Editor\u2019s note: This article marks the 12th anniversary of 9\/11. As it also marks Lasha\u2019s Darkmoon\u2019s debut as a columnist on Veterans Today, readers are recommended to read the article in its entirety on VT where they will be able to enjoy the beautiful Islamic art and full pictorial content supplied by writer-editor Jim W. <\/span>Dean<\/span><\/a><\/span>. A shocking maledictory poem, allegedly composed by Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9-11, forms the central feature of the article; this poem is omitted here for technical reasons but can read on Veterans Today. The rest of the article is found below, but without its full complement of pictures. \u2014 John Scott Montecristo<\/h5>\nTo read the fully illustrated version of the article on Veterans Today, complete with 4-part poem, click HER<\/span>E<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/America-in-ruins-2.jpg\" "\\"America")
<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cSeptember 11? That was just the beginning! Prepare for more of the same!\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Osama bin Laden, Bin Laden\u2019s Curse \u2014 \u2018Death to America!\u2019<\/em><\/h4>\nA puzzling new poem, reportedly written by Osama Bin Laden in the wake of 9-11, is here presented to the reader in the run-up to the 12th anniversary of 9-11. The reader is asked to decide whether the poem, prophesying Armageddon and the coming destruction of America, is an authentic bin Laden poem or an imitation.<\/em><\/h5>\n___________________________<\/p>\n
On May 16, 2007, on my twenty-ninth birthday, a beautifully written manuscript in calligraphic script fell into my hands in India. This was simply a series of sentences separated by diagonal strokes (\/) which purported to be a literal, word-for-word paraphrase in English of an extended poem written in Arabic by Osama bin Laden in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.<\/h5>\nBits had been added to the manuscript (in the broad margins) over the intervening years. These served as commentaries and clarifications. The poem was divided into several parts, each headed by a symbol which I took to be a letter of the Arabic alphabet.<\/h5>\nThe scary title of the manuscript: Bin Laden\u2019s Curse \u2014 \u2018Death to America!\u2019<\/strong><\/h5>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/When-are-they-planning-the-next-one-300x193.png\" "\\"When")
<\/a>When are they planning the next one?<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\nI was given to understand that various versions of this poem, both in Arabic and Urdu, had begun to circulate in late 2001 in the tea houses of Rawalpindi, Karachi, and Lahore. One such version of the poem had been obtained by my Sanskrit tutor, Bengali poet Ananda Kumar Bannerji, while vacationing with his family in Srinagar, Kashmir.<\/h5>\nHe handed me the manuscript in Pondicherry, South India, at the Sri Aurobindo ashram at which both of us happened to be staying at the time. He asked me what I thought of the poem.<\/h5>\nI was in no position to judge the \u201cauthenticity\u201d of the mishmash of ravings that confronted me; nor did I attempt to do so at that stage.<\/h5>\nBeing a poet-translator myself, I decided on an impulse\u2014and purely as a literary exercise\u2014to translate into rhymed English verse the somewhat disconnected scraps that had come my way. It seemed to me that this fascinating material, which was essentially a rant of rage against Western civilization in general and America in particular, would provide a useful clue to Americans who keep asking, W<\/a><\/span>hy do they hate<\/span> us<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong>?<\/em><\/h5>\nThe intelligent reader may be wondering at this point if his leg is being pulled. Did Osama bin Laden actually write this hysterical diatribe? Is there the slightest evidence that this poem ever existed in the original Arabic?<\/h5>\nThere are certainly no traces of such a maledictory poem in existence right now, either in Arabic or Urdu or in any other language, as far as I know.\u00a0 Bin Laden was of course a <\/span>skilled<\/span> poet<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and many of his poems have been translated into English, but did he write this<\/em> one?<\/strong><\/h5>\nMy own view is that it is not altogether certain that bin Laden is the author of this particular poem, although the possibility cannot be discounted.<\/h5>\nHe may have written it originally in the wake of 9-11 and added bits to it over the years, e.g., the references to the Iraq war and the Abu Ghraib scandal which surfaced in early 2004.<\/h5>\n
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<\/a>On September 11, 2001 people danced in the streets all over the world. Why did no one tell you that? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n
