Bin Laden Threatens Americans in First Video Message in Three Years

September 07, 2007 3:09 PM

From The Blotter:

Osama_2007_transcript2_main Osama bin Laden's rambling address includes a direct threat to the American people.

There are only two options to end the war in Iraq: either end the American democratic system of government, or for insurgents, he says, "to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you."

World News Video: Watch Bin Laden's New Video Message

The al Qaeda leader refers to Democrats' gains in the November 2006 elections, saying they "haven't made a move worth mentioning. On the contrary, they continue to agree to the spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war there."

The reason, he says, is the American democracy is corrupted by the influence of money from corporations, "the true tyrannical terrorists."

"[S]ince the democratic system permits major corporations to back candidates. . . there shouldn’t be any cause for astonishment. . . the Democrats’ failure to stop the war," bin Laden says. He also says that "despite the differing intentions," his interests overlap with corporations and others who perpetuate the war.

Bin Laden also has harsh words for the U.S. news media, which "lost its credibility and manifested itself as a tool of the colonialist empires" with its early coverage of the Iraq war. That coverage, he says, was often worse than what was produced by news outlets under dictatorial regimes.

He also mentions French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who came to power in May and at the end of June, respectively.

Bin Laden does refer to the Sept. 11 attacks. He criticizes Americans for not holding "those who waged this war" accountable and for re-electing President Bush "to continue to murder our people in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"Then you claim to be innocent!" he says. "The innocence of yours is like my innocence of the blood of your sons on the 9/11 -- were I to claim such a thing."

Bin Laden emphasized the tolerance Islamic countries have shown Jews and Christians in history, contrasting that with the Jewish holocaust and the slaughter of Native Americans in North America. Ultimately, bin Laden says, everyone should convert to Islam.

This is the al Qaeda's leader first video message since October 2004.

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I'm telling you either that is NOT UBL, or the man is VERY ill...look at his droopy right eye, clammy skin and blue lips. If this is a only a still that's being shot in the video, it might be proof in itself that the man is dead, and the US government has taped his body to make is seem like he's alive. Just a creepy lookin' dude. Looks like he's gonna throw up and pass out...

Posted by: Jazz | Sep 7, 2007 3:40:18 PM

Hey Osama, why don't you stop hiding like the yellow dog that you are, and make these speeches live!

Posted by: AZgal | Sep 7, 2007 3:44:06 PM

hahahahaha right !!! The Government not fooling me!!!! Osama bin Laden's is Dead!!!!!!

Posted by: Pamela For Peace | Sep 7, 2007 4:55:06 PM

I am for my family. I did Not vote for Mr. bush! He just wants to be the first Dynasty of America. They are already portraying the Bush family as so. I hate that so many Humanbeings have to be apart of this great loss. I also hate the wording war generates revenue. We the people live and deal with Karma everyday if we are wise. Why does the governments of our lands gain popularity and fortune from our pain and loss?

Posted by: kelley | Sep 7, 2007 6:53:27 PM

Hmm! billions invested in puts,gambling ON the stock market dropping 50% the middle of SEPT; USAF announcing its fighters and bombers will be grounded the 14th of Sept. government transcripts of Bin Loudmouths video dated the day before the release. old still photo poorly computer enhanced .... time to go on vacation.

Posted by: Col Ed | Sep 7, 2007 9:56:07 PM

This war is so stupid. This UBL character is insane, but to what more extent than the Christians of this country, and to what more extent than Bush? Religion is going to destroy us all if we don’t wake up. Put “kerry walker story” in a search engine and find out what the government of this great country did to me and my family.

Posted by: Kerry Craig Walker | Sep 7, 2007 10:26:53 PM

I think this video is a fake, part of a scam to make the america people think that the war needs to continue! We america want Bush to stop the war and end it! It is stupid to have our people killed over money! So in order to keep the war going, they setup a scam like this to make us think that we need to continue the war.

