October 31, 2004 Video of Osama
bin Laden, the full text.
 Praise
be to God. Praise be to God who created creation
for His worship and commanded them to do justice
and permitted those who are wronged to exact
retribution in like measure as they have been
treated.
TO continue, Peace be upon those who
follow guidance. 
OH American people, my talk to you
is about the best way to avoid another Manhattan,
about the war, its causes, and results.
I preface my remarks by saying that security is
an important pillar of human life. Free people do
not relinquish their security. This is contrary to
Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him tell us
why we did not strike Sweden, for example. It is
known that those who hate freedom do not have proud
souls, like the souls of the 19 people
[killed while carrying
out the September 11, 2001 attacks], may
God have mercy on them. We fought you precisely
because we are free and cannot tolerate injustice.
We want to restore freedom to our nation. So just
as you waste our security, we will waste your
security.  Eric
Mueller comments: A COUPLE weeks back
al-Jazeera broadcast excerpts of a video
tape by Osama bin Laden. Apparently
the US didn't want any of that tape
broadcast at the time (particularly before
the US elections), but in the end
Washington allowed al-Jazeera to show
parts of it.
The BBC then did
a decent translation of those excerpts as
broadcast. But today some Islamicist site
(that I have not seen) has apparently got
hold of the full tape and broadcast it,
and another Islamic news
site posted a full Arabic transcript
of Osama bin Laden's complete message.
Since I doubt that the
BBC will go back and do a full version of
that translation, I've gone ahead and done
it in the interest of a free flow of
information.
The Arabic website where
I obtained this wondered whether its full
publication before the US election would
have made any difference. Personally I
doubt it, since the American electorate
knows nothing about the outside world and
cares even less.
But the US is a country
that thinks nothing of imposing leaders
and constitutions on other peoples at
gunpoint.
It's therefore amazing that
Washington would invoke "non-interference"
on al-Jazeera to prevent Americans
from hearing opinions from abroad, lest
they disturb cherished delusions, or
horror of horrors, prod some citizen into
thinking before he or she votes. Arabist Eric Mueller
of Plano, Texas, is this website's expert
on Middle Eastern affairs. |
Only a stupid thief can imagine that he can
infringe upon the security of others and then
remain secure himself. When misfortunes befall
intelligent people, one of their most important
responses will be to seek out the causes so that
they might avoid such things.But I am amazed at you.
For although almost four years have passed since
the September 11 events, Bush is still
practicing distortion and confusion upon you,
concealing from you the real reason
[for
the September 11
attacks]. Thus, the
motives still exist for a repeat of what
happened. I will speak to you about the reasons behind
these incidents. I will honestly tell you about the
minutes in which the decision was made so that you
may consider. I say to you that God knows that the
idea of striking the towers never occurred to us.
But, after things had gone too far and we saw the
injustice and tyranny of the US-"Israeli" alliance
against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I
started thinking of that. The events that influenced me directly trace
back to 1982 and subsequent events when the United
States gave permission to the "Israelis" to invade
Lebanon, with the aid of the US Sixth Fleet. There was bombardment, and the killing and
wounding of many. Numerous others were terrified
and displaced. I continued to think about those
moving scenes of blood, mangled corpses, children,
and women strewn about everywhere, of homes
destroyed along with all those inside, of towers
crashing down upon their residents, of shells
raining down without mercy upon our homes. It was as if a crocodile were eating a helpless
child who could do nothing but cry out. Does a
crocodile comprehend a dialogue without weapons?
The whole world heard and watched but made no
response. At those difficult moments, many ideas that are
hard to describe occurred to my mind. However,
these ideas produced an overwhelming feeling to
reject injustice. They generated a strong
determination to punish the unjust ones. While I was looking at those destroyed towers in
Lebanon, the idea arose of punishing the unjust one
in a similar manner by destroying towers in the
United States so that it would feel some of what we
felt and be deterred from killing our children and
women. At one point I became convinced that injustice
and the intentional killing of innocent women and
children is an established American law, while
resistance to that is "terrorism" or "reactionary."
Here I am referring to the sanctions that brought
death to millions of people
[in Iraq],
which is what Bush the father did in Iraq in
the biggest genocidal massacre of children known to
humanity. And I am also referring to the dropping
of bombs and millions of pounds of explosives upon
millions of children in Iraq, as was done by Bush
the son, as well as other such scandalous
actions. It was against the
backdrop of these images and many others that
the events of September 11 took place, as a
response to those great afflictions. Is one to
be condemned for protecting his sanctuary? Is
defending oneself reprehensible terrorism? If
so, then we have no alternative. This is a message we wanted to convey to you by
word and action many times before the events of
September 11. You may access it if you wish in my
interview with Time Magazine in 1996, and
with Peter Arnett of CNN in 1997, and then
my interview with George Wener[?] in
1998. You may access that message in terms of actions,
if you will, in [the
attacks in] Nairobi, Tanzania, and Aden.
