Posts Tagged ‘Osama bin Laden’

And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn’t deserve what he got needs to have their head examined.

Barack Obama

Die islamistische Hamas trauert um den “heiligen Krieger”, die rechtsextreme NPD bedauert den “Mord” an Osama und die linksextreme Junge Welt bezichtigt Amerika des “Terrorismus”: Die Feinde der offenen Gesellschaft demonstrieren einmal mehr ihre Einigkeit.

Und, was macht das Deutschland der politischen Mitte? Es diskutiert die Frage, ob es ok ist, sich über einen der größten Erfolge im Kampf gegen den dritten Totalitarismus zu freuen. Jörg Lau fragt daher, und zwar vollkommen zu Recht, warum denn eigentlich nicht? Wie kann man darüber keine Freude empfinden? Wie kann man darüber nicht jubeln?

Amerika dagegen war auf der Straße, und, ja, es hat im Mondlicht gefeiert:

… we are Americans, despite our differences, our religions, our ethnicities, we are here all standing at midnight in Washington D.C., that is America!

Wie sagte Goethe doch: Amerika, du hast es besser.

Stephen Walt is already having a bad week, what with Bin Laden’s endorsement of “The Israel Lobby.” On the other hand, this might have been his first good review.

Jeffrey Goldberg über Stephen Walts Reaktionen auf die Lobpreisungen durch Osama bin Laden.

In a 12 minutes address Osama bin Laden spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11:

Osama then said “our two Umma (meaning the America and the Muslim world) are both victims” of one aggressor, that is in his words, those “who control the White House, particularly the Israeli Lobby and the multinational corporations.” He endorsed two books for Americans to understand how these lobbies control the White House. “A book by a former CIA agent who apologized for his crimes as a mercenary and another book titled the Israel Lobby professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.” He claimed that these two books “will give you the truth.”

Bin Laden praised US President Obama for having “admitted at last in his speech in Cairo, the existence of our people’s miseries.” He also praised “former President Carter’s statements about the Palestinians during his last visit in Gaza, and particularly his statements on Israel’s racism.”

Bin Laden: “US Must eliminate the Israel Lobby to end war”

Nachtrag: Das TRANSATLANTIC FORUM hat eine deutsche Arbeitsübersetzung in Auszügen online gestellt.

Nachtrag II: Siehe auch die New York Times: Bin Laden’s Reading List for Americans.