NYPost: Monster's Deadly Warning to 'Red' States

[Tesibria]

my apologies if NYPost is not considered a valid "news" source.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/33124.htm

Monster's Deadly Warning to 'Red' States
by Niles Lathem

November 1, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden warned in his October Surprise video that he will be closely monitoring the state-by-state election returns in tomorrow's presidential race — and will spare any state that votes against President Bush from being attacked, according to a new analysis of his statement.
The respected Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors and translates Arabic media and Internet sites, said initial translations of a key portion of bin Laden's video rant to the American people Friday night missed an ostentatious bid by the Saudi-born terror master to divide American voters and tilt the election towards Democratic challenger John Kerry.

MEMRI said radical Islamist commentators monitored over the Internet this past weekend also interpreted the key passage of bin Laden's diatribe to mean that any U.S. state that votes to elect Bush on Tuesday will be considered an "enemy" and any state that votes for Kerry has "chosen to make peace with us."

The statement in question is when bin Laden said on the tape: "Your security is up to you, and any state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security."

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"It means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote for the white thug Bush as president, it means that it chose to fight us and we will consider it an enemy to us, and any state that will vote against Bush, it means that it chose to make peace with us and we will not characterize it as an enemy," the Web site said, according to MEMRI's translation.

[Gore1FL]

1. I'd love to know the real translation

I find the story a bit hard to believe. Hell, over 1/2 US citezens don;t understand the elecctoral college, why would bin Laden? He has no grasp of voting much less our bizzaro method of chosing a new leader.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Agreed. Sounds as if Karl Rove did the translation.

[xray s]

2. nice try

I think he was refering to nation states, not individual states in the US.

but leave it to the pigs in Bushco to try to use bin laden's tape to influence the election.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Hmmm...I think he meant state in the Int'l politics sense

As in Country, not U.S. states.

[Trajan]

4. MEMRI ....

is a propagandist organization for the Likudniks, who are arm and arm with the AEI, PNAC, and AIPAC in their support for Bush and his policies in the ME ...

When MEMRI says something, think of Cheney saying it, or Newt Gingrich, or Richard Perle, or Paul Wolfowitz ...

They are the same ilk ... The wife of David Wurmser, Meryev, founded MEMRI ...

[pinerow]

6. that is the most ridiculous interpretation of bin-ladens' statement

i have read up until now...the term 'state" refers to a nation-state; not a state within a state...another dumb-ass attempt to obfuscate the truth...i wonder what is "MEMRI's" sgenda...

[arwalden]

7. Huh? I Don't Think That's Very Likely What Was Meant...

... if that translation is accurate, and if the story is not a hoax.

-- Allen

[Moderator]

8. Dubunked

right wing trash