On June 1, 2016, the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence released a letter written by Osama bin Laden
to the American people that was found in his compound in Abbottabad. The letter
is undated but appears to have been written early in Barack Obama’s presidency.
Despite the letter’s surprising content, reporting about the letter never
really broke through the endless news cycle.
The translated version
makes it sound like bin Laden followed American political debates quite closely
and had started to rewrite his arguments to make them more persuasive to
Americans, or at least some groups of Americans.
To the American people, Peace be upon those
who follow the righteous track. Hereafter, The subject of my talk to you is the
overwhelming control of capital (Var.: money) and its effect on the ongoing war
between us. I direct my talk specifically to those who support real change,
especially the youth.
Your current president [Obama] warns you
now about the enormity of capital control and it has a cycle whereby it devours
humanity when it is devoid of the precepts of God’s law (Shari’a). The tyranny
of the control of capital by large companies has harmed your economy, as it did
ours, and that was my motivation for this talk. Tens of millions of you
are below the poverty line, millions have lost their homes, and millions have
lost their jobs to mark the highest average unemployment in 60 years. Your financial
system in its totality was about to collapse within 48 hours had not the
administration reverted to using taxpayer’s money to rescue the vultures by
using the assets of the victims…
Whoever enters the White House, even
with good intentions to safeguard the peoples’ interest, is no more than a
train operator. His only task is to keep the train on the tracks that are laid
down by the lobbyists in New York and Washington to serve their interests
first, even if it is counter to your security and economy. Any president who
tries to move the train from the lobbyist’s tracks to a track for the American
people’s interests will confront very strong opposition and pressures from the
lobbyists.
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