Osama bin Laden says Obama is 'powerless' to stop the war in Afghanistan

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In a tape released Sunday by al-Qaida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan.

SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm that translated the address, said bin Laden, whose al-Qaida organization was behind the Sept. 11 attacks, blamed the war on the "pro-Israel lobby" and corporate interests.

IntelCenter, another company that monitors terrorist propaganda, said the 11-minute video shows a still picture of bin Laden while audio of the address plays.

Bin Laden's address to the American people comes two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. He typically addresses the United States in a message around the Sept. 11 anniversary.

The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine."

Bin Laden argued against the claims that the war is necessary for U.S. security, saying current White House officials are merely following the strategy of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to "promote the previous policies of fear to market the interests of big companies."

When Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration's military leaders, such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, "reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised," bin Laden said.

"If you end the war, so to it," bin Laden said. "But if it is otherwise, all we will do is continue the war of attrition against you on all possible axes."


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77 comments // Osama bin Laden says Obama is 'powerless' to stop the war in Afghanistan

  • masapanc
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      masapanc  
    • i should make a video of the picture of Bush and his voice saying the US had nothing to do with 9/11. you know since we are making videos of complete lies

    • 5 months ago
  • J_Jammer
  • trut
    • 0
      trut  
    • The most important thing about Afghanistan is making sure the heroine makes it to the world markets. Every year since the American invasion there is more heroine being grown and shipped out of the country.
      Heroine+CIA= BIG MONEY

    • 5 months ago
  • Frank_Anderson
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      Frank_Anderson  
    • The most important thing about the Afghanistan war is keeping our enemies from getting too big of a hold on Afghanistan and neighboring, nuclear-armed Pakistan. Nukes + Islamo-fascism = bad.

    • 5 months ago
  • trut
  • akamaial
  • metalcookiesxy70
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      metalcookiesxy70  
    • he doesn't exist anymore, his corpse has been in the ground for years.......

      Its amazing how you bring him up as if he was alive, its worth not debating about, its way too obvious....

      Too obvious for the conspiracy-lovers to find out....
      Oh well.....

    • 5 months ago
  • Maeveeo
  • thewallisgirl
  • Tradiggy
  • NuclearLullaby
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      NuclearLullaby  
    • If bin Laden is dead,he dead two years ago of a rare throat cancer,if he is alive, he is in a small Saudi Arabian town living like a king! There is no way he never did exist!!! BUT...All US leaders ARE in one way or another blood related !!! Obama (believe it or not) is Dick Cheney's cousin!!! The war will never end! That is simple fact! Bush put us in the middle of something that's been going on before that Bible book that Christians like so much was written! (it's fictional by the way!)

    • 5 months ago
  • hunzedog
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  
    • Being fond of attempting to know what is actually under discussion, I wanted to read the text of the current Bin Laden tape. One site requires registration, and the only other site indicated for the actual text prompts a serious computer security alert.
      I expect shortly there will be a text available without these encumbrances. I'd look forward to hearing about that when it occurs.

    • 5 months ago
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • Ok, Osama might be dead. He might not be and be working for the CIA. Or maybe this wasn't really him. But what about the message on the tape. What was said is actually pretty meaningful, at least in my mind. Many times, i find myself asking Americans why the terrorists would attack in the first place. and why the World Trade Centers?

      I love responses like, "They hate our freedoms!" That gets me laughing. If you really think the terrorists would plan to sacrifice they're lives in an attack, just to get a message across of how they hate America's freedom... well, then i say ignorance is bliss, because if you actually knew why there was such anti-american sentiment in the world, then maybe you would start caring to do something about it. But if your not going to care to even find out why a person would dislike something your country was doing, then not only is that arrogant and pushing ultra-nationalism, its self defeating.

      The man on the tape, whether it be Osama or not, regardless of whether it was doctored by the CIA, discussed the issue he has with America's support of Israel, and the corruption of big companies. Please think with some clarity on these issues. Get a grip on the resentment you feel for the attacks and understand why they happened. Do you want your country to be supporting the Zionist movement in Israel? American media can claim Palestinians are terrorists, but anyone that has done they're research knows that it is Israel that is terrorizing the Palestinians. And let it be known that the suicide bombers only go down the route of using home-made explosives because they have nothing to compete against Israel's American made F-16s, Tanks, automatic weapons, etc. I do not support Palestinians killing Israeli's, and that is because i do not support anyone killing another. But i understand the nature of the situation over there, and how it has come to hurt us here in America.

