Osama Bin Laden Challenges Obama In Tape
LEE KEATH | January 14, 2009 10:18 AM EST | 
CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state in a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive.
Bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted Wednesday on Islamic militant Web sites where al-Qaida usually issues its messages. It was his first tape since May and came nearly three weeks after Israel started its campaign against Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers.
The al-Qaida leader also vowed that the terror network would open “new fronts” against the United States and its allies beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. He said President-elect Barack Obama has received a “heavy inheritance” from George W. Bush _ two wars and “the collapse of the economy,” which he said will render the United States unable to sustain a long fight against the mujahedeen, or holy warriors.
“There is only one strong way to bring the return of Al-Aqsa and Palestine, and that is jihad in the path of God,” bin Laden said in the 22-minute audiotape, referring to the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. “The duty is to urge people to jihad and to enlist the youth into jihad brigades.”
Yeh right, Osama’s probably been dead for years. Bu$h admitted this week that he did not know whether bin Laden had ever come close to capture during that time, although Osama spent time in the hospital with serious kidney problems in both Dubai and Pakistan during the times of the WTC disaster
So I guess what Duhbya is trying to say is that in spite of being the commander in chief with unprecedented powers to snoop on any information on planet Earth including the Googleplex, DARPA, the CIA, the FBI, the Mossad, etc. blablablabaa that he knows nothing about the most wanted man on Earth, in spite of the fact that he can imprison and torture anyone he wants any where he wants. I mean, like this unqualified and self proclaimed war president has blood on his hands and makes light of events that have lead to…Excuse me while I go into a mind lock even thinking about it….zzzzzZZZZZ* Lets see? Where was I? Hmmm Nuremburg trials, the Hague, justice, karma?
The Hague …
gotta love The Hague.
Waiting … waiting … waiting….
WAR CRIMES … get your WAR CRIMES here.
I want Bush and Cheney peeing into a bucket in an 8×10 cell until they are tried by the World Court.
And if/when they are found guilty, I want them buried up to their necks in dirt, honey poured over their heads and a colony of red ants released. THEN I want them drawn and quartered by 4 lovely white horses …
Barbara and Laura and Lynn can argue over the pieces.
I’m still trying to figure out what these war crimes are, and how they are legit.
Hi Basheert, looks like you produced a troll.
Amen to the white horses, I sure can’t come up with anything better than that…
Solar1:
If you are REALLY interested in knowing about war crimes, you might want to educate yourself by reading this new book:
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PRESS RELEASE
January 14, 2009
NEW BOOK DOCUMENTS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S 269 WAR CRIMES
With a Foreword by former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin B. Ferencz, the book George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes by Professor Michael Haas was released today by Greenwood Press. Further information is available at http://www.USwarcrimes.com
Based on information supplied in autobiographical and press sources, the book matches events in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, Iraq, and various secret places of detention with provisions in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements on war crimes. His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories—illegality of the decision to go to war, misconduct during war, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and misgovernment in the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Haas accuses President Bush of conduct bordering on treason because he reenacted several complaints stated in the Declaration of Independence against England, ignored the Constitution and federal laws, trampled on the American tradition of developing international law to bring order to world politics, and in effect made a Faustian pact with Osama Bin Laden that the intelligence community blames for an increase in world terrorism. Osama Bin Laden remains alive, he reports, because Bush preferred to go after oil-rich Iraq rather than tracking down Al Qaeda leaders, whose uncaptured presence was useful to him in justifying a “war on terror” pursued on a military rather than a criminal basis without constitutional restraints.
Aside from going to war illegally, the worst war crime cited is the murder of at least 45 prisoners, some but not all by torture. Other heinous crimes include the brutal treatment of thousands of children, some 64 of whom have been detained at Guantánamo. Sources document the use of illegal weapons in the war from cluster bombs to daisy cutters, napalm, white phosphorus, and depleted uranium weapons, some of which have injured and killed American soldiers as well as thousands of innocent civilians. Children playing in areas of Iraq where depleted uranium weapons have been used, but not reported on request from the World Health Organization, have developed leukemia and other serious diseases.
“Bush’s violations of the Constitution as well as domestic and international law have besmirched the reputation of the United States,” Haas writes. “In so doing, they have accomplished a goal of which the Al Qaeda terrorists only dreamed—to transform the United States into a rogue nation feared by the rest of the world and loved by almost none.”
“One reason for the adoption of the Third Geneva Convention,” according to Haas, “was a revulsion against German-run interrogation camps during World War II.” Yet, he writes, “Bush’s order to set up interrogation camps in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantánamo, and other secret locations “is directly contrary to the Geneva Conventions.” Nevertheless, Haas notes that Nazi Germany’s war crimes were wholesale offenses, whereas the scope of Bush’s crimes is retail, affecting fewer (a few millions) of innocent persons.
