Original document by Nguyen Tran Ai in Vietnamese:
http://nguoidan.com/nd163/dslbtt.htm

Original translation by Google Translate.
Grammar corrections by David Turover.

Translation notes: 

* I do not know Vietnamese. There are guaranteed to be errors.
* HK is Hoa Ky, the United States.
* "cong ran can ga nha" is an idiom that translates roughly to having
chicken houses of snakebitten chicken, chickens carrying snakebite,
that sort of thing. I reduced it to "corruption". 
* "rut day dong rung" comes through Google as "unplug the forest". 

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Regional fire burns hot oil - U.S. VIII (continued, see from the NgD 156)
Nguyen Tran Ai

Osama bin Laden of Saudi Arabia, as a hero of Islam, defeated the Soviet
superpower in Afghanistan. The Saudi Royal Family, as the guardian of
the Islamic holy places, rejoiced and assigned to Osama very lucrative
work. Osama returned home after a decade of jihad. On 08/02/1990 Iraq
invaded Kuwait. The Saudi court was frantic, not knowing if they could
fight Saddam Hussein, especially when the Kuwait delegation, including
the Emir and the royal family, spilled into Arabia as refugees. Osama
immediately went to the capital, Riyadh, for Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz,
Minister of Defense, with a detailed defense plan 10 pages thick, convinced
that the royal family can use heavy construction equipment to dig trenches
to protect Saudi Arabia and mobilize the Afghan Arab mujahidin fighters 

to deal with Saddam Hussein rather than through the United States. He also
enthusiastically lectured that to invite or allow foreign forces to the
Saudi holy places is against the teachings of Islam and will lead to the
loss of Al-Saud as the spiritual leader of the Arab world. His stance at
that time was of an active citizen loyal to the royal dynasty. The Al-Saud
dynasty was divided. The nationalism of Saddam Hussein was an immediate
threat, the pressure of US concern about Kuwait being invaded and the risk
of oil being lost to Saddam made it hard to resist allowing Western forces
and US intervention, and the logical arguments of Osama bin Laden and the
consequences of the acceptance of US military intervention could not be
measured. 

Faced with this dilemma, early in the month of August 1990 King Fahd very
carefully consulted the Ulema. After very careful discussion, the Grand Mufti
Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Bin Baz reluctantly accepted on the condition that there
must be concrete evidence of a threat from Iraq. Then the King called for
President Bush to confirm the support of Saudi Arabia but with three
questions posed as three conditions (as discussed above). After Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney insisted that the US army, once no longer needed
there, will not spend another minute on the ground in Saudi Arabia, the king
summoned 350 clerics to Mecca and convinced them; they also reluctantly
consented to the temporary stationing of U.S. forces for the crisis. 
So far U.S. forces are still stationed there temporarily.

This situation also caused difficulty for Osama bin Laden. Avoiding
criticizing the Saudi royal family and still a source of intelligence
for the Saudi government, he traveled the country in two, on the one hand
condemning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and campaigning for the resistance, 
on the other opposing the current presence of US in Saudi Arabia as a
crime of blasphemy and inciting a boycott of the US, because the US
collects taxes to give Israel $3 billion a year to massacre the people
of Palestine so buying American is complicity with his brother's killers.
He warned that the Saudi kingdom should make the safest choice between
Islam and secularism. His stance conflicts with Muslim public opinion
at that time. Most Muslims supported Saddam Hussein, that he dared to
fight the Demon King US even though he was guilty of invading Kuwait
and lesser crimes of corruption. The Saudi Royal Court, regardless of the
position of Osama on Islamic scholarship, only seeing that the growing
prestige of Osama could be a threat, warned him that if he would not
stop the criticism, first much of his delicious food will be cut off,
after that the property can be confiscated, and finally his children
and extended family will be involved. Osama's only way to bring 
his
family members as refugees to Sudan, where Hassan al-Turabi was the
spiritual leader of the country.

Hassan al-Turabi was born May 2 1932 in Kassala, in the eastern part of
Sudan, son of a merchant-cum-Muslim scholar, victorious against
the British when they occupied Sudan; Turabi studied at the English
school Gordon College in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, graduating
from the law department in 1955, was a secret member of the Khartoum
branch of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt from 1951, now the leading
Islamic Liberation Movement of the university, a peripheral organization
of the Brotherhood. In 1955 he won a scholarship to the University of
London, and in 1967 obtained a PhD in Law; in 1959 studied at Sorbonne,
earned a Ph.D. in 1964, traveled around Europe and the US then in Sudan 
founded the Islamic Charter Front, wrote several books on politics and
religion, and advocated guidelines to merge Sharia law with the modern
legal system.

