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((Short description|Address by Osama bin Laden))
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[[Image:2004-10-29 Bin Laden still.jpg|frame|A still of the 2004 [[Osama bin Laden]] video]]

On October 29, 2004, at 21:00 [[UTC]], [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] broadcast excerpts allegedly from a videotape of [[Osama bin Laden]] addressing the people of the [[United States]]; in this video, he accepts responsibility for the [[September 11 attacks]], condemns the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] government's response to those attacks, and presents those attacks as part of a campaign of revenge and deterrence motivated by his witnessing of the destruction in the [[Lebanese Civil War]] in 1982. News analysts speculated that the release of the video was timed to influence the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 U.S. presidential election]], which would take place four days later.

==Content==
The video is reported to be 18 minutes in length; bin Laden only speaks for 14 minutes 39 seconds.<ref name="Bush-KerryResponse">((cite news |date=2004-10-30|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/binladen.tape/index.html|title=Bin Laden: Al Qaeda motivated to strike U.S. again|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=2008-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210052450/http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/binladen.tape/index.html |archive-date=10 December 2008  |url-status=live))</ref> [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]] released a transcript of the complete tape on November 1, 2004.<ref name="alj2004">((cite news |date=2004-11-01|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/archive/2004/11/200849163336457223.html |title=Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]]|access-date=2008-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116092323/http://english.aljazeera.net/archive/2004/11/200849163336457223.html |archive-date=16 November 2008  |url-status=dead))</ref>

Bin Laden appears wearing a [[turban]] and a white robe partially covered by a golden [[Mantle (clothing)|mantle]], standing in front of an almost featureless brown background and reading his comments from papers resting on a lectern. He moves both of his arms (dispelling rumors that one of them is limp after having been wounded) and looks healthy as far as can be told, but a bit older and greyer than in his former tapes. His remarks, in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] but addressed to citizens of the [[United States]], instruct them that "the best way to avoid another [[Manhattan]]" (a reference to the September 11, 2001 attacks), is to not threaten the security of Muslim nations, such as [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and [[Lebanon]].

He speaks of his desire to bankrupt the United States, saying:

<blockquote>[It is] easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaeda, in order to make the generals race there and cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses. ... This is in addition to our having experience in using [[guerrilla warfare]] and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the [[Afghan mujahideen|mujahidin]], [[Soviet–Afghan War|bled]] [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russia]] for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was [[Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan|forced to withdraw in defeat]].</blockquote>

He dismisses as rhetoric claims by [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] that the attacks occurred because [[Islamic extremism|Islamic extremists]] "hate freedom", saying: "If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn't attack [[Sweden]], for example. It is known that freedom-haters don't have defiant spirits like those of [[Hijackers in the September 11 attacks|the 19]]—may God have mercy on them".<ref name="alj2004"/>

Bin Laden further accuses U.S. President George W. Bush of misleading the American people during the previous three years—"Despite entering the fourth year after September 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened"—as well as criticizing Bush's actions on the day of the attacks: "It never occurred to us that the [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the country would leave 50,000 citizens in the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|two towers]] to face those horrors alone, the time when they most needed him. But because it seemed to him that occupying himself because he thought [[Emma E. Booker Elementary School#2001 visit from President Bush|by talking to the little girl]] about the [[The Pet Goat|goats]] and its butting was more important than occupying himself with the planes..."<ref name="alj2004" />

==Immediate reactions==
[[Image:20041029-18 bush statement.jpg|thumb|250px|George W. Bush delivered a short statement to the media in front of [[Air Force One]] at Toledo, Ohio Express Airport, hours after the tape was broadcast.]]

George W. Bush said:
<blockquote>Let me make this very clear: Americans will not be intimidated or influenced by an enemy of our country. I'm sure [[John Kerry|Senator Kerry]] agrees with this. I also want to say to the American people that we're at war with these terrorists and I am confident that we will prevail.<ref name="Bush-KerryResponse" /></blockquote>

Democratic presidential nominee Senator [[John Kerry]] said:
<blockquote>Let me make it clear, crystal clear: as Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. They are barbarians, and I will stop at absolutely nothing to hunt down, capture or kill the terrorists wherever they are, whatever it takes. Period.<ref name="Bush-KerryResponse" /></blockquote>

==Intelligence response==
((More citations needed section|date=January 2021))
Even though [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] (when broadcasting the footage on its evening newscast) did not disclose the source of the video, sources within the United States intelligence community have confirmed((Citation needed|date=October 2014)) that the speaker, who appears behind a lectern, is indeed bin Laden. By mentioning 2004 U.S. presidential candidate [[John Kerry]] by name, the tape seemed to prove that bin Laden was still alive at least midway through 2004, which was not known with certainty at the time.

