Armies of Liberation

Bin Laden threatened Republican majority states in his latest messge, according to an Islamist website, while offering a truce to the Democrats. Republicans are the threat and the attempt is to splinter them off while maintaining an understanding, similiar to that offered to Europe, of mutual non-aggression.

MEMRI:

This suggests some knowledge by bin Laden of the U.S. electoral college system. In a section of his speech in which he harshly criticized George W. Bush, bin Laden stated: “Any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security.”

The Islamist website Al-Qal’a explained what this sentence meant: “This message was a warning to every U.S. state separately. When he [Osama Bin Laden] said, ‘Every state will be determining its own security, and will be responsible for its choice,’ it means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote for the white thug Bush as president has chosen to fight us, and we will consider it our enemy, and any state that will vote against Bush has chosen to make peace with us, and we will not characterize it as an enemy. By this characterization, Sheikh Osama wants to drive a wedge in the American body, to weaken it, and he wants to divide the American people itself between enemies of Islam and the Muslims, and those who fight for us, so that he doesn’t treat all American people as if they’re the same.

Pushy me, I emailed blog buddy Ali in Baghdad for his thoughts on the election, this is his response:

May be American peaple vote for Kerry because of Bush mistakes in Iraq and in US money – but as for us here in Iraq – we love Bush because he is the only leader who get rid of Saddam – If Bush didn’t make this war – Iraqi peaple will die every day – No technology – no better life just for Saddam – Now Iraqi peaple die every day as U know but for only coming few years – But if Saddam still the leader of Iraq Iraqies will die for the rest of their life and no body care (All now care about Iraq if we make compretion – Bush is the only leader who did care about the problem (Saddam) – Thats why we love him.

Crossposted at The Left Right Debate.

More from Iraqis at Beautiful Atrocities: “The most important factor in this struggle after the Will of God is your choice, your steadfastness & your resolve. Give the enemy the slap in the face & the great disappointment he deserves. You are the leaders; & all the lovers of freedom & enlightenment everywhere will take heart as they see your courage & defiance at the helm.”

More at Rusty’s:

President Bush now represents a symbol of defiance against the terrorists and it is a fact, that all the enemies of America, with the terrorists foremost, are hoping for him to be deposed in the upcoming elections. That is not to say that they like the democrats, but that they will take such an outcome as retreat by the American people, and will consequently be greatly encouraged to intensify their assault.

When John Kerry says now that he will find and kill the terrorists, is he talking about those that perpetrated the attack on the US or is he talking about all those who aim to destroy the US and other non-Islamic states including those terrorists in Iraq?

Arab News: Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for an international treaty to ban the use of religion for incitement to violence.

It also calls on the Security Council to set up a tribunal to try “the theologians of terror.” The petition is addressed to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and to all members of the Security Council and its current chairman.

Wonderful idea, I only wish there was an institution more competent than the UN to bring it to.

AmirTaheri.

Carters envoy to the UN, a certain Andrew Young, described Khomeini as a Twentieth Century saint, and begged the ayatollah to show magnanimity and compassion.

Carter went further by sending a letter to Khomeini. Written in longhand, it was an appeal from one believer to a man of God. Carters syrupy prose must have amused Khomeini who preferred a minimalist style with such phrases as we shall cut off Americas hands.

As days passed, with the American diplomats paraded in front of television cameras blindfolded and threatened with execution, it became increasingly clear that there would be no thunder and lightning from Washington. By the end of the first week of the drama, that was to last for 444 days and ended the day Ronald Reagan entered the White House, Khomeinis view of the United States had changed.

Ahmad Khomeinis memoirs echo the surprise that his father, the ayatollah, showed, as the Carter administration behaved like a headless chicken.

What especially surprised Khomeini was that Cater and his aides, notably Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, rather than condemning the seizure and the treatment of the hostages as a barbarous act, appeared apologetic for unspecified mistakes supposedly committed by the US and asked for forgiveness and magnanimity.

Once he had concluded that the US would not take any meaningful action against his regime, Khomeini took over control of the hostages enterprise and used it as a means of propping his anti-imperialist credentials while outflanking the left.

Criticising President Bush for reading My Pet Goat, and complaciency prior to 9/11, Usama bin Laden makes his reappearance in the world media.

