New Bin Laden Video
Bin Laden has reportedly dyed.
Unfortunately, that is not a typo.
Elusive Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden mocked the United States as “weak” and vowed to escalate fighting in Iraq in a new video, his first such appearance in nearly three years.
Bin Laden discusses current events but issues no direct threats in the video, released Friday. His appearance appears to be timed to mark the upcoming sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
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In the rambling message bin Laden attacks US President George W. Bush, the US neoconservative thinkers that support him and global corporations for fomenting the Iraq war. He also attacks the US Democratic Party, which he claims has done little to halt the war, makes references to global capitalism and climate change, and invites Americans to embrace Islam.
US intelligence agencies confirmed the tape’s authenticity. “I think people are pretty confident it is his voice,” said a US intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The tape was probably produced as recently as early August because of a reference to the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, the official said.
It is bin Laden’s first such appearance since October 2004, when he threatened new attacks against the United States in a video just days before the US presidential election.
Bush used the video to support the US military presence in Iraq.
“The tape is a reminder about the dangerous world in which we live,” said Bush, who was attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Sydney.
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In the video bin Laden appears with a trimmed beard that is apparently dyed black, hiding the streaks of gray seen in previous footage. He wears a beige cloak over a white robe, and looks more like a Muslim cleric than a fighter.
If you ask me, the cloak makes him look like some kind of Obi Wan Evil One Ben Kenobi.
According to Azzam Tamimi, head of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought, the beard dye is a “sign of war.”
The rigorous Salafi Islamic school to which bin Laden belongs “condones this dye only in preparation for war,” he said.
Bin Laden mocks the United States for its troubles in Iraq and the effect of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“Despite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal as well … 19 young men were able — by the grace of Allah, the most high — to change the direction of its compass,” he said in a reference to the September 11 hijackers.
“America is weak despite its apparent strength,” he says.
Widely believed hiding in the remote tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, bin Laden has evaded capture despite a huge US manhunt and a 25-million dollar bounty on his head.
According to the video transcript, bin Laden begins with “praise to Allah” and his “law of retaliation” — “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed.”
Bush is “like the one who plows and sows the sea: He harvests nothing but failure,” bin Laden said.
In the tape bin Laden also mentions French President Nicolas Sarkozy, elected in May, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took office in June.
Addressing the American people directly, he refers to domestic opposition to the Iraq war, saying: “the world is following your news in regards to your invasion of Iraq, for people have recently come to know that, after several years of tragedies of this war, the vast majority of you want it stopped.”
He says the Democrats who now control the US Congress have failed to stop the war, and even “continue to agree to the spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war there.”
Bin Laden also refers to recent US headline stories, referring to “the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages; global warming and its woes.”
“To conclude,” he says, “I invite you to embrace Islam.”
Ever the comedian.
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mke ur childish jokes u piece of shit jew. but all of u in ur deepest thoughts, (if ever allowed to come out) know that YOU are the worlds leading terrorist not some fuckin small fish like binladen who resulted in death less 5000 during ALL of his attacks. Bush resulted in the killing of OVER 650,000 ppl in iraq!! i wont even talk about afghanistan. u say islamist kidnap then kill? well wat about the hundreds of innocent muslims in prisons like guantanomon who are constantly tortured to the point they try to rid themselvs of all the pain by commiting suicide. We call those islamists who kill EXTREMIST and we do NOT justify their actions. yet u call those in ur countries who kill, mr president or mr senator, u still fail to acknowledge that they are no better than binladen. THEY ARE WORSE
i see where ur coming from, all humans are equal and the death of lets say 5000 shouldnt require the death of 650000. everone knows the reason america invaded iraq is for its oil (which recent document prove that they have already begun using many many of the oil wells for their own needs and not for the iraqis). i just feel sorry both sides, the innocent iraqis who have done nothing to deserve the massacaring that goes on day and night there SADDAM HUSSIEN WAS NOT THEIR FAULT! ARE U HELPING THEM BY KILLING MORE THAN SADDAM HAS???, and i feel sorry for the american soldiers who are fighting a war of no good reasons
som1
My, aren’t you an eloquent one. Unfortunately, given that you are unable to engage in civil discussion, all further comments emanating from your piehole will be deleted.