To a large extent, it would depend on whether bin Laden was the evil genius behind 9-11. If he was, this would obviously increase the chances that he had written the poem\u2014for in the poem he gloats over America\u2019s humiliation on September 11, 2001, and predicts more 9-11s to come,<\/h5>\nNowhere in the poem,<\/strong> however, does bin Laden accept personal responsibility for 9-11. He is pleased that the act was done, but so were thousands of other people throughout the world who celebrated the event with champagne parties and dancing in the streets\u2014as Tariq Ali revealed in the introduction to his excellent book The Clash of <\/span>Fundamentalisms<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/h5>\n\u2663<\/h5>\nWhat finally persuaded me<\/strong> to offer this poem up for publication, given that it has been gathering dust on my shelves for so many years? I guess the time is right. It would be a shame to let the poem lie around unread. The material has curiosity value.<\/h5>\nIt provides, moreover, an insight into the terrorist mind. It is certainly a shocking poem, though its shock potential would have been far greater if there had been proof that Osama bin Laden had actually written it. There is no such proof.<\/h5>\nIndeed, there is no proof that Osama bin Laden orchestrated 9\/11 at all.<\/h5>\nThe only \u201cproof\u201d that Al Qaeda was behind 9-11 is that the American government and the notoriously unreliable and mendacious mainstream mass media say<\/em><\/strong> so.<\/h5>\nBeyond this authoritative assertion of fact\u2014an assertion that becomes increasingly unconvincing by the day\u2014there is no proof whatever for the claim that bin Laden orchestrated 9-11. There is certainly no scientific evidence for such a <\/span>claim<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/h5>\nIndeed, newly released evidence proves conclusively\u2014contrary to government claims\u2014that the World Trade Center twin towers and Building 7\u00a0 must have been brought down by the prior placement of nanothermite and other powerful explosives within the buildings. (See her<\/span>e<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>)<\/h5>\n\u2663<\/h5>\nHere are some relevant facts<\/strong> the reader would do well to consider before reading the poem.<\/h5>\nThough many taped messages had purportedly been issued by Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, not one of them after September 9, 2002 has been authenticated as genuine by independent experts such as the Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial<\/span> Intelligence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, based in Martigny, Switzerland. (Institut Dalle Molle d\u2019Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive<\/em>, now the IDIAP Research Institute).<\/h5>\nFor further details of doctored bin Laden tapes, see [1<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> \u2014 [2<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> \u2014 [3<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> \u2014 [4<\/span>]<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n___________________________________<\/h5>\nThe only \u201cexperts\u201d to validate<\/strong> the later bin Laden tapes have been those same intelligence agencies whose reputation for deceiving the public is now legendary.<\/h5>\nThus genuine video tapes delivered to Al-Jazeera TV in late 2001, featuring an emaciated and white-bearded bin Laden disclaiming responsibility for 9-11, offer a bizarre contrast to the obviously fake bin Laden video<\/span> tape<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> of November 9, 2001\u2014a tape conveniently \u201cdiscovered\u201d by American soldiers in an abandoned house in Jalalabad.<\/h5>\nHere a suspiciously plump and black-bearded Osama is suddenly found fessing up to 9-11.<\/h5>\n
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![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ben-Laden-2-228x300.png\" "\\"Ben-Laden-2\\"")
<\/a>If bin Laden had been the mastermind behind 9-11, why would he deny it? Wouldn\u2019t he proudly acknowledge it? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n
