BBC Publishes Excerpts of Newest Osama Video Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [The BBC has again published a [partial] transcript of al Jazeera's latest taped broadcast message from Osama bin Laden, breaking with their policy to obey the US Government's edict that Osama tapes are not to be given any publicity (except of course for their own home-movie releases.) The following are the BBC's excerpts of the latest 33-minute video, after al Jazeera's Dec 27 broadcast of the entire message. It is followed by reactions (bin Laden is roundly condemned by all concerned) to al Jazeera's first broadcast excerpts of December 26.] BBC - 27 December, 2001, 19:57 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk TRANSCRIPT: BIN LADEN VIDEO EXCERPTS Osama Bin Laden urges targeting US economy Qatar-based satellite television station al Jazeera has broadcast in full a 33-minute video recorded by Osama Bin Laden. Below is the transcript of the excerpts: Three months after the blessed strikes against world atheism and its leader, America, and around two months after the fierce crusade against Islam, we must review the impact of these events. The latest events have proved important truths. It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam. We have witnessed the true crimes of those who call themselves humanists and claim to be defenders of freedom Those who lived under continuous US raids for the past months are aware of it. How many villages have been destroyed and how many millions have been pushed out in the freezing cold? These men, women and children who have been damned and now live under tents in Pakistan, have committed no sin. They are innocent. But on a mere suspicion, the United States has launched this fierce campaign. Only seven grammes of explosives are needed to kill someone, but the United States has used bombs weighing seven million grammes We have witnessed the true crimes of those who call themselves humanists and claim to be defenders of freedom. Only seven grammes of explosives are needed to kill someone, but the United States has used bombs weighing seven million grammes proving their hatred of the Taleban and Muslims. When the youths -- may God receive them as martyrs -- blew up (the US embassy) in Nairobi, less than two tonnes were used. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice. The United States then said it was a terrorist act and a [weapon of mass destruction], while they unscrupulously used two seven-tonne bombs, of seven million grammes each. After they (the Americans), for no reason, bombed entire villages to scare the inhabitants, the defence secretary said it was the United States' right to exterminate the peoples since they are Muslim and since they are not American. It is a blatant crime. A few days ago, they bombed al-Qaeda positions in Khost (eastern Afghanistan) and dropped -- in what they said was a mistake -- a radio-guided bomb on a mosque where ulemas were praying. They targeted the mosque, killing 150 Muslim worshippers. It is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people. We say that the end of the United States is imminent, whether Bin Laden or his followers are alive or dead, for the awakening of the Muslim umma (nation) has occurred. It is important to hit the economy (of the United States), which is the base of its military power...If the economy is hit they will become [p]reoccupied. * NNC - 27 December, 2001, 09:08 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk Bin Laden Video Condemned Al-Jazeera said it received the video from Pakistan; Afghanistan's new government has strongly rejected Osama Bin Laden's latest video message. Mohammed Habeel, a spokesman for the defence ministry, denied Bin Laden's claim that the US bombing of Afghanistan was an attack on Islam. "Three months after the blessed strikes against world atheism and its leader, America ... we must review the impact of these events."--Osama Bin Laden In the video, Bin Laden says the 11 September suicide attacks on New York and Washington which killed an estimated 3,000 people were intended to stop US support for Israel. Bin Laden appeared tired, wearing a combat jacket with a Kalashnikov sub-machine gun propped beside him The video was partially broadcast on Wednesday by the Qatar-based satellite television station al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera said it would show the whole 33-minute-long tape on Thursday evening. Video clues The US and Israel dismissed Bin Laden's comments as "terrorist propaganda." Britain accused Osama bin Laden of glorying in the attacks. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "This is nothing more than the same kind of terrorist propaganda we have heard before." US experts are thought to be studying the video for clues about when and where it was filmed. The US-led hunt for Bin Laden has gone cold in the last two weeks, and there is continued confusion about where he now is or whether he has been killed in US bombing raids. "It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam."-- Osama Bin Laden In the tape, Bin Laden refers to a US air strike on a mosque in the Afghan town of Khost as happening "a few days ago." On November 16, the US military said a 500-pound laser-guided bomb missed its target in Khost and damaged a mosque. The chief editor of al-Jazeera, Ibrahim Hilal, told the Associated Press news agency that his station received the tape "a couple of days ago" by an air courier service from Pakistan. The sender was anonymous, he said. US 'deserved attacks' In the excerpt already broadcast, Bin Laden condemns the West for excessive bombing of Muslims in Afghanistan. "The latest events have proved important truths," he says. "It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam." "Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people," he said. The Pentagon -- whose forces are searching for the Saudi-born dissident in the mountains of Afghanistan -- said it did not know whether the video was real, or if it was new or old. "Nothing that Bin Laden does surprises me," spokesman Richard McGraw said. It is the first Bin Laden message to be broadcast by al-Jazeera since 3 November. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytmid-12.28.01-05:45:00-10678