Gee, AussieDave, I was going to compliment you not only on the quality of your website but also the quality of the people who post on it. But reading the comments of the previous 2 posts disabused me of such thinking. I am opposed to the American invasion of Iraq and the subsequent mishandling of it by the Bush administration over the past 4 years. More resources should have been devoted to bringing Bin Laden and his cronies to justice instead of investing them on the misadventure in Iraq. I have to admit that as an American every time I see or hear from Bin Laden my blood boils. How can this piece of shit murderer walk the face of earth with all the crimes he has committed against the innocent? Maybe this is how Israelis feel about the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah because they want to murder more Jews. And Israel is supposed to negotiate a peace settlement with these terrorists? When the American people back a peace settlement with Al Qaeda, then Israel should sit down with Hamas and Hezbollah.
alright i apologize for the profanity i hav used in the previous comment. lets hav a ‘civil discussion’. alow me 2 acknowledge the different point of view which i dont get so that i start seeing things the “right” way… i agree with you in that binladen is scum, if found should be executed immediatly. but wat i believe is that bush is worst. yes he should respond to attacks and violence, the american people need 2 feel safe, but endlessly killing innocent people is not right no matter what the cirumstances are. the world greived when 3000 were killed in the wtc. 3000 people get killed in iraq almost twice a month. remember how the wtc incident affected the americans, now try 2 imagine that happening twice a month for years, how do the iraqi’s feel? do u not understand y i view bush as a terrorist? u might say he has to do what hes doing, hes delivering a message, well thats wat terrorist binladen wantd 2 do, deliver a msg, disregarding the innocent people. pls reply and change this “low-quality” way of thinking that i hav
Isn’t, like, not cool on Islam to dye your beard or something?
I do not underestimate Bin Laden.
His speech was carefully designed to divide right and left.
He made statements that well meaning people could agree with, and that others would associate his views with views of many Americans. This is a divisive technique.
There are probably things that I agree with Bin Laden about. We share a deep dislike of George Bush. If he said the earth was round, I would say yes I agree, or maybe he thinks chocolate ice cream is great; I agree with that as well.
What everyone needs to understand (whether you consider yourself liberal or conservative or anything else), is that the man wants you either convert to his exact way of thinking or kill you (and your family).
It does not matter what part of the political spectrum you are on. And if you are a Jew, all the better.
Stan
som1,
Where does “piece of shit jew” come into it?? Do you agree with Bin Laden’s aim to kill Jews?
New Osama video seems yet another forgery. Everyone needs Osama alive:
terrorists as symbolic leader and the US Administration – to avoid
scaling down the war on terror.
Obadiah Shoher rightly notes (
http://www.samsonblinded.org/news/osama-commemorates-911-1114 ) that
new Osama talks like a leftist university professor. I like Shoher’s
analysis. No way a terrorist leader like Osama would use a speechwriter. Osama is famous
for his rhetoric.
Also, in the tape Osama both threatens America with attack (by
“proving” Americans polytheists) and offers (yet another time)
long-term coaching in Islam.
But his dyed beard makes me cautious. Islam’s mujahedeen dye their
beards before battle.
y dont u delete ur own last comment the question? propaganda 4 ur side?? and y bother asking it in the first place if u would always delete my answer? delete it n i will leave this bias, one-sided propaganda children’s website of urs
Final word on the subject since you are evidently a bit slow on the uptake. Coming on to my site, calling me a “piece of shit Jew”, and then justifying terrorism renders you not welcome here.
But feel free to post another 10+ comments which will be summarily deleted.
Ciao!
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The real Aussie Dave: This commenter has previously “graced” the comments section under the name som1.
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Last week, he/she had their comments (over 10 in the space of 20 minutes) deleted after making an anti-Semitic comment, and spreading anti-Israel propaganda.
As you can see from the above comment, this person is not dealing with a full deck of cards. His/her subsequent comments will be summarily deleted. But I’ll leave this one up just to show you the caliber of person who rubbishes Israel and Jews.