"WHAT THE TRANSLATORS HAVE DONE IS TAKEN A CONVERSATION OF BIN LADEN ON THE
SUBJECT OF WHAT HE WAS THINKING AND GUESSING AS HE WATCHED THE NEWS ON SEPTEMBER
11 AS EVENTS WERE UNFOLDING -- AND MAKING IT SEEM THAT
HE WAS DOING THIS THINKING AND GUESSING AT SOME EARLIER TIME BEFORE THE
EVENTS."
=========
"With this so-called translation the credibility of the
frame-up
drops to the center of the earth."
All over the world people are shaking their heads in dismay that the
U.S.
Government would expect us to not see through this forced and twisted
interpretation of the bin Laden video tape.
Here is my analysis -- I am sure similar ones will soon be
flooding
every
forum.
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"
The tape is transcribed below according to the proper sequence of
events.
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EASTMAN ANALYSIS: First note that the tape as
found has been revised
for translation. Before even the first word we see
editing based on
interpretation -- we see
interpretive reporting
rather than faithful translation of the subject
matter as
it was
discovered.
========
"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."
=======
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
Note that the translators have been selective and that
they
tell us that
they did not understand/discriminate ever word spoken on
the
tape:
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ALLEGED
TRANSLATION TEXT:
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.
===========
EASTMAN ANALYSIS: I don't believe this.
They soi-disant translators start
in the middle of the tape instead of the
begining of the recording and they
begin with a passage in which
someone is telling Osama bin Laden that
"everyone praises what you did" -- no
context -- leaving the average
unguarded reader to presumtuously assume it is
a reference events in New
York CIty on September
11.
============
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.
======
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
Notice
OBL refers to the day of "the events" -- a passive expression -- not
of
"the victory" or "our victory" or even of "the deeds." This
is
consistent with
remoteness from what happened.
Notice also that
Shaykh feels it necessary to specify "at the exact time of
the attack on
America"
which he would not need to do if the context were understood or
centrally
concerned with the theme of the
conversation.
==========
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.
===============
EASTMAN
ANALYSIS:
First we see that there is indeed the assumption that
Moslems
were responsible for the September 911 crashbombings -- an
assumption
that OBL has already told us in to other video interviews that he
first
learned
from American media sources. This conversation is
consistent with that
claim throughout.
It is also clear that those in
Saudi Arabia who are spoken of here naturally
assumed that bin Laden was
responsible for Sept 11 -- but so did Ariel
Sharon and Laura Bush
-- but that does not make them necessarily people
who "know for sure" of
complicity -- they merely assumed -- as did this man
addressing students in
Saudi Arabia.
Also, here they are talking about bin Laden's general
support in Saudi
Arabia;
they are talking about attitudes toward the
concept of jihad and of
martyrdom--
common subjects for revolutionaries --
obviously they are please to have
people willing to follow and die in their
cause -- but this is the same
kind
of talk we would expect anyway,
with or without the events of September 11.
And we already knew that OBL
wants to overthrow the Saudi government
and do violent things in support of
his goals for Palestine -- but, again,
nothing yet suggests they are
merely assuming that it was someone with
similar convictions who, without
their knowledge, planned and executed
the attack (as bin Laden claims in his
other interviews).
===============
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."
=====
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
Note the translators are
interpreting here, and they omit translating the
word "faith"
using the
Arabic "fiqh" which in appearance resembles the English word
"fight" --
an
obvious effort to alienate the reader -- these are not
honest
translators.
======
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
=========
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
Here OBL refers to "the young
men" -- again based on the identifications
that were
in the media as
likely as not. He talks about the effect of the destruction
of the
towers
on the minds of people with respect to their support of Islam
and
presumably of its
oppostion to Israeli policy and globalization and
cultural deterioration
from westernization --
-- all of these are remarks
we would expect if OBL were innocent of the
plotting as much as
if he were
guilty.
==============
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.
=========
EASTMAN ANALSIS:
Here is a man who knows
nothing of the details, talking about how the
events of
September 11 will
energize their cause -- yes, certainly they are aware
that
those
so energized assume that the crashbombing was the work of their
hidden
ero -- but this assumption is not of OBLs doing -- it is just
an
assumption that almost everyone was then
making around the world,
Saudi, American, Afgan, Jew and Eskimo.
NOW GET READY FOR THE BIG
ONE:
===============
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.
====
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
This is an amazing piece of
deceit on the part of the translators.
First their is a giant jump of
context -- an entirely different topic and
tone
-- and only
the word "inaudible" is given to bridge
the gap.
But we know from above that the conversation had been
about the
effects of the television reports. WHAT THE TRANSLATORS
HAVE
DONE IS TAKEN A CONVERSATION OF BIN LADEN ON THE
SUBJECT OF WHAT HE
WAS THINKING AND GUESSING AS
HE WATCHED THE NEWS ON SEPTEMBER 11 AS
EVENTS WERE
UNFOLDING -- AND MAKING IT SEEM THAT HE
WAS
DOING THIS THINKING AND GUESSING AT SOME EARLIER TIME
BEFORE THE
EVENTS.
