Men or Spaniards?

The site is getting too many hits right now for me to link to, but the New York Post is reporting that Osama bin Laden is threatening the residents of any state President Bush carries tomorrow.

You read it here first, people. Tommorrow we will find out whether we are men or Spaniards:

MONSTER'S DEADLY WARNING TO 'RED' STATES

By NILES LATHEM

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.