[Shadow_Group] Text of Osama's message to US

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Text of Osama's message to US

AFP [SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2004 11:34:59 AM]

DOHA: Following is a translation from Arabic of the text of a message to the 
Americans by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in which he threatens fresh 
attacks on the US, days before the US presidential election, as aired by Al-Jazeera 
TV on Friday night. 


"O American people, this is what I have to say about the causes and results 
(of the September 11, 2001 attacks) and the way to avoid another Manhattan. 

I tell you that security is a major pillar of human life. Free men do not 
renounce their security, irrespective of (US President George W) Bush's claims 
that we hate freedom. 

Let him (Bush) tell us why we did not attack Sweden, for example. It is 
obvious that those who hate freedom cannot have the pride of the 19 (September 11 
suicide hijackers), God rest their souls. 

If we fought you, it is because we are free men, we do not ignore values, we 
want to return freedom to our nation. If you play havoc with our security, we 
play havoc with yours. 


You astonish me. Despite the fact that we are into the fourth year after 
September 11, Bush is still misleading you and hiding the real reason from you, 
which means that the reasons to repeat what happened remain. 

I will tell you about the reasons of these events and about the moments in 
which the decision (to attack) was taken so you will ponder them. 

I swear we never thought of attacking the towers, but when we saw the 
injustice and arbitrariness of the US-Israeli alliance against our brethren in 
Palestine and Lebanon, it became too much and the idea came to me. 

The events which affected me directly go back to 1982 ... when America gave 
the Israelis the green light to invade Lebanon, with the backing of the US 
Sixth Fleet. 

It is difficult to describe what I felt in these painful moments, but it 
created an overwhelming feeling of refusal of injustice and a compelling 
determination to punish the unjust. 


As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me that the 
unjust should suffer the same, that the towers in America must be destroyed so 
that America gets a taste of what we went through, so that it will stop killing 
our children and women. 

We did not find it hard to deal with Bush and his administration given the 
similarity with the regimes in our countries, half of which are governed by 
soldiers and the other half by the offspring of kings and presidents. 

We have a long experience with those. Both categories count people who are 
arrogant, greedy and embezzle (public) funds. 

The similarity began at the time of visits by Bush the father (former US 
president George Bush) to the region. 

At a time when some of our kinfolk were impressed by America and hoped that 
these visits would impact on our countries, it turned out that he was the one 
affected by these monarchies and military regimes, envying them for keeping 
their posts tens of years, embezzling public funds without being held accountable 
or monitored. 


He transferred tyranny and repression of freedoms to his son and they called 
it a national law (US Patriot Act, introduced) under the pretext of combating 
terrorism. 

Bush's father thought it was a good thing to put his sons to govern states. 
And he did not forget to transfer (election-) forging skills from the 
presidents of the region to Florida to use them in critical times. 

We had agreed with (suicide hijacker) Mohammad Atta, God rest his soul, that 
he finishes all operations in 20 minutes before Bush and his administration 
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 these horrors alone 
at a time when they were most in need of him. 

He reckoned that it was more important to preoccupy himself with the talk of 
the little girl about her goat ... than with the planes and their strike on 
the skyscrapers, giving us three times the time required to carry out the 
operations, thanks be to God. 

Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic presidential candidate John) 
Kerry, Bush or Al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Any 
(presidential) mandate which does not play havoc with our security would automatically 
ensure its own security."  



 What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."
(Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX)















			
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