Rabi' al-Thani 1427AH /May 2006 CE

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and

peace upon the Prophets and Messengers.

As for what follows:

From Usama bin Muhammad bin Ladin to the American people:

peace be upon he who has followed the Guidance.

This is a brief message whose topic is my testimony on behalf of the

Muslim prisoners you are holding, and in it I will talk about the truth

concerning them, which is something which the Bush administration

hates and is hostile to.

I begin by talking about the honorable brother Zacarias Moussaoui.

The truth is that he has no connection whatsoever with the events of

responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers – Allah have mercy upon

them – with those raids, and I did not assign brother Zacarias to be

with them on that mission. And his confession that he was assigned to

participate in those raids is a false confession which no intelligent

person doubts is a result of the pressure put upon him for the past

four and a half years. And were this pressure lifted from him for him

to return to his normal state, he would state the fact I mentioned. And

among the things that confirm this fact is that the participants in

pilot in order to control the aircraft. And since Zacarias Moussaoui

was learning how to fly, it follows that he wasn’t component #20 from

the teams which helped to control the airplanes, as your government

previously claimed, and your government knows this fact with

certainty. And if Moussaoui was studying aviation to become a pilot of

one of the planes, then let him tell us the names of those assigned to

help him control the plane. But he won’t be able to tell us their

names, for a simple reason: that in fact they don’t exist. This is from

one perspective, and from another perspective, the brother

Moussaoui was arrested two weeks before the events, and had he

we would have told the brother Commander Mohamed Atta and his

brothers – Allah have mercy upon them – to leave America

immediately before their affair was exposed. And with this it becomes

clear to even the novice investigator – not to mention the seasoned

one – that there is no connection between him and the events of

And then I call to memory my brothers the prisoners in

Guantanamo – may Allah free them all – and I state the fact, about

which I also am certain, that all the prisoners of Guantanamo, who

were captured in 2001 and the first half of 2002 and who number in

the hundreds, have no connection whatsoever to the events of

connection with al-Qaida in the first place, and even more amazing is

that some of them oppose al-Qaida’s methodology of calling for war

with America. And this is in addition to the arrest of those who were

working in the relief agencies, like Abu Abdul Aziz al-Mutrafi, or

those working in the media, like Sami al-Hajj and Taysir Alouni, who

was imprisoned at the instigation of the American administration. So

the conclusion is that all the prisoners to date have no connection

the exception of two of the brothers, may Allah free them all. Bush

and his administration are aware of this fact, but they avoid

mentioning it, for reasons not hidden to the discerning. Among these

reasons is that it is necessary to create justifications for the massive

spending of hundreds of billions on the Defense Department and

other agencies in their war against the Mujahideen. My mentioning of

these facts isn’t out of hope that Bush and his party will treat our

brothers fairly in their cases, because that is something no rational

person expects, but rather it is meant to expose the oppression,

injustice and arbitrariness of your administration in using force and

the reactions that result from that. This is from one perspective, and

from another perspective, perhaps there will one day come from the

Americans someone who desires justice and fairness, and that is the

path to security and safety, if you are interested in it. This is what

needed to be said. And may peace be upon he who has followed the

Guidance.