LONDON, May 16, 2008
Bin Laden: Palestinian Cause Prompted 9/11
Audio Message Claims Al Qaeda's Main Motivation Is To Liberate Palestinians
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This screen shot taken from the militant Islamic Internet forum El-Ekhlas on May 16, 2008 shows an old photo of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with the caption, "A Message to the Peoples of the West, From Sheik Osama bin Laden". (CBS)
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Excerpts and analysis of messages believed to have been recorded by Osama bin Laden.
The message, downloaded by CBS News from the prominent jihadist Web forum El Ekhlas, did not include any new images of the al Qaeda chief.
The 9:40-minute audio by bin Laden showed an old photo of his face over a brown graphic and included the title, "A Message to the Peoples of the West: From Sheik Osama bin Laden," with the subheading: “The Reasons for the Struggle on the 60th Anniversary of the Creation of the Occupation State of Israel.”
Bin Laden began his message by telling listeners that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has always been the primary cause for friction between the West and the Muslim world - a struggle which he said was getting more difficult due to European policies biased in Israel's favor.
"The Palestinian cause has been the main factor that, since my early childhood, fueled my desire, and that of the 19 freemen (Sept. 11 bombers), to stand by the oppressed, and punish the oppressive Jews and their allies," the al Qaeda chief said.
"We shall continue the fight, Allah willing, against the Israelis and their allies, in order to pursue justice for the oppressed, and we shall not give up one inch of Palestine, as long as there is still a single true Muslim alive."
Meanwhile, President Mr. Bush wrapped up his visit to Israel Friday, commemorating the anniversary of the country's creation - a visit which he used to again urge both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to negotiate a peace settlement.
His visit, however, drew frustration from Palestinians, many of whom view the American leader as a biased friend of Israel. On the other side, few Israelis had hope that Mr. Bush could evoke the good will to see an agreement reached by the end of year - his long-stated goal.
Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation with demonstrations and solemn ceremonies on Thursday - a stark contrast to Israel's joyous birthday celebrations. Palestinians refer to the anniversary as the "nakba," Arabic for catastrophe.
In the audio released Friday, bin Laden said the celebrations proved "that 60 years ago, the state of Israel did not exist. It was forcefully created on Palestinian land under the fire of the weapons, and this is evidence that the Jews are invader occupiers who should be fought."
Mr. Bush's embrace of Israel at a time when the Palestinians were mourning was bound to further harm the tainted U.S. image in the Palestinian areas and across the Arab world.
Palestinian analyst Hani al-Masri said Mr. Bush cannot be a peacemaker if he sides with Israel. "It is not a peace process. It is a process without peace," he told CBS News correspondent Robert Berger.
In a speech to the Knesset, or parliament, Mr. Bush asserted Thursday that the United States has an unbreakable bond with Israel. He said Americans believe that Israel has a right to defend itself from extremists and "killers pledged to its destruction."
Bin Laden reserved much of his new audio address for an attack on the Western media, which he accused of misleading the public to show "the Israeli invaders as the victims."
"On the other hand, they portrayed the Palestinians, who are claiming back their lands, as merciless terrorists," he said. "The media has contributed to the shaping of a misled public opinion that made it possible to involve Western nations in an unjust war against us, as has been the case in Iraq."
Al Qaeda has dramatically increased the pace of its messages since last year.
CBS News consultant Hoda Osman reported that this was bin Laden’s 26th statement since the Sept. 11th attacks, including four videos and 22 audio messages. Bin Laden’s last statement was an audio tape released on March 20th.
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See all 686 Commentswell, bush always has said we have to believe what our enemies are saying; like iran wanting to "wipe israel off the map" or saddam''s "threats" to our security.
what about this? maybe israel can give us a present on their birthday and return the occupied lands to their rightful owners?
but this is too simple for the "war on terror" neoconmania supporters - they''re into "global war"
i''d say we could make alot of headway to stop the growth of terror, if we remove the reason for its existence.
BIN LADENS ARE THE BUSH FAMILY FRIENDS AND FRIENDS OF THE HOUSE OF SAUD!
WHEN WAR CRIMES TRIALS START THIS WILL ALL COME OUT!
AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!
shut up
shut the f up
just shut your F-in'' pie hole old man!
That''s right old man
shut your pir hole !
Freedom of speech a-sh-le!
Crawl back into your cave
fruity !
You can blab that dumb a-s pie hole soom other day!
you are a ***!
NAZIS FACED WAR CRIMES TRIALS!
BUSH AND HIS NEOCON BUDDIES WILL FACE WAR CRIMES TRIALS!
OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ALREADY FILING WAR CRIMES CHARGES!
Lawyers File War Crimes Charges Against Rumsfeld And Others
In German Court
By Michael Ratner
29 November, 2006
Revolution
On November 14, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights, Germany''s Republican Attorneys'' Association, and other groups and individuals filed a formal complaint with the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other major U.S. officials. The complaint argues that Rumsfeld and other high-ranking civilian and military officials named as defendants in the case have committed war crimes, and in particular torture, against prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Following is an interview Revolution did with Michael Ratner, president of the CCR, who was among those in Germany on November 14 to file the complaint.
AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!
shut up
shut the f up
just shut your F-in'' pie hole old man!
That''s right old man
shut your pie hole !
Freedom of speech a-sh-le!
Crawl back into your cave
fruity !
You can blab that dumb a-s pie hole soom other day!
you are a ***!
posted by neoconRcrazy
=See, told you Bin Laden....you have no problem gaining the support of secularist libs here in America. They believe in the Islamic propaganda that Israel is the "occupier" as well. They are so dumb that they don''t realize that there is no such thing as a "Palestinian people". But they believe in your lies and the rest of the Arab lies. Don''t worry, you have them fooled, they believe in your filthy Islamic propaganda. They also fail to recognize the fact that you Arabs OCCUPY 99.9 % of the entire Middle East, with tiny Israel only settling in a 260 mile stretch of land. They also fail to recognize that Islam has no historical significance in Israel, that your "prophet" Muhammed never stepped foot in Jerusalem, that the "Dome of the Rock" is merely a propaganda tool as all the other Muslim Arab lies about that land are.
They believe you Bin Laden, and you have them hook line and sinker. No worries.
Posted by Christian735
no such thing as the palestinian people?
BtW, they number over 15 million.
islamic propoganda: israel occupies the West Bank, Golan, and has succeeded in surrounding Gaza, a place they occupied for 30yrs?
boy, you''re one well-informed person.... can you locate kentucky on the map? or NY? doubt it with your display of historical fact. Maybe you''re just a 10yr old playing on mom''s PC?
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Posted by Christian735
Every breath that OBL takes is representative of the failure of the Bush administration. The greatest mass murderer of Americans in history and Bush "doesn''t care where he is".
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Posted by TomFlint69 at 06:57 AM : May 16, 2008
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Well IF we continue to elect Republican''s we''ll never know now will we??
Is this the "Best Of Bin Laden" recording, from C.I.Al Qaeda records?
I wonder where I can get a copy so I can give this to my Neo-Con friend who lovingly enjoys the sounds of the most wanted terrorist that was given freedom by the Bush Administration in 2003.
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Posted by Christian735 at 06:21 AM : May 16, 2008
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I hate to break this to you but the "Left" has been the ONLY voice out there trying to get this dead from the neck up President to go after him!! Instead we sent our troops out into a desert to look for Weapons that NEVER existed. What''s it been now??? SEVEN Years and he''s in a safe haven created by Bush, completely rebuilt. Hard to imagine how the "left" could have helped him more than that!!
Of course, anyone that believes any of the government line on the 9/11 attacks will believe anything, anyway.
2-They "oblitarate" you...
Have we humains being(so called supperior beings) with highly evolved brain not able to use our brain to find an aggreement?
You cannot say others are wrong when you have just attacked a country for a cause that is not(yeah, I am talking about weapons of mass destruction) when you can''t even appologise for the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Irakians...
In Bush''s world, only american deaths is a loss. 5000 americain died compared to over 100,000 irakian! all for what? my opinion is, if it up to Bush, exterminate every single Irakian and perhaps the rest of the muslims will be the only answer. What an animal? Talk about Hitler? Bush is just another bad name. Appart from not being able to speak the only language he can properly, he thinks he is better than Hitler! makes me feel sick!
And next the run exploiting the oil in Irak... shamelessly portraying themselves as heroes!You evil beings!
Bush and family need to pay for this; maybe be hung like Sadam Hussein.
Who is the terrorist here?
Posted by jamesm12341 at 07:21 AM : May 16, 2008
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MCVET has really spanked you up into a froth hasn''''t he?
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Posted by FloydZepp at 07:28 AM : May 16, 2008
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I think he suffers from a common Neocon ailment, SPS, or Short Peckkker Syndrome.....LOL....
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Posted by veteran72 at 07:31 AM : May 16, 2008
Too Funny........ROFLMFAO!!! LOL
Until Iran ok''s peace with Israel there will be no peace in the Middle East.
Thanks again Jimmy Carter
9/11 was just the kick-off for a game plan that involves Israel''s "Final Solution" to the "Arab Problem".......
Heydrich and Himmler would be so proud of their little Zionist Nazis........*sniff*.....
"They learned so well....now they''re all grown up and out exterminating all on their own.......I''m so proud"......*sniff*......
These guys have no idea what they are talking about. Ben Laden is alive in the Philippines. It has been reported to the current administration several times and they do nothing about it. Maybe they are saving it so McCain can claim he went in and got him and look like a hero. I hate the politics. I may not agree with your choice for election, but i will respect your opinions and thr right too have them.
They stamp bin laden name on it and publish it.
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Posted by ranger1948 at 07:57 AM : May 16, 2008
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Amen brother. On a side note, I wish they had a lever that said none of the above for this election. I don''t like any of the three. All talk and no solutions. We are a trillion dollars in debt to China and all I hear is an .18 cent gas holiday from two of them and the other says health care for all. Just wondering where the h ell the money is going to come from?
