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http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/33124.htm

 MONSTER'S DEADLY WARNING TO 'RED' STATES

By NILES LATHEM
	
November 1, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden warned in his October 
Surprise video that he will be closely monitoring the state-by-state 
election returns in tomorrow's presidential race � and will spare any state 
that votes against President Bush from being attacked, according to a new 
analysis of his statement.

The respected Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors and 
translates Arabic media and Internet sites, said initial translations of a 
key portion of bin Laden's video rant to the American people Friday night 
missed an ostentatious bid by the Saudi-born terror master to divide 
American voters and tilt the election towards Democratic challenger John 
Kerry.

MEMRI said radical Islamist commentators monitored over the Internet this 
past weekend also interpreted the key passage of bin Laden's diatribe to 
mean that any U.S. state that votes to elect Bush on Tuesday will be 
considered an "enemy" and any state that votes for Kerry has "chosen to 
make peace with us."

The statement in question is when bin Laden said on the tape: "Your 
security is up to you, and any state that does not toy with our security 
automatically guarantees its own security."

That sentence followed a lengthy passage in the video in which bin Laden 
launches personal attacks on the president.

Yigal Carmon, president of MEMRI, said bin Laden used the Arabic term "ay-
wilaya" to refer to a "state" in that sentence.

That term "specifically refers to an American state, like Tennessee," 
Carmon said, adding that if bin Laden were referring to a "country" he 
would have used the Arabic word "dawla."

MEMRI also translated an analysis of bin Laden's statement from the 
Islamist Web site al-Qal'a, well known for posting al-Qaeda messages, which 
agreed that bin Laden's use of the word "ay-wilaya" was meant as a "warning 
to every U.S state separately."

"It means that any U.S. state that will choose to vote for the white thug 
Bush as president, it means that it chose to fight us and we will consider 
it an enemy to us, and any state that will vote against Bush, it means that 
it chose to make peace with us and we will not characterize it as an 
enemy," the Web site said, according to MEMRI's translation.