      As for the big companies, you must realize by now that the American military is nothing but a contract killer and guard for big companies. America has not needed the use of its military since WWII. Any and every occurrence involving the American military since then has definitely been about the access to another country's resources. Dont be sheep believing the propaganda of "preventing the spread of Communism", or aiding a country from ruthless leaders, and America somehow being the police of the world, spreading democracy and freedom. That has been a lie from the beginning.

      I just hope to be able to break out the minds that have been oblivious to these facts. I understand some may feel insulted by the approach i have towards this subject, but i ask you to look into what i have addressed before you stand up for what you learned from you r government approved text-books.

    • 5 months ago
  • Tyr
  • amberaa
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      amberaa  
    • Ajil:

      Very good points. I just don't think Osama is alive, whether his existence is just a figurehead or not. If this were doctored by the CIA I would imagine that they used these excuses as a plausible guise for people to put interest back into Israel, and to propagate that allusion that they hate us for our freedoms (hating our capitalism at work in the form of corporations). But it is also a good possibility that they were made by people who know his existence is a symbol of defeat to America.

    • 5 months ago
  • deadpool
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      deadpool  
    • Of course Obama is powerless to stop the war, it was never in his -- or Bush's control.

      What war are they talking about?

      The one where the US showed up and blew everything to shit, patting ourselves on the back the whole way? Fighting a phantom army?

    • 5 months ago
  • TabulaRasa
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • The ravings of a mass-murderer, though they may be couched in the trappings of literacy and political discourse, are tainted. By their fruits ye shall know them.

    • 5 months ago
  • Tyr
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      Tyr  
    • All I can say about the entire mess that we are involved in is this. For every person in the middle east that had an innocent relative, father, son, mother , brother, sister, killed by an American "errant" bomb or wrong house, wedding party, etc...for every one of those cases we have created the same kind of hate for us that we felt towards the criminals that flew those planes into the twin towers. If you think that there won't be a payback down the road then you are delusional....Those cultures in the middle east define the word vendetta..trust me on this, the day will come when we will reap what we have sown over there. The sons of mothers and fathers laid in their graves by Americans...will not rest until they have put grief in our homes...we can expect to reap the whirlwind.
      Any group that is willing to blow themselves up in order to hurt you is far more motivated than to just say "oh well" and move on.

    • 5 months ago
  • plesntcreature
  • masterzip
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      masterzip  
    • lets see,..Russia was there for 10 years,...when the Afghanistan tribes had all the U.S. weaponry. Now that they are better armed and better trained, how long do you think it will be before we have had enough or the enemy gives up?

    • 5 months ago
  • clayjj05
  • shanklinmike
  • metalcookiesxy70
  • J_Jammer
  • evilliberalbastard
  • shanklinmike
  • evilliberalbastard
  • akamaial
  • metalcookiesxy70
  • evilliberalbastard
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      evilliberalbastard  
    • shanklinmike:

      first of all i dont support obama i dont support what hes doing and im a socialist not a liberal if i had a choice it would be gloria lariva dennis kucinich and mike gravel and i bet you im going to be a liberal get this guy a kleenex im a intolerant liberal im a whole bunch of stuff i support the fairtax mike learn how to talk instead of proving to me more and more that you live in a pitiful existanceand for your next comment yeah you keep let me respond yeah you keep telling your self that

    • 5 months ago
  • evilliberalbastard
  • J_Jammer
  • evilliberalbastard
  • evilliberalbastard
  • Venom7
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      Venom7  
    • I bet you if some REAL terrorist in BUMFUCK, Afghanistan released a real threat video he would be tracked down and "interrogated" (tortured) to death.

    • 5 months ago
  • Venom7
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      Venom7  
    • They will never find Osama Bin Laden because HE IS PART OF THE CIA.

      Its a joke to them...

      How the hell does he release a video and the BIGGEST MILITARY POWER in the HISTORY of the WORLD with THE BIGGEST BUDGET in the history of the world cant find this guy?

      ITS A BULLSHIT GAME!

      DONT LET THE PUPPETS SWAY YOU!

