An old letter from bin Laden to the Americans went viral on TikTok: many agree with its message

A ten-year-old document allegedly written by Osama bin Laden and entitled "Letter to America" ​​recently went viral on TikTok. Some young Americans believe the al-Qaeda founder made the right points about their own country. The publication told in more detail Newsweek.

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The two-page document, published by The Guardian, is a letter written by bin Laden in 2002 as a polemic against the US and an explanation of the ideology that led him to carry out the 11/XNUMX attacks.

Although the incendiary document is now 21 years old, some see it as a way to make sense of current world events, including the war between Israel and Hamas. Bin Laden's words were called "mind-blowing" and a "revelation."

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A search for “Letters to America” on TikTok shows that some of the most popular videos have more than 1 million views.

“This is incredible, everyone should read this,” said one TikTok user, warning that the letter left her “very disappointed and confused.” Another admitted that after reading the document she had an “existential crisis” and her entire outlook on life changed.

“It just amazes me that terrorism was sold as an idea to the American people... that this group of people, a random group of people, just suddenly wake up one day and just hate you... it doesn't make sense,” another TikTok user shared.

In several reactions to the letter on the social media app, people recreate their joy at hearing of bin Laden's death in 2011, then compare it to the shock of reading the letter in 2023, emphasizing that "he was right."

Bin Laden, the son of a wealthy Saudi businessman, founded al-Qaeda in 1988 after the defeat and withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, in which he participated.

Under his leadership, the group carried out several deadly terrorist attacks and bombings in various countries, including September 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked four airliners in the eastern United States and crashed three of them into two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington (Virginia). The fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. In October of the same year, bin Laden was included in the US list of most wanted terrorists.

As a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks, about 3 thousand Americans were killed and thousands were injured.

In the letter, bin Laden accused the United States of being responsible for the oppression of the Palestinians due to its support for Israel.

“The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals,” bin Laden wrote. “Everyone whose hands were defiled in aiding this crime must pay for it and pay hard.”

The Saudi terrorist further wrote that the Palestinians must be “revenged” along with the people of Afghanistan. The alleged US role in the oppression of Palestinians and Muslims, according to bin Laden, is a justification for killing American citizens.

“It is the American people who pay the taxes that finance the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies that occupy our lands in the Persian Gulf, and the navies that enforce the blockade of Iraq,” the letter said. “That is why the American people cannot be innocent of all the crimes committed against us by Americans and Jews.”

The Guardian subsequently deleted the letter without explanation. The following message appeared on the page: “This page previously posted a document containing, in translation, the full text of “Osama bin Laden's letter to the American people,” which was reported in the Observer on Sunday, November 24, 2002. The document published here on the same day was deleted on November 15, 2023.”

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At the time of its original publication, the Guardian described the letter as "a chilling new message from Osama bin Laden" circulating among British Islamic extremists and "calling for attacks on civilians."

The removal of a document from a British newspaper's website has sparked accusations of a conspiracy to cover up the truth. The Guardian said: “The transcript, published on our website in 2002, was widely circulated on social media without full context. "We have therefore decided to remove it and direct readers to the news article in which it originally appeared."

However, many on social media disagree that there is any truth to the letter, with some calling those who found "truth" in the letter "ridiculous" and others arguing that the letter could be part of a "deliberate campaign to manipulate trends."

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