Aljazeera transcript of English subtitles on video:
  http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm
AFP translation of Arabic to English:
  http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=32295
Aljazeera's own excerpts:
  http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8BAF429F-BADD-40E2-AD66-712FCF7D7A95.htm

Video: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/rdonlyres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F/53232/Binladin.asf
2.4MB   5 minutes 24 sec, not counting aljazeera pre & post amble. So it is not the same edit as put to air (4 minutes), nor the full tape (18 minutes.)
This has English subtitles (too blurred to read), however it looks like they were added to the video by Aljazeera, since they form part of a fancy station logo graphic and border to the smaller frame containing the bin Laden clip. Bin Laden is reading from notes (no teleprompter), and there are a few edit cuts. So we still don't know whether the 'full transcript from Aljazeera' text originated from bin Laden - or whether its a translation by someone else.
Pity the subtitles can't be read. Would be good to see if the 'missing not' is there, and how the text correlates with his hand gestures.

Possible error in the text:

1. Missing 'not' in aljazeera transcript:

From the aljazeera transcript:
  "...that we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration..."

From the AFP translation:
  "We did not find it hard to deal with Bush and his administration..."

From the Aljazeera 'excerpts' article:
  "We had no difficulty in dealing with Bush and his administration..."

It looks pretty certain BinLaden is saying he did a deal with (or manipulated?) Bush.

I can't find any downloadable copy of the entire video. Anyone know if this exists? URL?

It is very, very sickening to read everyone and their dog misquoting excerpts from the speech, and twisting them to mean whatever they like. I still think Osama is saying 911 was Bush's idea, AlQaeda merely helped. Much else as well, not mentioned in most commentaries.

I was just wondering if maybe CBS had a translation that provides a third iteration. I trust CNN just about as much as I trust Al Jazeera.

This big mistake by the Saudi regime of inviting the American troops revealed their deception. ... The ordinary man knows that his country is the largest oil producer in the world, yet at the same time he is suffering from taxes and bad services. Now the people understand the speeches of the ulemas in the mosques - that our country has become an American colony.

1996

As for the relationship between the regime and the American occupiers, these operations have embarrassed both sides and have led to the exchange of accusations between them. So we have the Americans stating that the causes of the explosions are the bad policies of the regime and the corruption of members of the ruling family, and the regime is accusing the Americans of exceeding their authority by taking advantage of the regime and forcing it to enter into military and civil contracts which are beyond its means, which led to great economic slide which has effected the people. In addition to this is the behaviour of the Americans with crudeness and arrogance with the Saudi army and their general behaviour with citizens, and the privileges which the Americans enjoy in distinction from the Saudi forces.

1997

As for oil, it is a commodity that will be subject to the price of the market according to supply and demand. We believe that the current prices are not realistic due to the Saudi regime playing the role of a US agent and the pressures exercised by the US on the Saudi regime to increase production and flooding the market that caused a sharp decrease in oil prices.

...

We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation of the Prophet's Night Travel Land (Palestine). And we believe the US is directly responsible for those who were killed in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq. The mention of the US reminds us before everything else of those innocent children who were dismembered, their heads and arms cut off in the recent explosion that took place in Qana (in Lebanon). This US government abandoned even humanitarian feelings by these hideous crimes. It transgressed all bounds and behaved in a way not witnessed before by any power or any imperialist power in the world

...

As for what you asked regarding the American people, they are not exonerated from responsibility, because they chose this government and voted for it despite their knowledge of its crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and in other places

1998

They rip us of our wealth and of our resources and of our oil. Our religion is under attack. They kill and murder our brothers. They compromise our honor and our dignity and dare we utter a single word of protest against the injustice, we are called terrorists. This is compounded injustice. And the United Nations insistence to convict the victims and support the aggressors constitutes a serious precedence which shows the extent of injustice that has been allowed to take root in this land.

...

We however, differentiate between the western government and the people of the West. If the people have elected those governments in the latest elections, it is because they have fallen prey to the Western media which portray things contrary to what they really are. And while the slogans raised by those regimes call for humanity, justice, and peace, the behavior of their governments is completely the opposite. It is not enough for their people to show pain when they see our children being killed in Israeli raids launched by American planes, nor does this serve the purpose. What they ought to do is change their governments which attack our countries.

...

The Western regimes and the government of the United States of America bear the blame for what might happen. If their people do not wish to be harmed inside their very own countries, they should seek to elect governments that are truly representative of them and that can protect their interests.

In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida.
No.

Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.

---
Unity of mankind means: No escape for anyone anywhere. - Milan Kundera

Kerry will have us put our security in the hands of the UN, and surrender Iraq back to the insurgents, who will go back to using it as a training ground and funding source.

