Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” justifying the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States resurfaced this week amid conflicts in the Middle East.
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Osama bin Laden “is right,” says a user on TikTok after reading paragraph (f) of the manifesto.
In this article (f), Osama bin Laden accuses the United States of plunging millions of Iraqis into famine due to sanctions imposed on the country and denounces Western inaction.
“When 3,000 of your citizens die, the whole world rises up,” he continued in the letter.
“Everyone should read it”
Another young woman also questioned the American government’s explanations to citizens about the reasons for the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
“[le gouvernement] said: “[les terroristes] I hate Americans because we are free and they are not,” she remembers.
The young woman continues to read excerpts from the letter in which Osama bin Laden denounces the United States’ alliance with Israel and accuses the Jewish state of “being an oppressor and occupying their land.”
A statement that, according to the terrorist, justifies the deaths of the 3,000 Americans who died in the destruction of the Twin Towers.
“I think they killed Osama bin Laden because he tried to open the eyes of the Americans,” the user claims in the final minutes of her video.
“Everyone should read it,” said a third woman on social media.
Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” is currently going viral on TikTok in the US as indoctrinated young people embrace the Islamist terrorist leader’s anti-Semitic message. pic.twitter.com/k2V1pXkUWF
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“Be warned, however,” she continues, “this letter outraged me and I feel the same way I did when I deconstructed the Christian religion.”
The Guardian removed the letter from its website
The British newspaper The Guardian has removed a link to a 2002 letter attributed to Osama bin Laden in which he claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks, denounced American support for Israel and called for revenge on the Palestinian people . A text that is now widely shared on social networks and taken out of context, in the middle of the Hamas-Israel war.
The document was “withdrawn” on Wednesday, the Guardian’s website now says, replacing the text that has gone viral on social networks in recent days and has often been associated with positive comments.
“This transcript posted on our website was widely shared on social media without full context. We have therefore decided to remove it and instead redirect our readers to the article that originally contextualized it,” specifies the newspaper.
In this “Letter to America,” Osama bin Laden, who was killed by an elite American force in northern Pakistan in 2011, justified the September 11 attacks in the United States and threatened a new attack on Western interests.
This letter, which also calls for revenge against the Palestinian people, resurfaced notably on TikTok in the context of the conflict sparked by the deadly attack in Israel on October 7 by Hamas, which in retaliation promised to eradicate and annihilate the Islamist group At the top is massive bombings in the Gaza Strip.
The origin of the letter’s resurgence has been linked by several media outlets to a video posted on TikTok by an influencer on Tuesday.
***In collaboration with Agence France-Presse***