THIS IS THE WHOLE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS
PROOF?
========
UBL: We were at (... inaudible...) when the event took
place. We had
notification since the previous Thursday that the event would
take place
that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on.
It was 5:
30 p. m. our time. I was sitting with Dr. Ahmad Abu-al-((
Khair)).
Immediately, we heard the news that a plane had hit the World Trade
Center.
We turned the radio station to the news from Washington. The news
continued
and no mention of the attack until the end. At the end of the
newscast, they
reported that a plane just hit the World Trade
Center.
======
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
Here again there is resort to
the fudge word "inaudible" -- again we find
OBL discussing
"the event" -- possibly just as well translated "it,"
I
suspect -- without context -- the context all hidden in
that fudge-box
"inaudible."
Yet even this passage as mangled still
reveals consistency with bin Laden's
claim of innocense.
This clearly
indicates that bin Laden was NOT listening to the radio before
he heard the
news of the attack from regular sources. The whole government
base is shot to
pieces by this one
statement. Bin Laden wanted news and he was
frustrated that the news
program was not telling him of the event
-- he was not prepared to get
information on the event.
In short
he had nothing to do with it. Q.E.D. and
finis
====================
Shaykh: Allah be praised.
UBL: After
a little while, they announced that another plane had hit the
World Trade
Center. The brothers who heard the news were overjoyed by it.
Shaykh: I
listened to the news and I was sitting. We didn't... we were not
thinking
about anything, and all of a sudden, Allah willing, we were talking
about how
come we didn't have anything, and all of a sudden the news came
and everyone
was overjoyed and everyone until the next day, in the morning,
was talking
about what was happening and we stayed until four o'clock,
listening to the
news every time a little bit different, everyone was very
joyous and saying
"Allah is great," "Allah is great," "We are thankful to
Allah," "Praise
Allah." And I was happy for the happiness of my
brothers.
=========
EASTMAN ANALYSIS:
Here OBL is merely commenting
on the joy that the news on the radio
elicited -- yes it is
callous to show joy over the misery, but it is not
crime -- it is
nothing that resentful and fgrustrated people do when they
hear of their
enemies misfortune -- but that is a far cry from commiting
the
act -- at least in the eyes of the law and of
justice.
=================
That day the congratulations were coming on
the phone non-stop. The mother
was receiving phone calls continuously. Thank
Allah. Allah is great, praise
be to Allah.
======
EASTMAN'S
ANALYSIS:
One wonders about the real word translated
"congratulations" -- it may
merely
mean shared joy
-- but even if people were calling in congratulations,
it
is
of course natural that they would assume that bin Laden was
responsible --
certainly the thought of a frame-up would not occur to
any of these people,
not even bin Laden.
==============
(Quoting
the verse from the Quran)
Shaykh: "Fight them, Allah will torture them,
with your hands, he will
torture them. He will deceive them and he will give
you victory. Allah will
forgive the believers, he is knowledgeable about
everything."
Shaykh: No doubt it is a clear victory. Allah has bestowed
on us... honor on
us... and he will give us blessing and more victory during
this holy month
of Ramadan. And this is what everyone is hoping for. Thank
Allah America
came out of its caves. We hit her the first hit and the next
one will hit
her with the hands of the believers, the good believers, the
strong
believers. By Allah it is a great work. Allah prepares for you a
great
reward for this work. I'm sorry to speak in your presence, but it is
just
thoughts, just thoughts. By Allah, who there is no god but him. I live
in
happiness, happiness... I have not experienced, or felt, in a long time.
I
remember, the words of Al-Rabbani, he said they made a coalition against
us
in the winter with the infidels like the Turks, and others, and some
other
Arabs. And they surrounded us like the days... in the days of the
prophet
Muhammad. Exactly like what's happening right now. But he comforted
his
followers and said, "This is going to turn and hit them back." And it is
a
mercy for us. And a blessing to us. And it will bring people back. Look
how
wise he was. And Allah will give him blessing. And the day will come
when
the symbols of Islam will rise up and it will be similar to the early
days
of Al-Mujahedeen and Al-Ansar (similar to the early years of Islam).
And
victory to those who follow Allah. Finally said, if it is the same, like
the
old days, such as Abu Bakr and Othman and Ali and others. In these days,
in
our times, that it will be the greatest jihad in the history of Islam
and
the resistance of the wicked people.
Shaykh: By Allah my Shaykh.
We congratulate you for the great work. Thank
Allah.
Tape ends
here
==============
EASTMAN's ANALYSIS:
The joy of men who hate at
the disaster of others. The feeling of
vindication when those who
offend your faith come to ruin -- but no
evidence of cooperation
in this tragedy.
SUMMARY:
THE GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED TO SHOW REASON
FOR SUSPECTING
BIN LADEN -- BUT THEY HAVE EXPOSED THEMSELVES AS
WILLING
TO ENGAGE IN DECEIT TO YIELD A DESIRED
INTERPRETATION.
=================
Dick Eastman
Yakima,
Washington
Every man is responsible to every other
man.
