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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:24:13 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
So I am again confused. Was this the whole transcript? I have only seen
small portions on our US TV, but what I have seen seems to match the two
quotes on the top-level story at CNN.com ...
"Although we are ushering the fourth year after 9/11, Bush is still
exercising confusion and misleading you and not telling you the true
reason. Therefore, the motivations are still there for what happened to
be repeated"
and
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your
security is in your own hands. Any nation that does not attack us will
not be attacked"
The first of those statements seems to be in the Aljazeera transcript
that FB provided, above. I don't see anything like the second, though,
and no mention of Kerry at all.
So I found the complete transcript on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/index.html
It is essentially the same as the one on Aljazeera except that there is
one more paragraph at the end. This matches the 2nd quotation that I
could not find in the Aljazeera transcript.
Did Aljazeera deliberately shorten the transcript by one paragraph to
remove the reference to Kerry? I guess they feel that OBL lost focus and
were trying to help with an edit.
Having read it (in either version) I don't think it is going to affect
any votes or even any opinions. Not sure why he bothered.
[except for last paragraph below]You can read the transcript of the OBL video here:
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
Following is the English transcript of Usama bin Ladin's speech in a
videotape aired by Aljazeera on Friday 29 October. In the interests of
authenticity the transcript, which appeared as subtitles at the foot of
the screen, has been left unedited.
To begin: Peace be upon he who follow the Guidance.
People of United States, this talk of mine is for you and concerns the
ideal way to prevent another Manhattan and deals with the war and its
causes and results.
[snip most of it]
But because it seemed to him that occupying himself by talking to the
little girl about the goat and its butting was more important than
occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers
we were given three times the period required to execute the operations.
All praise is due to Allah.
So I am again confused. Was this the whole transcript? I have only seen
small portions on our US TV, but what I have seen seems to match the two
quotes on the top-level story at CNN.com ...
"Although we are ushering the fourth year after 9/11, Bush is still
exercising confusion and misleading you and not telling you the true
reason. Therefore, the motivations are still there for what happened to
be repeated"
and
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your
security is in your own hands. Any nation that does not attack us will
not be attacked"
The first of those statements seems to be in the Aljazeera transcript
that FB provided, above. I don't see anything like the second, though,
and no mention of Kerry at all.
So I found the complete transcript on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript/index.html
It is essentially the same as the one on Aljazeera except that there is
one more paragraph at the end. This matches the 2nd quotation that I
could not find in the Aljazeera transcript.
Did Aljazeera deliberately shorten the transcript by one paragraph to
remove the reference to Kerry? I guess they feel that OBL lost focus and
were trying to help with an edit.
Having read it (in either version) I don't think it is going to affect
any votes or even any opinions. Not sure why he bothered.