Posted by: Darill | Sep 8, 2007 12:34:10 AM

Frank Zappa once said that the commonest commodity in the world is stupidity

95% of Americans own this commodity along with gullibility and fell hook, line and sinker by supporting the Iraq war.The moronic Neo-cons in DC and took you suckers into a phoney war on terror.

Iraq was an act of monumental folly on a par with Vietnam

Bin Laden will not be caught any time soon. The war in Afghanistan will drag on and on costing American lives needlessly

So long suckers

Posted by: Anil | Sep 8, 2007 6:18:08 AM

Osama Bin Ladin, im sure has been dead for years. Will the Republicans please drop this issue.They are just trying to scare the American public

Posted by: None Ya | Sep 8, 2007 5:33:53 PM

Bush's trying to tell you guys that sending America's sons to die in the middle east is justified. That's all folks!

Posted by: Osama Bin Ladin | Sep 9, 2007 4:17:44 AM

Osama bin Hidin wants us to embrace Islam. Yeah...that will make everything ok. Do we choose Sunni Islam so the Shi'ites will want to kill us, or Shi'ite Islam, so the Sunnis will want to kill us? There's no middle ground. If they want us to convert, let them show us what a paradise it is first ... in their lands. We embrace Islam and everyone dies. Just look at the culture ... everyone over there is ALWAYS ANGRY. Kill! Kill! Kill! They kill their neighbors, their children, their wives, their friends, themselves! This isn't a religion. It's collective heat stroke.

Posted by: Noble | Sep 9, 2007 4:19:41 PM

It doesn’t matter if he is dead or alive. It doesn’t matter if we capture him or not. His crimes are beyond comprehension. There is no suitable punishment known for such crimes. In his killings of thousands of families, worldwide, he succeeded in making us fear our own technology, fear each other, and fear Islam itself. He made security the biggest money making business ever. No longer does humanity aspire to explore the cosmos, we want security instead. He planted paranoia in the heart of humanity and gave justification for the destruction of too many nations. No, he is no longer a threat, the worst things that could happened have already happened. The sad part is that his crimes seem to repeat as though they were part of a perpetual motion machine. We are not over 9/11 yet and there are no plans for closure.

Posted by: Rain-77 | Sep 9, 2007 6:00:04 PM

If Bin Ladin has a "thing" for suicide bombimg why doesn't HE try it?
Could it be HE is really a Coward?
It is easier to say go Die for me, than to Die one's self.

Posted by: Richard S. Coleman | Sep 9, 2007 7:07:49 PM

The video is a fake. There are several sections of the full video where it stops but the audio is still going. It is just an manipulation and a con job put on by the upper powers to further the Middle east agenda of the White House.

Hell , I've seen better fakes on YouTube.

Posted by: Jon Chance | Sep 9, 2007 10:03:06 PM

So many people are saying it is not him in the video. From the research I have done online, The US government had this tape for a while. There is no way the government would let this tape out if it wasn't real. And for those people who think that just because of his kidney problems, he should be dead....think again! Bin Laden has more money than you can ever imagine...He probably has his own Kidney Dialysis Machine with him, where ever he is and doctors living with him to take care of him.....He's probably had a kidney transplant by now. His options are unlimited. If this S.O.B. is still alive and making threats that are in the realm of his possibilities, we should take them seriously. It is absolutely 100% possible that he is still alive. The fact that he is now speaking after 3 years of silence should be an eye opener for the U.S....Let's finally get this S.O.B. tie him to the White House front door and let every American spit in his face. He can only hide for so long! God Bless America!

Posted by: Laura | Sep 10, 2007 4:39:08 AM

Bush lost the war on terror on 911 since he had planned the war before 911. His oil concern UNOCAL, and what a cast of characters that was(now sold new name whatever), will never tell you about their threat to the Taliban of carpet bombing their country which Unocal supposedly delivered to them in Augsust 2001. Yes folks, that is August 2001...whoops...take one part downing st memo and one part taliban Unocal negotiations and take one part neo con swindle juice, and eye of newtie gingrich, and stir.

