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Trial Exhibit: GX-AF00007T.1 Translator’s Notes: UF= UNKNOWN FEMALE UI= UNINTELLIGIBLE PH= Sounds like or looks like [sic] = Exactly as it has been said Translator’s notes or comments are also enclosed in square brackets, often – but not always- preceded by TN, e.g. [TN:] . BEGIN TRANSLATION 0: Usama Bin Laden {UBL}: [UI] = Azzam [PH] told me . . . not to record anything . . . so, I thought that was a good omen . . . a little before these operations occurred this year [UI] . Our brother, Abu al-Hasan al-Masri who appeared in it. He appeared in al-Jazeera TV a few days ago. He said to the Americans, “If you are [UI] . . . “ Two Ums [in the background] : Yes. UBL: [UI] . So, he said . . . he said he saw a dream . . . “I saw that we were playing as a team – the Americans . . . Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. UBL: [continuing to talk about what Abu al-Hasan al-Masri’s said about his dream] “But – and I am wondering . . . all the members of our team are pilots. Is this a ball or an airplane?” [Unidentified Sheikh laughing] UM [in the background]: Praise be to God. UBL: [UI] - they are the pilots. [laughing] Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. UBL: And he [Abu al-Hasan al-Masri] does not know anything about the operation until he heard about it on the radio. Unidentified Sheikh: God is the greatest. UBL: He
did not know anything. He said, “The game
went on, and we defeated
them.” So, I thought that was a good
omen. Unidentified Sheikh: God is the greatest. God has willed it. UM1: Our brother, Abd-al-Rahman . . . [PH, LNU, UI]. [A male coughing] Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (PH): [UI] I saw that I was sitting with the Sheikh in the room, then I left from one room to another, where there was a TV set. All of a sudden, the TV broadcast a huge event. The scene was of an Egyptian family – Do you know when there is a game and the team wins and people’s emotions are broadcast on TV screens . . . An Egyptian family is sitting – the father, the mother and the children – the older son [words cut off] he is overjoyed . . . overjoyed. A caption was shown on the TV, stating, “In revenge for the children of al-Aqsa. Usama Bin Laden executes strikes against the Americans.” Unidentified Sheikh: God is the greatest! Sulaiman Abu Ghaith: I said to the Sheikh [Bin Laden] – there were, I think, about fifty or sixty people. He said to me, “That’s okay. As long as I . . . [laughing] Unidentified Sheikh: Before the – the – Sulaiman Abu Ghaith: Before – I swear – before the operation. UBL: I swear that he did not know about the – he knew there were operations . . . everybody knew – Unidentified Sheikh: That’s true. Praise be to God. UBL: [UI] Muhammad ‘Ata [PH], may God have mercy on him, was responsible for the Egyptian family . . . Unidentified Sheikh: This is true.
For an airplane to hit such spots . . . person . . . . He
was a pious man in the organization . . . a martyr . . . he said, “I
saw as if
I was riding on an airplane and the Sultan, the . . . of the
organization, a
big man. He said, “I will remain
steadfast and I will carry you on my back.
Don’t worry about the road.”
Sheikh [addressing Bin Laden], he pulled me for half a
kilometer in the
desert. He pulled me hard.
I prayed to God to help him. He
said, “What I mean – I saw as if we were
riding an airplane –“ He said – this is
long ago – last year – I did not understand – I mean – [I told the man]
“I swear,
my brother, I don’t understand you. Go
see [someone who can understand you]” – He said – he said, “I wanted to
go for
Jihad, but they happened to land in UBL: The
brothers who executed . . . .
All they knew was that there was a martyrdom operation. They were asked to go to the [male voices in the background] Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. UBL: They were just getting trained. . . . They were not told about things there until a short period of time before they boarded [the airplanes] . . . Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. 0: UBL: [UI] in the airplane, and they are going very fast and it is hitting the building – and the operation is going on . . . [laughing] . . . They broke the good news. We said, God bless you. . .” [UBL and males laughing] Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. UBL: [Addressing an UM who cannot be seen on the tape] It was easy, right? UM: Yes . . . Unidentified Sheikh: Thanks are to God, to whom all perfection and majesty are ascribed. UM: The dream of . . . Unidentified Voice: Huh? UM: The dream of, what is his name, the brother of Daoud [PH, LNU]. Unidentified Voice in the background: Sa’d [PH, LNU]. UM: Sa’d . . . UBL: No, no, Al-Ghumaidi. Unidentified Voice: Al-Ghumaidi UBL: One
of the brothers in Unidentified Sheikh: True. God Bless. Unidentified Voice in the background: All . . . was known by the name Ghumad [PH] . . . Unidentified Sheikh: Praise be to God. UBL: And most of them . . . Unidentified Sheikh: True. UBL: [UI]. So, he said he saw the Ghunaidi . . . a lot of them . . . Unidentified Sheikh: Yes. UBL: He
said he saw them in [Unidentified Sheikh mumbling] UBL: And he started teaching them Karate. I was afraid the secret would come out if each one of them was going to see a vision. Unidentified Sheikh: True. UBL: So, I closed the subject. I told him, “If al-Ghumaidi family hears you say that, they will be upset.” Unidentified Sheikh: Yes, yes, yes [laughing] 0: UBL: [UI] [Addressing an UM in the background] What did you see [in your dream]? UM: [UI, laughing] I saw – there were two airplanes coming and they caused a huge explosion - Unidentified Sheikh: God is the greatest. UM: - to the extent that I was afraid . . .to see the scene [of explosion] . . . I felt that there was something, I mean. So I said to the Sheikh, “Let us go.” He said, “Be patient, maybe. . .” [a male coughing] Unidentified Sheikh: In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. UM: [talking about his dream and that the Sheikh told him:] “Be patient. . . be patient. . . maybe other things will happen.” [a male coughing] Unidentified Sheikh: God has willed it. [a male coughing] Was this after the first airplane [hit] ? UM: Before – before – the entire operation. UM: Then, we went . . . the operation. . . there remained – remained. . . [laughing] UBL: They were overjoyed with the first airplane – Unidentified Sheikh: The first one. UBL: They thought that this was all. I told them, “Be patient.” [laughing] Unidentified Sheikh: By God, this was amazing. By God, Sheikh, when people felt – announcing [the news about} the airplane and . . . they could not believe it. They were amazed, in the first place, to see this success. And then, what kind of brains do those people have? How stupid can they be? Approximately twenty minutes, I mean, twenty minutes, eighteen minutes – UBL: Between the first one and the Pentagon [airplane], there was one hour. Unidentified Sheikh: One hour? UBL: Between the first one and the Pentagon [one]. Unidentified Sheikh: By God – UM in the background: After the Pentago [was hit], they started mobilizing by air and sea, and this one went underground and the other one went to a hiding place. Unidentified Sheikh: I mean, truly, you see UM in the background: [UI] [A male coughing] |