

Feb 16, 2003 8:26 AM EST



http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EGYPT_BIN_LADEN_TAPE?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME



'Bin Laden' Tape Claims Plot Vs. Muslims



By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF

Associated Press Writer



CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden calls President Bush "stupid" and claims American war plans against Iraq are part of a plot to attack Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa.



The tape appeared to be the same 53-minute recording of which a few excerpts were released Thursday by the British-based Islamic Al-Ansaar news agency. It began appearing in full Sunday on Islamic-oriented Web sites. Al-Ansaar had said it acquired the tape from a seller who advertised it over the Internet.



The United States' goal in waging war against Iraq is to change the regional map to benefit Israel , according to the raspy voice said to belong to bin Laden.



"It is clear that the preparations to attack Iraq are part of a series of attacks prepared for nations of the region including Syria, Iran, Egypt and Sudan," the voice said.



"The aim of the Crusaders' campaign is to prepare the atmosphere for the establishment of the so-called greater Israel state, which includes great parts of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and large portions of (Saudi Arabia)," it said.



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Bin Laden exhorts Muslims to fight "enemy" U.S.



By Miral Fahmy



DUBAI, Feb 16 (Reuters) - An Islamist website broadcast an audio tape purported to be the voice of Osama bin Laden telling Muslims to fight against the "enemy" United States and saying holy war was the only way to win Muslim rights.



If authenticated, the recording broadcast by the Jihad Forum site would be the latest proof that bin Laden had escaped the 2001 U.S.-led military campaign to flush him and his al Qaeda operatives from Afghanistan.



The voice on the tape was very clear and sounded like previous audio and video recordings allegedly made by bin Laden.



"Regarding this Zionist Crusader war on the nation of Islam, it is the duty of Muslims to fight for the sake of God and to incite the faithful to fight the infidels," the speaker said.



U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said there had been some speculation about a second tape swirling around within the intelligence community for the past couple of days.



"Obviously we haven't authenticated it. But again, the message is consistent. The values of the West are anathema to these people," he told the ABC "This Week" program.



"If you don't believe, you're an infidel, and they're going to do everything they can to undermine the United States as the primary target...," he said.



Jihad Forum said the new message was made on the occasion of the three-day Muslim Eid al-Adha feast, which this year coincided with the threat of a looming U.S. war on Iraq and heightened anti-American sentiment in many Arab countries.



"It is the utmost duty to fight the enemy that sabotages the world. The only way to deal a decisive blow in the conflict with the enemy is through killing and fighting," the recording said.



The Saudi-owned Al Hayat newspaper first published excerpts of the recording, which they said could be found on the Islamist "Jihad Forum" site hosted by the www.arabforum.net website.



It follows another tape broadcast last week by Qatar's al Jazeera television in which the Saudi-born militant called on Muslims to stage suicide attacks to prevent a U.S. war on Iraq.



Jazeera, which normally obtains bin Laden's tapes, aired the latest 53-minute tape retrieved from the Internet over a picture of bin Laden in camouflage with a rifle by his side.



Both recordings coincide with a state of high alert in the United States and its ally Britain. They said they had concrete information that al Qaeda was planning a slew of attacks.



Attacks have in the past followed messages by bin Laden, and recent tapes by him have heightened fears of an imminent strike.



WAR TO CREATE "GREATER ISRAEL"



Bin Laden said an attack on Iraq would be followed by U.S. "aggressions" against more Arab countries such as Egypt, Sudan, Iran and Syria for the benefit of its ally Israel.



"This attack on Iraq is part of a new crusade to prepare the region, after dividing it, for the creation of a Greater Israel. This means the whole region will be ruled by Jews," he said.



The recording began with bin Laden identifying the United States and its "foolish" President George W. Bush as the enemy.



It said Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to carve up the Middle East like a 1916 British-French pact that divided up the territory of the Ottoman Empire.



"The United States' goal to divide the Middle East is not just a passing fancy," the al Qaeda leader said. "The only way to defeat the infidels is through Holy War.



"Oh Muslims, do not fear America because we have defeated them repeatedly and they are the most cowardly of people when you meet them face to face," he declared.



He lauded wars Muslims had fought and won against "Western Crusaders" throughout history and recounted the times militants -- some from his al Qaeda group -- had bombed U.S. and Western targets in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.



He also praised the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, which the United States accuses him of planning, saying they "exposed the ugly face of America and revealed the reality of the conflict between Crusaders and Muslims."



"At a time of great depression for Muslims, when the Zionist American alliance was killing our sons...a group of youth hijacked enemy planes in a beautiful, courageous attack.



"They destroyed the idols of America...They rubbed America's nose in the dirt and wiped its pride in the mud. They destroyed the Twin Towers of New York and with that the legend of America, the superpower."