Bin Laden was not a man given to lying. On September 17, 2001 he issued a message to al-Jazeera, disclaiming all responsibility for 9-11:\u00a0 \u201cI stress that I have not carried out this <\/span>act<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation.\u201d<\/h5>\nJust ten days later,<\/strong> on 28 September,\u00a0 he repeated his denial of involvenment.\u00a0 \u201cI have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of<\/span> these attacks<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/h5>\nThe real perpetrators of 9-11, many people seem to think, were Israeli<\/span> intelligence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> and their neoconservative <\/span>accomplices<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> in America. Possibly bin Laden thought this too\u2014which would make him a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d as well as a \u201cterrorist\u201d.<\/h5>\nSuch an explosive conspiracy theory<\/strong> (Mossad + American neocons = 9-11 masterminds) could hardly be allowed to take root in the American psyche. It was therefore deemed necessary to pin down the blame for 9-11 on bin Laden and a bunch of jihadis armed with box cutters.<\/h5>\nHence their was a need for a whole slew of bogus tapes in which an actor playing the part of bin Laden accepts full responsibility for 9-11, thereby giving America and Britain a pretext for pulverizing the Muslim world and plundering its resources\u2014all this at the\u00a0instigation of Israel and their<\/span> neoconservative allies<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>in the Bush administration.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u2663<\/strong><\/h5>\nBin Laden was almost certainly dead<\/strong> long before his sensational \u201cassassination\u201d on May 2, 2011, in his hideout in Abbotabad, Pakistan, at the hands of the CIA and US naval Special Warfare operatives.<\/h5>\nAn obituary notice announcing his<\/span> funeral<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> appeared in\u00a0al-Wafd<\/em> (an Egyptian newspaper) on December 26, 2001.<\/h5>\nIt became perfectly safe after this date to issue bogus bin Laden tapes ad nauseam, threatening the West with fire and brimstone, given that the real Osama was no longer around to deny the authenticity of the same tapes.<\/h5>\nAll these fake tapes and phoney bin Laden lookalikes have been a sign of acute desperation. The perpetrators of Abu Ghraib\u00a0 have not only lost the moral ground\u2014they have lost the war on terror.<\/h5>\nOne person who is convinced<\/strong> he knows who did 9-11 is Dr Alan Sabrosky. Former director of the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, he does not mince his words in a relatively recent interview.<\/h5>\nHe places the blame for 9-11 fairly and squarely on Israel.<\/h5>\n\u201cI have made it absolutely clear,\u201d he says, \u201cthat it is one hundred percent certain that 9-11 was a Mossad <\/span><\/span>operation<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u2663 <\/strong><\/h5>\nHere now is the\u00a0 four part poem purportedly penned by Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9-11. I have translated the English paraphrase I received into 8-line rhymed stanzas based on a strict A-B-C-D-B-A-C-D rhyming scheme.<\/h5>\nThis was because the original Arabic, according to my Indian friend Mr Bannerji, was couched in the complicated rhyming prose found in the Qur\u2019an.<\/h5>\nThe reader is asked to make allowances for the apocalyptic language. This is all part of the original. Toning it down so as to make it more palatable to Western tastes would be self-defeating.<\/h5>\nDecide for yourself if this is a genuine Osama bin Laden poem, penned by the Master Terrorist himself, or if it is an imitation.<\/h5>\nOne final point:<\/strong> I would like to assure the reader that, in submitting this poem for publication, I am not myself the perpetrator of a puerile literary hoax. I did not write this poem myself, nor am I receiving either fame or fortune from its publication.<\/h5>\nI have merely translated, in good faith, a prose paraphrase of someone else\u2019s rendition of an extended poem in Arabic reportedly written by Osama bin Laden in late 2001 and added to subsequently by bin Laden himself or other scribe(s).<\/h5>\nIf there are any Western resonances in the poem (e.g., \u201cshooting fish in a barrel\u201d), this is because my version is presented through the prism of my own personality and bears the stamp of my style and character.<\/h5>\nThis is not only a translation, remember, it is a translation of a translation<\/em>. Many of the ideas sketched in the poem, particularly in Part 3 which is about Israel, are clearly out of date and erroneous. The idea that Israel is an American colony is one such wrong idea.<\/h5>\n_________________________________<\/h5>\nHere now is the poem: an extended malediction of America and a prophecy of its impending doom:<\/h5>\nBin Laden\u2019s Curse \u2014 \u2018Death to America!\u2019<\/h2>\n
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![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/death-to-usa-2-Osama-Bin-Laden-57996-291x300.jpg\" "\\"death")
<\/a>Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cDo what you can, and so shall we.
