Full text of message to Americans

Aljazeera, Saturday 18 October 2003, 20:24 Makka Time, 17:24 GMT

Usama bin Ladin has issued a message to the American people, broadcast on Saturday on Aljazeera television. A full and exclusive translation follows:

"Oppression will only go against the oppressors.

"This is a message from Usama bin Muhammad bin Ladin to the American people regarding your aggression in Iraq. Peace be upon those who follow the righteous path.

"Some have the impression that you are a reasonable people. But the majority of you are vulgar and without sound ethics or good manners. You elect the evil from among you, the greatest liars and the least decent and you are enslaved by your richest and the most influential among you, especially the Jews, who lead you using the lie of democracy to support the Israelis and their schemes and in complete antagonism towards our religion (Islam).

"These schemes are paid for in our blood and land, and your blood and economy.

"This has been proved by recent events. And the war on Iraq, which has nothing to do with you, is proof of that.

"Bush and his gang, with their heavy sticks and hard hearts, are an evil to all humankind. They have stabbed into the truth, until they have killed it altogether in the eyes of the world.

"With this behaviour they have encouraged hypocrisy, and spread vice and political bribes shamelessly at the level of heads of state.

Blood

"This gang and their leader enjoy lying, war and looting to serve their own ambitions. The blood of the children of Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq is still dripping from their teeth. They have fooled you and deceived you into invading Iraq a second time. And they have lied to you and the whole world.

"Nations are nothing without ethics and morals. If these are gone, the nations are gone.

Bush has sent your sons into the lion’s den, to slaughter and be slaughtered, claiming that this act was in defence of international peace and America’s security, thus concealing the facts.

"On one hand he (Bush) is carrying out the demands of the Zionist lobby that helped him to enter the White House. These demands are to destroy the military strength of Iraq because it is too close to the Jews in occupied Palestine, regardless of the harm that will happen to your people and your economy.

"On the other hand, he (Bush) is concealing his own ambitions and the ambitions of the Zionist lobby and their own desire for oil. He is still following the mentality of his ancestors who killed the Native Americans to take their land and wealth. He thought that this time it would be an easy task and a lie that would not be exposed.

Profit into loss

"But God sent him to Baghdad, the seat of the Caliphate, the homeland of people who prefer death to honey. So they (the Iraqis) turned his profits into losses, his joy into sadness and now he is merely looking for a way back home.

"Thanks be to God Almighty who has exposed the lies of George Bush and made his term as president a term of continual catastrophe.

"To Bush I say, you are begging the world to come to your aid, begging mercenaries from every corner of the world, even from small states. This begging has destroyed your pride and revealed how trivial and weak you are after claiming to defend the whole world.

"Now you are like the knight who was trying to protect people from the Sword of Malik, and ended up begging someone to protect him.

"We reserve the right to retaliate at the appropriate time and place against all countries involved, especially the UK, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy, not to exclude those Muslim states that took part, especially the Gulf states, and in particular Kuwait, which has become a beachhead for the crusading forces.

Folly

"And to the American soldiers in Iraq I say, now that all the lies have been exposed and the greatest liar has been revealed, your stay on Iraq’s land is compounding the oppression and is a great folly.

"It shows you are selling your lives for the lives of others. And you are spilling your blood to swell the bank accounts of the White House gang and their fellow arms dealers and the proprietors of great companies. And the greatest folly in life is to sell your life for the lives of others.

"In conclusion, I say to the American people we will continue to fight you and continue to conduct martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you depart from your oppressive course and abandon your follies and rein in your fools.

"You have to know that we are counting our dead, may God bless them, especially in Palestine, who are killed by your allies the Jews. We are going to take revenge for them from your blood, God willing, as we did on the day of New York. Remember what I said to you on that day about our security and your security. Baghdad the seat of the Caliphate, will not fall to you, God willing, and we will fight you as long as we carry our guns. And if we fall, our sons will take our place.

"And may our mothers become childless if we leave any of you alive on our soil."

OBL's a registered Democrat!

Really, it sounds just like Teddy Kennedy.

Still the unanswered question is ....Little Georgie....WHERE THE FUCK IS OSAMA? That is addition to everything else Little Georgie was supposed to find. This president is the perfect example of the Peter Principle...rising to his level of incompetence.

I realize that you are a leftist and therefore, by definition, a bit of an idiot but do you honestly think that's it's actually possible to find ONE person in a huge crowd of people, especially when he's a hero to them and they are all willing to hide him, and there are millions of them, and he could be anywhere in thousands and thousands of square miles? Are you honestly that fucking stupid or at best naive that you are actually wondering why OBL hasn't been found yet?

I don't think you art. I think you're merely an asshole using the typical leftist strawman argument.

Did i mention to you that i am a drug addict?

I love Iraq so much, i want to waste 87 billion dollars on it.

If you love Iraq like i do --i want to go live there!!!

Fuck america!!!

Isn't it amazing that just when it is needed to stir up the pot and remind everybody of the "terrist" threat that Usama speaks up right on cue?

Amazing! Simply fucking amazing.

He must be Psychic.

Maybe a terrorist event will occur during the 2004 election campaign, and help Bush get elected.

I think it'll happen around September 2004.

god bless bin laden. for we have yet to see the true power he is allowed to command..

Motto of the 355th Expeditionary Group, Camp Justice, Masirah Island, Oman:

"God may have mercy on you.

We will not."

I'm a registered Republican, you idiot. Just like you, I hate anyone who is different from me.

self explanatory

"I'm a registered Republican, you idiot. Just like you, I hate anyone who is different from me."

Prove it. Find one single post of mine that says I hate anybody. Search the archives, looking under daveman, mr wilson, tpfkamw, and nonanarchist.

Every time I challenge anyone to do this, they have never responded.

it would give you undue importance.

So they hurl pointless insults with nothing to back them up.

Can I play too?

You're a moron!

Hey, that IS fun.