November 13, 2002- He's Back
In the last few months, we have had a denigration campaign focused against the man that is Public Enemy Number One in the eyes of the President and the Pentagon, one Saddam Hussein. We have seen this man demonized like he was back twelve years ago, when there was another President Bush. Back then, he was public Enemy Number One in America, and he has reclaimed that title today. It is not all that surprising that Saddam has reclaimed this title when you look at who is the current President and what has transpired in the past. Based solely upon those facts, it is no surprise. However, there is far more at work here than just those facts. The state that the world is in today is the biggest one of these factors. Because to make Saddam Public Enemy Number One in today's America is rather incredulous, seeing that there was another dude that held the title of Public enemy Number one in America starting on September 11, 2001. That would be one Osama bin Laden. We all remember the vitriolic rhetoric that President Bush had for that man back about one tear ago. Everywhere he went, he was disparaging the man's name and all that he stood for. As the air campaign in Afghanistan raged, Bush got more and more upset that this dude was still alive, and vented his frustrations every chance that he got. Bush made it seem as if in his mind Osama bin Laden was the devil incarnate. This guy became public enemy Number One like no one else ever had. John Dillinger and all the rest that made that honor had nothing on bin Laden. He was so fuckin' hated that you were daggone sure that he would never, ever be forgotten by Americans. Everywhere you looked, there was shit that had an anti-bin Laden message. The Internet has been chock full of it, there are countless sites dedicated to the defamation of bin Laden and his name, many of which are linked in the links library on this very site. No one in the history of America, not even Timothy Mc Veigh, had ever been so reviled. Mc Veigh had been the guy that set the standard for being hated in America after what he did in Oklahoma City in 1995. No one had ever been as despised on a national basis as Mc Veigh was until that morning in September, 2001. On that day, a new standard was set by bin Laden, or so we thought. As time went on, the hatred for Timothy Mc Veigh never dimmed, not even one iota. However, as time has elapsed since September, 2001, the status of bin Laden as America's Most Hated his been surpassed by Saddam. There is no logic for this, except the President's personal vendettas. It seems that Bush and the pentagon have been trying to follow a policy of ignoring bin Laden ever since the American bombing raids failed to kill or capture him. There were several incidents last year and early this year where the Americans knew where bin Laden was at, and just flat-out failed to get him. He eluded them on several occasions. Since there has been total compliance from the news media as far as following the White House line goes, these stories did not get big play. However, the Pentagon did admit that this shit did indeed happen, you just had to read between the lines five times over to see it, but they did. They covered it al up with bluster about how they were not sure if bin Laden was still alive or not when they knew full well that he was. They debunked all of the videos and audio tapes that came out that allegedly featured bun Laden for the most part. They did admit that he was on a couple of videos last year, but that was about it. Since bin Laden has managed to elude the Americans so successfully, the policy has become one of pretending that he does not exist for the most part, and raising Saddam to the position of Head Demon in the propaganda machine. Ever since mid-2002, we have heard very little about bin Laden except questions of whether he is dead or alive, while at the same time, we have heard reams and reams and reams of shit about Saddam and why he threatens the world and shit. Bin Laden has kind of become a forgotten figure of a sort, something that seemed unimaginable one year ago. Bush has shifted the entire focus of the war effort from the War On Terrorism to a War Against Iraq, part two. Saddam has now become the main focus of American anger and determination. However, yesterday, America received a surprise package that showed that the old Public Enemy Number One was still alive and well. An audio tape surfaced over at Al-Jazeera media, which is, I think, the largest media conglomerate in the Muslim world. They do radio and TV like an American network, and there is a link to them somewhere in the links library here on this site too. They are regarded as the most reliable and accurate source of information from the Muslim world, a world that is not known for its easy accessibility to information. So when Al-Jazeera says something, it is given more notice and credibility than other Muslim media outlets get. Bin Laden is aware of this, of course, and he has been utilizing that fact to his advantage. All of the video and audio tapes that America has confirmed are ones that feature bin Laden have been sent to Al-Jazeera and broadcast on their media outlets. Yesterday, an audio tape came there, the first in a long while, and this one purported to have bin Laden on it blowing it out his ass. He was praising the bombings in Bali last month, and the recent killing of an American marine in the Middle East ( I forget what country that happened in exactly), and he had high praise for the recent hostage situation at the theater in Moscow, the one that ended with that gas attack. The voice on the tape blathered on and on about how the perpetrators of these acts were martyrs and loyal servants of Allah and the like. Then ,the voice on the tape started to talk about America and how there would be more terror strikes against it and its allies and that the war that he started in 2001 was far from over in his mind. He warned the USA not to go to war against Iraq and said that if they did that they'd be sealing their fate and shit like that. The voice did not go on and praise Saddam and say that he was a great son of Allah, which showed that it was made by someone from the other sect of Islam than what Saddam is. These two factions of Islam feud all the time, but they unite whenever they are facing off against the West, America, or israel, for those are considered the enemies of all of Islam. So the tape was sort of an Islamic pep talk. Once this tape was broadcast, the question started up as to whether or not this truly was bin Laden on this tape. The folks at Al
Jazeera said that it was. And when the Americans heard it, they said that it did indeed sound like bin Laden, the closest that you'd get for a yes answer to that question. The Pentagon said that they would have to analyze the tape more closely and use a voice print machine to compare the voice prints on this new tape to those of bin Laden. The fact that they are going to this length at all proves that they think that this is authentic too. Anyone with any sense knew that bin Laden would come back sooner or later, and the Pentagon knows that better than anyone. No one ever definitively said that he was dead, so that meant assume that he was not. He seems to have come back to prove that with the release of this new tape. I think that the Pentagon will come up with the answer that this is indeed an authentic tape of bin Laden, circa recently. The timing is certainly right for his return.
