[lit-ideas] Fw: [IP] CNN transcript of bin Laden tape
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:16:12 -0700
Here is the transcript of bin Laden's message to America's elections. Read it
carefully.
Incredible, no?, that our enemy tells the truth and our leader lies to us.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/index.html
From: Mr. bin Laden
To: The USA
Subject: Your Security
You, the American people, I talk to you today about the best way to avoid
another
catastrophe and about war, its reasons and its consequences.
And in that regard, I say to you that security is an important pillar of human
life, and
that free people do not compromise their security.
Contrary to what [President George W.] Bush says and claims -- that we hate
freedom --let
him tell us then, "Why did we not attack Sweden?" It is known that those who
hate freedom
don't have souls with integrity, like the souls of those 19. May the mercy of
God be upon
them.
We fought with you because we are free, and we don't put up with
transgressions. We want to
reclaim our nation. As you spoil our security, we will do so to you.
I wonder about you. Although we are ushering the fourth year after 9/11, Bush
is still
exercising confusion and misleading you and not telling you the true reason.
Therefore, the
motivations are still there for what happened to be repeated.
And I will talk to you about the reason for those events, and I will be honest
with you
about the moments the decision was made so that you can ponder. And I tell you,
God only
knows, that we never had the intentions to destroy the towers.
But after the injustice was so much and we saw transgressions and the coalition
between
Americans and the Israelis against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it
occurred to my
mind that we deal with the towers. And these special events that directly and
personally
affected me go back to 1982 and what happened when America gave permission for
Israel to
invade Lebanon. And assistance was given by the American sixth fleet.
During those crucial moments, my mind was thinking about many things that are
hard to
describe. But they produced a feeling to refuse and reject injustice, and I had
determination to punish the transgressors.
And as I was looking at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it
occurred to me that
we have to punish the transgressor with the same -- and that we had to destroy
the towers in
America so that they taste what we tasted, and they stop killing our women and
children.
We found no difficulties in dealing with the Bush administration, because of
the
similarities of that administration and the regimes in our countries, half of
which are run
by the military and half of which are run by monarchs. And our experience is
vast with them.
And those two kinds are full of arrogance and taking money illegally.
The resemblance started when [former President George H.W.] Bush, the father,
visited the
area, when some of our own were impressed by America and were hoping that the
visits would
affect and influence our countries.
Then, what happened was that he was impressed by the monarchies and the
military regimes,
and he was jealous of them staying in power for tens of years, embezzling the
public money
without any accountability. And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom
to his own
country, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the disguise of fighting
terrorism. And
Bush, the father, found it good to install his children as governors and
leaders.
We agreed with the leader of the group, Mohammed Atta, to perform all attacks
within 20
minutes before [President George W.] Bush and his administration were aware of
what was
going on. And we never knew that the commander-in-chief of the American armed
forces would
leave 50,000 of his people in the two towers to face those events by themselves
when they
were in the most urgent need of their leader.
He was more interested in listening to the child's story about the goat rather
than worry
about what was happening to the towers. So, we had three times the time
necessary to
accomplish the events.
Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential nominee John]
Kerry or Bush or
al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Any nation that does not attack
us will not be
attacked.
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