“We decided to destroy towers in America,” bin Laden said, referring to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center. Bin Laden also accused President Bush of deceiving the American people. In an address just days ahead of the U.S. presidential election, bin Laden also said the U.S. administration resembled “corrupt” Arab governments.

There’s debate as to whether bin Laden intends to encourage Bush’s re-election because it creates extremism or whether the statement was made in hopes encouraging a “sensative” Kerry presidency. Regardless of what’s in this maniac’s mind, one thing is clear, it’s time to stand together, united and tough, and spit in his face.

For the first time, bin Laden admits to the 9/11 attacks and boy that’s just going to crush those in the Arab world who have been insisting for years it was the Joooooos or Bush himself.

More at Digger’s Realm: In other related news the stock markets got a significant bump when the videos existance was announced and validated. Signs that the market feels this will help get Bush re-elected.

Ramblings Journal: Refering to next week’s elections, UBL told Americans: “Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic candidate John) Kerry or (President George W.) Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands ….”

More: Rooftop Report. Passionate America has a close-up of UBL.

Rusty: Some Americans call for al-Aljazeera to be bombed.

Why do so many around the world hate America? We can start with al Jazeera. Al Jazeera, and media outlets like it, blame all the world’s ills on the United States. The context they provide for all images has a single unifying theme: the US is the cause of so much suffering in the world.

Bill has the translations: “In addition, the infidel George Bush is outsourcing America’s future with tax cuts to the wealthy. Where are the 1.6 million jobs? The infidel Bush is the first infidel since the infidel Herbert Hoover to lose jobs! Awake from your slumber, America! The infidel John Kerry has a plan. You can do better, Insha’Allah!”

“Let me tell you, I spoke to the infidel Christopher Reeve a week ago, and if the infidel John Kerry is elected President, Insha’Allah, the infidel Christopher Reeve will walk again!”

“The infidel Mary Cheney is a lesbian.”

I got this essay in an email from one of the ME editors I work with who does groups mailings now and then. Its a brutally critical assesment of the Arab mentality by Youssef M. Ibrahim:

Outside View: Fear dominant in Arab psyche

Published 10/26/2004 7:29 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 26 (UPI) — Fear is deeply ingrained
in the Arab psyche, a gene implanted in the Arab mind no matter where
it lives. There is a fear to speak, write, read or even hear truth.

It is so contagious in fact that it affects Arab immigrants who carry
this home-grown fear with them to new domiciles wherever they go,
hiding behind it to avoid melting into the societies they took refuge
in. There and here fear hangs in the air, blocking oxygen to the Arab
mind, dominating thinking processes, surfacing in a self-censored
media, nervous jokes, absurd commentary that wastes hours describing
black as white. It even affects expatriates and visitors who come and go, so much that many of the foreigners who live among us in this Arab world become a version of “Lawrence of Arabia,” striving to be more Arab than the Arabs.

No one is born this way, of course. Fear is an environmentally acquired
characteristic. At home it is the product of unilateral rule,
hereditary power in republics as well as monarchial systems, rejection
of democratic culture, dominance of the male persona which eliminates women as equal partners and a demeaning embrace of hand-kissing instead of merit as a way to climb the social ladder.

For the immigrant Arab community, these fears have been more
complicated ever since the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11 2001, by the Western adoption of systematic persecution and singling out of Arabs and Muslims as potential terrorists, deepening racism and the treatment of others as second-class citizens. The sum total of it is that Arab children are growing up thinking the eminently absurd is normal. In America today, an Arab-American community of some 3 to 4 million people has no voice because it is afraid. Having a voice means attracting attention, perhaps trouble, most Arabs will tell you, which is a total failure in understanding of how democracies function.

In Europe, where some 35 million Arabs live, most have crawled back
into cultural caves – speaking Arabic, wearing the hijab, eating
Arabic and thinking Arabic instead of opening up to the societies that
embraced them. (Read on …)

Jeremy reports the details of the The WTimes report:

John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.

“The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units,” Mr. Shaw said. “Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units.”

Doesn’t Russia have a seat on the Security Council? The same Security council John Kerry wants to entrust with US foreign policy? Wasn’t Russia one of the top recipients of Oil-for-Weapons money? The same policy of sanctions and “containment” John Kerry thought should have been left in place? Now that John Kerry has been throwing wild accusations at the President for three days, do you think he will apologize now that the facts are starting to come in?

(CP@The Left Right Debate)