And if he wanted to call them states in the plural form, he 
could have used 'ay-wilayaat' (as in states of United "States")
but since he chose the singular, this statement is correct.

(Although the transliteration is "al-wilaya" the 
pronounciation makes definite article sould like "ay".)

I think "belad" could have been used instead of "dowla" also.

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

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> Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: It's true, 9 out of 10 terrorists want Kerry
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> 
> http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/33124.htm
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Denys
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