Posted by: daddy | Sep 10, 2007 11:16:10 AM

I believe that in a way Bin Laden is right when he stated that we dont stand up for ourselves no morw 7 out of ten people want him out of office but what do we do NOTHING.. Every one needs to watch Fahrenheit 911 it tells you a whole lot about bush and his friend osama.

Posted by: christina ramos | Sep 10, 2007 1:13:00 PM

This video is fake, just like the one where bin laden takes credit for 9/11. Then there are intelligence agencies in the U.S., which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usama and Taleban and then this incident happened.

Posted by: FAKE_BIN_LADEN | Sep 10, 2007 1:31:48 PM

Iraq: We invade a country that is no threat to us whatsoever...a country we gave weapons to to fight Iran a few years ago(remember the famous Rumsfeld handshake with Saddam?)...and are responsible for the murder and maiming of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, as well as the complete destruction of their country's infrastructure and sacred religious churches. Now we are building a HUGE military base in Iraq that will be there, supposedly, forever, to replace the bases we had in Saudi Arabia. How would we feel if Iraq built bases in our country?

Posted by: Charlene | Sep 10, 2007 1:35:53 PM

while we're complaing let's not forget to vote democrat this is a democracy is'nt it, or are we in OLD CHINA?

Posted by: jharp | Sep 10, 2007 2:37:13 PM

Usama's head was attached to another photograph and scanned again ...no doubt.....this message never came from Bin Laden....

Posted by: Casseyy | Sep 10, 2007 3:55:46 PM

Ya know, his words sound earily like those of the radical left associated with Moveon. I wouldn't be surprised if Moveone. produced the video with a bin laden lookalike. After all, the last thing liberals and democrats want is for a Republican President to win a war. The political consequences of that would be devastating to the Democrat party. This is why they have been bad mouthing Bush from the onset of the war. They absolutely could not and can not afford to have a Republican win or they would be out of power for a long time.

Posted by: Kevin, Fort Collins, CO | Sep 10, 2007 6:36:36 PM

9-11 Rememberance
With silence only as their benediction,
God's angels come
Where, in the shadow of a great affliction,
The soul sits dumb

----John Greenleaf Whittier

Posted by: Diane Mrackoski | Sep 11, 2007 9:51:02 AM

How bout we sit there and bash the president and not know a thing about running a country? That is all anyone does anymore...if you are so good, run for president....otherwise how bout you all vote and get everyone you know to vote.....dont do either of those things then shut the hell up

Posted by: someone | Sep 11, 2007 10:22:35 AM

Like everything else designed to scare us into submitting to this or that new Draconian limitation of our rights, we really owe it to ourselves to consider the messenger-- and it's not Osama. How many times do our leaders need to tell us things which later turn out to blatantly false (known as a "lie" outside the political arena), before everything they spout starts to sound like someone trying to sell you a condo timeshare? In the case of the present crude video, what possible benefit would Osama derive from whipping us into a murderous rage--this time against Iran? Who benefits? It's certainly not you or me. Answer that, and this latest bogeyman scare will be unmasked as easily as some fool in a fake beard.

Posted by: h5mind | Sep 11, 2007 8:27:11 PM

those of you who think osama bin laden is dead due to the weak picture he portrays in his video let me ask you ONE QUESTIONS : ARE U SO THAT STUPID ? DO YOU THIK THAT A 'MOST WANTED' TERRORIST LEADER WILL SHOW YOU HOW HE "REALY" LOOKS LIKE ! HELLOOOO HE WELL TRAINED VIDEO TECHNICIANS AND ARTISTS WORKING WITH HIM HELPING HIM PORTRAY THE IMAGE HE WANTS...

Posted by: Michael | Sep 11, 2007 11:51:56 PM

OBL and the Taliban are the poster children for secular government everwhere in this world.

