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Binny raises two ways to end Iraq war
 (Xinhua) -- Osama bin Laden "suggested" two ways to end the war in Iraq in a new video statement made to mark the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, according to the transcript ABC News released on Friday. The video is still under analysis. It is believed recently-made, containing references to current events in the United States and other countries including election of Nicolas Sarkozy as the French president in May, the government officials said. According to the transcript ABC News obtained before it goes public, bin Laden says there are two ways to end the war. "The first is from our side, and it is to continue to escalate the killing and fighting against you," he said. The second one, as he added, is to do away with the American democratic system of government. "It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interests of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations," he said. In the 30-minute video statement, bin Laden again advocated his "law of retaliation" by saying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed." The head of the al-Qaida terrorist group, throughout the video, slammed the White House's war policy in Iraq and American people's decision to vote for George W. Bush to be the president. "You made one of your greatest mistakes, in that you neither brought to account nor punished those who waged this war, not even the most violent of its murderers ..." On current events concerning the United States, bin Laden mentioned "the burden of interest-related debts, insane taxes and real estate mortgages, global warming and its woes ..." The intelligence officials believe that the video was made as recently as this summer. Bin Laden, who tops the U.S. wanted list, has disappeared from video since October 2004 when he was last seen in a video statement before the 2004 U.S. presidential election. His last audiotape was released in July 2006, in which he vowed to fight the United States across the world. He returned to the screen on Thursday when U.S. officials found on militant websites an Arabic ad for the new video that was set to be released to mark anniversary of the Sept.11 attacks. Posted by: Fred 2007-09-08 |
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