Abu Jandal

You ask anybody in the street, how he think of Osama Bin Laden, I have no doubt that they will answer in unison : terrorist. Yes, we are in a state of mass deception .We have been deeply brainwashed by the mainstream media of the world, so what do you expect. I badly need an alternative angle with different state of mind. Then I came across an interview transcript of Bob Simon, a correspondent of CBS 60 Minutes who met Abu Jandal, a former Bin Laden’s closest bodyguard now living in Yemen. Abu Jandal is a man of dignity, a brave man who risk his life for what he believe.

Abu Jandal was the name by which he was known in al Qaeda. He is 33 years old and was with bin Laden in Afghanistan for four years, from 1996 to 2000. He did not speak to 60 Minutes to confess the errors of his ways. Abu Jandal is not a reformed terrorist. He believes today, as he did a decade ago, that al Qaeda is the way and Osama bin Laden is the man.
When he worked for bin Laden, Abu Jandal tells Simon he was often just a meter or a meter and a half away from the leader. And he was carrying two guns.
"I had my own gun, but there was also a special gun to be used if Sheikh Osama bin Laden was attacked and we were unable to save him, in which case I would have to kill him," Abu Jandal explains.

Listen to how Abu Jandal thinks about 9/11 when Simon asked him: “What’s your reaction when you see pictures on 9/11, when you see the video of the Twin Towers and the people falling out of the windows and people dying and shouting out in pain?" Simon asks Abu Jandal.
"I compare it to the images from the bombing of a shelter in Baghdad, to the killings of Muslims in Iraq by air strikes," he replies. "It reminds me of the pictures of those missiles fired on the Iraqi people with 'Happy Ramadan' written on them."

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