Transcript of Bin Laden Recording

Feb. 11, 2003 — -- A new audiotape verified as coming from Osama bin Laden urged suicide attacks against Americans. Read bin Laden's remarks here, as transcribed by ABCNEWS.

In the name of God, the merciful, the benevolent, this is a message to our Muslim brothers in Iraq, peace be on you, and God's mercy and blessings. You believers be pious and don't die unless you are Muslims, now, we follow with great attention and a lot of scrutiny, the preparations that the crusaders are doing to occupy the capital of Islam in the past and to usurp the wealth of Muslims and to put up a puppet government to control you.

This government will follow orders from its masters in Washington and in Tel Aviv, exactly like all the other agent puppet governments as prelude to establish the big Israel. We only have God to depend upon. God is our agent.

We would like to assert that this unjust war, the war of the infidels and the nonbelievers, which is lead by America and its allies and its agents, is launched to attain some important aims.

First, the sincerity of the intent for the fight has to be only for the sake of God, not to make nationalities win and not to support the archaic systems that pervade all over the Arab states, including Iraq.

God said, those who believe fight for the sake of god. But, the infidels fight for the sake of the despots. So, fight the agents of the devil because the devil has devious manner.

We remind you that victory comes only from God Almighty. All that we have to do is to prepare, instigate, and do Jihad. God Almighty said, if you support God, he will support you and make you victorious.

Second, we have to hasten and repent to God from our sins, esp. the big sins, as the prophet, God's prayers and peace be upon him, said, stay away from the seven sins, to worship more than one god, to do magic, to kill people whom God prevented you to kill, to take interest on money, to take the money of orphans, and doing something during the day of judgment, and the killing of pious women, in addition to all the big sins, such as drinking alcohol, adultery, disobeying parents, and bearing false witness. We have to hasten to obey God in general, and mention him all the time when the battle starts.

Abul Dardaa, God bless his soul, said, a good deed done before invasion means that you fight with your deeds.

Third, we realized from our defense and our fight with the American enemy that it depends, to a large extent, on the psychological warfare during its fight because it possesses a huge propaganda apparatus. Also, it depends on intensive air bombing and, that is to hide its biggest weakness point which is fear, coward ness, and the lack of the fighting spirit within the American soldiers.

Those soldiers are completely convinced of the lies and the unjust attitude of their government. Also, they miss a just cause to defend. The only fight for the interests of the rich and those that lend their money for interest and the traders of arms and oil, including the gang of crime in the White House.