- There are three copies of bin Laden's speech reproduced
below.
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- All three differ radically from each other.
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- The first text's first nine paragraphs are not included
in the 2nd and 3rd copies.
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- Bin Laden's speech was censored by CNN when it
rebroadcast
the Arab satellite television channel Al-Jazeera exclusive of bin Laden's
speech.
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- CNN is attempting to exert exclusive rights to Al-Jazeera
and has lodged complaints with other American News Media for using the
Al-Jazeera broadcast without its permission.
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- CNN gets the Al-Jazeera feed first.
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- It is CNN which censored out portions of bin Laden's
speech, from which the text translations are being generated from.
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- This is obviously the U.S. Governments "Plan B"
to deal with Al-Jazeera which they failed in getting closed after their
formal complaint lodged by the U.S. Embassy about their
"Anti-Americanism".
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- There are other differences in the first text from the
Guardian and the 2nd and 3rd from the A.P. and Washington Post.
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- The U.S. Government controlled CNN and AP are
disseminating
a censored version of bin Laden's statement.
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- It thus becomes clearer why the U.S. government asked
Gulf states three days ago to shut down Al-Jazeera, the only non government
controlled news source in the Gulf.
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- Are we really living in a country that doesn't have
complete
government control of the media?
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- Are we really living in a country that promotes freedom
and free speech around the world?
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Text: Bin Laden's statement
- Sunday October 7, 2001
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- The nations of infidels have all united against Muslims.
You American people - can you ask yourselves why [there is] all this hate
against America and Israel?
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- The answer is clear and very simple, that America has
committed so many crimes against the nations of Muslims.
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- America is the head of criminals by creating Israel -
this continuous crime for 50 years.
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- The government which is besieging the people of Iraq
and killing them.
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- Why [is] your government... supporting the rotten
governments
of our countries ?
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- What happened in the United States is a natural reaction
to the ignorant policy of the United States.
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- If it continues with this policy, the sons of Islam will
not stop their struggle. The American people have to know that what is
happening to them now is the result of their support of this policy.
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- The war against Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden is a
war on Islam.
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- This is a new battle, a great battle, similar to the
great battles of Islam, like the conquest of Jerusalem.
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- I believe that there is only one God and there is no
prophet but Mohammed.
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- America was hit by God in one of its softest spots.
America
is full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east.
Thank God for that.
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- This is something, very little, of what we have tasted
for decades. Since nearly 80 years we have been tasting this
humility.
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- They [Americans] support the murder against the victims
so God has given back to them what they deserve.
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- I say that the matter is very clear. That every Muslim
after this and after what the officials in America stated, with the head
of the infidels, Bush, they come out with their men and equipment and they
even encourage countries calling themselves Muslims against us.
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- They come out to fight Islam in the name of fighting
terrorism.
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- These events have split the whole world into two camps:
the camps of belief and the camps of disbelief.
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- Every Muslim should support his religion and now the
wind of change has blown up to the Arabian peninsula.
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- I say by God the great, America will never dream, not
those who live in America will never taste security and safety unless we
feel security and safety in our lands and in Palestine.
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- Stars and Stripes
- Monday, October 8, 2001
- Text of Osama bin Laden's message
- The Associated Press
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- Text of Osama bin Laden,s taped remarks, aired on an
Arab television station after the U.S. and British strikes Sunday. The
remarks refer to the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington,
but appear to have been made before Sunday,s strikes.
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- I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that
Mohammed is his messenger.
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- There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots.
Its greatest buildings were destroyed, thank God for that. There is
America,
full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank
God for that.
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- What America is tasting now, is something insignificant
compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. Our nation (the
Islamic
world) has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more
than 80 years. Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries
are attacked, and no one hears and no one heeds.
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- When God blessed one of the groups of Islam, vanguards
of Islam, they destroyed America. I pray to God to elevate their status
and bless them.
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- Millions of innocent children are being killed as I
speak.
They are being killed in Iraq without committing any sins and we don,t
hear condemnation or a fatwa from the rulers. In these days, Israeli tanks
infest Palestine " in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jalla, and other
places in the land of Islam, and we don,t hear anyone raising his voice
or moving a limb.
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- When the sword comes down (on America), after 80 years,
hypocrisy rears its ugly head. They deplore and they lament for those
killers,
who have abused the blood, honor, and sanctuaries of Muslims. The least
that can be said about those people, is that they are debauched. They have
followed injustice. They supported the butcher over the victim, the
oppressor
over the innocent child.
