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The purported message from the Al Qaeda leader says that, in pressing for the campaign against militants in Swat Valley, Obama has 'planted new seeds of hatred and vengeance towards America.'
By Mark Silva
7:16 AM PDT, June 3, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- An audiotaped message attributed to Osama bin Laden airing on the Arab-language satellite TV station Al Jazeera today contends that President Obama has inflamed hatred toward by the United States by ordering Pakistan to crack down in militants in the Swat Valley and block Islamic law.
The purported message from the fugitive Al Qaeda leader claims that U.S. pressure led to a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that prompted the exodus of a million Muslims from the valley in northwestern Pakistan.
The message was broadcast by Al Jazeera Television at almost the same moment that Obama landed in Saudi Arabia at the start of a tour aimed at repairing U.S. relations with the Muslim world.
In the tape, the speaker accuses Obama of ordering Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to "prevent the people of Swat from implementing the Sharia law by fighting and killing them through bombings and destruction. This has led 1 million Muslims, elderly people, women and children, to flee their homes and villages and live in tents after they'd been living with dignity in their homes.
"This simply means that Obama and his administration have planted new seeds of hatred and vengeance towards America," the message, translated into English, continues. "The number of these seeds equates that of those who have suffered and been made homeless in the Swat Valley and the tribal areas in northern and southern Waziristan as well as those who sympathize with them.
"In this manner," the speaker says, "Obama appears to have followed the same path taken by his predecessor, in creating more enmity towards Muslims, and adding on to the fighting enemies, thus paving the way for new long wars. Let the American people prepare to continue harvesting what their White House leaders grow, in the years and decades to come."
By Mark Silva
7:16 AM PDT, June 3, 2009
Reporting from Washington -- An audiotaped message attributed to Osama bin Laden airing on the Arab-language satellite TV station Al Jazeera today contends that President Obama has inflamed hatred toward by the United States by ordering Pakistan to crack down in militants in the Swat Valley and block Islamic law.
The purported message from the fugitive Al Qaeda leader claims that U.S. pressure led to a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that prompted the exodus of a million Muslims from the valley in northwestern Pakistan.
The message was broadcast by Al Jazeera Television at almost the same moment that Obama landed in Saudi Arabia at the start of a tour aimed at repairing U.S. relations with the Muslim world.
In the tape, the speaker accuses Obama of ordering Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to "prevent the people of Swat from implementing the Sharia law by fighting and killing them through bombings and destruction. This has led 1 million Muslims, elderly people, women and children, to flee their homes and villages and live in tents after they'd been living with dignity in their homes.
"This simply means that Obama and his administration have planted new seeds of hatred and vengeance towards America," the message, translated into English, continues. "The number of these seeds equates that of those who have suffered and been made homeless in the Swat Valley and the tribal areas in northern and southern Waziristan as well as those who sympathize with them.
"In this manner," the speaker says, "Obama appears to have followed the same path taken by his predecessor, in creating more enmity towards Muslims, and adding on to the fighting enemies, thus paving the way for new long wars. Let the American people prepare to continue harvesting what their White House leaders grow, in the years and decades to come."