Bin Laden lambasted America's Arab allies, singling out Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for his peace initiative last year in which Arabs offered Israel full ties in return for withdrawal from Arab land occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.





02/16/03 12:06 ET NOTE:

This is the answer to the question everyone has been asking:

WHY DO THEY HATE US? Bin Laden is wicked and wrong just as the deception and brutality of Ariel Sharon is inexcusable. Both count as vicious terrorists. Yet American leaders make Bin Laden's case look valid -- that the U.S. is out to fight for Israel's right to expand and rule the entire Middle East. What is really going on behind the scenes?



Question: What did the assumed Bin Laden tape recordings accuse? Answer: U.S. military attacks prompted by Israel against many Muslim nations.



Here is an American official immediately proving the accusation to be correct!

U.S. official to Israel:

We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war (from an Israeli newspaper that often

reveals more truth than US media)

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/263923.html





Monday, February 17, 2003 Adar1 15, 5763 Israel Time: 19:57 (GMT+2)



U.S. official to Israel:

We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war



By Aluf Benn and Sharon Sadeh, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies







U.S. Undersec'y of State John Bolton

Syria and Iran are next.

(Photo: AP)

U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials on Monday that he has no doubt America will attack Iraq, and that it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterwards. (maybe not that last part... about North Korea... any time soon)



Bolton, who is undersecretary for arms control and international security, is in Israel for meetings about preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.



In a meeting with Bolton on Monday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that Israel is concerned about the security threat posed by Iran. It's important to deal with Iran even while American attention is turned toward Iraq, Sharon said.



Bolton also met with Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Housing and Construction Minister Natan Sharansky.

NOTE: Netanyahu and Sharansky along with Sharon are all well known for their avowal of the right of settlement and eventual claim to the West Bank and Gaza as part of Greater Israel -- although Sharon is currently lying that he is willing to enter into a peace process again after Iraq and other Arab nations are vanquished by the U.S. military. Is Bush such a fool, or does he know he is cooperating with these criminals?



The man behind the Bush Zionists in U.S. --

Sharansky in Israel

(who tells Cheney and Wolfowitz what to tell Bush to say) Date: Fri Jul 5, 2002 10:53 am

Subject: Coincidence? Parts of Bush speech match Sharansky proposal



Washington Post

July 2, 2002

A Sound Bite So Good, the President Wishes He Had Said It

By Dana Milbank



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11253-2002Jul1.html



[excerpt of article follows]



Is Natan Sharansky working in the White House speechwriting office?



Sharansky, Israel's housing minister and deputy prime minister, is the former Soviet dissident and head of a right-wing Russian-immigrant party. But by coincidence -- or something more -- the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan Sharansky published in the Jerusalem Post on May 3 sounds a lot like the peace proposal Bush delivered in the Rose Garden on June 24.



"The time has come for new leadership" for the Palestinians, Sharansky wrote. "The Palestinians must be encouraged to form an open and free society that is not burdened by the fear, hatred, and terror that have been sown in recent years by Arafat and his leadership."



Here's Bush's version: "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born. I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror."



Sharansky wrote that his seven-point plan "cannot happen overnight" and called for a "three-year transition period."



Bush, in turn, said a final agreement "could be reached within three years from now."



Sharansky envisioned an "international coordinating body" headed by the United States that could, with a Palestinian Administrative Authority, "develop the infrastructure for democratic life among the Palestinians." There would also be an "international economic fund" for industry and infrastructure.



And Bush? "I've asked Secretary Powell to work intensively with Middle Eastern and international leaders to realize the vision of a Palestinian state, focusing them on a comprehensive plan to support Palestinian reform and institution building." The president said the United States would work with the World Bank and international donors on "a major project of economic reform and development."



Finally, Sharansky argued that only a "free and open" society "can serve as a solid guarantee for normal relations between the two peoples." For this reason, "we owe it to ourselves and to our future to help the Palestinians help themselves."



Bush, seven weeks later, submitted that "a stable, peaceful Palestinian state is necessary to achieve the security that Israel longs for." Israel should "take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable, credible Palestinian state," he added.



The Sharansky and Bush plans are not entirely the same; notably absent from Sharansky's version was Bush's call for Israel to freeze its settlements in Palestinian territory. Still, Sharansky themes began to tumble from the lips of Bush officials.



Speechwriting director Michael Gerson did not return a phone call asking about the coincidence.



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The following article shows how Sharansky's influence came to Bush through Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, and other Zionist sympathizers (these can be either Christian fundamentalists or Jewish dual loyalists) in the Bush administration. Sharansky speaks in public about "democracy" but actually is a leader of right-wing elements in Israel that believe in the ethnic superiority of Jews and eventual take-over of all Palestinian territory through expansion of Zionist settlements and eventual transfer out of all non-Jewish residents from the West Bank and Gaza.



