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Ärende: Bin Laden
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He sounds like the liberal left...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4628932.stm

Text: 'Bin-Laden tape'

The tape was broadcast shortly after 1500 GMT on Thursday
The pan-Arab TV station al-Jazeera has broadcast an audio tape purporting to be
by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, in which the speaker says al-Qaeda is
preparing new attacks on the US.
Here is the full text of the message, as carried on al-Jazeera's website.



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My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end
it.

I had not intended to speak to you about this issue, because, for us, this
issue is already decided on: diamonds cut diamonds.

Praise be to God, our conditions are always improving and becoming better,
while your conditions are to the contrary of this.

However, what prompted me to speak are the repeated fallacies of your President
Bush in his comment on the outcome of the US opinion polls, which indicated
that the overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of the forces from
Iraq, but he objected to this desire and said that the withdrawal of troops
would send a wrong message to the enemy.

Bush said: It is better to fight them on their ground than they fighting us on
our ground.

In my response to these fallacies, I say: The war in Iraq is raging, and the
operations in Afghanistan are on the rise in our favour, praise be to God.

The Pentagon figures indicate the rise in the number of your dead and wounded,
let alone the huge material losses, and let alone the collapse of the morale of
the soldiers there and the increase in the suicide cases among them.

So, just imagine the state of psychological breakdown that afflicts the soldier
while collecting the remnants of his comrades' dead bodies after they hit
mines, which torn them. Following such situation, the soldier becomes between
two fires. If he refuses to go out of his military barracks for patrols, he
will face the penalties of the Vietnam butcher, and if he goes out, he will
face the danger of mines.

So, he is between two bitter situations, something which puts him under
psychological pressure - fear, humiliation, and coercion. Moreover, his people
are careless about him. So, he has no choice but to commit suicide.

What you hear about him and his suicide is a strong message to you, which he
wrote with his blood and soul while pain and bitterness eat him up so that you
would save what you can save from this hell. However, the solution is in your
hand if you care about them.

The news of our brother mujahideen, however, is different from what is
published by the Pentagon.

This news indicates that what is carried by the news media does not exceed what
is actually taking place on the ground. What increases doubts on the
information of the White House's administration is its targeting of the news
media, which carry some facts about the real situation.

Documents have recently showed that the butcher of freedom in the world [US
President Bush] had planned to bomb the head office of al-Jazeera Space Channel
in the state of Qatar after he bombed its offices in Kabul and Baghdad,
although despite its defects, it is [Al-Jazeera] one of your creations.

Jihad is continuing, praise be to God, despite all the repressive measures the
US army and its agents take to the point where there is no significant
difference between these crimes and those of Saddam.

These crimes include the raping of women and taking them hostage instead of
their husbands. There is no power but in God.

The torturing of men has reached the point of using chemical acids and electric
drills in their joints. If they become desperate with them, they put the drill
on their heads until death.

If you like, read the humanitarian reports on the atrocities and crimes in the
prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

I say that despite all the barbaric methods, they have failed to ease
resistance, and the number of mujahideen, praise be to God, is increasing.

In fact, reports indicate that the defeat and devastating failure of the
ill-omened plan of the four - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz - and the
announcement of this defeat and working it out, is only a matter of time, which
is to some extent linked to the awareness of the American people of the
magnitude of this tragedy.

The wise ones know that Bush has no plan to achieve his alleged victory in
Iraq.

If you compare the small number of the dead when Bush made that false and
stupid show-like announcement from an aircraft carrier on the end of the major
operations, to many times as much as this number of the killed and injured, who
fell in the minor operations, you will know the truth in what I am saying, and
that Bush and his administration do not have neither the desire nor the will to
withdraw from Iraq for their own dubious reasons.

To go back to where I started, I say that the results of the poll satisfy sane
people and that Bush's objection to them is false.

Reality testifies that the war against America and its allies has not remained
confined to Iraq, as he claims.

In fact, Iraq has become a point of attraction and recruitment of qualified
resources.

On the other hand, the mujahideen, praise be to God, have managed to breach all
the security measures adopted by the unjust nations of the coalition time and
again.

The evidence of this is the bombings you have seen in the capitals of the most
important European countries of this aggressive coalition.

As for the delay in carrying out similar operations in America, this was not
due to failure to breach your security measures.

Operations are under preparation, and you will see them on your own ground once
they are finished, God willing.

Based on the above, we see that Bush's argument is false. However, the argument
that he avoided, which is the substance of the results of opinion polls on
withdrawing the troops, is that it is better not to fight the Muslims on their
land and for them not to fight us on our land.

We do not object to a long-term truce with you on the basis of fair conditions
that we respect.

We are a nation, for which God has disallowed treachery and lying.

In this truce, both parties will enjoy security and stability and we will build
Iraq and Afghanistan, which were destroyed by the war.

There is no defect in this solution other than preventing the flow of hundreds
of billions to the influential people and war merchants in America, who
supported Bush's election campaign with billions of dollars.

Hence, we can understand the insistence of Bush and his gang to continue the
war.

If you have a genuine will to achieve security and peace, we have already
answered you.

If Bush declines but to continue lying and practicing injustice [against us],
it is useful for you to read the book of "The Rogue State", the introduction of
which reads: If I were a president, I would halt the operations against the
United States.

First, I will extend my apologies to the widows, orphans, and the persons who
were tortured. Afterwards, I will announce that the US interference in the
world's countries has ended for ever.

Finally, I would like to tell you that the war is for you or for us to win. If
we win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever as the wind blows in this
direction with God's help.

If you win it, you should read the history. We are a nation that does not
tolerate injustice and seek revenge forever.

Days and nights will not go by until we take revenge as we did on 11 September,
God willing, and until your minds are exhausted and your lives become miserable
and things turn [for the worse], which you detest.

As for us, we do not have anything to lose. The swimmer in the sea does not
fear rain. You have occupied our land, defiled our honour, violated our
dignity, shed our blood, ransacked our money, demolished our houses, rendered
us homeless, and tampered with our security. We will treat you in the same way.


You tried to deny us the decent life, but you cannot deny us a decent death.
Refraining from performing jihad, which is sanctioned by our religion, is an
appalling sin. The best way of death for us is under the shadows of swords.

Do not be deluded by your power and modern weapons. Although they win some
battles, they lose the war. Patience and steadfastness are better than them.
What is important is the outcome.

We have been tolerant for 10 years in fighting the Soviet Union with our few
weapons and we managed to drain their economy.

They became history, with God's help.

You should learn lessons from that. We will remain patient in fighting you, God
willing, until the one whose time has come dies first. We will not escape the
fight as long as we hold our weapons in our hands.

I swear not to die but a free man even if I taste the bitterness of death. I
fear to be humiliated or betrayed.

Peace be upon those who follow guidance.
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