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Thursday, December 13, 2001
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This is the transcript (translated into English) of the Usama bin Laden
videotape released by the Pentagon on Thursday, December 13, 2001.
Transcript and annotations independently prepared by George Michael,
translator, Diplomatic Language Services; and Dr. Kassem M. Wahba, Arabic
language program coordinator, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University. They collaborated on their translation and compared it
with translations done by the U. S. government for consistency. There were no
inconsistencies in the translations.
In mid-November, Usama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters, possibly in
Qandahar, Afghanistan. These comments were video taped with the knowledge of
Bin Laden and all present.
Note: The tape is approximately one hour long and contains three different
segments: an original taping of a visit by some people to the site of the
downed U. S. helicopter in Ghazni province (approximately 12 minutes long);
and two segments documenting a courtesy visit by Bin Laden and his
lieutenants to an unidentified Shaykh, who appears crippled from the waist
down. The visit apparently takes place at a guesthouse in Qandahar. The
sequence of the events is reversed on the tape the end of his visit is in the
beginning of the tape with the helicopter site visit in the middle and the
start of the Usama bin Laden visit beginning approximately 39 minutes into
the tape. The tape is transcribed below according to the proper sequence of
events.
Due to the quality of the original tape, it is NOT a verbatim transcript of
every word spoken during the meeting, but does convey the messages and
information flow.
EDITOR'S NOTE: 39 minutes into tape, first segment of the bin Laden meeting,
begins after footage of helicopter site visit
Shaykh: (... inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope
and we thank Allah for you. We don't want to take much of your time, but this
is the arrangement of the brothers. People now are supporting us more, even
those ones who did not support us in the past, support us more now. I did not
want to take that much of your time. We praise Allah, we praise Allah. We
came from Kabul. We were very pleased to visit. May Allah bless you both at
home and the camp. We asked the driver to take us, it was a night with a full
moon, thanks be to Allah. Believe me it is not in the country side. The
elderly... everybody praises what you did, the great action you did, which
was first and foremost by the grace of Allah. This is the guidance of Allah
and the blessed fruit of jihad.
UBL: Thanks to Allah. What is the stand of the Mosques there (in Saudi
Arabia)?
Shaykh: Honestly, they are very positive. Shaykh Al-Bahrani (phonetic) gave a
good sermon in his class after the sunset prayers. It was videotaped and I
was supposed to carry it with me, but unfortunately, I had to leave
immediately.
UBL: The day of the events?
Shaykh: At the exact time of the attack on America, precisely at the time. He
(Bahrani) gave a very impressive sermon. Thanks be to Allah for his
blessings. He (Bahrani) was the first one to write at war time. I visited him
twice in Al-Qasim.
UBL: Thanks be to Allah.
Shaykh: This is what I asked from Allah. He (Bahrani) told the youth: "You
are asking for martyrdom and wonder where you should go (for martyrdom)?"
Allah was inciting them to go. I asked Allah to grant me to witness the truth
in front of the unjust ruler. We ask Allah to protect him and give him the
martyrdom, after he issued the first fatwa. He was detained for
interrogation, as you know. When he was called in and asked to sign, he told
them, "don't waste my time, I have another fatwa. If you want me, I can sign
both at the same time."
UBL: Thanks be to Allah.
Shaykh: His position is really very encouraging. When I paid him the first
visit about a year and half ago, he asked me, "How is Shaykh Bin-Ladin?" He
sends you his special regards. As far as Shaykh Sulayman 'Ulwan is concerned,
he gave a beautiful fatwa, may Allah bless him. Miraculously, I heard it on
the Quran radio station. It was strange because he (' Ulwan) sacrificed his
position, which is equivalent to a director. It was transcribed word-by-word.
The brothers listened to it in detail. I briefly heard it before the noon
prayers. He (' Ulwan) said this was jihad and those people were not innocent
people (World Trade Center and Pentagon victims). He swore to Allah. This was
transmitted to Shaykh Sulayman Al ((' Umar)) Allah bless him.
UBL: What about Shaykh Al-(( Rayan))?
Shaykh: Honestly, I did not meet with him. My movements were truly limited.
UBL: Allah bless you. You are welcome.
Shaykh: (Describing the trip to the meeting) They smuggled us and then I
thought that we would be in different caves inside the mountains so I was
surprised at the guest house and that it is very clean and comfortable.
Thanks be to Allah, we also learned that this location is safe, by Allah's
blessings. The place is clean and we are very comfortable.
UBL: (... Inaudible...) when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by
nature, they will like the strong horse. This is only one goal; those who
want people to worship the lord of the people, without following that
doctrine, will be following the doctrine of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
(UBL quotes several short and incomplete Hadith verses, as follows):
"I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah,
and his prophet Muhammad."
"Some people may ask: why do you want to fight us?"
"There is an association between those who say: I believe in one god and
Muhammad is his prophet, and those who don't (... inaudible...)
"Those who do not follow the true fiqh. The fiqh of Muhammad, the real fiqh.
They are just accepting what is being said at face value."
UBL: Those youth who conducted the operations did not accept any fiqh in the
popular terms, but they accepted the fiqh that the prophet Muhammad brought.
Those young men (... inaudible...) said in deeds, in New York and Washington,
speeches that overshadowed all other speeches made everywhere else in the
world. The speeches are understood by both Arabs and non-Arabs even by
Chinese. It is above all the media said. Some of them said that in Holland,
at one of the centers, the number of people who accepted Islam during the
days that followed the operations were more than the people who accepted
Islam in the last eleven years. I heard someone on Islamic radio who owns a
school in America say: "We don't have time to keep up with the demands of
those who are asking about Islamic books to learn about Islam." This event
made people think (about true Islam) which benefited Islam greatly.
Shaykh: Hundreds of people used to doubt you and few only would follow you
until this huge event happened. Now hundreds of people are coming out to join
you. I remember a vision by Shaykh Salih Al-(( Shuaybi)). He said: "There
will be a great hit and people will go out by hundreds to Afghanistan." I
asked him (Salih): "To Afghanistan?" He replied, "Yes." According to him, the
only ones who stay behind will be the mentally impotent and the liars
(hypocrites). I remembered his saying that hundreds of people will go out to
Afghanistan. He had this vision a year ago. This event discriminated between
the different types of followers.
UBL: (... Inaudible...) we calculated in advance the number of casualties
from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We
calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I
was the most optimistic of them all. (... Inaudible...) due to my experience
in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would
melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane
hit and all the floors above it only. This is all that we had hoped for.
Shaykh: Allah be praised.
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