George Bush and Dick Cheney will continue the fight, wherever it takes us and how ever much it costs, they will continue right to the very lairs of the evil doers, until the evil one himself is caught and brought to Justice!

Even if the entire world is against us, we will continue this fight until the end, because it is the Right thing to do, it is not a mistake, it is simply following the lead of Justice and our Lord God!

So all real Americans should vote for George Bush if you have not done so already. To even think if voting for little boy kerry is the first stages of Treason! Actually voting for him IS Treason! Fortunatly, Right thinking Americans will NOT let him win.

The Al-Jazeera transcription is more of an exact translation, in use of metaphors and such (e.g. "the goat and its butting... the aircraft and their butting"), but the omission of the religious phrases by CNN is not really questionable. As mentioned elsewhere here, it's quite normal, and in fact expected, for a speech in Arabic to be peppered with such.

What Bin Laden has to say at this point. At best it is good for some comic relief - like this week on SNL, when they had the Missing minutes of the bin laden tape, and had Osama saying that he had been approached by both sides for an endorsement, and was registered by two kerry workers to vote in cincinati.

Kerry, Bush and their supporters are in the middle of a election struggle and can't say anything intelligent that wouldn't affect their rates negatively. I think Osama is pretty smart guy for choosing time like this when his enemies can't give back anything meaningful. Result will look like this: Osama talked and these (would be)leaders couldn't care less other than spin his talk to support their agendas.

not much, both are about 2 pounds

so what is the difference between these two translations?

not much, both are the words of an evil madman

sure, some of you might be infinitely entertained by the trivia here

small, dumb animals are attracted by bight shiny objects too

whatever keeps y'all entertained i guess

the larger message from this asshole bin laden should be what is discussed

i want saddam murdered now

i want osama slaughtered now

i want the freak from north korea to be tied down to a torture board while they saw off his tiny little asian penis and ask him 'who's the man now, dawg?'

this osama crap is ridiculous though

all media is biased to some extent

usually it's the individual reporter

they can sneak it through if it's not drastic enough

all these polls though are what really piss me off, not this osama crap

they polls are using 50 yr old techniques

it's a joke and ridiculous

i have a cell only and no one ever calls me for polls

i hate the election commercials too

anyway sorry to rant but i just had to speak my mind

i'm sure you've had similar experiences

Of course, if that happens to be true, what the heck is the point of holding an election now? Just for show? If you really believe that three elections have been rigged, why not four or five? What would another election be? Just another mark on a long list, right?

This is just 6 minutes of the 18 minute whole, so the final difference - the bit that CNN has that Al Jazeera doesn't is just a difference of opinion as to where to stop the transcript.

Osama Tape: Mystery of the missing minutes

By most accounts, Osama bin Laden's election-eve videotape bombshell is 18 minutes long. But TV networks, including Qatar-based Al Jazeera, have broadcast only a few minutes of it and released only excerpts from it. Why not the full tape and transcript?

The answer might lie in the multiple swipes bin Laden takes against the United States, the Bush family, their dubious – in his eyes – commitment to freedom and their corruption. Even in the portions released, the Al Qaeda fugitive ridicules the Florida fiasco and rails about the depredations of American corporations.

He accuses Bush of negligence on 9/11, questions his legitimacy and the family legacy, and accuses them of being in cahoots with corrupt Muslim rulers to plunder Arab oil wealth. He also mentions the Patriot Act and Halliburton, showing he's on top of issues.

FULL TAPE AN OSAMA A WOE SHOW

On the tape, bin Laden also says his terror organization has been hurt by the U.S. military's unrelenting manhunt for him and his cohorts on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

A portion of the left-out footage includes a tirade aimed at President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, claiming the war in Iraq is purely over oil.

Al-Jazeera defends airing bin Laden tape

The tape also has English subtitles, the official said on condition of anonymity.

"In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors and did not forget to import expertise in election fraud from the regions presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty.

All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."

By the way, I hate the way this fucker is dressing himself in the language of the anti-war movement. The fucker wants nothing more than to see Mecca become a glass crater, and he sits there and uses the cogent observations of those worried about Bush's anti-democratic (small d) leanings as bullets in his propaganda war!

And what will most people do? Like good little sheep, they'll respond exactly in the way this shithead wants them to. Republicans will point and shout "See, the dirty liberals are getting their rhetoric straight from Satan himself!!!" while the Democrats will say "See, Satan admits it: Bush has made the world unsafe!!!"

You know, sitting here in Australia with no way to vote on who will rule our country sucks. If you're going to rule the world with your military might, at least give us a say in who leads you! Otherwise your defense of democracy is just a disgusting lie.

Second of all, and a bit more on topic, the translation I read was in Swedish, directly translated from Arabic and corresponds much better with the Al Jazeera version overall. So either CNN has lousy translators (unlikely) or they cover things up. Which is really really bad.