Ramadan 29, 1430 A.H, September 20, 2009
The Global Islamic Media Front
presents…
The English Translation As-Sahab’s Release (13-9-2009):
“A Statement to the American People”
The Lion of the Ummah, Sheikh Usama b. Ladin
(may Allah protect him)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
All praise is for Allah who created all to worship Him and commanded them to act justly, allowing the oppressed to exact equal revenge from their oppressors.
To proceed…
People of America, I address you today to remind you about the causes of Sept. 11, the wars and other repercussions which followed, and how to put an end to them from their very basis. I would specifically like to mention the friends and families of the victims of those events, who have recently demanded that investigations commence to ascertain its causes. This is an important first step in the right direction, for there have been many wrong ones taken deliberately over the past eight years which have been very harsh for you.
All American people should do the same, since this delay in ascertaining its causes has cost you much without any results worth mentioning. If the White House, which is one of the two sides of the conflict, has told you in these past years that war is necessary for guaranteeing your security, the intelligent are keen to hear both sides of the conflict in order to assess the facts. So lend me your ear…
To begin with I say: we have stated many times for over twenty-odd years that the root cause of our dispute is the support you give to your allies, the Israelis, who have occupied our land of Palestine. This policy of yours, along with some other injustices you have committed, is what drove us to do what we did on Sept. 11. If you only knew how much we suffer from the Jewish oppression with your administration’s support, you would understand that both our nations are victims of the politics of the White House, which in fact is a hostage in the hands of various pressure groups, especially the corporate giants and the Israeli lobby.
One of the best people who can explain to you the reasons behind Sept. 11 is one of your own people, a veteran agent of the CIA [1] whose conscious arose in his 70’s, and so decided to expose the facts despite all the threats. He took various steps to try [2] to explain to you the message of Sept. 11, from them his book entitled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. [3]
As for the sufferings of our people in Palestine, Obama himself recently acknowledged the sufferings of our people under the current occupation and siege in his address in Cairo. This matter will become even clearer if you read what your former president, [Jimmy] Carter, wrote about the Israeli racism against our people in Palestine, or if you listen to his statement a few weeks ago during his visit to the ruined and besieged territory of Gaza, in which he stated, “…the citizens of Gaza are treated more like animals than human beings.” Allah is Sufficient for us! And He is the Best Disposer of affairs.
Here we must stop and think deeply, for anyone who has an iota of mercy can do nothing but feel sorry for those weak and oppressed people from women, children and the elderly living under this murderous siege. But on top of this, the Zionists rain on them missiles of burning white phosphorous manufactured in America. Life there is totally catastrophic, to the extent that children die in the hands of their own parents and doctors due to the lack of food, medicine and electricity. This indeed is a mark of disgrace on the brows of world leaders who accept this and all others who have allied with them […] knowingly and willfully, and due to the influence of the Israeli lobby in the US. Two of your own people, John Mearsheimer [4] and Stephen Walt [5], explained this fact in their book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. [6]
After reading these suggested books, you will come to know the facts, and you will be taken aback about how much you have been misguided. You will also come to know that those who claim from the White House today that the wars you are waging against us are necessary to guarantee your safety are in fact only following the footsteps of Cheney and Bush, promoting the same politics of fear as before, to market the interests of the corporate giants involved at the cost of your blood and economy. In reality, it is they who are forcing these wars upon you, not the Mujahidoon. We are only fighting for our right, which is to liberate our lands.
If you were to think well about your state of affairs, you would come to know that the White House is under the occupation of these pressure groups, and what was needed was to liberate it, not that a war be waged to “liberate” Iraq - as claimed by Bush. The likes of the leader of the White House in this atmosphere, regardless of his name, is that of a train operator; he can do nothing but continue on the tracks laid by those pressure groups, or else he will be obstructed and may even end up like the former president Kennedy and his brother.