\nJust wait!\u2014we too are waiting.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Qur\u2019an XI. 121-22<\/em><\/h4>\nEditor\u2019s note: To read the 4-part poem (118 lines), click HE<\/span>RE<\/span><\/span><\/a> and scroll down to the poem.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u2663<\/p>\n
Is the poem authentic?<\/strong> \u2014 <\/em>The reader is advised to waste as little time as possible on this ultimately futile question. To do so would be a distraction.<\/h5>\nQuestions of far greater import are these: Was bin Laden a paper tiger? Is Al Qaeda a myth? Are Islamic \u201cterrorists\u201d a figment of the neoconservative imagination?<\/h5>\nWas 9-11 orchestrated as an excuse to wage war on the Muslim world and plunder its resources? Have all these events been put together for the aggrandizement of Israel?<\/h5>\nConsider first Al Qaeda, menacing in the extreme and criminally malevolent. How helpless Americans must feel before this diabolically omniscient organization that managed somehow to get the better of all sixteen US intelligence agencies, the National security Council, NORAD, air traffic control, and the Pentagon.<\/h5>\nIt managed not only to pull the wool over the eyes of the finest military intellects in America, it contrived also to make fools of Mossad and every single intelligence agency in Europe.<\/h5>\nIt even had Britain\u2019s plucky Prime Minister Tony Blair quaking in his ankle socks and agonizing over the prospect of seeing London obliterated by Saddam Hussein\u2019s WMD in forty-five minutes!<\/em>\u2014top secret information which was provided, unbelievably, by an <\/span>Iraqi taxi <\/span>driver<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/h5>\nNor has this sinister organization Al Qaeda rested on its laurels since 9-11. It still manages to terrorize the Western world with its shoe bombs, its shampoo bombs, its underwear bombs. Not a day goes by but dozens of bearded \u201cragheads\u201d are rounded up and tasered, their doors crashed open and their apartments ransacked, only to be released later for lack of evidence.<\/h5>\nThey are so fiendishly cunning, these jetsetter jihadis, that they never leave behind a single<\/em> trace of their guilt. Scary. Who needs weapons of mass destruction when you can bring the America Empire to its knees with a few box cutters?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u2663<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
___________________________<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When are they planning the next one?<\/p><\/div>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n \n On September 11, 2001 people danced in the streets all over the world. Why did no one tell you that? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n \n If bin Laden had been the mastermind behind 9-11, why would he deny it? Wouldn\u2019t he proudly acknowledge it? Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n \n Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \u2663<\/p>\n \u2663<\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cSeptember 11? That was just the beginning! Prepare for more of the same!\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Osama bin Laden, Bin Laden\u2019s Curse \u2014 \u2018Death to America!\u2019<\/em><\/h4>\nA puzzling new poem, reportedly written by Osama Bin Laden in the wake of 9-11, is here presented to the reader in the run-up to the 12th anniversary of 9-11. The reader is asked to decide whether the poem, prophesying Armageddon and the coming destruction of America, is an authentic bin Laden poem or an imitation.<\/em><\/h5>\n
On May 16, 2007, on my twenty-ninth birthday, a beautifully written manuscript in calligraphic script fell into my hands in India. This was simply a series of sentences separated by diagonal strokes (\/) which purported to be a literal, word-for-word paraphrase in English of an extended poem written in Arabic by Osama bin Laden in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.<\/h5>\n
Bits had been added to the manuscript (in the broad margins) over the intervening years. These served as commentaries and clarifications. The poem was divided into several parts, each headed by a symbol which I took to be a letter of the Arabic alphabet.<\/h5>\n
The scary title of the manuscript: Bin Laden\u2019s Curse \u2014 \u2018Death to America!\u2019<\/strong><\/h5>\n
