Bin Laden Releases Tape to Boycott Iraq Elections
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Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt - In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera satellite television, a man purported to be Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month's elections there.
The voice on the tape described al-Zarqawi as the "emir," or prince, of al-Qaida in Iraq and said Muslims there should "listen to him."
The man speaking on the tape also referred to an October statement in which al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, declared allegiance to bin Laden and changed his group's name to al-Qaida in Iraq. The speaker called that "a great step on the path of unifying all the mujahedeen in establishing the state of righteousness and ending the state of injustice."
The statements by Bin Laden show more and more his intentions on switching to a diplomat rather than a terrorist. While the key to the statement, as translated at least, is the following phrase:
a great step on the path of unifying all the mujahedeen in establishing the state of righteousness and ending the state of injustice
The state of righteousness is in fact an Islamic state, but more correctly termed as the return to the idea of Persia under Islamic rule. It would be a large area of the Middle East, actually all of it if it were true to historical standards, under one government. The government would be an Islamic rule, much like Iran is run under today.
While there have been many people who have tried to explain away Al Qaeda's long-term goals in the Middle East as nothing more than getting rid of infidels, the larger goal of Al Qaeda is in fact a reunification of the Middle East into one country. Of course that country would have to be under Islamic rule where women are stoned and beaten because they can be and where poverty will flourish because of the lack of a quality economic system in an Islamic government.
No Democracy in Iraq would make Bin Laden and his supporters happy. A Democracy puts too much power into the hands of the people. It also, in the eyes of Bin Laden, puts people on the same platform as Allah. Only an Islamic government would, somehow, make a difference between the people of a nation and Allah.
I still question why, using the above, the top leaders of a Islamic nation would not be equal with Allah, however 99.9 percent of Bin Laden's statements and actions have made no sense and contradict each other. Then again, that's the Religion of Peace for you run under the nutbags that too many seem to support.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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This is the second tape naming Al Zarqawi as the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq. And threatening Iraqi's - why? Does Osama or Abu want to be president of Iraq? Their country to do whatever they want in it? Do you think the Iraqi's will listen to this garbage from these killer terrorists? For their own sakes, I hope not.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 02:37 PM (D39Vm)
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WOW...I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING FROM BIN
Posted by: MOWHAMHEAD at December 27, 2004 06:26 PM (kmZ4I)
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Funniest of the funny. Right wing conservatives performing leftist analysis on Al-Queda...
Posted by: dirtyangel at December 27, 2004 09:46 PM (9axDF)
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(Failed) Psyops for dummies, lesson 1.
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Bush breaks silence on bin Laden
December 31, 2004
The US President, George Bush, has taken the unusual step of responding to one of Osama bin Laden's taunting tape recordings, declaring that bin Laden's recent call for Iraqis to boycott the elections next month "make the stakes of this pretty clear to me".
"His vision of the world is where people don't participate in democracy," Mr Bush said of bin Laden. "His vision of the world is one in which there is no freedom of expression, freedom of religion and/or freedom of conscience. And that vision stands in stark contrast to the vision of, by far, the vast majority of Iraqis."
(This is for US domestic consumption exclusively)
Two:
Differences among Muslims be exploited: US study's recommendation
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 27: A new study of the Rand Corporation - a leading US think tank - advocates that Sunni, Shia and Arab, non-Arab divides should be exploited to promote the US policy objectives in the Muslim world.
The recently released Rand study - titled "US Strategy in the Muslim World After 9/11" - has been conducted on behalf of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations, US Air Force.
One of the primary objective of the study was to "identify the key cleavages and fault lines among sectarian, ethnic, regional, and national lines and to assess how these cleavages generate challenges and opportunities for the United States."
Three:
Alliance could cost bin Laden:
But for bin Laden, the alliance comes at a price: He is now tied to a man directing bomb attacks against IraqÂ’s majority Shiite Muslims as well as Americans.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6759167/
(I suppose this is not meant exclusively for US domestic purposes, but the dividing strategy will not work, in fact it will much sooner achieve the opposite.)
Obviously all tapes are either false or manipulated and serve US tactical purposes as should be already clear from the contence and timing always exactly serving one or other purpose of the Bush administration.
Reality is in all probability bin Laden died in december 2001 and "Zarqawi" most probably died somewhere in march 2003, maybe even earlier than that. The rest of the stories are as elusive as the WMD arsenals of former US sock puppet Saddam Hussein.
My advice would be not too overstretch this message-from-Goldstein bullshit as the last bit of pysops worth is slowly diminishing to zero with every new release.
Posted by: Oebermass at January 02, 2005 05:21 AM (ld0LQ)
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I like Oebermass's assumption that Bin Laden is dead. I've always intertained that thought. However, the (experts) ha! keep saying the tapes are real and up to date. Any info out there?
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 08:47 PM (XioYD)
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