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| 2006-01-20 |
| My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. I had not intended to speak to you about this issue, because, for us, this issue is already decided on: diamonds cut diamonds. Praise be to God, our conditions are always improving and becoming better, while your conditions are to the contrary of this. However, what prompted me to speak are the repeated fallacies of your President Bush in his comment on the outcome of the US opinion polls, which indicated that the overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of the forces from Iraq, but he objected to this desire and said that the withdrawal of troops would send a wrong message to the enemy. Bush said: It is better to fight them on their ground than they fighting us on our ground. In my response to these fallacies, I say: The war in Iraq is raging, and the operations in Afghanistan are on the rise in our favour, praise be to God. The Pentagon figures indicate the rise in the number of your dead and wounded, let alone the huge material losses, and let alone the collapse of the morale of the soldiers there and the increase in the suicide cases among them. So, just imagine the state of psychological breakdown that afflicts the soldier while collecting the remnants of his comrades' dead bodies after they hit mines, which torn them. Following such situation, the soldier becomes between two fires. If he refuses to go out of his military barracks for patrols, he will face the penalties of the Vietnam butcher, and if he goes out, he will face the danger of mines. So, he is between two bitter situations, something which puts him under psychological pressure - fear, humiliation, and coercion. Moreover, his people are careless about him. So, he has no choice but to commit suicide. What you hear about him and his suicide is a strong message to you, which he wrote with his blood and soul while pain and bitterness eat him up so that you would save what you can save from this hell. However, the solution is in your hand if you care about them. The news of our brother mujahideen, however, is different from what is published by the Pentagon. This news indicates that what is carried by the news media does not exceed what is actually taking place on the ground. What increases doubts on the information of the White House's administration is its targeting of the news media, which carry some facts about the real situation. Documents have recently showed that the butcher of freedom in the world [US President Bush] had planned to bomb the head office of al-Jazeera Space Channel in the state of Qatar after he bombed its offices in Kabul and Baghdad, although despite its defects, it is [Al-Jazeera] one of your creations. Jihad is continuing, praise be to God, despite all the repressive measures the US army and its agents take to the point where there is no significant difference between these crimes and those of Saddam. These crimes include the raping of women and taking them hostage instead of their husbands. There is no power but in God. The torturing of men has reached the point of using chemical acids and electric drills in their joints. If they become desperate with them, they put the drill on their heads until death. If you like, read the humanitarian reports on the atrocities and crimes in the prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. I say that despite all the barbaric methods, they have failed to ease resistance, and the number of mujahideen, praise be to God, is increasing. In fact, reports indicate that the defeat and devastating failure of the ill-omened plan of the four - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz - and the announcement of this defeat and working it out, is only a matter of time, which is to some extent linked to the awareness of the American people of the magnitude of this tragedy. The wise ones know that Bush has no plan to achieve his alleged victory in Iraq. If you compare the small number of the dead when Bush made that false and stupid show-like announcement from an aircraft carrier on the end of the major operations, to many times as much as this number of the killed and injured, who fell in the minor operations, you will know the truth in what I am saying, and that Bush and his administration do not have neither the desire nor the will to withdraw from Iraq for their own dubious reasons. To go back to where I started, I say that the results of the poll satisfy sane people and that Bush's objection to them is false. Reality testifies that the war against America and its allies has not remained confined to Iraq, as he claims. In fact, Iraq has become a point of attraction and recruitment of qualified resources. On the other hand, the mujahideen, praise be to God, have managed to breach all the security measures adopted by the unjust nations of the coalition time and again. The evidence of this is the bombings you have seen in the capitals of the most important European countries of this aggressive coalition. As for the delay in carrying out similar operations in America, this was not due to failure to breach your security measures. Operations are under preparation, and you will see them on your own ground once they are finished, God willing. Based on the above, we see that Bush's argument is false. However, the argument that he avoided, which is the substance of the results of opinion polls on withdrawing the troops, is that it is better not to fight the Muslims on their land and for them not to fight us on our land. We do not object to a long-term truce with you on the basis of fair conditions that we respect. We are a nation, for which God has disallowed treachery and lying. In this truce, both parties will enjoy security and stability and we will build Iraq and Afghanistan, which were destroyed by the war. There is no defect in this solution other than preventing the flow of hundreds of billions to the influential people and war merchants in America, who supported Bush's election campaign with billions of dollars. Hence, we can understand the insistence of Bush and his gang to continue the war. If you have a genuine will to achieve security and peace, we have already answered you. If Bush declines but to continue lying and practicing injustice [against us], it is useful for you to read the book of "The Rogue State", the introduction of which reads: If I were a president, I would halt the operations against the United States. First, I will extend my apologies to the widows, orphans, and the persons who were tortured. Afterwards, I will announce that the US interference in the world's countries has ended for ever. Finally, I would like to tell you that the war is for you or for us to win. If we win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever as the wind blows in this direction with God's help. If you win it, you should read the history. We are a nation that does not tolerate injustice and seek revenge forever. Days and nights will not go by until we take revenge as we did on 11 September, God willing, and until your minds are exhausted and your lives become miserable and things turn [for the worse], which you detest. As for us, we do not have anything to lose. The swimmer in the sea does not fear rain. You have occupied our land, defiled our honour, violated our dignity, shed our blood, ransacked our money, demolished our houses, rendered us homeless, and tampered with our security. We will treat you in the same way. You tried to deny us the decent life, but you cannot deny us a decent death. Refraining from performing jihad, which is sanctioned by our religion, is an appalling sin. The best way of death for us is under the shadows of swords. Do not be deluded by your power and modern weapons. Although they win some battles, they lose the war. Patience and steadfastness are better than them. What is important is the outcome. We have been tolerant for 10 years in fighting the Soviet Union with our few weapons and we managed to drain their economy. They became history, with God's help. You should learn lessons from that. We will remain patient in fighting you, God willing, until the one whose time has come dies first. We will not escape the fight as long as we hold our weapons in our hands. I swear not to die but a free man even if I taste the bitterness of death. I fear to be humiliated or betrayed. Peace be upon those who follow guidance. