For the cube rats: ROUGH OBL transcription.

[Bluebear]

18 minute long tape, but CNN only got a few minutes, but basically a speech to the American people: Through this message I will explain why 9/11 happened, and basically a threat if your policies do not change Americans should expect more attacks. Your security is in your hands, not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al Qaeda. OBL understands this country is in an election year, if a nation does not attack us we won't attack them...I want to discuss with you when the idea came to my mind to attack on 9/11, the 1982 invasion of Lebanon that the US has to pay because America helped Israel...I swear to god that the idea was not to bring down the towers, it was Mr Bush who preferred to listen for 20 minutes to a little girl reading a story about a goat rather than his citizens facing the most daunting time of their lives...more than four years have passed since 9/11...which candidate will bring you more security? Don't count on any one candidate, the security is in your hands.....Bush is like Arab leaders who are monarchs, the sons take the reigns from their fathers, they take a way the people's liberties...

[Bluebear]

1. My Pet Goat immortalized

[Bluebear]

2. delete

[MsTryska]

10. which is hilarious...

since he's the son of an arab monarch.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Well 241 servicemen paid in 1983 for Lebanon

and that was a suicide bombing. I don't remember any terrorist credit claims for that one.
anyway, F bin Laden. Kerry is coming, and OBL and Bush are going.

[Bluebear]

4. My sentiments exactly

[trotsky]

5. Thank you for summarizing, p_t.

This "cube rat" is grateful for your efforts!

[Bluebear]

7. No problem :)

[MsTryska]

6. Geez. Who Knew OBL was fan of Ben Franklin.

seems like he espouses our constitution more than the republicans do. and that's straight up twisted.


now what the hell does this mean?


"I want to discuss with you when the idea came to my mind to attack on 9/11, the 1982 invasion of Lebanon that the US has to pay because America helped Israel...I swear to god that the idea was not to bring down the towers, it was Mr Bush who preferred to listen for 20 minutes to a little girl reading a story about a goat rather than his citizens facing the most daunting time of their lives"

[Stuckinthebush]

8. How does this help Bush?

I am so confused by DUers reactions on this tape.

1. It shows that OBL is alive and reminds people that Bush hasn't gotten him yet

2. It reminds people that Bush sat on his ass while the towers burned.

3. It shows the most hated man in America mocking the president who has been AWOL in his "war on terror".

4. It reminds people that OBL and his group has gotten stronger because of Bush's actions in Iraq and in the world.

I don't see how this helps him at all.

[Bluebear]

9. I agree with you completely!

How is this anything bu bad for Bush who promised to "smoke him out of his hole"?

[MsTryska]

15. I agree as well.

This is no endorsement for Kerry. This is a "you brought this shit on yourselves, US citizens" comment. Which i suppose can be taken as "you vote for these imperial idiots (Bush the Father and Bush the SOn) and they fuck with us, ergo we shall fuck with you. So Mosh or Die, motherfuckers."

[Bluebear]

11. Disclaimer: I am not a court reporter

This is just what Olivia Nasser the CNN translator was saying. It sounds nothing but bad for Bush though. My Pet Goat immortalized.

[rockydem]

12. "they take away people's liberties"

WTF is he rattling on about? Yeah he's a big believe in individual liberties. Yeah the Taliban were big believers in civil liberties. WTF?

This is the wierdest tape he's released yet.

[Bluebear]

13. He was comparing the Bush's to the Arab monarchies

[chiburb]

14. It's almost like he's saying Bush LIHOP....

"I swear to god that the idea was not to bring down the towers, it was Mr Bush who preferred to listen for 20 minutes to a little girl reading a story about a goat...

Like there was some threat made by OBL and ignored by Bush?

What did Bush know, and when did he know it?

[Bluebear]

16. GOod question, that part of her translation was weird

[Generator]

17. I thought the same day thing!

Like Bush knew the warnings, dammit and did nothing. We made it SO clear to them-they could have stopped it. Which is what I believe anyway, god forgive me.

[Bossy Monkey]

18. Here's AP story

not a transcript, but extensive quotes:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BIN_LADEN_TAPE?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
They're still updating it.

[ramblin_dave]

19. more than four years have passed since 9/11

huh?