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- May God show them His wrath and give them what they
deserve.
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- I say that the situation is clear and obvious. After
this event, after the senior officials have spoken in America, starting
with the head of infidels worldwide, Bush, and those with him. They have
come out in force with their men and have turned even the countries that
belong to Islam to this treachery, and they want to wag their tail at God,
to fight Islam, to supress people in the name of terrorism.
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- When people at the ends of the earth, Japan, were killed
by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a
war crime, it is something that has justification. Millions of children
in Iraq, is something that has justification. But when they lose dozens
of people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (capitals of Kenya and Tanzania,
where U.S. embassies were bombed in 1998), Iraq was struck and Afghanistan
was struck. Hypocrisy stood in force behind the head of infidels worldwide,
behind the cowards of this age, America and those who are with it.
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- These events have divided the whole world into two sides.
The side of believers and the side of infidels, may God keep you away from
them. Every Muslim has to rush to make his religion victorious. The winds
of faith have come. The winds of change have come to eradicate oppression
from the island of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
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- To America, I say only a few words to it and its people.
I swear by God, who has elevated the skies without pillars, neither America
nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it
in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of
Muhammad,
peace by upon him.
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- God is great, may pride be with Islam. May peace and
God,s mercy be upon you.
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- Another translation including portions not in above
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- Washington Post
- Text: Osama bin Laden
- Sunday, October 7, 2001
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- Following is the transcript of al Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden in a taped statement that aired on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic
satellite
station, and appears to have been recorded before the U.S. strikes.
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- (JOINED IN PROGRESS)
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- BIN LADEN (through translator): Let the whole world know
that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalucia (ph) would be
repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that Palestine will become
Jewish.
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- And with regard to you, Muslims, this is the day of
question.
This is a new (inaudible) against you, all against the Muslims and Medina.
So be like the followers of the prophet, peace be upon him, and all
countrymen
(ph), lovers of God and the prophet within, and a new battle, great battle,
similar to the great battles of Islam, like the conqueror of Jerusalem.
So, hurry up to the dignity of life and the eternity of death.
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- Thanks to God, he who God guides will never lose. And
I believe that there's only one God. And I declare I believe there's no
prophet but Mohammed.
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- This is America, God has sent one of the attacks by God
and has attacked one of its best buildings. And this is America filled
with fear from the north, south, east and west, thank God.
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- And what America is facing today is something very little
of what we have tasted for decades. Our nation, since nearly 80 years is
tasting this humility. Sons are killed, and nobody answers the call.
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- And when God has guided a bunch of Muslims to be at the
forefront and destroyed America, a big destruction, I wish God would lift
their position.
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- And when those people have defended and retaliated to
what their brothers and sisters have suffered in Palestine and Lebanon,
the whole world has been shouting.
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- And there are civilians, innocent children being killed
every day in Iraq without any guilt, and we never hear anybody. We never
hear any (inaudible) from the clergymen of the government.
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- And every day we see the Israeli tanks going to Jeanine
(ph), Ramallah, Beit Jalla and other lands of Islam. And, no, we never
hear anybody objecting to that.
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- So when the swords came after eight years to America,
then the whole world has been crying for those criminals who attacked.
This is the least which could be said about them. They are people. They
supported the murder against the victim, so God has given them back what
they deserve.
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- I say the matter is very clear, so every Muslim after
this, and after the officials in America, starting with the head of the
infidels, Bush. And they came out with their men and equipment and they
even encouraged even countries claiming to be Muslims against us. So, we
run with our religion. They came out to fight Islam with the name of
fighting
terrorism.
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- People--event of the world--in Japan, hundreds of
thousands
of people got killed. This is not a war crime. Or in Iraq, what our--who
are being killed in Iraq. This is not a crime. And those, when they were
attacked in my Nairobi, and Dar Es Salaam, Afghanistan, and Sudan were
attacked.
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- I say these events have split the whole world into two
camps: the camp of belief and the disbelief. So every Muslim shall
take--shall
support his religion.
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- And now with the winds of change has blown up now, has
come to the Arabian Peninsula.
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- And to America, I stay to it and to its people this:
I swear by God the Great, America will never dream nor those who live in
America will never taste security and safety unless we feel security and
safety in our land and in Palestine.
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