Bin Laden Offers Truce

"But what triggered my desire to talk to you is the continuous deliberate misinformation given by your President [George] Bush, when it comes to polls made in your home country which reveal that the majority of your people are willing to withdraw US forces from Iraq.

"We know that the majority of your people want this war to end and opinion polls show the Americans do not want to fight the Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their [US] land.

"The new operations of al-Qaida has not happened not because we could not penetrate the security measures. It is being prepared and you'll see it in your homeland very soon"

"But Bush does not want this and claims that it is better to fight his enemies on their land rather than on American land.

"Bush tried to ignore the polls that demanded that he end the war in Iraq.

"In response to the substance of the polls in the US, which indicate that Americans do not want to fight Muslims on Muslim land, nor do they want Muslims to fight them on their land, we do not mind offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick to.

"We are a nation that Allah banned from lying and stabbing others in the back, hence both parties of the truce will enjoy stability and security to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, which were destroyed by war.

"In response to the substance of the polls in the US, which indicate that Americans do not want to fight Muslims ... we do not mind offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick to"

"There is no problem in this solution, but it will prevent hundreds of billions from going to influential people and war lords in America - those who supported Bush's electoral campaign - and from this, we can understand Bush and his gang's insistence on continuing the war."

"If your desire for peace, stability and reconciliation was true, here we have given you the answer to your call."

The "withdraw US troops from Muslim lands and there'll be no trouble" thing has been stated many times before.

It won't make much difference though, because al Qaeda (such as it exists at all) isn't perceived by the administration as a threat to the US anyway, not physically. Therefore there is no bargaining position.

wtf is wrong with our government when bin Laden, a mass murdered, speaks more truth than our leaders?

We're just a different bad guy.

He's speaks truth when it suits him to do so.

WTF is wrong with people that grab at any bit of information if it meshes with their personal world view, no matter the source?

Originally posted by Ordinal Malaprop
We're just a different bad guy.

Yay...It's the 'Blame-America-First' crowd!!!

Too bad we're the country everyone else comes to when they need to be bailed out.

I've yet to read the article but I'll put 100L$ on a bet that the White House responded that they won't negotiate with terrorists.

YOU STOLE MY POST

Yay...It's the 'Blame-America-First' crowd!!!

Too bad we're the country everyone else comes to when they need to be bailed out.

Mulch, your diatribes are truly something. The capacity to boil international politics down to simplistic terms is an art.

If you think the US Gov't is shady, then certainly you realize the problems with trying to work with bin Laden, the head of a terrorist group?

His recognition that there are people who profit from war is no great shakes and does not equate to bin Laden being a trustworthy individual.

Brokering peace with bin Laden is not feasible. The setup of the al-Q network would almost certainly not allow that to happen. It is why most terrorist organizations continue after the aging heads cease to want to play the game anymore.

I wish you would take your concerns somewhere that might do some good. None of us are swaying anybody here.

We haven't seen any new propaganda in a while. And yet we still bash each other needlessly. Perhaps you can email your local representative rather than infer that those of us who don't share your view of the State Of The Globe are just not capable of "adding it up".

No one says "let bin laden crash at my pad." I said prosecute him in a law enforcement context, not invade muslim countries. I am sick of hearing how many children we "accidently" blew up this week. (and no, "we got #748,998,923 in the deck" does not justify that)

Agreed, but how come the fact that our leaders are heavily personally invested in making and selling weapons does not present a conflict of interest? How come the majority of the people in this country don't know this?

give the man L$100

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-01-19T205847Z_01_N19358261_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-BINLADEN-USA.xml&rpc=22

And how, exactly, do you propose we do that? Or anyone do that, for that matter?

My Fellow Americans. For the past 5 years or so, we have been in a conflict unlike any other in history. Where as in World War 2, we had a surrender signed on the deck of our great military vessel, this war does not have such defined lines. So we have asked ourselves, how do we know when it is over.

For years now, the country, and even the world has been divided on US policy since the acts of 9/11. We have done our best to meet and defeat the enemy head on, in Afghanastan, and in Iraq.

Some mistakes were made, but we have defended Americah from attack succesfully since then. But as a leader, who has the lives of millions in his hands, I cannot continue killing both innocent Muslims, or US military personel. Our strategy has always been to shift responsibility for Iraqi security to the Iraqis, and now, according to our plans, that time has come.

And now bin Laden offers a truce. He claims that if we leave Iraq, al Qaeda will not attack America.

He has seen the might and fury of America, and he is crying uncle.

Osama bin Laden is a criminal. He murdered 3,000 Americans. for that, he will be hunted, and prosecuted. We do not negotiate with terrorists. Bin Laden will pay for his crimes, and we will nver let up.

But bin Ladens ties in Iraq are weak. We never intended to stay in Iraq after liberating the people from the tyrant. Therefore, in hopes that this marks the end of the bloodshed on the innocents of Iraq and our own children in the armed forces, we will continue our mission and immediatly begin pulling out troops and leaving the security of Iraq to the Iraqis.

Now Osama bin Laden is still a wanted man. He has committed a crime and he will pay when found. But the innocents have suffered enough.

Make no mistake, we are not backing down. We are subscribing to the culture of life that we promissed, and the goal of peace.

Al Qaeda knows we will hunt them down and hurt them if they attack again. They must continue hiding or face the justice for their crimes. But the rest of the world has suffered enough. Our goal is World Peace and we will do our best to obtain it.

If we are attacked again, we will respond as the mighty force that we are. But the price of even one innocent life is too high for us not to pursue our goal of world peace.

God Bless, and pray that peace will bloom in this world leading to a new harmony and prosperity for all living souls.

I... *snip*

I mean, how do you propose we, quote, "prosecute him in a law enforcement context"?

It's not exactly as easy as serving him an arrest warent and giving him a date to show up in court.