    • 5 months ago
  • bill1think2012
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      bill1think2012  
    • I don't know if I should say this but I have a anger issue. With the world trade system, and the special interest lobbyist. Causing food prices to rise to the point of starving poor peoples of he world. In that,
      I read a response to a earlier posting on 911 explaining that Osama bin Laden attacked the evil that is the monetary system. That is causing people to starve and fight among each other for; land ,food, rights, freedoms. Is all pretty much controlled by this. He really was not attacking the American people although we were collateral damage. Although I do not agree with the method of violence to speed up change. I would like to see a real change in the system( 1 thing I know, is that food should be free for all man kind.(Think ) If the farmer and farms could have anything the like in exchange for growing foods and distributing if for free. If we treated them like gods on earth . For there gift to man. They would be revered with total respect and love. And no one would starve. Then we could work on fixing other problems of the world.
      Now back to the issue of Osama he has all ready built his group and they are determined to strike. And there using lies, and deceit and religions to recruit as well as growing his terrorist from children by infecting there minds with hatred and making them think they were created to fightand die, for there view of evil.
      With promises of being rewarded with heaven .
      Also is it possible that this is all a plain to give reason , to start be biggest removal of human rights and freedoms here and abroad. With the excuse that it’s for our own good. (homeland security and other laws that have bin implemented?

    • 5 months ago
  • amberaa
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • bill1think2012:

      im glad someone is thinking about the message behind all this. Many people dont ever stop to think why the terrorists actually attacked, or why the world trade centers. The monetary system is the root os all evil in the world. Again, most people never consider how it came to be, its real effects on our lives (psychologically, environmentally, and so many other ways).

      Google 'zeitgeist' if you have not heard of it. There are a couple documentaries you should check out. They are not focussed on 9/11 conspiracy theories. More so on religion and the monetary system.

    • 5 months ago
  • MoonLoon
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • You can't believe everything you see or read. I don't believe hardly anything the goverment says. They lie for profit and power.

    • 5 months ago
  • revolutioninamerica
  • Ajil
    • 0
      Ajil  
    • revolutioninamerica:

      why do you think the terrorists attacked America? Because "they hate our freedoms"? If you believe that then you are a lost little sheep.

      So you think the message was to intelligent and full of too much subject matter to be coming from Osama? Or do you just need something simple to hear and hate?

      Whether or not this is Osama, I think the message speaks loudly of the issues many have with America. The support of Israel, the corrupt companies that have the people blinded, using the military for access to resources that do not belong to this country. How do you feel abou the message being sent? regardless of it being Osama or not.

    • 5 months ago
  • samthesixth
  • Sess
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      Sess  
    • People. The simple fact that we are even debateing if bin laden is alive or not means we have fallin for ''their'' tricks. Don't u get it?? if he's alive isn't the issue....there are endless many people like bin laden....with the same or even worse intent. The fact of the matter is we are being controled and screwed by the people we are sopposed to trust. personally, i think they're all working togeather...to kill the poor and inslave the young. They're all evil...bin laden, Obama, Chainey...they're all monsters.

    • 5 months ago
  • bill1think2012
  • NumLock
  • J_Jammer
  • J_Jammer
  • evilliberalbastard
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • J_Jammer:

      THEY DONT SAY ANYTHING RELEVANT???!!!!

      That is all this tape is! Full of relevant material!! America's support of Israel-- The corrupt companies that have America blinded by the true nature of the world-- Obama's inability to rid the positions of power from the corrupt faces that have been around since this all started in the 80s.

      I think regardless if you believe Osama is alive or dead, and these tapes being doctored, the message is absolutely relevant. We should be discussing that right now.

      I typed out a very long comment on this article that you can find on page 2 of the posting.

    • 5 months ago
  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  
    • J_Jammer:

      Page 2? why waste my time. OBL is irrelevant dead meat. As is, his message of hatred and murder of the innocent. His Yemeni descended family catered to Saudi and American interests, making their fortune, then he bit the hand that was feeding him. A real class act!

    • 5 months ago
  • NumLock
  • diode
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • diode:

      i love how u have the solution to everything. u make everything out to be so simple. you should seriously be running the show. you got my vote... :P not

    • 5 months ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • Obama is alive and well. It is our nation's INCOMPETENCE and apathy that prevents us from tracking down and killing the SOB. Now Obama, rather than confront these thugs, prefers to placate them with empty words. Obama will leave office, and this thug bin Laden will still be mocking us. Roll over and play dead is Obama's idea of foreign policy.

    • 5 months ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • I don't think President Obama would put out a fake tape of Osama bin ladin saying anything about him. I fear that it's someone in a position to spin for the right, fear of President Obama and his leadership. Trying to dictate the direction of the country, through fear.

