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December 13, 2001 TRANSCRIPT OF USAMA BIN LADEN VIDEO TAPE(Transcript and annotations independently prepared by George
Michael, In mid-November, Usama Bin Laden spoke to a room of supporters,
possibly in Note: The tape is approximately one hour long and contains three
different Due to the quality of the original tape, it is NOT a verbatim
transcript of every EDITOR’S NOTE: 39 minutes into tape, first segment of the bin
Laden meeting, begins
Shaykh: (...inaudible...) You have given us weapons, you have given us hope and wethank 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 goodsermon 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 askingfor 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 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 thatwe 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, theywill 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 "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 (...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 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. UBL: We were at (...inaudible...) when the event took place. We had notification sincethe 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. Shaykh: Allah be praised. UBL: After a little while, they announced that another
plane had hit the World Trade Shaykh: I listened to the news and I was sitting. We
didn't...we were not thinking about (Quoting the verse from the Quran) Shaykh: "Fight them, Allah will torture them, with
your hands, he will torture them. He Shaykh: No doubt it is a clear victory. Allah has
bestowed on us...honor on us...and he 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.
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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 Shaykh: May Allah be blessed! Sulayman ((Abu Guaith)): I was sitting with the Shaykh in
a room, then I left to go to 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 Shaykh ( Referring to dreams and visions): The plane that he saw crashing into thebuilding 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 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 (Another person’s voice can be heard recounting his dream
about two planes hitting a UBL: They were overjoyed when the first plane hit the
building, so I said to them: be UBL: The difference between the first and the second
plane hitting the towers was twenty 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 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"... |
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