A letter written by Osama Bin Laden in 2002 outlining his hatred for the United States and its support of Israel has won the support of pro-Palestine Gen-Z TikTokers after it was found on the Guardian website.
The ‘Letter to America’ was circulated amongst British Islamic extremists in 2002, a year after the 9/11 terror attacks, and saw the al-Qaeda leader attempt to justify the murderous acts in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia that killed nearly 3,000.
It was published on the Guardian’s website in full, based on a translation it obtained, under a link titled ‘Read the Bin Laden letter in full’ – but the newspaper has now removed it after people began sharing it in the context of the Israel-Hamas war.
Bin Laden – who was killed by US troops in a Pakistan operation in May 2011 – espoused deeply anti-Semitic views and conspiracy theories in the letter, and said that the American army was ‘shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us’.
He also sought to justify the indiscriminate…