<\/a>I was given to understand that various versions of this poem, both in Arabic and Urdu, had begun to circulate in late 2001 in the tea houses of Rawalpindi, Karachi, and Lahore. One such version of the poem had been obtained by my Sanskrit tutor, Bengali poet Ananda Kumar Bannerji, while vacationing with his family in Srinagar, Kashmir.<\/h5>\n
He handed me the manuscript in Pondicherry, South India, at the Sri Aurobindo ashram at which both of us happened to be staying at the time. He asked me what I thought of the poem.<\/h5>\n
I was in no position to judge the \u201cauthenticity\u201d of the mishmash of ravings that confronted me; nor did I attempt to do so at that stage.<\/h5>\n
Being a poet-translator myself, I decided on an impulse\u2014and purely as a literary exercise\u2014to translate into rhymed English verse the somewhat disconnected scraps that had come my way. It seemed to me that this fascinating material, which was essentially a rant of rage against Western civilization in general and America in particular, would provide a useful clue to Americans who keep asking, W<\/a><\/span>hy do they hate<\/span> us<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong>?<\/em><\/h5>\n
The intelligent reader may be wondering at this point if his leg is being pulled. Did Osama bin Laden actually write this hysterical diatribe? Is there the slightest evidence that this poem ever existed in the original Arabic?<\/h5>\n
There are certainly no traces of such a maledictory poem in existence right now, either in Arabic or Urdu or in any other language, as far as I know.\u00a0 Bin Laden was of course a <\/span>skilled<\/span> poet<\/span><\/span><\/a>, and many of his poems have been translated into English, but did he write this<\/em> one?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
My own view is that it is not altogether certain that bin Laden is the author of this particular poem, although the possibility cannot be discounted.<\/h5>\n
He may have written it originally in the wake of 9-11 and added bits to it over the years, e.g., the references to the Iraq war and the Abu Ghraib scandal which surfaced in early 2004.<\/h5>\n
<\/a>To a large extent, it would depend on whether bin Laden was the evil genius behind 9-11. If he was, this would obviously increase the chances that he had written the poem\u2014for in the poem he gloats over America\u2019s humiliation on September 11, 2001, and predicts more 9-11s to come,<\/h5>\n
Nowhere in the poem,<\/strong> however, does bin Laden accept personal responsibility for 9-11. He is pleased that the act was done, but so were thousands of other people throughout the world who celebrated the event with champagne parties and dancing in the streets\u2014as Tariq Ali revealed in the introduction to his excellent book The Clash of <\/span>Fundamentalisms<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/h5>\n
\u2663<\/h5>\n
What finally persuaded me<\/strong> to offer this poem up for publication, given that it has been gathering dust on my shelves for so many years? I guess the time is right. It would be a shame to let the poem lie around unread. The material has curiosity value.<\/h5>\n
It provides, moreover, an insight into the terrorist mind. It is certainly a shocking poem, though its shock potential would have been far greater if there had been proof that Osama bin Laden had actually written it. There is no such proof.<\/h5>\n
Indeed, there is no proof that Osama bin Laden orchestrated 9\/11 at all.<\/h5>\n
The only \u201cproof\u201d that Al Qaeda was behind 9-11 is that the American government and the notoriously unreliable and mendacious mainstream mass media say<\/em><\/strong> so.<\/h5>\n
Beyond this authoritative assertion of fact\u2014an assertion that becomes increasingly unconvincing by the day\u2014there is no proof whatever for the claim that bin Laden orchestrated 9-11. There is certainly no scientific evidence for such a <\/span>claim<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/h5>\n
Indeed, newly released evidence proves conclusively\u2014contrary to government claims\u2014that the World Trade Center twin towers and Building 7\u00a0 must have been brought down by the prior placement of nanothermite and other powerful explosives within the buildings. (See her<\/span>e<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>)<\/h5>\n
\u2663<\/h5>\n
Here are some relevant facts<\/strong> the reader would do well to consider before reading the poem.<\/h5>\n
