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以下は、ワシントンポスト紙からのラディンの新コメントです。

He accused the West of double standards in the bombing offensive against Afghanistan's erstwhile rulers, the Taliban, and its attacks on his al Qaeda network.

"When the youths detonated (bombs) in Nairobi of less than two tons, America said that this was a terrorist strike and that this was a weapon of mass destruction, but it has used two bombs, each weighing seven tonnes, and it is not ashamed of that.

"It is their right to annihilate people as long as they are Muslims and not Americans. This is a crime of its clearest form," he declared.

Bin Laden said Washington had attacked Afghanistan on mere suspicion of involvement.

"How many [Afghan] villages were annihilated without committing any crime? How many, if we calculate, millions of people were made homeless during the biting cold, and how many of these oppressed men, women and children are now sheltering in tents in Pakistan?

"They have not committed any crime. America launched this campaign based on a suspicion."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27581-2001Dec26.html

元々は、アラビア語で語られたものを英訳されているので、100％このとおりにラディンが語ったのかどうかは、分かりませんが、アメリカがわざわざ、こういう内容（アメリカを糾弾している）をでっち上げる理由は あまりありませんから、彼の言葉だと思います。しかし、もし、このヴィデオが、つい最近 撮られたのなら、アメリカが公表した、「証拠ビデオ」の信憑性について、ラディン氏が触れない筈は無いと思うのです。ですから、このビデオは、それが公表される前に、収録された物と思われます。