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #8 It is time for the respected on the left to discard the moonbats in their party and become part of the solution. I know, I know, someone says this every day here. If we say it enough they just might listen. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-01-20 21:14 |
| #7 " . . . his is an open hand of alliance with the LLLâs against a common enemy Bushitler, Amerika and her Military Industrial Complex" Righteeoh. Those who want to destroy America (and we now know there are plenty enough) and supplant the Constitutional Republic with a version of Socialism/Communism, must FIRST AND FOREMOST seek to destroy the base of reasonable conservatism, the socio-cultural identity of America as envisioned in the extant ideologies that propel us toward excellence, and finally the military. This is a real battle, and no matter how stupid, inane, insane, and ludicrous these Islamics and their cohorts in the LLL seem, they are for real and they mean to see it through. And the fact is, people DID laugh at Hitler because his ideas were so outside the norm and seemed ridiculously radical and ungrounded. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-01-20 11:58 |
| #6 Diamonds are brittle, and if pounded hard enough, shatter. "Hard pounding this, gentlemen; letâs see who will pound longest." -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, 1815. |
| Posted by: Flerert Whese8274 2006-01-20 11:07 |
| #5 c-low, you may be right. Especially considering his diamonds cut diamonds comment. One of the first steps in diamond cutting is to cleave the Basically, diamonds cut diamonds. We can also trick a diamond by taking advantage of its weaknesses. In the late fifteenth century, a craftsman cut diamonds by placing a chisel at a weak spot in the diamond's crystal structure and then whacked the chisel with a mallet. If he had selected well, the diamond neatly fell in two. If he picked the wrong spot, the diamond shattered. A diamond crystal is essentially two pyramids stuck together â an octahedron. See figure. Consequently, the craftsman can cleave the crystal in any one of the four directions parallel to the crystal faces and, theoretically, succeed. We still cleave diamonds, especially big ones, into suitable pieces before sawing. Diamond saws were invented in the twentieth century. This was a major innovation because it permits cuts against the grain of the diamond without shattering. The saw rotates at about 4,000 revolutions a minute and cuts with diamond dust. The rim of the paper-thin disc (originally made of steel and now of phosphor bronze) is saturated with diamond dust and lubricated continually with oil. The diamond dust sticks to the oiled rim. As the dust on the rim cuts, diamond dust whirs away from the cutting blade and continually replenishes rim dust. It takes time (about four to eight hours for a 1-carat rough diamond) but gradually diamond dust cuts the diamond crystal. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-20 09:02 |
| #4 If they don't want to see the "'source' of humiliation," they should simply destroy all their mirrors. Seven years bad luck has got to be better than what they're getting. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-01-20 08:30 |
| #3 I was actually going to rag on how Bin Ladenâs best hope now is Sheenan but its too close to the truth to be funny now. The jokes about him taking points off Farenhieght 911 is freaking serious now, he even quotes Rogue State a radical anti-American book. Early on in this war many often joked about alliance between the LLLâs and the Islamist like the ones the Islamist formed with the Naziâs neither side really cares for the other but enemy of my enemy is my friend kind of thing. If this is the real full transcript I believe that joke was not very funny at all. This is not a Hudna this is an open hand of alliance with the LLLâs against a common enemy Bushitler, Amerika and her Military Industrial Complex. The groundwork is theyâre with the âpeace groups in Palestineâ and the anti-war rallies were the US is the real enemy; Kaliftaâs are a fashion statement, if you are Arab or Palestinian anti-American you are highly welcome. I still consider the idea of civil war again red/blue laughable, but those few radical LLLâs that actually believe their rhetoric just enough that with some AQ guidance maybe willing to go stupid. I think those guys just got an offer of alliance. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2006-01-20 01:01 |
| #2 sounds like the democratic underground is doing his writing for him. Someone should tell him the number of people who think this way couldn't even float Air America in major blue cities. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-20 00:55 |
| #1 "These crimes include the raping of women and taking them hostage instead of their husbands." Hmm . . . so it's the husbands that want to be raping and taking the women hostage. Aside from Bin Laden's support of the liberal press, and his propagandizing about American soldiers commiting suicide and torturing prisoners of war (by drilling their heads until they die), he still illustrates, pretty clearly, their issue with unresolved sexual abuse issues: "You have occupied our land, defiled our honour, violated our dignity . . ." This is a recurring theme which cannot be mended, regardless of what happens politically. If one imagined "source" of humiliation is addressed/eliminated, the "source" changes to the next likely group, whether Arab or non-Arab. At least he illustrates what an absolute lunatic he is with this threat, and it's a nice view into how infantile and undeveloped, random, and grandiose their ideas can be--so out of touch with reality. The only credible threat is their hook-up with Iran/Syria and their ability to be obsessed with themselves and to wait and wait. They've chosen not to have much else to do with their lives, whereas Americans have a lot of other things to do with their lives, so we can get sick of the whole thing a lot sooner. Not that we can't beat them--but informed resolve and a clear estimation of their abilities needs to accompany our plans if we are commited to victory. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-01-20 00:46 |