Thursday, April 15, 2004

"Under what grace are your (American) victims innocent and ours (arabs) dust, and under which doctrine is your (American) blood, blood and our (arab) blood water? ...

... A review of the deaths in our land and your land reveal an important truth which is that there is injustice done to both us and you by your leaders who send your sons, despite your objections, to our land to kill and be killed.

It is in the interest of both parties not to give a chance to those who shed the blood of nations for their limited personal interest and obedience to the gang of the White House.

This war earns millions of dollars for big companies, whether those who manufacture weapons or those involved in reconstruction, such as Halliburton and its sisters and daughters.

And it becomes very clear who benefits from igniting the fires of this war and bloodshed: it is the traders of war, the bloodsuckers who run the policy of the world from behind a curtain."

If you want to know the real reason they dont translate and air the tapes of Osama Bin laden in the United States, there it is. Not only is he not psychotic, but he's got a point. He's definately suffering from the same religious ignorance as a lot of people *cough*christians*cough*, but he presents a pretty basic, accurate, though poorly articulated, explanation of world politics and the United States role in them. Here's the full excerpt, published in the Guardian. Here's former State Department employee William Blum saying pretty much the same thing. If you don't like hearing the sort of statements outlined above from an admitted terrorist killer, perhaps you'd rather hear them from a white MIT professor.

Terrorism is a two way street my friends. Sir Isaac Newton said it best.