Though many taped messages had purportedly been issued by Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, not one of them after September 9, 2002 has been authenticated as genuine by independent experts such as the Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial<\/span> Intelligence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, based in Martigny, Switzerland. (Institut Dalle Molle d\u2019Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive<\/em>, now the IDIAP Research Institute).<\/h5>\n
For further details of doctored bin Laden tapes, see [1<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> \u2014 [2<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> \u2014 [3<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> \u2014 [4<\/span>]<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n
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The only \u201cexperts\u201d to validate<\/strong> the later bin Laden tapes have been those same intelligence agencies whose reputation for deceiving the public is now legendary.<\/h5>\n
Thus genuine video tapes delivered to Al-Jazeera TV in late 2001, featuring an emaciated and white-bearded bin Laden disclaiming responsibility for 9-11, offer a bizarre contrast to the obviously fake bin Laden video<\/span> tape<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> of November 9, 2001\u2014a tape conveniently \u201cdiscovered\u201d by American soldiers in an abandoned house in Jalalabad.<\/h5>\n
Here a suspiciously plump and black-bearded Osama is suddenly found fessing up to 9-11.<\/h5>\n
<\/a>Bin Laden was not a man given to lying. On September 17, 2001 he issued a message to al-Jazeera, disclaiming all responsibility for 9-11:\u00a0 \u201cI stress that I have not carried out this <\/span>act<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Just ten days later,<\/strong> on 28 September,\u00a0 he repeated his denial of involvenment.\u00a0 \u201cI have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of<\/span> these attacks<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/h5>\n
The real perpetrators of 9-11, many people seem to think, were Israeli<\/span> intelligence<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> and their neoconservative <\/span>accomplices<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> in America. Possibly bin Laden thought this too\u2014which would make him a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d as well as a \u201cterrorist\u201d.<\/h5>\n
Such an explosive conspiracy theory<\/strong> (Mossad + American neocons = 9-11 masterminds) could hardly be allowed to take root in the American psyche. It was therefore deemed necessary to pin down the blame for 9-11 on bin Laden and a bunch of jihadis armed with box cutters.<\/h5>\n
Hence their was a need for a whole slew of bogus tapes in which an actor playing the part of bin Laden accepts full responsibility for 9-11, thereby giving America and Britain a pretext for pulverizing the Muslim world and plundering its resources\u2014all this at the\u00a0instigation of Israel and their<\/span> neoconservative allies<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>in the Bush administration.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u2663<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Bin Laden was almost certainly dead<\/strong> long before his sensational \u201cassassination\u201d on May 2, 2011, in his hideout in Abbotabad, Pakistan, at the hands of the CIA and US naval Special Warfare operatives.<\/h5>\n
An obituary notice announcing his<\/span> funeral<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong> appeared in\u00a0al-Wafd<\/em> (an Egyptian newspaper) on December 26, 2001.<\/h5>\n
It became perfectly safe after this date to issue bogus bin Laden tapes ad nauseam, threatening the West with fire and brimstone, given that the real Osama was no longer around to deny the authenticity of the same tapes.<\/h5>\n
All these fake tapes and phoney bin Laden lookalikes have been a sign of acute desperation. The perpetrators of Abu Ghraib\u00a0 have not only lost the moral ground\u2014they have lost the war on terror.<\/h5>\n
One person who is convinced<\/strong> he knows who did 9-11 is Dr Alan Sabrosky. Former director of the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, he does not mince his words in a relatively recent interview.<\/h5>\n
He places the blame for 9-11 fairly and squarely on Israel.<\/h5>\n
\u201cI have made it absolutely clear,\u201d he says, \u201cthat it is one hundred percent certain that 9-11 was a Mossad <\/span><\/span>operation<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u2663 <\/strong><\/h5>\n
