November 1, 2004 — WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden warned in his October Surprise video that he will be closely monitoring the state-by-state election returns in tomorrow’s presidential race — and will spare any state that votes against President Bush from being attacked, according to a new analysis of his statement.
The respected Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors and translates Arabic media and Internet sites, said initial translations of a key portion of bin Laden’s video rant to the American people Friday night missed an ostentatious bid by the Saudi-born terror master to divide American voters and tilt the election towards Democratic challenger John Kerry.
MEMRI said radical Islamist commentators monitored over the Internet this past weekend also interpreted the key passage of bin Laden’s diatribe to mean that any U.S. state that votes to elect Bush on Tuesday will be considered an “enemy” and any state that votes for Kerry has “chosen to make peace with us.”
The statement in question is when bin Laden said on the tape: “Your security is up to you, and any state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security.”
That sentence followed a lengthy passage in the video in which bin Laden launches personal attacks on the president.
Are you going to vote for the same guy that Osama bin Laden would if he was an American citizen? Any idea why Bin Laden wants Kerry elected? It’s because he knows that Kerry will not pursue his friends as thoroughly as the current administration has. One by one Bush is dismantling Al Qaeda; Bin Laden knows this and is trying to do anything he can to tip the scales towards his candidate of choice: John Kerry.
