This is funny schtick! Gave me a good chuckle this morning, thanks for
posting.

:)

-fd


On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:42, televr wrote:
> Correct transcript provided by the U.S. Government:
>
> The following is a translated full transcript, provided by the U.S.
> government, of Osama bin Laden's videotaped message aired on the al-
> Jazeera satellite television network.
>
> The prohibited month, for the prohibited month, and so for all things
> prohibited, there is the law of equality. If then any one
> transgresses the prohibition against you, transgress ye likewise
> against him. But fear Allah, and know that Allah is with those who
> restrain themselves.
>
> Praise be to Allah who created the Creation for His worship and
> commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate
> the oppressor in kind.
>
> To proceed, peace be upon he who follows the Guidance.
>
> People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal
> way to prevent another Manhattan and deals with the war and its
> causes and results. Before I begin, I say to you that security is an
> indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit
> their security contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so,
> then let him explain to us why we didn't strike -- for example --
> Sweden. And we know that freedom haters don't possess defiant spirits
> like those of the 19. May Allah have mercy upon them.
>
> No we fight you because we are free men who don't sleep under
> oppression. We want to restore freedom to our Nation and just as you
> lay waste to our Nation, so shall we lay waste to yours. No one
> except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes
> himself believe he will be secure whereas thinking people when
> disaster strikes make it their priority to look for its causes in
> order to prevent it happening again. But I am amazed at you even
> though we are in the 4th year after the events of Sept 11th. Bush is
> still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real
> causes. And thus the reasons are still there for a repeat of what
> occurred. So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events
> and I shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the
> decision was taken for you to consider. I say to you Allah knows that
> it had never occurred to us to strike the towers, but after it became
> unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the
> American Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and
> Lebanon it came to my mind.
>
> The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when
> America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American
> Sixth Fleet helped them in that. The bombardment began and many were
> killed and injured and others were terrorized and displaced I
> couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood, and severed limbs, women
> and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their
> occupants and high-rises demolished over their residents rockets
> raining down on our homes without mercy the situations was like a
> crocodile meeting a helpless child powerless except for his screams.
> Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a
> weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but didn't respond. In
> those difficult moments, many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my
> soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of
> tyranny and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.
> And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my
> mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should
> destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we
> tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and
> children. And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and
> the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a
> deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy
> while resistance is terrorism and intolerance. This means the
> oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr. did in
> Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever
> known and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and
> explosives at millions of children -- also in Iraq -- as Bush Jr. did
> in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to
> assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages. So with
> these images and their like as their background, the events of
> September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs.
>
> Should a man to be blamed for defending his sanctuary? Is defending
> oneself and punishing the aggressor in kind objectionable terrorism?
> If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us. This is the message
> which I sought to communicate to you in word and deed repeatedly for
> years before September 11th. And you can read this, if you wish in my
> interview with Scott in Time Magazine in 1996 or with Peter Arnett on
> CNN in 1997 or my meeting with John Weiner in 1998. You can observe
> it practically, if you wish in Kenya and Tanzania and in Aden. And
> you can read it in my interview with Abdul Bari Atwan as well as my
> interviews with Robert Fisk. The latter is one of your compatriots
> and co-religionists and I consider him to be neutral. So are the
> pretenders to freedom at the White House and the channels controlled
> by them able to run an interview with him so that he may relay to the
> American people what he has understood from us to be the reasons for
> our fight against you? If you were to avoid these reasons, you will
> have taken the correct path that will lead America to the security
> that it was in before September 11th.
>
> This concerned the causes of the war. As for its results, they have
> been by the Grace of Allah, positive and enormous and have by all
> standards exceeded all expectations. This is due to many factors,
> chief amongst them that we haven't' found it difficult to deal with
> the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the
> regimes in our countries half of which are ruled by the military and
> the other half of which are ruled by the songs of kings and
> presidents. Our experience with them in lengthy and both types are
> replete with those who are characterized by pride, arrogance, greed,
> and misappropriation of wealth. This resemblance began after the
> visits of Bush Sr. to the region at a time when some of our
> compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits
> would have an effect on our countries all of a sudden he was affected
> by those monarchies and military regimes and became envious of their
> remaining decades in their positions to embezzle the public wealth of
> the Nation without supervision or accounting. So he took dictatorship
> and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot
> Act under the pretense of fighting terrorism. In addition, Bush
> sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors and didn't
> forget to import expertise in election fraud from the region's
> presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty. All
> that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait
