Friday, October 29, 2004
Your Security is Not in the Hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Quaeda
Just in time to spook you on Halloween, Osama (the Lion) bin Laden reappears on our TV screens, glowing like a jack o' lantern. His latest missive is apparently addressed directly to the American people, a new twist in the saga of the would be warrrior philosopher, who until now concerned himself more with speaking to the Muslim community. Is he trying to sway the election? No. He knows it matters not a whit to Allah whether Kerry or Bush is the head of the snake that is the Great Satan. As all who know the Koran understand, Allah is concerned with the family of the faithful, and even Osama has some faith in the American people to control their own destiny. "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Quaeda," he says.
I think the Lion must be a fan of Michael Moore, however. He took some time out of his rare video appearance to mock Bush for sitting, reading from a children's book, while the jihadis were flying jetplanes into the World Trade Center. Bush's indifference, Osama said, made the attacks of September 11 more successful than he anticipated. How many bootleg copies of "Farenheit 9 11" dubbed in Arabic are floating around the Muslim world?
Osama is, perhaps, a narcissist, a wealthy but relatively unlearned man who fancies himself a philosopher but depends upon spectacular violence to promote his ideas and those of his comrade, the more learned doctor al-Zawahri. But for once he has told the truth, to an audience that cannot hear, "Your security is in your own hands"
I think the Lion must be a fan of Michael Moore, however. He took some time out of his rare video appearance to mock Bush for sitting, reading from a children's book, while the jihadis were flying jetplanes into the World Trade Center. Bush's indifference, Osama said, made the attacks of September 11 more successful than he anticipated. How many bootleg copies of "Farenheit 9 11" dubbed in Arabic are floating around the Muslim world?
Osama is, perhaps, a narcissist, a wealthy but relatively unlearned man who fancies himself a philosopher but depends upon spectacular violence to promote his ideas and those of his comrade, the more learned doctor al-Zawahri. But for once he has told the truth, to an audience that cannot hear, "Your security is in your own hands"
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