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Bin Laden’s Letter to America Was Probably Not Written by Him

Posted on the 09 May 2013 by Calvinthedog

Swedish Shit is a Hindutvadi and an extreme Islamophobe:

In a letter to America, purportedly written by Osama bin Laden published in the Observer on November 24th, the terrorist leader (or holy warrior depending on which side you are on) said:

“As for the second question that you want an answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?
(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.”

His confidence in eventual victory is shown from this verse from the Koran (61:9) that he quoted in the letter:
“It is He who has sent his Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it.”

Towards the end of the letter, Osama said:
“If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this crusade Bush began,

just like the other Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace.”

I had been studying Al Qaeda for quite some time via reading their materials on the Internet. A lot of my reading was on a site called Jihad Unspun, which may no longer exist. I had studied almost all of bin Laden’s writings in their English translations.

When the Letter to America came out, I immediately thought that this was not written by bin Laden. The style of the writing and the tone was quite a bit different. Bin Laden wrote in classical Arabic and when translated into English, it had a flowery and archaic tone about it. Furthermore the themes in Letter to America did not line up with previous themes. My gut feeling was that it was written by another author.

Somehow I managed to get ahold of the FBI office in Washington DC. They actually had a bin Laden or Al Qaeda office that was looking into bin Laden and Al Qaeda. However, I called on the weekend on an evening, and the office was closed for the weekend. Shouldn’t the bin Laden office have been working all the time? I left a message and told them I had info about bin Laden and Al Qaeda and to get back to me.

About a month later, a strange man called me up and soon identified himself as an FBI agent. He was suspicious of me and wondered what my connection to the Al Qaedists was. He also wanted to know why I was hanging out on radical Islam websites. It was creepy to go to the cops as with a tip against a suspect and be treated like a suspect yourself. When I told him I was not a Muslim convert, he calmed way down and pretty much shut down the suspicious tone. I also told him that I was a Leftist, and that we basically hated fundamentalist idiots, especially the Muslim kind. I told him my suspicions about the Letter to America not being written by bin Laden and he said they were sort of thinking that themselves. All in all, it was an interesting conversation, but I had to admit it left me a bit shaken.


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