by RCW2001
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To: RCW2001
...So what's the business of your government to ally themselves with the criminal gang at the White House...

It looks like Bin Laden is on James Carville's talking points email list.

2 posted on 11/12/2002 3:37:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: RCW2001
So is Al Jazzera playing this tape ?
3 posted on 11/12/2002 3:39:05 PM PST by cmsgop
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"It looks like Bin Laden is on James Carville's talking points email list."

Maybe so. Remember what political party the Buffalo Six belonged to ...
4 posted on 11/12/2002 3:39:19 PM PST by Angelus Errare
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Exactly ..... this does not sound like BL to me. He's much more general. Written in Bahgdad.
5 posted on 11/12/2002 3:45:44 PM PST by John Jamieson
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To: RCW2001
No More Half Measures - Bin Laden for Democrat Minority Leader!
6 posted on 11/12/2002 3:51:59 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: cmsgop
Yes, al Jazeera is playing this tape, probably playing it over & over until its intended targets (al Qaeda operatives) get the message to start their terror attacks.
7 posted on 11/12/2002 4:11:31 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: RCW2001
IMHO, this is crap. To the best of my memory, bin Laden didn't make any specific policy references like here. We got two videos of OBL -- why audio all of a sudden?
8 posted on 11/12/2002 4:13:26 PM PST by L.N. Smithee
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To: *Osama bin Laden
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
9 posted on 11/12/2002 4:14:06 PM PST by Free the USA
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To: L.N. Smithee
"...why audio all of a sudden?"

Too dark in the cave for the videocam...???

10 posted on 11/12/2002 4:16:34 PM PST by okie01
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To: RCW2001
The Pakistani that shot those CIA folks a few years ago is scheduled to be executed on Thursday. Knowing that, the al-Qaeda, probably picked this week to send us an Osama-gram.
11 posted on 11/12/2002 4:17:13 PM PST by Ranger
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To: spetznaz; Aaron_A; AM2000
>>the French in Karachi

That settles that.
12 posted on 11/12/2002 4:35:31 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: Catspaw
My guess is that the various geographic places (countries, cities, etc.) mentioned are the code words. If it reads like a ramble, it is because he has had to fit in certain code words in a certain sequence to give his cells their orders.
13 posted on 11/12/2002 4:47:58 PM PST by Stefan Stackhouse
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To: swarthyguy
But surely there will be people who will doubt the authenticity of this tape...you know if could easily be part of the global dominination conspiracy.

Speaking of which, I think we are out of aluminum foil. I better go get some for tonight.
14 posted on 11/12/2002 4:49:51 PM PST by Aaron_A
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To: L.N. Smithee
We got two videos of OBL -- why audio all of a sudden?

Might have had some plastic surgery. - tom

15 posted on 11/12/2002 4:51:44 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: RCW2001
I hope the FBI's technology is better than what they used to ID Richard Jewell as the Atlanta Bomber!
16 posted on 11/12/2002 5:40:30 PM PST by Howie
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To: RCW2001
This does NOT bode well for us, I'm afraid.

Expect some terrorist act upon the execution of the convicted CIA murderer, and expect mass destruction of population centers if we start leaving quarter-mile wide craters in Baghdad, etc..

OBL usually makes an appearance just before something goes down.

17 posted on 11/12/2002 6:00:53 PM PST by DCPatriot
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To: RCW2001
He's a dead man talking.
18 posted on 11/12/2002 6:33:18 PM PST by TigersEye
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To: RCW2001
So, what's the differance between what OBL said, and what the idiots on the DU say everyday?

I'm curious if Tom DASSHOLE realizes how much of a fan he has in OBL?

19 posted on 11/12/2002 6:46:43 PM PST by Loose_Cannon1
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To: RCW2001
Whoever wrote or spoke this diatribe is obviously obsessed with death and killing.
20 posted on 11/12/2002 6:58:16 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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