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Tue Aug 24 19:27:37 1999
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 00:52:59 +0200 (CEST)
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http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/binladintranscript.html
Transcript of "Usamah Bin-Ladin, the
Destruction of the Base"
Interview with Usamah Bin-Ladin
Presented by Salah Najm
Conducted by Jamal Isma'il in an unspecified location in
Afghanistan
Aired 10 June 1999
[Salah Najm] When Bin-Ladin's name is mentioned, a number of
conflicting ideas cross one's mind. Wealth, asceticism, terrorist,
heroism, and Jihad. What links all these words together is this man,
whom some people consider to be a devil, while others believe he is
a fighter with a cause.
[Usamah Bin-Ladin] Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-'Awad Bin-Ladin.
God Almighty was gracious enough for me to be born to Muslim
parents in the Arabian Peninsula, in al-Malazz neighborhood in
al-Riyadh, in 1377 hegira [1957 or 1958 depending on the month in
which he was born]. Then God was gracious to us as we went to
Holy Medinah six months after I was born. For the rest of my life I
stayed in Hejaz moving between Mecca, Jeddah, and Medinah.
As it is well known, my father, Shaykh Muhammad Bin-'Awad
Bin-Ladin, was born in Hadramaut. He went to work in Hejaz at an
early age, more than 70 years ago. Then God blessed him and
bestowed on him an honor that no other contractor has known. He
built the holy Mecca Mosque where the holy Kaabah is located and
at the same time -- because of God's blessings to him -- he built the
holy mosque in Medinah for our prophet, God's prayers be upon
him. Then when he found out that the Government of Jordan
announced a tender for restoration work on the Dome of the Rock
Mosque, he gathered engineers and asked them to estimate the
cost price only, without profit. They said to him: With God's help, we
will be awarded the project and make some profit as well. He said to
them: Calculate only the cost price of the project. When they did,
they were surprised that he, God have mercy on his soul, reduced
the cost price in order to guarantee that God's mosques, and this
mosque in particular, are well served. He was awarded the project.
Because of God's graciousness to him, sometimes he prayed in all
three mosques in one single day. May God have mercy on his soul.
It is not a secret that he was one of the founders of the infrastructure
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Afterward, I studied in Hejaz. I studied economy at Jeddah
University, or the so-called King 'Abd-al-'Aziz University. I worked at
an early age on roads in my father's company, may God have mercy
on his soul. My father died when I was 10 years old.
This is something brief about Usamah Bin-Ladin. As to what he
[Usamah Bin-Ladin] wants; what he wants and demands is the right
of any living being. We want our land to be freed of the enemies, we
want our land be free of the Americans. God equipped these living
creatures with an instinctive zeal and they refuse to be intruded
upon. For instance, if an armed military man walks into a chicken's
home wanting to attack it, the chicken will fight back and it is only a
chicken. We are demanding a right given to all living creatures, not
to mention the fact that it a right for all human beings, and a right for
Muslims in particular.
... snip ....