On 30/06/1989 Minister Omar al-Bashir came to power in Sudan by coup
d'etat and invited Turabi to participate in government. Since autumn
1991, especially since winter 1992, Islamic terrorists are active,
under the guise of International Muslim Brotherhood with the sponsorship
of Iran and the direction of Sheikh Turabi, presenting the concept of
total Islamic Revolution, regardless of the Sunnah and Ayatollah Khomeini's
Shia, utilizing the Armed Islamic Movement known as the International
Legion of Islam, most of whom had been trained in Islam and war in Afghanistan
(and were called Afghanistan no matter what nationality). Turabi was elected
as head of the Islamic Arab Peoples Conference which brings together the
terrorist organizations and popular movements of the 55 Muslim countries
met from 25 to 28 April 1991. This congress also created the Popular
International Organization. Iran volunteered to support Turabi in the
creation of the PIO with modern communication systems and to train
professionals. With this facility, Sudan set up two important high-level
training camps, al-Shambar and al-Mazraah, for the soldiers from Tunisia,
Algeria, France and Belgium to learn. On 18 October 1991 Iran convened the 
International Conference to Support the Islamic Revolution of the People of
Palestine. 400 delegates from 60 countries attended. Turabi and some leaders
of the PIO are invited to sit in a place of honor.

All of the activities of Turabi and the organization he founded, as well as
his contacts spread throughout the world, are too numerous to name. 

Osama bin Laden moved to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in 1991. On 5 July 
of that year, the Muslim world was shaken by the news that the Bank of England
had closed the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) sponsored by
Muslims and the rich Gulf states, famous for special services, from money
laundering to terrorist intelligence work; in the 1980 CIA also laundered
money through the bank and transfered money to mujaheddin in Afghanistan.
Uprooting the forest, this collapsed a series of financial institutions
and banks of Islamic terrorism around the world, occurring at a time when
PIO and AIM were preparing to launch global terrorism. In summer of 1991
Turabi invited Osama bin Laden to try to salvage and restore the financial
system for the two organizations. Osama built a confidential financial
system and support network in Europe, his closest friend Ayman al-Zawahiri
organized in Europe, bringing together 134 Arabs of the ultra-rich Gulf
states, 65 of which have companies and large enterprises in the US. 

Ayman al-Zawahiri is known to be a pediatrician in Egypt, less than 50 years
old, is an Egyptian jihad leader based in Geneva, and was named by the US as
second in the list of dangerous terrorists, appearing most recently in
10 May 2001. On 23/07/2003 Iran's intelligence boss, Ali Yunesi, announced
it has captured a senior leader of al-Qaeda, but declined to comment on those
who are in custody including whether it might be number two Ayman al-Zawahiri,
Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a spokesman, and Saif al-Adil, in charge of the security
of al-Qaeda.

On 10/06/1981 President Sadat was shot to death. Vice President Hosni Mubarak
replaced him and opened an investigation. Suspected mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri
fled with Osama and the right-hand man of Osama. In Fall 1991 Osama saw that
Sudan also required construction of infrastructure. He founded the Al-Hijrah Kien
Design and Development Company, recruited 17 professional financial accountants,
from 300 to 400 administration personnel, imported trucks and bulldozers worth
$15 million from Germany, made a strategic road from Khartoum to Port Sudan on
the Red Sea coast, an international airport nearby, al-Rusayris, the largest dam
in Sudan, and many other works. Starting in 1994 he was responsible for the
construction and administration of three terrorist training camps in northern
Sudan and in 1996 added another 23 farms, all costing billions of dollars that
Sudan does not have, nor does anyone know how Osama manages to get money to
cover the costs. To repay, Sudan offered him a million acres of land in western
Kordofan to farm and raise cattle.

Turabi now has the ambition to be the Grand Ayatollah of the Fundamentalist
Islamic empire. Osama and Zawahiri are entrusted by Turabi to the central position
of the international terrorist movement. On 04.07.1994, the government of
Saudi Arabia stripped Osama bin Laden of his citizenship because of his public
opposition. 

In early 1996, the Iranian organization HizbAllah International with Osama at
command level, begins acting; on 25.6.1996 bombing the US al-Khobar barracks
near Dhahran leaving 19 American soldiers dead, and hundreds injured. May 8 1996
Osama, long before he was named Emir for his achievements of war and leadership,
gave a Bayan (declaration of dogma and policies) declaring war on the US first. 


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(Continued)

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