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Transcript of bin Ladin's speech


Saturday 30 October 2004, 16:53 Makka Time, 13:53 GMT


Bin Ladin directed his message at the American people


Following is the English transcript of Usama bin Ladin's speech in a
videotape aired by Aljazeera on Friday 29 October. In the interests of
authenticity the transcript, which appeared as subtitles at the foot
of the screen, has been left unedited.


"
To begin: Peace be upon he who follow the Guidance.

People of United States, 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
in
human life and that free men do not forfeit their security contrary to
Bush's claims that we hate freedom.

If so, then let him explain why did not strike - for example - Sweden.

And we know that freedom haters do not possess defiant spirits like
those of the 19 may Allah have mercy on them.

No, we fight because we are free men who do not 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.

But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after
the
events of September 11, Bush is still engaged in distortion,
deception and hiding from you the real cause 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
towers.

But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and
tyranny
of the America/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and
Lebanon, it came to my mind.

The events that affected my soul in a difficult way started in 1982
when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the
American 6th fleet helped them in that.

And the whole world saw and heard but did not respond.

In those difficult moments many hard to describe ideas bubbled in my
soul
but in the end they produced intense feelings 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 oppressors in kind and that we 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.

We have not 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 sons
of kings and presidents.

Our experience with them is lengthy and both types are replete with
those
who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation
of wealth.

This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Senior 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 these monarchies and military regimes and
became jealous of
their remaining decades in their position 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 pretences of fighting terrorism.

In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state
governors and
did not forget to import expertise in election fraud from the regions
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.

And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad
Ataa, 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 Commander in Chief of the armed
forces
would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face those
great horrors alone at a 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.
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That Sweden crack seems off the wall.

"so shall we lay waste to yours". Big talk.
But then maybe Bush will lay waste to our
country for him. The current fascist turning
of our country in the name of security is a
turn toward destruction.

(Bush is literally crying wolf. Have you seen
that?)

Once again bin Laden explicitly states the
reason "why they hate us".
The reason is not Bush's specious abstract fascist propoganda
that "They hate freedom". The reason is, "the oppression and
tyranny of the America/Israeli coalition
against our people in Palestine and Lebanon"
Suicide attacks against civilians are barbarism but barbarians
can have valid grievances.

Bin Laden's citing the resemblance of the US administration
with the corrupt administrations of various Arab nations is
a nice little shot, but I think he takes the analagy too far
and over projects Arab perspective.

And then rubbing Bush's nose in the 9/11 grade school
incident. Bush deserves that and more. What manifest
incompetence.