In summary, the time has come to free yourselves from the fear and ideological terrorism of the neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby, so that you can put the file of your alliance with Israel on the discussion table, and so that you may ask yourselves what stance you take: Is your security, blood, children, wealth, jobs, homes, economy and reputation dearer to you, or the security of Israel, their children and their economy? If you have chosen your own security and a cessation of these wars, which is what the opinion polls show, this means that you must work to stop those who play with our security from your side. On our side, we are ready to work with you on this option based upon the sound and just principles mentioned before.
There is an important point here which must be considered in regards to war and its cessation. When Bush came into power and appointed as the Secretary of Defense someone who played the worst role in the murder of two millions weak and oppressed villagers in Vietnam, the intelligent understood that Bush was preparing for new butcheries to be carried out during his tenure, and this is what occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then when Obama came into power, and retained Cheney’s and Bush’s associates in the highest leadership positions of the Defense Department, such as of Gates, Mullen, and Petraeus, once again the intelligent understood that Obama is powerless and can do nothing to end the war as he promised, and rather that he will delay this as much as he possibly can. If he had any power, he would have appointed those generals who were opposed to these pointless wars instead, such as the previous Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, General Sanchez, and the Head of US Central Command who Bush forced to resign shortly before he left the White House due to his opposition to the war. Instead, he replaced them with others who will keep the enflame of war even more.
Also, Obama, under the pretense that he is ready to work with the Republicans, succeeded in playing the biggest trick on you by retaining the most important and dangerous secretary from Cheney’s associates in order to continue these wars. With the passage of time, it will become clear to you that you changed nothing but the faces in the White House. The bitter reality is that the neoconservatives still cast their heavy shadows over you.
Returning to our main topic, if you stop the war, so be it, but if you take the other option, then we have no other choice but to continue this war of attrition against you on all possible fronts, just as we made the Soviet Union bleed for ten years until it disintegrated, by the Grace of God Most High, and became a thing of the past. Prolong your war as much as you wish, for you are fighting a lost and hopeless war only to fulfill the interests of others, one in which there seems to be no end in sight.
The Russian generals, worn out from their own war they fought in Afghanistan, warned you of the results of war before you started it, but you do not like those who sincerely advise you. A war financed by money borrowed at monstrous interest rates, whose troops are morally destroyed, committing suicide daily in order to flee it, is a lost war, God willing.
This war was prescribed by the two doctors, Cheney and Bush, as the remedy for the events of Sept. 11, but its bitterness and the losses incurred were much worse than those of the events themselves, to the extent that its debt itself is enough to almost destroy the whole US economy. It is said that some medicines are worse than the disease itself.
As for us, by the Grace of God Most High, we carry our weapons on our shoulders, fighting the two axes of evil in the East and the West for the last thirty years, while not even one case of suicide has been recorded against us despite being internationally pursued. All praise is for God and all favors are from Him. This is telling of the soundness of our beliefs and the justness of our cause.
By God’s Leave, we will continue to march on our path towards the liberation of our lands. Our weapon is patience and we seek victory from God. We will never let go of Al-Aqsa Mosque, for we hold on to Palestine more than we hold on to our own souls.
Prolong the war as much as you wish, for by God we will never bargain on it…
This endless war has nothing against me,
It has just come of age, barely ten years old,
For the likes of this did my mother give birth to me.[7]
May peace be on those who follow the Guidance of Islam.
[1] John Perkins. Though he did not formally work for the CIA directly, he did admit to working for US intelligence agencies indirectly. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author) and http://www.johnperkins.org/
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IL&hl=en&v=yTbdnNgqfs8.
[3] A New York Times bestseller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
[4] American professor of Political Science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer
[5] American professor of International Affairs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Walt , http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/
[6] See a review of the book at London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html
[7] Verses of poetry attributed to ‘Ali Bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). See Lisan Al-‘Arab by Ibn Mandhoor. Some narrations attribute to some other poets.
Submitted by a Mujahid