Did Bush Attack America Because They Support Israel?

Friday, October 29, 2004

Below are excerpts from the translation of a speech delivered by
terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden in a new tape aired by Al-Jazeera:

To the American people, my talk to you is about the best way to avoid
another Manhattan, about the war, its reasons and its consequences .. I
tell you: Security is an important element of human life, and free
people do not give up their security. Unlike what Bush says that we
hate freedom, let him tell us why didn't we attack Sweden, for example.

It is known that those who hate freedom do not have dignified souls,
like those of the 19 blessed ones. We fought you because we are free
.... and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our
security we undermine yours.

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Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is
still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
Consequently, there are still reasons to repeat what happened. I will
tell you about the reasons behind these attacks and will tell you the
truth about the moments during which the decision was made, for you to
contemplate.
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God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers,
but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and
inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in
Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind. The incidents that
affected me directly go back to 1982 and afterward, when America
allowed Israelis to invade Lebanon, with the help of the American 6th
Fleet.

In these tough moments, many things raged inside me that are hard to
describe, but they resulted in a strong feeling against injustice and a
strong determination to punish the unjust.

While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in
my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we
should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and
would be deterred from killing our children and women.

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We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration,
because it is similar to regimes in our countries, half of which are
ruled by the military and the other half are ruled by the sons of kings
and presidents. We have a long experience with them. Both types include
many who are full of arrogance and greed.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the
region. ... He wound up being impressed by the royal and military
regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and
embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

He passed on tyranny and oppression to his son, and they called it the
Patriot Act, under the pretext of fighting terror. Bush the father did
well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the
expertise in fraud from the leaders of the (Mideast) region to Florida
to use it in critical moments.

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We had agreed with the general emir Mohammed Atta, God bless his soul,
to carry out all operations within 20 minutes before Bush and his
administration noticed. It never occurred to us that the commander in
chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens
in the two towers to face these horrors alone.

It appeared to him (Bush) that a little girl's talk about her goat and
its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the
skyscrapers. That gave us three times the required time to carry out
the operations, thank God.

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Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your
security is in your own hands. Any state that does not mess with our
security has naturally guaranteed its own security.

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