According to the [[Agence France-Presse]], U.S. diplomats in [[Qatar]] were given a copy of a videotape of bin Laden before it aired on Al Jazeera; the diplomats unsuccessfully sought to prevent the [[Arabic language]] network from broadcasting it.<ref>((cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/30/1099028265955.html |title=US tried to stop Al-Jazeera broadcast |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=October 31, 2004))</ref> The [[United States State Department]] requested that the government of [[Qatar]] (where Al Jazeera is located) discourage the station from airing the videotape, according to a senior State Department official.

Even though the tape was analyzed by American intelligence to determine if it contains any coded messages to operatives, [[White House Press Secretary]] [[Scott McClellan]] commented that there were no plans to raise the [[Homeland Security Advisory System|U.S. terrorism alert level]], as no specific threats were made in the tape.<ref>((cite news |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/10/20041029-21.html |title=Press Gaggle by Scott McClellan |date=October 29, 2004 |work=Office of the Press Secretary))</ref> 

According to [[Robert Parry (journalist)|Robert Parry]], [[Ron Suskind]] noted that the CIA analysis of the video led them to the consensus view that the tape was designed strategically to help President Bush win reelection in 2004. Deputy CIA director [[John E. McLaughlin]] noted at one meeting, "Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President." Suskind quoted [[Jami Miscik]], CIA deputy associate director for intelligence, as saying "Certainly, he would want Bush to keep doing what he's doing for a few more years."<ref>((cite news |last=Parry |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Parry (journalist) |url=http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/070306.html |title=CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04 |website=[[Robert Parry (journalist)|Consortium News]] |date=July 4, 2006))</ref> The same speculation has been made by [[Bahukutumbi Raman]].<ref>((cite web |last=Raman |first=Bahukutumbi |title=OBL's tape: One more spin in US presidential campaign? |date=2004-11-01 |url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers12/paper1155.html |access-date=2008-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029023122/http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers12/paper1155.html |archive-date=2008-10-29 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

==Public response==
The 2004 tape boosted the popularity of President Bush. He opened up a six-point lead over Kerry in the first opinion poll to include sampling taken after the videotape was broadcast.<ref>((cite news |first=Philip |last=Sherwell |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1475515/Bush-takes-a-six-point-lead-after-new-bin-Laden-tape.html |title=Bush takes a six-point lead after new bin Laden tape |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2004-11-01 |access-date=2008-11-16| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206183353/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1475515/Bush-takes-a-six-point-lead-after-new-bin-Laden-tape.html| archive-date=6 December 2008 | url-status=live))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://themonkeycage.org/2012/11/03/the-2004-october-surprise-and-what-it-means-for-2012/|title=The 2004 October Surprise, and What It Means for 2012|author1-link=John M. Sides|last=Sides|first=John|date=3 November 2012|publisher=The Monkey Cage|access-date=4 August 2014))</ref> However, Kerry won the category of people who considered the tape "very important" 53% to 47% according to CNN's exit poll.<ref>((cite web |title=Election 2004 |url=http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html |website=CNN.com |access-date=8 July 2021))</ref>

==See also==
* [[Videos and audio recordings of Osama bin Laden]]
* [[2007 Osama bin Laden video]]
* [[October surprise]]
* ''[[The One Percent Doctrine]]''

==References==
((Reflist))

==Sources==
* [http://www.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=97259 Complete Arabic text of 2004 Osama bin Laden videotape on al-Jazeera] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619233547/http://www.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=97259 |date=2006-06-19 ))
* [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/11/1/full-transcript-of-bin-ladins-speech Complete English translation text of 2004 Osama bin Laden videotape on Al-Jazeera]
* Michael, Maggie. ''[http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20041029-1423-binladentape.html Bin Laden, in statement to U.S. people, says he ordered Sept. 11 attacks]''. The Associated Press. October 29, 2004.
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3966817.stm Excerpts] from the BBC. October 29, 2004.
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