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BIN LADEN'S STATEMENT: 'THE SWORD FELL'
Let the whole world know that we shall never
accept that the tragedy of Andalucia would be repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that Palestine will become Jewish.
And
with regard to you, Muslims, this is the day of question. This is a new (inaudible) against you, all against the Muslims and
Medina. So be like the followers of the Prophet, peace be with him, and all countrymen, lovers of God and the Prophet within,
and a new battle, great battle, similar to the great battles of Islam, like the conqueror of Jerusalem. So, hurry up to the
dignity of life and the eternity of death. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.
Following is a videotaped statement by Osama bin Laden
broadcast yesterday (October 7) by Al Jazeera in Qatar, as translated from the Arabic by Reuters.
Here is america struck by God Almighty in one of its
vital organs, so that its greatest buildings are destroyed. Grace and gratitude to God. america has been filled with horror
from north to south and east to west, and thanks be to God. What america is tasting now is only a copy of /what/ we have tasted.
Our Islamic nation has been tasting the same for more/than/ 80 years, of humiliation and disgrace, its sons killed
and their blood spilled, its sanctities desecrated.
God has blessed a group of vanguard Muslims, the forefront of
Islam, to destroy america. May God bless them and allot them a supreme place in heaven, for he is the only one capable and
entitled to do so. When those have stood in defense of their weak children, their brothers and sisters in Palestine and other
Muslim nations, the whole world went into an uproar, the infidels followed by the hypocrites.
A million innocent children
are dying at this time as we speak, killed in Iraq without any guilt. We hear no denunciation, we hear no edict from the hereditary
rulers. In these days, Israeli tanks rampage across Palestine, in Ramallah, Rafah and Beit Jala and many other parts of the
land of Islam, and we do not hear anyone raising his voice or reacting. But when the sword fell upon america after 80 years,
hypocrisy raised its head up high bemoaning those killers who toyed with the blood, honor and sanctities of Muslims.
The
least that can be said about those hypocrites is that they are apostates who followed the wrong path. They backed the butcher
against the victim, the oppressor against the innocent child. I seek refuge in God against them and ask him to let us see
them in what they deserve.
I say that the matter is very clear. Every Muslim, after this event, after the senior officials
in the United States of America starting with the head of international infidels, Bush and his staff who went on a display
of vanity with their men and horses, those who turned even the countries that believe in Islam against us -- the group that
resorted to God, the Almighty, the group that refuses to be subdued in its religion.
They have been telling the world
falsehoods that they are fighting terrorism. In a nation at the far end of the world, Japan, hundreds of thousands, young
and old, were killed and this is not a world crime. To them it is not a clear issue. A million children in Iraq, to them this
is not a clear issue.
But when a few more than 10 were killed in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam [capitals of Kenya and
Tanzania, where the American Embassies were bombed in 1998], Afghanistan and Iraq were bombed and hypocrisy stood behind the
head of international infidels: the modern world's symbol of paganism, America, and its allies.
I tell them that these
events have divided the world into two camps, the camp of the faithful and the camp of infidels. May God shield us and you
from them.
Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing and the wind of change is blowing
to remove evil from the Peninsula of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
As to america, I say to it and its people a few
words: I swear to God that america will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels
depart the land of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
God is the greatest and glory be to Islam.
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