Bin Laden: I’ll Never Be Captured Alive

Posted on February 20, 2006

I found this new tape of Bin Laden to be quite interesting. Earlier this weekend, at the bookstore, I was skimming through some books. One was about an individual that followed Osama Bin Laden with a pistol, who’s job was to kill him if he were to ever be surrounded. According to what I read, Osama vowed that “martyrdom over capture” was to be preferred. Didn’t buy the book, but when I heard this it made me think of it.

Via Breitbart

Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the U.S. had resorted to the same “repressive” tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site.

The tape appeared to be a complete version of one that was first broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel, in which bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil.

“I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don’t want to die humiliated or deceived,” bin Laden said.

In drawing the comparison to American military behavior in Iraq to that of Saddam, the speaker said:

“The jihad is continuing with strength, for Allah be all the credit, despite all the barbarity, the repressive steps taken by the American Army and its agents, to the extent that there is no longer any mentionable difference between this criminality and the criminality of Saddam.”

With the implied criticism of Saddam, bin Laden appeared to be denying assertions by the Bush administration that the former Iraqi leader had ties to al-Qaida _ ties that were given as one rationale for invading Iraq.

The tape’s release in January came days after a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that was targeting bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and reportedly killed four leading al-Qaida figures, including possibly al-Zawahri’s son-in-law. There was no mention of the attack on the segments that were broadcast.

In the full tape that was posted Monday, bin Laden engaged in renewed propaganda, mocking President Bush’s aircraft carrier declaration in April 2003 that major conflict in Iraq had ended.

Speaking directly to the American people, the speaker said:

“You can rescue whatever you can from this hell. The solution is in your hands, if their (U.S. troops’) situation matters to you at all.”

The initial excerpts had been the first tape from the al-Qaida leader in more than a year _ the longest period without a message since the Sept. 11 2001 suicide hijackings in the United States.

Big Dog’s Weblog linked with Bin Laden Gets Donk’s Talking Points

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2 Responses to “Bin Laden: I’ll Never Be Captured Alive”

Fausta on February 20th, 2006 8:29 am

Wasn’t that the same tape in which he was offering a truce?
LomaAlta on February 20th, 2006 12:31 pm

I wish someone could convince bin Laden that Predators and Hellfires were a gift from Allah.
Then he might raise his face to the sky and search for them. Oh please bin Laden, keep seeking till you find them.