Bin laden is a crafty motherfucker. If he was not every bit as crafty as he is evil, he could never have pulled off what he did last year. He knows that time is on his side here. As he and his fucked up pals sat there and watched the coverage of the disaster on September 11, 2002, he knew full well that American military troops would soon be on the way to try and get him. He was fully prepared for that long before that day. That was the reason why America could not capture or kill the guy. He had his plans thought out well beforehand. Since he and his Taliban pals had been American allies for so long, they knew exactly what kind of response to expect and how it would be orchestrated. Since he had officially turned on America a few years earlier, he might not have had up to date information about everything, but he knew more than enough to be able to escape it all, as he proved. A great deal of the way that he did it was through cultural methods. He knew that Americans had no understanding of the Afghani ways, as they have no understanding of any ways other than their own. He knew that America could not fully comprehend the attitude that nothing is too terrible to overlook of there is enough money involved. Bin Laden is so fuckin' rich that he can buy off anyone and everyone that can be bought, and where he comes from, that is pretty much everyone. Part of his plans of escape involved him, having vast amounts of money and valuables at his disposal to pay off those that he needed to pay off when he had to split. Some of these were American allies that knew where the bombs were to be dropped, and told him. That helped him get the fuck out of Dodge before it was too late. However, a couple of times, this did not work too well, and the Americans were hot on his heels. These are the instances where bin Laden slipped right through the American's fingers. These are the instances that have pissed Bush and the Pentagon off the most. They were accomplished by bin Laden throwing money and valuables around liberally to one and all to ensure his safe passage. There was even the story about him riding some kind of motorcycle across the land to get away at one point. So he has bought his way out of accountability here numerous times. He has been sitting back and regrouping and figuring out his next move. He seems about ready to spring that move in the near future too. It is common knowledge that he has been meeting with all of his main men to discuss business and prepare battle plans. However, he knows that because of the gravity of what he did before, that he would have to wait a while before an encore. He saw that what he had done had thrown the world into a period of turmoil unlike any other before it. He knew that all that he had to do was to watch the turmoil and how it played out carefully and wait until it got to a point where he felt that the time had come to strike again. He wants to prey upon that turmoil that he created and use it to his advantage. He sees that time as now. He sees President Bush with his attention focused on places other than bin Laden right now. Not only that, he sees the Commander of the American Armed Forces (the President) that way. He knows that Bush is ready to have America fight two wars simultaneously for the first time in its history. Where bin Laden comes from, fighting two or even more wars at once is common, everyone fights everyone. Today's ally is tomorrow's enemy, because the only reason they were an ally in the first place was because you had a common enemy of some sort, and now that has been resolved, so now you fight each other, this is an endless process over Afghanistan way, it has been for centuries. So any warrior form there knows all about how hard it is to fight more than one war at a time. Bin Laden knows that America has zero experience at this. He knows that America feels that superior strength and numbers and firepower alone shall do the trick, but that is not the case. Hitler had a war machine that was unrivaled in history to back up his Third Reich, but once he got too conceited and decided that he could fight two wars at once, that was his undoing. Bin Laden sees America in a similar situation. He sees a country that will find out the hard way that fighting two wars at once is very difficult business. He knows that means that he will not have the full strength and power of the American forces directed against him and his men too. That will make it much easier to not get destroyed here. I don't think that bin Laden is mad enough to think that his forces really have a chance to defeat America. He just wants to make sure that his forces do not get totally annihilated so that he looks good and still has something left to work with in the future. The fact that he cannot have the full force of America directed against him ensures that. So when he puts all of this together, bin Laden sees that it has once again become time to strike at America, and he undoubtedly will try that again sometime soon, probably not until a War Against Iraq is underway so that the distractions that bin Laden seeks are in full force. Then he will come right out front and say "I'm back!!", and see what kind of turmoil he can cause this time. Yesterday's tape was just the curtain-jerker, the main act is coming soon, featuring some of the same players as last year. Bin Laden is indeed back, and that is not good for anything.