> this administration. All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin
> to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is
> written al-Qa'ida in order to make the generals race there to cause
> America to suffer human economic and political losses without their
> achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits to their
> private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in
> using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical
> superpowers as we alongside the Mujahedin bled Russia for 10 years
> until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. All
> Praise is due to Allah.
>
> So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of
> bankruptcy. Allah is willing and nothing is too great for Allah. That
> being said, those who say that al-Qa'ida has won against the
> administration in the White House or that the administration has lost
> in this war have not been precise because when one scrutinizes the
> results, one cannot say that Al-Qa'ida is the sole factor in
> achieving these spectacular gains. Rather, the policy of the White
> House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their
> various corporations -- whether they be working in the field of arms
> or oil or reconstruction -- has helped al-Qa'ida to achieve those
> enormous results. And so it has appeared to some analysts and
> diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards
> the economic goals of the United States even if the intentions
> differ. And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the
> British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the
> Royal Institute of International Affairs (when they pointed out that)
> for example, al-Qa'ida spent $500,000 on the event, while America in
> the incident and its aftermath lost -- according to the lowest
> estimates -- more than 500 billion dollars, meaning that every dollar
> of al-Qa'ida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah
> besides the loss of a huge number of jobs. As for the size of the
> economic deficit, it has reached record, astronomical numbers
> estimated to total more than a trillion dollars. And even more
> dangerous and bitter for America is that the Mujahedin recently
> forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in
> Afghanistan and Iraq which is evidence of the success of the bleed-
> until-bankruptcy plan with Allah's permission. It is true that this
> shows that al-Qa'ida has gained, but on the other hand it shows that
> the Bush administration has also gained something of which anyone who
> looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush
> administration-linked mega-corporations, like Haliburton and its kind
> will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is... you.
> It's the American people and their economy. And for the record, we
> had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Atta. Allah have mercy
> on him that all the operations should be carried out within 20
> minutes before Bush and his administration notice. It never occurred
> to us that the Command-in-Chief of the American Armed Forces would
> abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face those great
> horrors alone at the time when they most needed him. But because it
> seemed to him that occupying himself by talking to the little girl
> about the goat and its butting was more important than occupying
> himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers we were
> given three times the period required to execute the operations. All
> praise is due to Allah. And it's no secret to you that the thinkers
> and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the
> war and told him.
>
> All that you want for securing America and removing the weapons of
> mass destruction -- assuming they exist -- is available to you and
> the nations of the world are with you in the inspections and it is in
> the interest of America that it not be thrust into an unjustified war
> with an unknown outcome. But the darkness of the black gold blurred
> his vision and insight and he gave priority to private interests over
> the public interest of America. So the war went ahead, the death toll
> rose, the American economy bled and Bush became embroiled in the
> swamps of Iraq that threatened his future. He fits the saying "Like
> the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under
> the earth". So I say to you over 15,000 of our people have been
> killed and tens of thousands injured while more than a thousand of
> you have been killed and more than 10,000 injured. And Bush's hands
> are stained with the blood of all of those killed from both sides all
> for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business.
> Be aware that it is the nation who punishes the weak man when he
> causes the killing of one of its citizens for money, while letting
> the powerful one get off when he causes the killing of more than 1000
> of its sons also for money. And the same goes for your allies in
> Palestine. They terrorize the women and children and kill and capture
> the men as they lie sleeping with their families on the mattresses
> that you may recall that for every action, there is a reaction.
>
> Finally, it behooves you to reflect on the last wills and testaments
> of the thousands who left you on the 11th as they gestured in
> despair. They are important testaments which should be studied and
> researched. Among the most important of what I read in them was some
> prose in their gestures before the collapse where they say "How
> mistaken we were to have allowed the White House to implement its
> aggressive foreign policies against the weak without supervision". It
> is as if they were telling you, "The people of America hold to
> account those who have caused us to be killed and happy is he who
> learns from others mistakes". And among that which I read in their
> gestures is a verse of poetry.
>
> Injustice chases its people
> And how unhealthy the bed of tyranny
> As has been said
> An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure
> And know that
> It is better to return to the truth than persist in error
> And that the wise man doesn't squander his security, wealth, and
> children for the sake of the liar in the White House.
>
> In conclusion, I tell you in all truth that your security is not in
> the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qa'ida. No, your security is in
> your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security,
> has automatically guaranteed its own security. And Allah is our
> Guardian and Helper while you have no Guardian or Helper.
>
>
> --- In iwar@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Rosenberger" <junkmail@b...> wrote:
> > The second-to-last paragraph was incorrectly transcribed. It
> should read,
> > "Your computer security is in your own hands. And every state that
> doesn't
> > play with our computer security has automatically guaranteed its own
> > computer security." Al Qaeda is deep into cyber-terrorism, you
> know...
> >
> > Rob
>
> Wouldn't want to persist in error!
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