They stamp bin laden name on it and publish it.
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Posted by bon_jovi_jov at 08:07 AM : May 16, 2008
You are an idiot!
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Posted by dinkydog1 at 08:16 AM : May 16, 2008
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Osama Bin Laden can be found pool side at Cheney''s Waterfront Dubai Mansion, a Budweiser Long neck in one hand and a Blonde in the other....
THIS IS STRAIGHT FROM THE ROVIAN STUDIOS IN CRAFORD TEXAS! HOME OF OUR FAVORITE SPUDD TEXASDICKTATER!
THE NAZIS ATTACK ON POLAND IN 1939 WAS PROMOTED IN THE SAME WAY AS THE BUSH ATTACK ON IRAQ IN 2003!
NAZIS FACED WAR CRIMES TRIALS!
BUSH AND HIS NEOCON BUDDIES WILL FACE WAR CRIMES TRIALS!
OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ALREADY FILING WAR CRIMES CHARGES!
Lawyers File War Crimes Charges Against Rumsfeld And Others
In German Court
By Michael Ratner
29 November, 2006
Revolution
On November 14, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights, Germany''''s Republican Attorneys'''' Association, and other groups and individuals filed a formal complaint with the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other major U.S. officials. The complaint argues that Rumsfeld and other high-ranking civilian and military officials named as defendants in the case have committed war crimes, and in particular torture, against prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Following is an interview Revolution did with Michael Ratner, president of the CCR, who was among those in Germany on November 14 to file the complaint.
AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!
george, put the gun to your head and this war would be over fo the cost of a 0.50 cent round.
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Posted by liberalameri at 08:26 AM : May 16, 2008
Yeah it is all one big conspiracy, isn''t it? I think that you need to get a clue and stop believing all of that liberal conspiracy junk.
Posted by veteran72 at 08:26 AM : May 16, 2008
I''d say that he is long dead, and the Neocons are just keeping up the pretense.
That is total BS. People like Michael Ratner are what is wrong with this country. He should be stripped of his citizenship and interned in Gitmo himself for sympathizing with the enemy.
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Posted by underdogus at 08:31 AM : May 16, 2008
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Ja-Wohl, Mein Fuhrer!!!
That is total BS. People like Michael Ratner are what is wrong with this country. He should be stripped of his citizenship and interned in Gitmo himself for sympathizing with the enemy.
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Posted by redbds at 08:33 AM : May 16, 2008
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Bad morning down at Neocon Nazi Headquarters???
hitler was man enough to do it, now it is your turn.
history does repeat itself.
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Posted by liberalameri at 08:35 AM : May 16, 2008
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I''ve got the gas and matches for after......let me know when......
9/11 Had nothing to to with the Palestinian cause as evident that OBL and Al''Qaeda said nothing about it after 9/11.
The Al''Qaeda manuals they found in the caves of Afghanistan only mentioned destroying the U.S. because we stand in their way of creating islamic states and spreading Islam.
Those same manuals mentions destroying their places of "Fun and sin", with pictures of Disney Land.
I think I''ll warn the King of Gobbledygook (from a secret hideout of course), that if he doesn''t abdicate and evacuate his current kingdom, I''ll rouse up all the Shtoonklzappists to declare a holy war against his kingdom and all the inhabitants therein, and attack and murder them until we murder every last one in the kingdom.
You know why we are justified in our cause?
Because some of our Shtoonklezappists used to live there, and we claim it to be our Sacred, Holy Shtoonklezappist land. Godshtoonklezappo told us it''s our sacred, kill-and-murder-for duty to do it. That''s why.
Sooooooooo?
Can every single cause be justification for no compromise and no agreements with others who are not of one''s own beliefs? Apparently if some god or other "tells" them so, then, YES!
Posted by underdogus at 08:26 AM
Ha, almost funny there. How are the neocons doing catching this 6 foot 6 inch dialysis patient again? It has been over 5 years now, have the GOPricks made any progress?
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Posted by dragonwagon5 at 08:37 AM : May 16, 2008
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McBushcain says we''ll have him all wrapped up by 2013......or sometime around there.....
Posted by underdogus,
Go back to the kool-aid and put your rose colored sun glasses back on.
Bush and his GOP allies have screwed things up so bad they should just resign and let the democrats take over.
Can you tell me what great accomplishment the Bush administration has made by increasing the public debt by over 3 trillion dollars?
The county in headed in the wrong direction and that is clearly the fault of the GOP leadership.
Posted by liberalameri at 08:26 AM : May 16, 2008
Yeah it is all one big conspiracy, isn''''t it? I think that you need to get a clue and stop believing all of that liberal conspiracy junk."
This is not a liberal or conservative issue, we just want to know what the heck happened to the hunt for Bin Laden? This guy is a menace, was and still is a bigger threat than Saddam!!
Any true conservative (obviously redbds are not) would want to see that !#%^!#$ swinging from a rope as much as the libs. Let''s face it, Bush and all you neocon RINOs out there took your eye off the ball.
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