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Skriven 2004-11-05 20:58:00 av ED HULETT (1:275/311)
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 EC> Hey, ED.
 EC> 
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH> JB>VH>And we have to get UN permission to go to war with
 EC>  VH>> Saddam.
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH>
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH> JB>VH>Is that right?
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH>
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH> JB>In the first gulf war we did have "permission" and John
 EC>  VH>> Kerry still
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH> JB>voted against it.
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH>
 EC>  VH>> EH> VH> If John Kerry gets elected, start learning Arabic.
 EC>  VH>>
 EC>  VH>> EH>Michael Moore's biggest fan, UBL, just taped a campaign ad for
 EC>  VH>> Kerry.
 EC>  VH>> EH>The Kerry camp almost threw the FOX News team off the plane when
 EC>  VH>> Cavuto
 EC>  VH>> EH>commented that he saw a Kerry badge on Usama in that tape. :-)
 EC>  VH>>
 EC>  VH>> Hey, if Usama ain't contributing to the Kerry campaign, he's 
 EC> missing a
 EC>  VH>> bet. :-)
 EC> 
 EC>  EH> You never know, he may have. Most of the money donated to the Kerry
 EC>  EH> campaign was donated because of hate for Bush, not love for Kerry.
 EC> 
 EC> Here is an Egyptian's take: (from memri.org Middle East Media Research 
 EC> Institute)

I read this when I got it by email. Today they printed the entire transcript of
UBL's taped rant. It rambles and loses focus at times. UBL has been relegated 
to whining for attention.

 EC> =====================================
 EC>   Progressive Columnist: 'Bin Laden's Tape is a Tape of Capitulation and 
 EC> Bankruptcy'
 EC> 
 EC> Progressive columnist Dr. Mamoun Fandy wrote an article in the Egyptian 
 EC> daily Al-Ahram titled 'Bin Laden Votes for John Kerry: A Tape of 
 EC> Admission, 
 EC> Voting and Capitulation.' The following are excerpts from the article:
 EC> 
 EC> 'Osama Bin Laden Announced his Vote for John Kerry'
 EC> 
 EC> "The new phenomenon in the U.S. elections is that non-Americans are 
 EC> voting 
 EC> in the elections in the hope of changing America's course. [ U.N. 
 EC> Secretary-General] Kofi Annan, for example, voted for [Senator] John 
 EC> Kerry 
 EC> when he criticized [President] Bush's policy in Iraq and described the 
 EC> invasion of Iraq as an illegal action. On the other hand, Iraqi Prime 
 EC> Minister Ayad Allawi voted for Bush in his recent visit to the U.S. when 
 EC> he 
 EC> thanked the U.S. and its president in [his address] to the Congress and 
 EC> in 
 EC> the White House. Recently, Osama bin Laden announced his vote for John 
 EC> Kerry 
 EC> in his latest tape, which was presented to us by the political porn 
 EC> channel 
 EC> [i.e. Al-Jazeera].
 EC> 
 EC> "The most important thing in the tape is his sincere admission that he 
 EC> is 
 EC> the man who had planned the September 11 attacks. He specified the 
 EC> motives 
 EC> that justified this operation, which began to ferment in his mind since 
 EC> Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982:
 EC> 
 EC> "The main point in this case is that Osama himself admitted to carrying 
 EC> out 
 EC> the operation which his friends and disciples were denying for a long 
 EC> time. 
 EC> And here we have evidence, in sound and image, that the man [i.e. bin 
 EC> Laden] 
 EC> is the primary [party] responsible for the events of September 11 and 
 EC> that 
 EC> neither the Mossad nor the CIA were behind the [events], as the 
 EC> low-ranking 
 EC> [Arab] commentators have claimed. Nor the Serbs, as the senior political 
 EC> commentators have claimed."
 EC> 
 EC> 'Bin Laden Does Not Refer at All to Jihad in This Tape'
 EC> 
 EC> "The second point is that the tape is one of capitulation and 
 EC> bankruptcy, 
 EC> and not one of threat and warning, since bin Laden appears in regular 
 EC> robes 
 EC> and not in a military uniform with a rifle on his side. Bin Laden has 
 EC> relinquished his military [character] and his arms. This, of course, is 
 EC> intentional on the part of the public relations administration within 
 EC> Al-Qa'ida and outside it.
 EC> 
 EC> "In addition, bin Laden does not refer at all to Jihad in this tape. 
 EC> There 
 EC> was no [mention] of Hadiths or of Koranic verses, and not even a mention 
 EC> of 
 EC> the month of Ramadan, which we [mark] today. The tape is devoid of 
 EC> religious 
 EC> manifestations and is devoid of any [mention] of the conflict between 
 EC> East 
 EC> and West, or [the war of] the Mujahideen against the infidel Crusaders, 
 EC> whether Christians or Jews.
 EC> 
 EC> "Bin Laden's speech was restricted to technical issues of U.S. foreign 
 EC> policy and its relations with the Middle East. In addition, it was 
 EC> restricted to an attempt to influence the voters in every [U.S.] state, 
 EC> with 
 EC> [bin Laden] stating that [each] state is responsible for its own 
 EC> security by 
 EC> means of its vote - and bin Laden's lack of understanding of the 
 EC> internal 
 EC> situation in the U.S. is [yet another] issue, which I will not elaborate 
 EC> on 
 EC> here."
 EC> 
 EC> 'This Tape Resembles the Announcements of Commercial Companies Which are 
 EC> Going Out of Business'
 EC> 
 EC> "The tape tells George Bush: 'Leave us alone, and we will leave you 
 EC> alone.' 
 EC> It is obvious, from both the language and the body language, that this 
 EC> is a 
 EC> speech of a man who is capitulating, withdrawing, or trying to 'change 
 EC> his 
 EC> spots' from a Jihad fighter to a politician. This tape resembles the 
 EC> announcements of commercial companies which are going out of business.
 EC> 
 EC> "Bin Laden gave justifications for the events of September 11, and 
 EC> admitted 
 EC> responsibility for them, and here he is announcing that he votes for 
 EC> John 
 EC> Kerry in the elections. His speech contained expressions borrowed from 
 EC> the 
 EC> Democratic Convention or from Kerry's speeches, such as the story of 
 EC> George 
 EC> Bush telling a girl in Florida a tale about a goat. This expression 
 EC> appeared 
 EC> frequently in John Kerry's speeches, and it is obvious that whoever 
 EC> wrote 
 EC> bin Laden's speeches has democratic leanings, or at the very least that 
 EC> he 
 EC> follows John Kerry's speeches with interest. Moreover, bin Laden 
 EC> appeared in 
 EC> the tape as if he were advisor to Secretary of Homeland Security Tom 
 EC> Ridge, 
 EC> for he provided hints, free-of-charge, about the way to [better] 
 EC> preserve 
 EC> U.S. security.
 EC> 
 EC> "The outcome of the election we will know today or tomorrow, but the 
 EC> tape 
 EC> will remain a tape of admission, voting, and capitulation."
 EC> 
 EC> 
 EC> 
 EC> 
 EC> 
 EC> Al-Ahram (Egypt), November 2, 2004.
 EC> 
 EC> 
 EC> 

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