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Subject: Sharansky discusses his role in Bush's speech



Newsweek

July 15, 2002

Sharanskys Quiet Role

What pushed Bush to demand that Arafat must go? Part of the answer lies on a forest path in Colorado



By Dan Ephron and Tamara Lipper



Natan Sharansky, one time Soviet dissident and now an Israeli cabinet minister, had been hammering at the same themes for years in lectures and private meetings with U.S. officials: peace would never be possible without democracy. Suddenly something clicked at a conference of conservative heavyweights in Beaver Creek, Colo., last month.



VICE PRESIDENT DICK Cheney was there, taking notes. So was Paul Wolfowitz , the deputy Defense secretary. The two Americans had been working with others on a major Middle East policy speech for the president , and though they had both met Sharansky many times before, his address struck a chord. Dump the regions dictators, and make democracy a precondition for peace. It was pretty much the talk of the conference, says Richard Perle , an influential Pentagon adviser who helped bring Sharansky to the forum . Two days later President George W. Bush announced the United States was fed up with the Palestinian leadership and effectively ended the era of American engagement with Arafat.



Score one for Sharansky and his crusade to alter the course of American diplomacy. Bushs speech, possibly the most significant Middle East policy announcement by the United States in a decade, was hardly his doing alone. Arafat fatigue in the Bush administration had been on the rise at least since January, when U.S. officials believe the Palestinian leader lied to Bush about an arms shipment from Iran. Israeli intelligence kept up a steady stream of information linking Arafat to the financing of suicide attacks. By the time Cheney and other delegates arrived at the June 20 conference, Bush advisers had been working on the address for weeks and written nearly 30 drafts, according to one official. Sharansky may have strengthened the resolve of officials who argued against wording that would keep lines open to Arafat. The decision to drop the Palestinian leader was made shortly before Bush spoke out. Sharansky provided an important bit of last-minute affirmation, says Perle .



Palestinians object that Arafat is no dictator. He was elected in a 1996 ballot deemed free and fair by observers. And though his regime has jailed political opponents and trampled free speech, Israelis have hardly done better. Palestinians never had full civil rights during decades of Israeli rule.



Sharansky is hoping he had a hand in reshaping U.S. policy. At the conference, he says, he spoke privately with Cheney for more than an hour Saturday, two days before the Bush announcement. More than half our talk was devoted to what would be said in the speech, he says. Later Saturday, Sharansky and Wolfowitz were due at a dinner reception, but as an observant Jew, Sharansky said he couldnt drive on the Sabbath. Instead, he and Wolfowitz trudged through a forest on foot to get to the dinner, their bodyguards in tow . It gave us a chance to talk about everythingArafat, international terrorism, Iraq and Iran and, of course, Jewish history, our roots and so on , Sharansky says.



That coziness reflects a meeting of minds between Sharansky and Bushs chief ideologues. Sharansky reads the Bush speech as a broader policy statement about dictators everywhere and says the United States should withdraw support not only for Arafat but for regimes like the one in Saudi Arabia. That might be going too far for Washington, where officials say Bush had mainly Palestinians and Israelis in mind.

But as far as the Israelis are concerned, its a big step in the right direction.



With Daniel Klaidman in Washington

http://www.msnbc.com/news/777064.asp



NOTE: Zionist leaders in the foreign state of Israel,

in other words, can and do determine U . S . Foreign Policy.

Sharansky's motive is obviously not democracy for the Arab people. Read next about the deception behind Sharansky's influence on the "Bush doctrine" of using U.S. military force to "liberate" first Iraq and then force "progress" upon the several other Arab nations.