    • 5 months ago
  • StandaboveUnderstand
  • Argon18
  • StandaboveUnderstand
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • So is the Obama administration continuing the same Bush policy of dragging out these bogus tapes whenever voices get loud for us to get out? What a farce. Benazir Bhutto did an interview not long before she was murdered stating that Bin Laden was dead. I sure hope if that is true that Obama is not just another Bush lying to us about all of this to keep this war going. But then, that would explain why he and others didn't want Bush and Cheney impeached.

    • 5 months ago
  • ThoughtNu
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      ThoughtNu  
    • I am wondering if it was nothing more than pre arranged tapes made after the attack (9/11)... Contingencies, I know can become imperative when reality dictates.Just Tinkin oba ear.

    • 5 months ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • Bullshit. He has been dead for years. Osama bin laden name is being used as the boogy man again. His name is being invoked to spin fear. **President Obama is bad. See, even Osama bin laden agrees?**

    • 5 months ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • Conniepae:

      He's alive and well. Rather than trying to kill the SOB, Obama and his gang prefer to placate this thug. Saying bin Laden doesn't exist is easier than saying "We have not been able to find him and kill in in over 8 years!"

    • 5 months ago
  • samthesixth
  • hombre76
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      hombre76  
    • Conniepae:

      no Charley it like saying the most powerful nation on the planet could not find him in 8 years that's fucking impossible. and what proof do you have that he is alive or even exists. you dumb asses don't even understand that the fucking tape supposedly connecting Osama to the 911 attacks is in CIA hands and they wont let the courts or tha media or any one examine them cause they fucking know there faked. but as i said above we must be speaking some truths cause the trools are out in force.

    • 5 months ago
  • amberaa
  • Ajil
    • 0
      Ajil  
    • Conniepae:

      ok guys... dead, alive, working for the CIA, fake and doctored... all that aside. What about the message? How do you feel about what was said? Specifically America's involvement in Israel and the corrupt companies the have been running things.

      I have posted a full comment that you can find on page 2 of this posting.

    • 5 months ago
  • hombre76
    • 0
      hombre76  
    • god damn I love this shit. no one has seen this guy in almost a decade.... HE DOES NOT EXIST YOUR LOOKING FOR A GHOST! fucking unbelievable, the guy was a CIA spook for fuck sake! but go ahead believe the voice on the tape belongs to someone real because Bush and Cheney told us so. cause their corrupt CIA that dearest daddy G.H. Bush was the head of for many years told you so. don't believe everything you hear from the government that's how WWI started.

    • 5 months ago
  • J_Jammer
  • samthesixth
    • 0
      samthesixth  
    • hombre76:

      Learn your history. Che was killer. OBL was not a CIA agent, although he did receive money for housing muj. fighters.

      Your posts continue to demonstrate to all readers on this site, your unending hypocrisy and ignorance. Long live Felix Rodriguez for he made you free, not Che.

    • 5 months ago
  • hombre76
  • Dis_and_Dat_Kid
  • evilliberalbastard
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      evilliberalbastard  
    • hombre76:

      yep he a killer and murderer who fed clothed and educated poor cuban villagers and didnt give any to the rich damn you che you seriously trust fake news even rupert murdoch the pres and ceo says it fake your a bunch of idiots who make a bunch of whitetrash bullshit arguements or sarcasticaly say crap when really your sad and pathetic

    • 5 months ago
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • hombre76:

      ok so you believe the CIA produced this tape with this message? i am asking you if you understand the impact of the message, not so much the validity of Osama's existence. Do u honestly believe the American government, or CIA, would want a message like this going around? im talking specifically about America's involvement in Israel and the corrupt companies that run the show.

    • 5 months ago
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  
    • hombre76:

      Evilliberalbastard,

      Che was a killer of poor people who has been romanticized by the ignorant into something else. Che personally ordered the deaths of uncooperative peasants and personally shot others. Read his books. He doesn't shy away from it.

      Punctuation works!

    • 5 months ago
  • clayjj05
  • evilliberalbastard
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      evilliberalbastard  
    • hombre76:

      actually i have and so far you rely on idiots to tell you what to do okay he killed those poor people with their like frank sinatra who was going to turn cuba into a casino resort man im so stupid jesus i need to watch a guy named glenn beck who said 9/11 victims are scum in 2005...idiots

    • 5 months ago
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  • jeffissleeping
  • Thomas_Canada

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