Posted by: Rooscow | Sep 12, 2007 10:42:31 AM

kevin in ft collins is quite out of the loop obviously as republicans seldom win any war and don't need to. The military industrial complex must thrive in war only and elections can be stolen. case closed...next

Posted by: daddy | Sep 12, 2007 12:52:05 PM

I read all of this nonsense, and remember that both the Democrats and Republicans voted for the war in Iraq. We all agreed to the war in Afghanistan because that is where Bin Laden was..
What amazes me is the lack of understanding of History.
We waited for Hitler to become a major player and in doing so 10 million died. 250,000 American Men and Women died fighting that war.
We make the decision to take out Sadam before he can become a major player and save MILLIONS of lives and everyone thinks it is because we want an American Empire?
Sheeesh.. no one ever learns from history apparently.
Worse yet, is that we invaded a country and you good Christians want to leave it in the hands of Al Queda. Do you not remember the hundreds of thousands killed by the Taliban and Al Queda?
The women tortured and killed for not wearing hoods. The subjugation of the people of Afghanistan during the Al Queda / Taliban Era??
Yet you would leave and turn Iraq over to the same people and condemn them to this terror and death..
3700 Americans dead.. vs. 250,000 in WW2 in a shorter war...
Any man dying for his country is NOT a waste.
Shame on the Libs.. OH and who was the moron who started the Jeering and insults at the Rutgers / Navy Football Game.. I guess you are proud of your Liberal Bretheren for that performance.. Jeering the Cadets who fight to provide you the freedom to come here and bitch about this war..

Posted by: Jim Dicken | Sep 14, 2007 10:24:56 AM

Why would the government fake something like this? To do it they need a reason, and I don't see one. The troop levels in Iraq have not come down, the Bush administration still has free reign despite losing control of certain publicly driven constituents in our government...I don't see the angle here. They haven't paid any attention to what the American public thinks thus far, so I can't believe that this is meant as a misdirection scheme aimed at us.

Posted by: Kold_One | Sep 15, 2007 9:15:27 PM

To quote "Any man dying for his country is NOT a waste."

1. There are ALWAYS 2 sides to every story; I would love to have the opportunity to hear, albeit posthumously, what the German and Japanese soldiers who died in WW2 thought they were doing for their country.

2. I'm willing to bet there was a great amount of misdirection involved; do you really believe that all those soldiers would have defended their country if they knew the underlying goals?

Posted by: Kold_One | Sep 15, 2007 9:27:37 PM

OSAMA IS ALIVE AND WELL HE IS DRIVING A CAB IN BROOKLYN AND HAS SHAVED

Posted by: HANK HILL | Sep 17, 2007 2:59:02 AM

You see one side and you think it's the whole story. Love your statement Hank, You do have a sense of Humer.. but your right, you never know. Ok people Give me a break, The most POWERFUL, RICHEST, SMARTEST, MOST EQUIPTED country can not find this UGLY guy named Bin-Ladin. LOL
If we really wanted him, he would of been caught by now. So what I am saying, We the people may want him but the Government does NOT want him. It's that simple. He serves the goverments of the world in many ways, and unfortunity. Our world governments need him free and alive, To keep the grip of feer in us. by the way did I say this guy looks; really ugly. He's one M#%#%^ ugly person, in hart and sole and visual effects. Personally if it was up to me I would set him free in the streets of NYC and broadcast his presence any which way I could. Justice Served.
Adeeb N
AKA Eddie

Posted by: Adeeb N. | Sep 18, 2007 2:22:05 AM

Noble you are so dumb!!!.. You see one side of the story and think it is the whole story.
Learn too get the complete scope, Islam Rocks and I am proud to be an American Muslim. Fear me not for I am the hart and sole of this country. I am American
I am Muslim, Happy Ramadan People.

Adeeb N.
AKA Eddie

Posted by: Adeeb N. | Sep 18, 2007 12:16:00 PM

IF GOD IS NOT IN IT, AMERICA CAN'T WIN IT!!

Posted by: allknowingeye | Sep 19, 2007 12:13:20 PM

the man has to go.he must be captudred.he has done a lot of destruction from the united states to europe...he is sick.

Posted by: smoothie | Apr 1, 2008 4:57:09 AM

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