Profile

Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky



from

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/sharansky.htm



Israel's great dissembler

12 March 2001 We have chosen to profile Anatoly Sharansky, the Israeli deputy prime minister and leader of Yisra'el Ba'aliyah, the Russian immigrants' party in Israel, because he encapsulates the paradox of the Jewish inhabitants of Israel, a paradox that is the hallmark of Zionists throughout the world. That is, how can a people that has suffered so much over the ages, from pogroms in Europe to Nazi genocide, emulate their historical oppressors and be so lacking in empathy with their victims, the Palestinian Arabs? (We salute the tiny minority of Jews in Israel and elsewhere who have risked opprobrium by consistently speaking out for Palestinian rights.) Anatoly Sharansky (we shall call him by his birth name, Anatoly, rather than Natan, the name given to him by the Israeli ambassador to West Germany upon his release from prison) was born in Ukraine and educated in Russia as a mathematician. In 1973 he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but, like all Soviet citizens who had worked in the military-industrial complex, he was refused on security grounds. He then became involved in an Israeli-sponsored worldwide campaign to put pressure on the Kremlin to give special treatment to Soviet Jewish citizens by allowing them to emigrate to Israel, irrespective of whether or not they had worked in the defen c e sector. In 1977 he was arrested on suspicion of spying for the US, and in the following year he was found guilty as charged and sentenced to 13 years imprisonment. He was released in 1986 in a US-Soviet spy exchange. Prior to his emigration to Israel, Sharansky liked to portray himself as a symbol of the struggle for human rights, and since then he has made much of his status as a former "victim of totalitarian oppression". However, his belief in human rights, nurtured at the height of the Cold War, appears to have been heavily tainted with the culture of the Soviet-American power struggle, which justified the cynical use of practically anything as ammunition in the superpower rivalry for global dominance. Unlike most of us, Sharansky apparently does not believe that human rights are universal and indivisible, that is, applicable to all human beings everywhere and irrespective of their race, colour or creed. Not only does he oppose any Israeli concessions that may eventually lead to the realization of the Palestinians' right to self determination, but he advocates policies that could only mean the dispossession of more Palestinians living in Israel, and the illegally occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. No wonder that he was one of the very few people to have amicable relations with the former ultra right-wing prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. Sharansky began his political career in Israel by becoming head of the Zionist Forum, an organization dedicated to lobbying on behalf of Soviet immigrants. However, not content with being a mere "welfare worker", in 1995 he founded the Yisra'el Ba'aliyah party, with the immediate aim of bringing in another million Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union and of encouraging a further million Jewish citizens of the United States and the European countries to immigrate to Israel. For him, the value of peace with the Palestinians is measured solely by the extent to which it would work towards achieving the overriding goal of encouraging Jewish citizens of other states to immigrate to Israel. Thus, addressing the founding congress of Yisra'el Ba'aliyah in June 1995, he said: "Without the hope for peace, you cannot convince people to come here." That the "ingathering of the Jews", that is, the bringing into Israel and the occupied territories of millions of foreign Jews who, like Sharansky himself, had no link whatsoever to those lands, could only mean the dispossession of more Palestinians from the land of their ancestors is a fact that could hardly have escaped our human rights hero. Or perhaps, having been brought up in a society where ideology and the class struggle dictated one's view of life and where all conflicts were seen as a zero-sum game, with victors and vanquished, be they a class or a superpower, he was blinded by his own ideology, Zionism. For almost in the same breath as reiterating his commitment to the "ingathering" of millions of foreign Jews, Sharansky is perfectly at ease with publicly objecting to any hint of allowing Palestinians to take up residence in the territories administered by the Palestinian National Authority or to the right of refugees to return to those territories, even if they had families living there. Indeed, the impact of the Soviet system on Sharansky's mind appears to have gone much deeper. Thus, like the Soviet habit of remoulding the history books to suit themselves, our human rights hero insists that any Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories should be made contingent on, among other things, the Palestinians rewriting their school books "to remove all language that denies the legitimacy of Israel and Zionism". In other words, Palestinian children should be taught that their uprooting from the land of their forefathers by foreigners from the former Soviet Union, Europe and the United States was perfectly legitimate. Sharansky resigned as Israeli interior minister in former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government over rumours that Barak was contemplating some trivial "concessions" over Jerusalem, territory and the refugees at the Camp David talks with Palestinian leaders in July 2000. But, judging by the unpopularity among Israelis of making any concessions to the people they had uprooted, and given his solid support among the Russian immigrants, Sharansky must now have his vision firmly fixed on the position of Israeli prime minister. In the meantime, it would do him well to learn from the history of his Slav cousins in the Balkans. For while the Zionists have the dubious honour of being the twentieth century's first ethnic cleansers, Sharansky's kith and kin in the Balkans (let us not forget that our human rights hero is a Russian, albeit of the Jewish religion), have taken that tradition to its logical conclusion, with tragic consequences for themselves and their victims. His blind ambition aside, Sharansky has a responsibility to his compatriots and co-religionists in Israel because, as in the Balkans, the burden of history weighs heavily on the shoulders of the indigenous people of Palestine whose continuing misfortunes are unlikely to let them forget the architects of their plight. As a Russian, Sharansky should know more than anyone else that great powers, even nuclear ones, come and go and that the fall can be sudden and cruel. But, with his contradictions and double standards, our human rights hero is unlikely to learn anything. Rather, when the time comes to write his obituary Anatoly Sharansky will most probably be remembered as Israel's great Russian dissembler, with his years as a so-called "human rights campaigner" not warranting even a footnote. NOTE: This is the man behind the nonsense of Bush's promotion campaign for "democracy" in the Arab world. Is it little wonder that "the Arab street" and some Arab leaders suspect that the real goal is the expansion of Greater Israel?

