Farrakhan mahukan barangbukti terhadap Osama Laden

(Farrakhan asks for proof on bin Laden)

Pendakwah Louis Farrakhan telah meminta Presiden Bush, Selasa lalu mendedahkan segala bahan bukti terhadap Osama bin laden supaya rakyat boleh menjadi hakim apakah beliau benar-benar terlibat dalam episod serangan jenayah September 11.

"Jangan berselindung di sebalik keselamatan negara," kata Farrakahan dalam satu ucapan menyambut ulangtahun ke enam 'The Million man March." Katanya, "negara ini akan menjadi lebih selamat kalau anda beri penjelasan kepada rakyat Amerika kenapa kita mesti berjuang."

Walaupun AS dan sekutunya menyatakan mereka mempunyai bahan bukti yang membabitkan Osama laden dan juga Al Qaeda sebagai bertanggungjawab dengan serangan ngeri menjahanamkan Pusat Dagang Dunia dan Pentagon, Farrakhan berkata: "Mereka pernah membohong dulu, dan tidak ada sebarang jaminan mereka tidak akan menipu lagi, sekarang ini."

"Apa salahnya meminta kerajaan Amerika menunjukkan kepada kita segala buktinya," kata beliau dalam ucapan yang memakan masa dua setengah jam lamanya di Christ Universal Temple, 11901 S. Ashland Avenue. Para wartawan tidak dibenarkan masuk tetapi telah dipelawa mengikuti kenyataan Farrakahan itu melalui internet dan Satellite TV.

Pada hari Selasa dia telah mendesak pemimpin Amerika Syarikat untuk mengkaji semula dasar luar negara. "Apakah ada satu cara yang terbaik untuk mengalahkan keganasan?" tanya beliau. "Mestikah ratusan ribu manusia yang tidak berdosa kehilangan nyawa mereka sedangkan usaha membenteras keganasan itu tidak juga dapat diperbetulkan?"

Tamat.

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Farrakhan asks for proof on bin Laden

By Rick Hepp Tribune staff reporter

October 17, 2001

Minister Louis Farrakhan called Tuesday on President Bush to lay out the evidence against Osama bin Laden so people may judge whether he was involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"Don't hide behind national security," Farrakhan said in a speech marking the sixth anniversary of the Million Man March. "The nation would be more secure if you give the American people a reason to fight."

Even though the U.S. and its allies say they have proof that bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network were responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Farrakhan said: "They have lied before, and there's no guarantee they are not lying now."

"There's nothing wrong with asking the American government to show us the proof," he said at a 2 1/2-hour speech at the Christ Universal Temple, 11901 S. Ashland Ave. Reporters were not allowed inside the temple but were invited to monitor Farrakhan's remarks over the Internet or by TV satellite.

Farrakhan, who heads the Nation of Islam, has previously condemned the terrorist attacks as "vicious and atrocious."

On Tuesday he again urged U.S. leaders to re-evaluate foreign policy. "Is there a better way to defeat terrorism?" he asked. "Must hundreds of thousands of innocent lives be lost and the cause of terrorism never be addressed?"

Copyright (c) 2001, Chicago Tribune