CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 23, 2007
Bin Laden Message Urges Holy War In Darfur
Al-Jazeera Decision To Air Only Excerpts Of Terrorist's Message Angers Militants
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The audio recording was accompanied by a still picture of the al Qaeda leader, and excerpts were aired Monday by Al-Jazeera television.
Bin Laden called for foreign forces to be driven from Darfur.
"It is the duty of the people of Islam in the Sudan and its environs, especially the Arabian Peninsula, to perform jihad against the Crusader invaders and wage armed rebellion to remove those who let them in," he said, according to a transcript provided by IntelCenter, which monitors extremist Web sites.
Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawhiri, made a similar call for jihad in Darfur in a Sept. 20 video message, and bin Laden issued an audiotape in 2006 calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force there.
In Tuesday's message, bin Laden referred to talks between Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, and Saudi officials who pressed him to agree to a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur. Those meetings took place in March and April.
In the sections of the message broadcast Monday, bin Laden took the highly uncharacteristic step of acknowledging that al Qaeda had made mistakes and chiding followers for not uniting their ranks - a reference to the squabbles among various insurgent groups in Iraq.
"Everybody can make a mistake, but the best of them are those who admit their mistakes," he said. "Mistakes have been made during holy wars but mujahideen have to correct their mistakes."
Al-Jazeera's decision to air only that critical part of the audio rather than the lengthy opening section, which applauded insurgent victories in Iraq, appeared to have angered the militants.
One militant Web site that is a clearing house for al Qaeda and other extremist videos announced the message would appear uncut in its entirety, as opposed to the way it was broadcast by al-Jazeera.
"The shameful and dissolute channel is seeking to support the Crusaders and the enemies," said an angry posting on the site. "The channel is the shame of the Islamic community.
The rest of bin Laden's message applauded the insurgents in Iraq for a job well done and told them to remain steadfast in the face of the increase in coalition forces, singling out the fighters in Diyala in particular.
"You massacred the enemy and applied yourself to fighting them, until they became prisoners of their bases and the Green Zone, fearing danger. So continue to make the soldiers of unbelief drink from the bitter cup of death," he said.
Bin Laden also urged Arabs across the region to join the fight in Iraq.
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- How many of their families have been bombers ? INdeed, how many of their family follow their crazed twisted perversion of Islam
Posted by speakinup at 03:19 PM : Oct 24, 2007
You rekon he mite ha'' bin a black sheep? - Reply to this comment
- whats really amazing is that "bubble boy bush" really believes its working..will some-one please spank him on the white house lawn already!
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- oh, except speakinup. your right on the money.
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- wow! these posts really got weird since this morning. stay focused people, bin laden is dead. he does not make these tapes. g.w.bushit and friends are trying to scare you.remember the last seven years. hello, anybody home.......
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- "GOD BLESS OSAMA BIN LADEN... AL-ZAWAHIRI Posted by V_1618
You are probably just some kid skipping school - nothing better to do.
But on the off chance you aren''t. Haven''t you ever wondered why OBL and AL-ZAWAHIRI ask you to blow yourselves up - yet they aren''t willing to themselves ? Get a clue - they want to enjoy the here and now, while you are stupid enough to do their bidding.
How many of their families have been bombers ? INdeed, how many of their family follow their crazed twisted perversion of Islam ? God is indeed great, but He has nothing to do with you, Osama Bin Laden or AL-ZAWAHIRI. Eblis is eating your soul for eternity. - Reply to this comment
- NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE!!!
WHY IS IT NOT ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???
Being non-Muslim in Islamic nations means ''protection''--and problems.(World: Iraq)
The official term for this right is "dhimmitude." The world''s foremost expert on the subject, Bat Ye''Or, coined the word in 1983 to describe the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians (dhimmis) subjected to Islamic rule. Broadly interpreted, it appears benign: Non-Muslims enjoy a protected status among their Muslims neighbors: But dhimmitude becomes problematic because its supposed safeguards and protections can be withdrawn as selectively as they are applied by rulers or governments of Islamic states.
In Iraq, as in other predominately Muslim states, Christianity has existed side by side with Islam for centuries. For some observers (as well as those who experience it firsthand), the status of Christians is not one of cheery coexistence. Rather, it may be more like the old racial divides in the United States, where blacks lived near, but not integrated into, white society, and where they "kept their place"--separate and unequal.
