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| Bin Laden's helpful reminder |
| 2004-11-01 |
| Chicago Tribune. I posted it all because you have to register to read it. Speaking to the camera in a videotape aired Friday, Osama bin Laden stood before a plain brown curtain and offered his thoughts on America's presidential election. No, he didn't endorse either of the two major-party candidates. Instead, he tried to intimidate U.S. citizens into changing their government's policy of relentlessly pursuing Al Qaeda. Bin Laden was blunt: That policy of pursuit, of taking a U.S.-led war on international terrorism to his domain, must change. "Each state that does not mess with our security has naturally guaranteed its own security," he said, adding later, "To the American people, my talk to you is about the best way to avoid another Manhattan. . . . As you undermine our security, we undermine yours." In short, you can avoid more days like Sept. 11, 2001, if you stop menacing us. Americans are unaccustomed to seeing mass murderers comment on presidential elections. One likely impact of that commentary is to focus Americans on something this page trusts most of them already realized: How aggressively to pursue global terror networks, and how resolutely to squeeze their state sponsors and financiers, is the most important issue that faces this nation. How aggressively? How resolutely? Not at all, bin Laden demands. |
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