And you may access it in my interviews with
Abdel Bari Atwan and Robert Fisk, the
latter being one of your own people who adheres to
your faith, and I believe him to be a neutral
person. Can those who proclaim freedom in the White
House and the channels subservient to them
interview him so that he can convey to the American
people what he gathered from us about the things
that have caused us to fight you? For if you can
avoid those things that have caused the conflict,
you would be proceeding along the correct path that
will lead America to the security it had before
September 11. This is as regards the war and its causes. As
regards its results, by the grace of God they have
been positive and very great. They have exceeded
all expectations by all criteria for many
reasons. One of the most important reasons is that we did
not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his
administration, because it is similar to regimes in
our countries, half of which are governed by the
military and the other half of which are governed
by the sons of kings and presidents; and we have a
long experience with them. In both categories, you
find many who are characterized by hubris,
arrogance, greed, and unlawful acquisition of
money. This similarity transpired since Bush the
father's visit to the region. While some of our
people were dazzled by the United States and hoped
that these visits would affect our countries, he,
instead, was affected by these royal and military
regimes, envying them for remaining in their posts
for scores of years, embezzling public money
without being held accountable or monitored. Accordingly, he transferred
dictatorship and the repression of freedoms to
his son by introducing the Patriot Act under the
pretext of fighting terrorism. Bush Senior
deemed it appropriate to assign his sons to
govern states. He also did not forget to convey
the [election] rigging experience from
the leaders of the [Arab] region to
Florida to benefit from it at critical times. All these things we mentioned above made it easy
for us to inflame and embroil this administration.
All we need to do is send a couple of mujahid
fighters to the Far East with a piece of paper with
the word "al-Qa'idah" written on it, for us to get
generals rushing off there in all haste, costing
America dearly in financial, human, military, and
political terms, yielding it nothing other than
some profits for some of its private companies. At
the same time, we have learned guerrilla warfare,
and the techniques of a war of attrition with a
great power. Our mujahideen wore out Russia
for 10 years, driving it to bankruptcy and forcing
it to withdraw defeated, for which boon may God be
praised. We are now carrying on this policy in order to
drain down America to the point of bankruptcy, by
the grace of God, and this is not a big thing for
God to bring about. There are those who say that
al-Qa'idah has triumphed over the White House or
that the White House administration has lost in
this war, but that is not precisely true. For a
close look at the results does not justify the
statement that al-Qa'idah is the only cause
bringing about these amazing results. The policy of
the White House and its insistence upon opening
numerous battlefronts to promote its various
companies -- whether armament firms, or oil, or
construction companies -- all these have helped to
bring about these amazing results for
al-Qa'idah. Thus some analysts and diplomats have said that
it looks as though we and the White House are
working together as one team to target the economy
of the United States, although we have different
intentions. For example we can say
that al-Qa'idah spent $500,000 on the incident,
while America lost at a minimum over $500
billion as a result of the same incident and its
reverberations. In other words, every dollar
spent by al-Qa'idah defeated a million dollars
spent by America, by the grace of God the
Exalted. And in addition to its loss of vast numbers of
jobs, America's financial deficits have reached
record and astronomical levels, estimated at over a
trillion dollars. More importantly and critically for America, the
mujahideen forced Bush onto an emergency budget to
continue the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan,
proving that we are succeeding in our plan to drain
the US to the point of bankruptcy, by the grace of
God. It is a fact that this situation makes it clear
that al-Qa'idah has gained, but on the other hand
it shows that the Bush administration has also
gained. That fact becomes clear when one looks at
the massive size of the contracts won by big and
suspicious companies -- such as Halliburton and
similar firms with ties to Bush and his
administration. Thus, the loser in fact, is you,
the American people and the American economy.  We
had agreed with the chief commander
[of the September 11
hijackers] Muhammad Atta -- may
God bless him -- that he should accomplish all the
operations within 20 minutes before Bush and his
administration could take notice. It never occurred
to us that the commander-in-chief of the US armed
forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the
two towers to face those great horrors alone, at a
time when they needed him badly, because it seemed
to him that being preoccupied with the little
child's talk about her goat and its butting was
more important than being preoccupied with the
planes and their ramming into the skyscrapers. This
gave us three times the period required for
carrying out the operations, praise be to God.
You are also aware that high-placed American
strategists and thinkers warned Bush before the war
that if he wanted to protect America from weapons
of mass destruction, on the supposition that they
exist, this would be accomplished by the inspection
activity and that all the countries of the world
were together with him on that. They said that the
interests of America demanded that Bush not push
the country into an unjustifiable war, the outcome
of which was unknown. But the blackness of black gold
[oil] clouded
Bush's view and foresight. He put private interests
before general American interests and the result
was war, the many deaths, the draining of the
American economy, and the entanglement of Bush in
the marshes of Iraq to the point that his own
future is threatened. I tell you that more
than 15,000 of our people have been killed and
tens of thousands have been wounded. More than a
thousand of you have been killed and more than
10,000 wounded. And the blood of all of those
deaths on both sides stains the hands of Bush,
whose aim is oil and business for his private
companies. Remember that every action has a
reaction. Finally it is a good idea to contemplate the
behests of those who left you on September 11
crying out in despair. Those behests are important
and should be brought out in studies and
researches. One of the most significant of those
last minute cries was the cry, "how wrong we were
to leave the White House unsupervised to carry out
a foreign policy of aggression against the
exploited peoples." It is as if they are telling
you, American people, to bring those who caused
those deaths to account. Know that returning to right is better than
persisting in doing wrong, and that a rational
person does not squander his security, his wealth,
and his children for the lies of the White
House. In closing, I tell you that I am speaking
truthfully when I say that your security does not
lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush, or
al-Qa'idah. Your security is in your own hands.
Each and every state that does not impinge upon our
security will have automatically assured its own
security. God is our Patron, and you have no patron. Peace be upon those who follow
guidance. [Source
of Arabic original]   
The Adam Pearlamn video, and Mr Irving comments
on the above Osama bin Laden video
So
Osama bin Laden is alive and
well
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