OBL Charges Bush Family Trying to Rule USA
Sun Oct 31, 2004 at 12:41:27 AM PDT
In his latest video, OBL charges certain people with distortion, deception, embezzlement, misappropriation, election fraud, dictatorship, and other misdeeds; committed in an attempt to establish a certain family as a dynasty in America, using election fraud, oppression disguised as the Patriot Act, and war over control of oil. He claims it was all inspired by, and imported from, oppressive Muslim regimes. (There's more, too!)
Is he just trying to influence the election by making these claims, or is he warning us and suggesting that we are clueless about what's going on in our own country?
In an attempt to find an accurate transcript, I located 3 translations of the portion released so far:
- al Jazeera - ALJ - translator not listed, "unedited".
- CNN - CNN - translator: CNN senior editor for Arab affairs Octavia Nasr.
- Drudge - DRU - translator not listed; includes commentary not found in others.
(A transcript by Reuters was too incomplete to compare.)
--------------------------
What follows is a comparison of selected lines, referring to warnings about and charges against certain American administrations. These lines were quoted from the transcripts because of specific references to events and misdeeds involving a certain family.
What's striking is just how specific his allegations are.
* The transcripts also include dire warnings to America unless we change our policies. *
Please, read and draw your own conclusions.
(All are direct quotes from the translations, in context, with NO editing or spelling corrections. Notice who included what, who left what out, and the phraseology! Sources listed below.)
------------------------
ALJ - "But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real cause and thus the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred."
CNN - "I wonder about you. Although we are ushering the fourth year after 9/11, Bush is still exercising confusion and misleading you and not telling you the true reason. Therefore, the motivations are still there for what happened to be repeated."
DRU - "I am so surprised by you. Although we are in the fourth year after the events of sept 11, Bush is still practicing distortion and misleading on you, and obscuring the main reasons and therefore the reasons are still existing to repeat what happened before."
------------------------
ALJ - "We have not found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half of which are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents. Our experience with them is lengthy and both types are replete with those who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation of wealth."
CNN - "We found no difficulties in dealing with the Bush administration, because of the similarities of that administration and the regimes in our countries, half of which are run by the military and half of which are run by monarchs. And our experience is vast with them. And those two kinds are full of arrogance and taking money illegally."
DRU - "We didn't find difficulty dealing with Bush and his administration due to the similarity of his regime and the regims in our countries. Whish half of them are ruled by military and the other half by sons of kings and presidents and our experience with them is long."
------------------------
ALJ - "This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Senior to the region at a time when some of our compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits would have an effect on our countries."
CNN - "The resemblance started when [former President George H.W.] Bush, the father, visited the area, when some of our own were impressed by America and were hoping that the visits would affect and influence our countries."
DRU - "Both parties are arrogant and stubborn and the greediness and taking money without right and that similarity appeared during the visits of Bush to the region while people from our side were impressed by the US and hoped that these visits would influence our countries."
------------------------
ALJ - "All of a sudden he was affected by these monarchies and military regimes and became jealous of their remaining decades in their position to embezzle the public wealth of the Nation without supervision or accounting."
CNN - "Then, what happened was that he was impressed by the monarchies and the military regimes, and he was jealous of them staying in power for tens of years, embezzling the public money without any accountability."
DRU - "Here he is being influenced by these regimes, Royal and military. And was feeling jealous they were staying for decades in power stealing the nations finances without anybody overseeing them."
------------------------
ALJ - "So he took dictatorship and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot Act under the pretences of fighting terrorism."
CNN - "And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the disguise of fighting terrorism."
DRU - "So he transferred the oppression of freedom and tyranny to his son and they call it th e Patriot Law to fight terrorism."
------------------------
ALJ - "In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors and did not forget to import expertise in election fraud from the regions presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty."
CNN - "And Bush, the father, found it good to install his children as governors and leaders."
DRU - "He was bright in putting his sons as governors in states and he didn't forget to transfer his experience from the rulers of our region to Florida to falsify elections to benefit from it in critical times."
------------------------
ALJ - "All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."
CNN - * (not cited)
DRU - * (not cited)
------------------------
DRU adds this commentary, apparently from the unreleased portion of the video:
"Female Presenter: In Bin Laden's message he approached other points. He pointed to the contradiction which considers oppression and killing of innocents a legal act. They formed an international law as bush the father did with the children of iraq according to bin laden. Bin Laden pointed to the millions of pounds of explosives dropped on Iraqi children as bush his son had done, as he said to remove an old agent and install a new agent to help instealing the oil of iraq. And bin laden said the events of 9/11 came as an answer to this oppression and said that if the answer to this oppression is considered bad terror, then we need to do it. And he stressed that he wants to deliver this message to the Americans in words and in deeds since the 9/11 events. He reminded Americans of a few warning messages through various news media like Time Magazine and CNN and other Arab and correspondents since 1996. He warned them of the conswquences of their countries policies. He talked abou t the damage Sept 11 caused the US economy and that it cost close to a trillion dollars. He talked about President Bush and that the emergency law requires more money."
------------------------
ALJ: " al Jazeera/OBL Transcript Source "
CNN: " CNN/OBL Transcript Source "
DRU: " Drudgereport/OBL Transcript Source "
------------------------