05232006-A Testimony To The Truth, Usama bin Muhammad bin Laden video & English text

[Casey]

A Testimony To The Truth, Usama bin Muhammad bin Laden (http://worldanalysis.org/CMS/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=7)

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Description: New bin Laden Message 05.23.2006 -
A Testimony To The Truth
Usama bin Muhammad bin Laden

[Casey]

A Testimony to the Truth
Shaykh Usama bin Ladin
(May Allah Protect Him)
Rabi' al-Thani 1427AH /May 2006 CE
As-Sahab Media
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In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and
peace upon the Prophets and Messengers.
As for what follows:

From Usama bin Muhammad bin Ladin to the American people:
peace be upon he who has followed the Guidance.
This is a brief message whose topic is my testimony on behalf of the
Muslim prisoners you are holding, and in it I will talk about the truth
concerning them, which is something which the Bush administration
hates and is hostile to.

I begin by talking about the honorable brother Zacarias Moussaoui.
The truth is that he has no connection whatsoever with the events of
September 11th, and I am certain of what I say, because I was
responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers – Allah have mercy upon
them – with those raids, and I did not assign brother Zacarias to be
with them on that mission. And his confession that he was assigned to
participate in those raids is a false confession which no intelligent
person doubts is a result of the pressure put upon him for the past
four and a half years. And were this pressure lifted from him for him
to return to his normal state, he would state the fact I mentioned. And
among the things that confirm this fact is that the participants in
September 11th were two groups: pilots and support teams for each
pilot in order to control the aircraft. And since Zacarias Moussaoui
was learning how to fly, it follows that he wasn’t component #20 from

the teams which helped to control the airplanes, as your government
previously claimed, and your government knows this fact with
certainty. And if Moussaoui was studying aviation to become a pilot of
one of the planes, then let him tell us the names of those assigned to
help him control the plane. But he won’t be able to tell us their
names, for a simple reason: that in fact they don’t exist. This is from
one perspective, and from another perspective, the brother
Moussaoui was arrested two weeks before the events, and had he
known anything – however little – about the September 11th group,
we would have told the brother Commander Mohamed Atta and his
brothers – Allah have mercy upon them – to leave America
immediately before their affair was exposed. And with this it becomes
clear to even the novice investigator – not to mention the seasoned
one – that there is no connection between him and the events of
September 11th.

And then I call to memory my brothers the prisoners in
Guantanamo – may Allah free them all – and I state the fact, about
which I also am certain, that all the prisoners of Guantanamo, who
were captured in 2001 and the first half of 2002 and who number in
the hundreds, have no connection whatsoever to the events of
September 11th, and even stranger is that many of them have no
connection with al-Qaida in the first place, and even more amazing is
that some of them oppose al-Qaida’s methodology of calling for war
with America. And this is in addition to the arrest of those who were
working in the relief agencies, like Abu Abdul Aziz al-Mutrafi, or
those working in the media, like Sami al-Hajj and Taysir Alouni, who
was imprisoned at the instigation of the American administration. So
the conclusion is that all the prisoners to date have no connection
with the events of September 11th and knew nothing about them, with
the exception of two of the brothers, may Allah free them all. Bush
and his administration are aware of this fact, but they avoid
mentioning it, for reasons not hidden to the discerning. Among these
reasons is that it is necessary to create justifications for the massive
spending of hundreds of billions on the Defense Department and
other agencies in their war against the Mujahideen. My mentioning of
these facts isn’t out of hope that Bush and his party will treat our
brothers fairly in their cases, because that is something no rational
person expects, but rather it is meant to expose the oppression,
injustice and arbitrariness of your administration in using force and
the reactions that result from that. This is from one perspective, and
from another perspective, perhaps there will one day come from the
Americans someone who desires justice and fairness, and that is the
path to security and safety, if you are interested in it. This is what
needed to be said. And may peace be upon he who has followed the
Guidance.

[MohammedAli]

It has not been positively identified as the genuine article.

Free Zacarias Moussaoui.

[Casey]

TERRORISM: OFFICIALS VERIFYING AUTHENTICITY OF ALLEGED BIN LADEN TAPE

The officials are performing technical analyses on the recording though intelligence services have reportedly no reason to doubt its authenticity.

http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=672500#post672500

[Vancouver]

There's something fishy about this purported Usama document. He doesn't talk about anything except Moussaoui and Guantanamo. No mention of Iraq or other big stuff. There's not much religious hocus-pocus in this document. And this piece went to the web (probably from the Gulf area) rather than to al-Jazeera. The timing is different too: the Moussaoui verdict is only two weeks old, and moreover, there was another bin Ladin appearance not long before that.

This tape is getting relatively low billing at some of the big press organs, such as BBC.

[Casey]

This release is unique.

I don’t discredit it, just yet.

What I find most interesting is, this is the first statement that was released simultaneously in English and Arabic, something al Jazeera can’t/doesn’t offer.


I have noticed over the past year or so that the turn around time for As-Sahab Media has been getting shorter and shorter.
The last message was available in English within about 10 hours, I believe. Previous to that, it was a day or two.
It used to be much longer.

This message wasn't intended to be overly analyzed from quick translations, or commented on in the media before it was fully understood in the West.

[Atlantean]

Its still interesting. I wouldnt believe anything he (Bin Laden) said, anyway.. but its an interesting article to read. Thanks for putting it up.