In view of the vast number of war crimes, Haas recommends a truth commission with the aim of educating the world on the nature of war crimes. He feels that stopping war crimes is a more important objective than prosecuting the offenders, some of whom may be brought to justice in foreign courts if they travel abroad and the American judicial system is uninterested.
The author, Michael Haas, has written over thirty books on government and politics in his academic career as a political scientist (Yale M.A., Stanford Ph.D.) at Northwestern University, Purdue University, the University of Hawai`i, the University of London, the University of the Philippines, and several colleges and universities in California. He lives in the Hollywood Hills and can be reached at (323) 656-5873. To order the book (only $40 in hardcover), contact http://www.amazon.com or http://www.greenwood.com
I would sure like to read this book. Do ya suppose that Duhhbya will have a copy in his new library along with his book “A Charge To Keep”?
Suzie-Q,
Thanks, I probably won’t buy the book, but I am reading over the website.
Geezer:
I don’t believe he is a troll…
Solar1:
You are welcome and let us know what you think after you have read it!
Suzie,
The site is interesting. I have never seen someone take this much time on the issue, but if you hoped it would change my mind, you’ll be dissappointed. If Haas can trace even one of those 269 “war crimes” back to Bush and be able to make a big deal about it, he’ll be lucky. I haven’t read everything their, but from glancing over the “War Crimes” page and reading a couple of posts, I think that most of those arguements could be easily debunked.
“I think that most of those arguements could be easily debunked.”
SQ, please forgive me if i seem too presumptive, and I do realize that I should ignore this sort of thing, but I’m feeling a little cantankerous today…
Just my opinion, but maybe solor1 should present some reasons for his feigned ignorance.
MICHAEL HAAS is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii and the Chairman of the International Academic Advisory Board of the University of Cambodia. He played a role in stopping the secret funding of the Khmer Rouge by the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He has taught political science at the University of London, Northwestern University, Purdue University, and the University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of 33 books on human rights, including International Human Rights (2008), International Human Rights in
I understand that… Professor?… Haas is a very smart man. But just because he is smart and wrote a book accusing President Bush of some very serious activity doesn’t mean I should just believe him. Bush recieved a Bachelors Degree in History and a Masters in Buisness Administration and half the nation won’t believe him.
As for “I think that most of those arguements could be easily debunked.” No I haven’t read all or most of them, but it seems a teensy bit extreme and after this one: http://www.uswarcrimes.com/?page_id=336#comment-603
I looked up the U.S. Goverments definition of mercenary and got this:
“1. One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling.
2. A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.”
Definition one works in his war crime, but could mean that some of our soldiers could be considered as mercenaries. Definition two is a better more recognized definition in my opinion, and it would be the one I would use when describing mercenaries. But that definition doesn’t work for Haas’s war crimes.
Oops, sorry. I didn’t scroll down when I found my definition, the U.S. Military Dictionary’s definition of mercenary is “a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/mercenary
ummhmm So if Hamas can come up with the bucks they can hire Black Water to come up with some mercenaries from a third world country to fight their war for them and they won’t be branded as insurgents……zzzzzZZZZ
Yes Professor is quite intelligent. He has commented here and identified himself and is under attack by a commentor that not only won’t come up with viable reasons for doing so, but is commenting anonimously.
Mercenaries in a war that Bu$hco shouldn’t have started in the first place seems like a lousy idea to me.
Geezer,
I am not attacking Haas, I am disagreeing with his accusations. I do not have the information to accuse Haas with anything. I wish he would leave links to other sources for his War Crimes.
Could you rephrase that first comment? It makes no sense to me.
solar1
You must be a truth seeker, and to think that I suspected you might be a troll. Here are a couple of books on the same subject. I hope that you find truth in all things glasshoppah.
When you finish haas’s book you might want to read…
THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE
Arthur Koestler in his book “The Thirteenth Tribe” writes about the history of the Jews and the emergence of the Zionist’s in the ancient Khazar Empire around the Caucasus between the Caspian sea and the Baltic sea. They adopted the Jewish faith and were Caucasian but weren’t associated with Zionism until the late 19th.century when it presented itself as a political movement concerned principally with the establishment of a state in Palestine to be controlled by and for Jews. It began in the late 19th Century and attained its stated objective with the creation in 1948 of the state of Israel by the United Nations.
Wordgeezer,
Thanks, I try to be somewhat open minded.
I am also a firm Christian and believer of the Bible. I disagree with that history of the Jews.