Second segment of Bin Laden's visit,
shows up at the front of the tape
UBL: Abdallah Azzam, Allah bless his
soul, told me not to record anything
(... inaudible...) so I thought that was
a good omen, and Allah will bless
us (... inaudible...).
Abu-Al-Hasan
Al-(( Masri)), who appeared on Al-Jazeera TV a couple of days
ago and
addressed the Americans saying: "If you are true men, come down here
and face
us." (... inaudible...) He told me a year ago: "I saw in a dream,
we were
playing a soccer game against the Americans. When our team showed up
in the
field, they were all pilots!" He said: "So I wondered if that was a
soccer
game or a pilot game? Our players were pilots." He (Abu-Al-Hasan)
didn't know
anything about the operation until he heard it on the radio. He
said the game
went on and we defeated them. That was a good omen for us.
Shaykh: May
Allah be blessed.
Unidentified Man Off Camera: Abd Al Rahman Al-( Ghamri)
said he saw a
vision, before the operation, a plane crashed into a tall
building. He knew
nothing about it.
Shaykh: May Allah be
blessed!
Sulayman (( Abu Guaith)): I was sitting with the Shaykh in a
room, then I
left to go to another room where there was a TV set. The TV
broadcasted the
big event. The scene was showing an Egyptian family sitting
in their living
room, they exploded with joy. Do you know when there is a
soccer game and
your team wins, it was the same expression of joy. There was
a subtitle that
read: "In revenge for the children of Al Aqsa', Usama Bin
Ladin executes an
operation against America." So I went back to the Shaykh
(meaning UBL) who
was sitting in a room with 50 to 60 people. I tried to tell
him about what I
saw, but he made gesture with his hands, meaning: "I know, I
know�"
UBL: He did not know about the operation. Not everybody knew
(...
inaudible...). Muhammad (( Atta)) from the Egyptian family (meaning the
Al
Qa'ida Egyptian group), was in charge of the group.
Shaykh: A plane
crashing into a tall building was out of anyone's
imagination. This was a
great job. He was one of the pious men in the
organization. He became a
martyr. Allah bless his soul.
Shaykh (Referring to dreams and visions):
The plane that he saw crashing
into the building was seen before by more than
one person. One of the good
religious people has left everything and come
here. He told me, "I saw a
vision, I was in a huge plane, long and wide. I
was carrying it on my
shoulders and I walked from the road to the desert for
half a kilometer. I
was dragging the plane." I listened to him and I prayed
to Allah to help
him. Another person told me that last year he saw, but I
didn't understand
and I told him I don't understand. He said, "I saw people
who left for
jihad... and they found themselves in New York... in Washington
and New
York." I said, "What is this?" He told me the plane hit the building.
That
was last year. We haven't thought much about it. But, when the
incidents
happened he came to me and said, "Did you see... this is strange."
I have
another man... my god... he said and swore by Allah that his wife had
seen
the incident a week earlier. She saw the plane crashing into a
building...
that was unbelievable, my god.
UBL: The brothers, who
conducted the operation, all they knew was that they
have a martyrdom
operation and we asked each of them to go to America but
they didn't know
anything about the operation, not even one letter. But they
were trained and
we did not reveal the operation to them until they are
there and just before
they boarded the planes.
UBL: (... inaudible...) then he said: Those who
were trained to fly didn't
know the others. One group of people did not know
the other group. (...
inaudible...)
(Someone in the crowd asks UBL to
tell the Shaykh about the dream of ((
Abu-Da'ud)).
UBL: We were at a
camp of one of the brother's guards in Qandahar. This
brother belonged to the
majority of the group. He came close and told me
that he saw, in a dream, a
tall building in America, and in the same dream
he saw Mukhtar teaching them
how to play karate. At that point, I was
worried that maybe the secret would
be revealed if everyone starts seeing it
in their dream. So I closed the
subject. I told him if he sees another
dream, not to tell anybody, because
people will be upset with him.
(Another person's voice can be heard
recounting his dream about two planes
hitting a big building).
UBL:
They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the building, so I said to
them:
be patient.
UBL: The difference between the first and the second plane
hitting the
towers was twenty minutes. And the difference between the first
plane and
the plane that hit the Pentagon was one hour.
Shaykh: They
(the Americans) were terrified thinking there was a coup.
[Note: Ayman
Al-Zawahri says first he commended UBL's awareness of what the
media is
saying. Then he says it was the first time for them (Americans) to
feel
danger coming at them.]
UBL (reciting a poem): I witness that against the
sharp blade
They always faced difficulties and stood together... When the
darkness comes
upon us and we are bit by a Sharp tooth, I say...
"Our
homes are flooded with blood and the tyrant Is freely wandering in
our
homes"...
And from the battlefield vanished The brightness of
swords and the horses...
And over weeping sounds now We hear the beats of
drums and rhythm�
They are storming his forts And shouting: "We will not
stop our raids
Until you free our lands"... Bin Laden visit footage
complete. Footage of
the visit to the helicopter site follows the
poem.
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