Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people",
reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.
Observer.co.uk, Sunday 24 November 2002 12.07 GMT
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(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?
(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.
(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.
If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
Bin Laden slams global capitalism in new video
"This is why I tell you: as you liberated yourselves before from the slavery of monks, kings and feudalism, you should liberate yourselves from the deception, shackles and attrition of the capitalist system," he said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2...en-video_N.htm
Beliefs and ideology of Osama bin Laden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other ideologies
In his messages, bin Laden has opposed "
pan-Arabism,
socialism,
communism,
democracy and other doctrines," with the exception of Islam.
[25] Democracy and "legislative council[s] of representatives," are denounced, calling the first "the religion of ignorance," and the second "councils of polytheism."
[26] In what one critic has called a contradiction,
[27] he has also praised the principle of governmental "accountability," citing the Western democracy of
Spain: "Spain is an infidel country, but its economy is stronger than ours because the ruler there is accountable."
[28]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beliefs...sama_bin_Laden