"AMY GOODMAN: I just want to ask you to reiterate this point that you
made, to see if I understand you correctly. You"re saying that you
think Bush should win to isolate the United States further?
IMAD KHADDURI: Well, I -- yes. That"s what I"m saying. Now, I didn"t
come with that of my own. Six months ago, when there was the Spain
Madrid train bombing and ten days later the Al Qaeda issued a
statement on that, that was six months ago. They said, we will ask
all operations to be halted in Spain, giving the Spanish people the
chance to vote and perhaps withdraw, and they did. Now, the second
part of that statement, declaration, was not published, was not
widespread in the west. I did translate it and send it to the Toronto
Star. It wasn"t published there. What did it say? In it Osama Bin
Laden was hoping, was saying to Bush: "I really wish that you would
win next November election, because you are the only one who can
convince the Muslims of the -- of the -- with your -- with your
intransigence and violent approach, it will convince the Muslims that
American military postures and foreign policy is against their
interests. Therefore I have asked all operations to be suspended from
the United States until the election. And after that, every event
will have its own discourse." Now, he said–this is Osama Bin Laden
saying–that if Kerry comes into -- into power, he will again
ameliorate the whole situation. He will sugar-coat it to the Muslims,
thinking that he"s giving them democracy, or whatever. So that"s why
he was wishing -- Osama was wishing Bush, that he should be winning;
and that"s why he asked all of his operations to stop in the United
States until the November elections. Now, when two months ago there
was this big fiasco about the financial district among the attack by
terrorists, and the red or orange alert came, again I sent it to the
Toronto Star, a day earlier on Sunday. And I told Bill Schiller, he"s
the political editor of the Star, I said, "Look this is a hoax. Bin
Laden doesn"t intend to strike because he said so a few months ago.
He has a policy on this." What I"m saying now is apparently --
apparently, with all these lies coming to bear, coming to light, and
what is being done about them, really? Is the American public still
-- who is really in a very litmus test of its own democracy. American
democracy is really at risk these days. And still, American public
still think, and the -- and this misconception that they have been --
they have been painted over with the mass media, they still believe
in these lies. What hope is there but for this to continue and --
until it"s -- until its termination? That Bush should stay, him and
Cheney -- He owns the world. We simply live in it, but he owns it, he
and Bush, apparently. That"s the only way for it, I believe, to
shorten the occupation of Iraq is for their policy to simply flop.
But if Cheney comes and -- I mean if -- if Kerry comes and starts
spending more time and trying to build coalitions, in the meantime
much more Iraqi blood will be shed in that course. Therefore, I say,
as I said again, and I am reiterating, that the best hope for the
rest of the world is that Bush does win and sinks this whole empire
in its own folly."
Der ausschlaggebende Satz:
"Now, the second
part of that statement, declaration, was not published, was not
widespread in the west. I did translate it and send it to the Toronto
Star. It wasn"t published there. What did it say? In it Osama Bin
Laden was hoping, was saying to Bush: "I really wish that you would
win next November election, because you are the only one who can
convince the Muslims of the -- of the -- with your -- with your
intransigence and violent approach, it will convince the Muslims that
American military postures and foreign policy is against their
interests. Therefore I have asked all operations to be suspended from
the United States until the election. And after that, every event
will have its own discourse."
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