Here now is the\u00a0 four part poem purportedly penned by Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9-11. I have translated the English paraphrase I received into 8-line rhymed stanzas based on a strict A-B-C-D-B-A-C-D rhyming scheme.<\/h5>\n
This was because the original Arabic, according to my Indian friend Mr Bannerji, was couched in the complicated rhyming prose found in the Qur\u2019an.<\/h5>\n
The reader is asked to make allowances for the apocalyptic language. This is all part of the original. Toning it down so as to make it more palatable to Western tastes would be self-defeating.<\/h5>\n
Decide for yourself if this is a genuine Osama bin Laden poem, penned by the Master Terrorist himself, or if it is an imitation.<\/h5>\n
One final point:<\/strong> I would like to assure the reader that, in submitting this poem for publication, I am not myself the perpetrator of a puerile literary hoax. I did not write this poem myself, nor am I receiving either fame or fortune from its publication.<\/h5>\n
I have merely translated, in good faith, a prose paraphrase of someone else\u2019s rendition of an extended poem in Arabic reportedly written by Osama bin Laden in late 2001 and added to subsequently by bin Laden himself or other scribe(s).<\/h5>\n
If there are any Western resonances in the poem (e.g., \u201cshooting fish in a barrel\u201d), this is because my version is presented through the prism of my own personality and bears the stamp of my style and character.<\/h5>\n
This is not only a translation, remember, it is a translation of a translation<\/em>. Many of the ideas sketched in the poem, particularly in Part 3 which is about Israel, are clearly out of date and erroneous. The idea that Israel is an American colony is one such wrong idea.<\/h5>\n
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Here now is the poem: an extended malediction of America and a prophecy of its impending doom:<\/h5>\n
Bin Laden\u2019s Curse \u2014 \u2018Death to America!\u2019<\/h2>\n
<\/a>\u201cDo what you can, and so shall we.
\nJust wait!\u2014we too are waiting.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014 Qur\u2019an XI. 121-22<\/em><\/h4>\nEditor\u2019s note: To read the 4-part poem (118 lines), click HE<\/span>RE<\/span><\/span><\/a> and scroll down to the poem.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Is the poem authentic?<\/strong> \u2014 <\/em>The reader is advised to waste as little time as possible on this ultimately futile question. To do so would be a distraction.<\/h5>\n
Questions of far greater import are these: Was bin Laden a paper tiger? Is Al Qaeda a myth? Are Islamic \u201cterrorists\u201d a figment of the neoconservative imagination?<\/h5>\n
Was 9-11 orchestrated as an excuse to wage war on the Muslim world and plunder its resources? Have all these events been put together for the aggrandizement of Israel?<\/h5>\n
Consider first Al Qaeda, menacing in the extreme and criminally malevolent. How helpless Americans must feel before this diabolically omniscient organization that managed somehow to get the better of all sixteen US intelligence agencies, the National security Council, NORAD, air traffic control, and the Pentagon.<\/h5>\n
It managed not only to pull the wool over the eyes of the finest military intellects in America, it contrived also to make fools of Mossad and every single intelligence agency in Europe.<\/h5>\n
It even had Britain\u2019s plucky Prime Minister Tony Blair quaking in his ankle socks and agonizing over the prospect of seeing London obliterated by Saddam Hussein\u2019s WMD in forty-five minutes!<\/em>\u2014top secret information which was provided, unbelievably, by an <\/span>Iraqi taxi <\/span>driver<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/h5>\n
Nor has this sinister organization Al Qaeda rested on its laurels since 9-11. It still manages to terrorize the Western world with its shoe bombs, its shampoo bombs, its underwear bombs. Not a day goes by but dozens of bearded \u201cragheads\u201d are rounded up and tasered, their doors crashed open and their apartments ransacked, only to be released later for lack of evidence.<\/h5>\n
They are so fiendishly cunning, these jetsetter jihadis, that they never leave behind a single<\/em> trace of their guilt. Scary. Who needs weapons of mass destruction when you can bring the America Empire to its knees with a few box cutters?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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