I meant to send this final version to D.O. this morning:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling D. Allan" <sterlingda@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: My Retraction: Bin Laden no holy man


Introduction to:
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/911/OsamabinLaden/
Osama bin Laden -- Monster of an Islamic Moses
(But even he is not as devilish as those pulling the strings behind the
scenes)

Hello friends,

I need to retract a statement I made on Sept 20 to the effect that Osama bin
Laden is not a "raving mad man."

He is. But he is not the only one.

My changed opinion came from reading an article about him in Time Magazine,
including several quotes from him.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/wosama.html

Normally, I am quite suspicious of articles from pro-NWO media organs such
as Time, but while they might be biased in what they cover and how, when
they quote a person's words, those can stand by themselves. It was Bin
Laden's words that convinced me he is no holy man. I also read a rather
lengthy interview that ABC did with bin Laden.

Ill-informed as I was about this side of Bin Laden, prior to reading this
information, I couldn't help but imagine that perhaps bin Laden is some sort
of Moses for Islam in their quest to throw off corrupt foreign occupation of
their land. Indeed, there is a lot of corruption in Western governments and
the supposed reasons for being over there.

The quote that synched for me that he was no holy man was a transcript from
a video tape during his sons wedding in which he commented regarding the
U.S.S. Cole. "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like
dust particles. If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would
have been filled with joy."

He is one scary man, taking Old Testament brutality to the nth degree, and
doing so with a pious zeal of being convinced he is carrying out God's will.
In an interview with ABC in 1998, he prefaces every reply with "praise be to

God."
abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/transcript_binladen1_981228.html

In that interview, he said, "In today's wars, there are no morals. We
believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are
the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or
civilians. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets."

Another thing that appalled me to the core was that the Taliban, who harbors
him, and who is in power in Afghanistan at the time, prohibits T.V., music,
photographs; has public executions; bans work for women and schooling for
girls. Men are forced to grow beards.

My opinion remains the same regarding our Muslim brothers in general -- that
we should seek for reconciliation with them. Osama Bin Laden represents a
horrific fanatical extreme that is not in harmony with the true essence of
the religion he claims to be protecting and enforcing and propagating by
force of arms.

I agree with President Bush' statement: "The terrorists practice a fringe
form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the
vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the
peaceful teachings of Islam."

According to the Time Magazine report, "Officially, he is committed to
preparing for a worldwide Islamic state, but for now he focuses on
eradicating infidels from Islamic lands."

What troubles me most about this is that in our day of enlightenment that a
man such as this would have the backing that he has. And what troubles me
even more now is the awareness that there were dark elements in the
U.S./international government who have been setting the stage for and even
helping foment this conflict between Muslim extremists and the
Judeo-Christian West, in order to serve their own purposes of creating a
world socialist dictatorship (too keep everything in line -- which they
helped get out of line).

My friend Bill Doughty saw this one coming more than a decade ago. He
described in detail how one of the "side shows" of the New World Order
insiders at that time was to purposely humiliate and intimidate the Muslim
world so as to increase their anger and hatret toward the West, so they
could then use this as the next "threat to world peace" against which to
unite the world (under a socialist leadership) in opposition.

What a mess.

I don't know how it's going to happen, but somehow through all of this
wickedness is going to emerge a society of peace based on freedom and
righteous goodness through free will, not coercion, either by the Hitlers or
Stalins or bin Ladens of the world.

But even more sinister than the Hitlers, Stalins, and bin Ladens are the
monsters behind the scenes who through all these years have been pulling the
strings through various financial and other manipulations, who wish to bring
the entire planet under a socialist "benevolent dictatorship," of course
with themselves at the head.

They have converts to their Marxist cause in every element of society, and
for most of this century have enamored most of the elite leadership of the
United States, turning the U.S. into the primary base of operations for
establishing world Socialism -- an agenda that would never be confirmed, but
which is as obvious as the emporer who was wearing no clothes.

May freedom prevail, and righteousness born of free will -- the ideal that
is obvious to most hearts as being supreme; the ideal that will someday,
hopefully soon, prevail.

Hopefully we can get to that point through persuasion, and the enemies of
that ideal won't have to decamate each other, leaving only a few to inhabit
this earth that will have to be cleansed by God's purifying power to make it
once more inhabitable after all the nuclear, biological, chemical demons
have been unleashed by wars fomented to fight Frankensteins like Osama Bin
Laden -- a monster of our making.

Sincerely,

Sterling D. Allan
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/911/
Prophetic Ramifications of the 911 Attack (Index)