Annie
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I remembered there had been something about bin Laden and a truce earlier. I searched but couldn't find it, link is in here-at site:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_01_15_corner-archive.asp#087716
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_01_15_corner-archive.asp#087716
YET ANOTHER BIN LADEN 'TRUCE' [John Podhoretz]
This isn't the first time that Bin Laden has offered America a "deal." In the Bin Laden tape released a few days before the November 2004 election, he essentially offered a separate peace deal to U.S. states that voted against the president: "Any U.S. state that does not toy with our security automatically guarantees its own security," he said, according to the invaluable translation by Yigal Carmon of the Middle East Media Research Institute. This wasn't much noted at the time because the sentence was originally mistranslated by U.S. media sources to suggest Bin Laden was offering a truce to other nations, not the 50 states of the Union. UPDATE: Several e-mailers point out that there was controversy surrounding MEMRI's translation, and that the U.S. government translation also had Bin Laden offering the deal to other "nations," not to U.S. states. Yigal Carmon, MEMRI's head honcho and chief translator, has dedicated his career to these matters and I think there's every reason to trust his translation over the anonymous U.S. government's version.
Posted at 11:17 AM