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>>15249868
On the Invasion of Iraq

>America insisted on attacking entire peoples, including their children, their women, and their elderly. It is now clear that it is Israel that is behind all the attacks on states in the Islamic world. However, for fear that great popular movements will rise up and topple them, these collaborator regimes [he singles out Saud especially] have conspired to save their own skin, regardless of their duties to Islam and Muslims. The feelings of these people were desensitized as much as America wanted, so the Jews were able to employ American and British Christians to do the job of attacking Iraq. America claims that it is bringing Iraq to account and to justice, but the fact is that the Israeli authority and the Jewish authority, which has become powerful inside the White House, as everyone can see—the Defence Minister is Jewish, the Secretary of State is Jewish, the CIA and National Security officials are Jewish, all the biggest officials are Jews—led the Christians to clip the wings of the Islamic world. Their real target is not Saddam Hussein but the growing power of the Arab and Islamic world, even if they struck the Iraqi people or—as they previously alleged in the sanctions against Libya—because they had a chemical weapons factory, or when they bombed the al-Shifa factory in Sudan, which was a pharmaceutical factory

>>15249888
His interview in 1997 after condemning the House of Saud as degenerate and leaving the country

>PA: Your family is a rich powerful family in Saudi Arabia. Have they, or the Saudi Arabian government, asked you to stop your activities?

>OBL: They have done that a lot. They have pressured us greatly, especially since a lot of our money is still in the hands of the Saudi ruling family due to the activities of our family and company. They sent my mother, my uncle, and my brothers on almost nine visits to me in Khartoum, asking me to stop and return to Arabia to apologize to King Fahd. I apologized to my family kindly because I know that they were driven by force to come to talk to me. This regime wants to create a problem between me and my family in order to take some measures against them. But, with God's grace, this regime did not get its wish fulfilled. I refused to go back. They [my family] conveyed the Saudi government's message that if I did not go back, they'll freeze all my assets, deprive me of my citizenship, my passport, and my Saudi ID, and distort my picture in the Saudi and foreign media. They think that a Muslim may bargain on his religion. I said to them: do whatever you may wish. It is with God's bounty that we refused to go back. We are living in dignity and honor for which we thank God. It is much better for us to live under a tree here on these mountains than to live in palaces in the land most sacred to God, subjected to the disgrace of not worshipping God even in the most sacred land on earth, where injustice is so widespread. There is no strength except with God.

>>15249894
Interviewer
>Some Arab states were most strong in their criticism, like for example the latest speech of the Saudi Interior Minister, who warned against you personally, and warned against the following of your curriculum [nahjikum] and what you say. So do you have a specific strategy for Arab nations? And what is your answer about the latest declaration by the Saudi Interior Minister?

[...]

Bin Laden
>I say to those people who walk behind those rulers, don’t they have hearts? Don’t they have faith [imaan]? How can they declare faith [imaan] while they are helping those fornicating disbelievers [al-kafara al-fajara, fajar is the root of a 4-letter English word that starts with F] against the children of Islam? They help them against our children in Iraq and Palestine.

Why did no one tell me he was so based?

Unironically super interesting.
Thanks OP.

>>15250010
The introduction in the book includes a good exposition on the difficulties of translating OBL's works (his style and prose are deliberately 'literary' as described by the academics and scholars that were paying attention to him). Consequently the Arabic fails to cross the bridge to the Anglosphere. No one in Westerndom will ever hear what he has to say despite a generous head-start to the ears of already Islamic counterparts.

>OH BASED BIN LADERINO WHY MURICA KILLED HIM HE WROTE BOOKS AND FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM

>>15251043
NOT MY HECKIN TWIN TOWERINOS, THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM

>>15249868
The real redpill about Bin Laden is that he was a former CIA trained terrorist turned rogue after the USA turned on him and sided with the Saudis. Then he used the training, ressources and contacts the CIA helped him set up against the USA. He escaped capture for so long because he was intimately familiar with the way those things work from the inside out.
If they had cleaned after themselves and killed their pet terrorist before betraying him a lot of shit could've been avoided.

>>15251085
Every serious Muslim leader is a CIA agent. S. H. Nasr, Bin Laden, etc.

>>15251085
>>15251106
Oy vey! Quick! Make up lies about how everyone against us is really with us so the goyim don’t think we lost control!

>>15251043
Noooooooooo

Bin-Laden: "At the beginning, I say that we have made it clear and stated so many times for over two decades that the cause of the quarrel with you is your support for your Israeli allies, who have occupied our land, Palestine. This position of yours, along with some other grievances, is what prompted us to carry out the 11 September events. Had you known the magnitude of our suffering as a result of the injustice of the Jews against us, with the support of your administrations for them, you would have known that both our nations are victims of the policies of the White House, which is in fact a hostage in the hands of pressure groups, especially major corporations and the Israeli lobby."

>>15251126
What exactly are you implying mister? Do you know what rogue means your did your brain already rot this much?

>>15251126
Actuall Bush financed AlQaeda in Chechnya to fight the rival russian Jewish seven-bankers

Bin Laden: "The White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ."

>>15251141
You’re one of those retards who thinks Israel created ISIS

>>15251153
Lmao you're retarded if you think the American government didn't prop up Bin Laden when he was getting started. Financing small time warlords and terrorists is the glowies' bread and butter
>Israel, Isis
Literal whatabouthism

>>15251160
Bin Laden was literally recruited by Abdullah Azzam to do the financing because he was extremely wealthy and not beholden to a government