Bin Laden Again: Queer Ways Of Some Misguided Persons
AFP has reported from Washington that Osama bin Laden has told Americans to rethink their policies, in a new message in which he links their support for Israel to the September 11 attacks in 2001, a US-based monitoring group said. Titled ‘Message to the American People,’ the video — released on Sunday by the As-Sahab media production branch of al-Qaeda — features a still image of bin Laden and an audio statement, said IntelCentre, based outside Washington. Bin Laden said that among ‘some other injustices,’ US support to Israel motivated al-Qaeda to launch the September 11 attacks, IntelCentre reported. He also stated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were driven by the pro-Israeli lobby in the White House and corporate interests. ‘If you think about your situation well, you will know that the White House is occupied by pressure groups,’ he said, according to IntelCentre.
‘Rather than fighting to liberate Iraq — as Bush claimed — it (the White House) should have been liberated.’ If Americans want to end their confrontation with al-Qaeda, bin Laden continued, they must reconsider their attitude toward the Jewish state. ‘Put the file of your alliance with Israelis on the discussion table,’ he stated, according to IntelCentre’s translation of the address. ‘Ask yourselves to determine your position: is your security, your blood, your children, your money, your jobs, your homes, your economy, and your reputation dearer to you than the security of the Israelis, their children and their economy?‘If you choose your security and cessation of war, and this is what the polls have shown, this requires you to work to punish those on your side who play with our security,’ Bin Laden said. ‘We are ready to respond to this choice on aforementioned sound and just bases.’ Obama’s retention of US defence secretary Robert Gates and other individuals from the Bush administration is confirmation of the president’s weakness, the al-Qaeda leader said. ‘It will become clear to you in days that all you have changed in the White House are faces,’ he is quoted by IntelCentre as saying.‘The bitter truth is that the neo-conservatives continue to cast their heavy shadows upon you.’ Bin Laden urged Americans to pressure the White House to cease the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US support to Israel, rather than succumb to what he called ‘the ideological terrorism’ exercised by neo-conservatives.
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IntelCentre said bin Laden typically releases such a statement annually around September or October. The last audiotape by the al-Qaeda leader was released on June 3. That audiotape aired on the Al-Jazeera satellite news channel less than an hour after Obama landed in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden’s home country, at the start of a Middle East tour.
We have been hearing about such video and audio tapes for a long time. He had been threatening all western and other Muslim democratic and constitutional governments . Al these have been rejected by the leaders of all Islamic movements. The present statement is mild but such advice from a person of such bad record would hardly work. At the moment we are not sure who are doing this .It may also be creation of some intelligence agencies that are adept in doing this type of work. Most likely Mr Bin Laden is dead as recently told by President of Pakistan. Some believe he is too sick to be functional. In any case such bravado by such people has only harmed image of Islam and Muslims. These people go on talking in hyperboles but they can not do anything except terrorism, suicide bombing, killing civilian innocent people, bombing Masjids and hospitals. Their understanding of Islam is too harsh and narrow, just opposite to the values of Islam and the conduct of the Prophet (sm).If they hear our voice, we call upon them not to spoil the image of Islam and Muslims further. Muslims are in no mood to listen to them.
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