In a July 24 interview with NCR, Baghdad Archbishop Jean Sleiman, leader of Iraq''s Latin Catholic church, said that in Iraq, "Christians and Muslims can I-live] side by side--but only side by side. Side by side, but not equally. No mixing, no integration."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-121763784.html - Reply to this comment
- Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post
In a 1988 speech at CIA headquarters, Graham warmed to her audience: "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn''''t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
THE PRESS HAS DECIDED NOT TO TELL THE PEOPLE BIN LADEN IS DEAD. - Reply to this comment
- Extremist religious nuts are the scum of the earth.
Posted by gunownerdan at 12:21 PM : Oct 24, 2007
100% agreement - Reply to this comment
- "IN GOD WE TRUST ---- LOL,, He watched & laughed while our Dollar turned to garbage Posted by j-whitman
I find your logic to be derisive, J-whitman. It''s not enought for you to say He doesn''t exist, you have to be contemptuous of anyone that does have faith. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by V_1618 at 01:05 PM : Oct 24, 2007
THEY ARE LOSING
Last letter from doomed Al Qaida chief: "We are so desperate for your help"
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_iraq_09_30.asp
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Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled
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REHAB IS NOT JUST FOR HOLLYWOOD TERRORISTS NOW
U.S. Tries Rehab For Religious Extremists
Singapore Has Reduced Its Detainee Ranks With Islamic Reeducation; A Model For U.S.?
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- Posted by V_1618 at 01:05 PM : Oct 24, 2007
HEROES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM!!!
Young Muslims begin dangerous fight for the right to abandon faith
A group of young Muslim apostates launches a campaign today, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, to make it easier to renounce Islam.
The provocative move reflects a growing rift between traditionalists and a younger generation raised on a diet of Dutch tolerance.
The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim community in the Netherlands.
Ehsan Jami, the committee%u2019s founder, who rejected Islam after the attack on the twin towers in 2001, has become the most talked-about public figure in the Netherlands. He has been forced into hiding after a series of death threats and a recent attack.
The threats are taken seriously after the murder in 2002 of Pim Fortuyn, an antiimmigration politician, and in 2004 of Theo Van Gogh, an antiIslam film-maker.
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- IN GOD WE TRUST ---- LOL,, He watched & laughed while our Dollar turned to garbage
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- ALLAH AKBAR, ALLAH AKBAR , ALLAH AKBAR, ALLAH AKBAR
ALLAH AKBAR, ALLAH AKBAR, ALLAH AKBAR
GOD BLESS OSAMA BIN LADEN... AL-ZAWAHIRI - Reply to this comment
Re: "The recent Osama video was genuine Osama according to the CIA."
Ha, ha! And why would they lie?
"It''s a slam dunk..."
What a coincidence that the Bush pirates have "defeated" the notorious and imaginary "al-Qaeda-in-Iraq", then, suddenly, the fake "Osama" pops up yet again, just in time to prompt another tens of billions dollar fleecing of the American public for the illegal, self-defeating war, and just in time to open a new front in Iran.
Gullible Americans are obviously a dime a dozen. Black-bearded "Osama" sock puppet is hardly convincing.- Reply to this comment
- BUSH AND HIS COMPANIES ARE THE REAL TERRORIST IN THIS WORLD SO .. LIVE LONGER OSAMA BIN LADEN AGAINST THE EVIL..... ALLAH AKBAR..........
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- notblue,,,, Glad you have managed to hang on to your screen name, not many of your other idiots have....
Here''s a accurate video from last night''s FRONTLINE for you, "Showdown With Iran" ------ You want the truth ??? Bush & Company are the "Axis of Evil"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/showdown/ - Reply to this comment
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry
USA''s PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
One ought never to turn one''s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein
Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. - Reply to this comment
- anything to keep the killing in iraq going and going. why wont they bring our troops home? because they want create a newer fear that we have to invade iran. why bring them home, when their right next-door.anyone who believes this iraq war is a good thing, should join up and go find the WMD.S. then no-one will argue that it was all a total lie to make rich polititians,richer!
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- Extremist religious nuts are the scum of the earth.
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- IT IS WAR!!!
Bin Laden Message Urges Holy War In Darfur
Al-Jazeera Decision To Air Only Excerpts Of Terrorist''s Message Angers Militants and liberal demonic-rats
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/23/terror/main3400563.shtml - Reply to this comment
