Subject: [R-G] Text of al-Qaida statement
> Text of al-Qaida statement
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> Issued by bin Laden spokesman
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> Text of a statement Tuesday by Osama bin Laden spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith.
> Abu Ghaith opened with a verse from the Quran instructing Muslims not to take
> Jews and Christians as their leaders, saying that would make them part of
them:
>
> "Peace be upon Muhammad our prophet and those who follow him.
> "I direct this message to the entire Islamic nation, and I say to them
> that all sides today have come together against the nation of Islam and the
> Muslims.
> "This is the crusade that Bush has promised us, coming toward
Afghanistan
> against the Islamic nation and the Afghan people. We are living under this
> bombardment from the crusade, which is also targeting the whole Islamic
> community.
> "We have a fair and just case.
> "The Islamic nation, for more than 80 years, has been suffering. The
> Palestinian people have been living under the Jewish and Zionist occupation;
> nobody moves to help them. Here we are, this is an Arab land, this is a land
> that is being desecrated, people have come to take its wealth.
> "The nation must know that 'terror' and the terror of the United States
> is only a ploy. Is it possible that America and its allies would kill and that
> would not be called terrorism? And when the victim comes out to take revenge,
it
> is called terrorism. This must not be acceptable.
> "America must know that the nation will not keep quiet any more and
will
> not allow what happens against it. Jihad today is a religious duty of every
> Muslim, if they haven't got an excuse. God says fight, for the sake of God and
> to uphold the name of God.
> "The American interests are everywhere all over the world. Every Muslim
> has to play his real and true role to uphold his religion and his nation in
> fighting, and jihad is a duty.
> (A second Quran verse, saying Muslims should fight those who oppress
> them.)
> "I want to talk on another point, that those youths who did what they
did
> and destroyed America with their airplanes did a good deed. They have moved
the
> battle into the heart of America. America must know that the battle will not
> leave its land, God willing, until America leaves our land, until it stops
> supporting Israel, until it stops the blockade against Iraq.
> "The Americans must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop, God
> willing, and there are thousands of young people who are as keen about death
as
> Americans are about life.
> "The Americans must know that by invading the land of Afghanistan they
> have opened a new page of enmity and struggle between us and the forces of the
> unbelievers. We will fight them with the material and the spiritual strength
> that we have, and our faith in God. We shall be victorious.
> "The Americans have opened a door that will never be closed.
> "At the end, I address the sons and the young Muslims, the men and
women,
> for them to take their responsibility. The land of Afghanistan and the holy
> warriors are being subjected to a full crusade with the objective of getting
rid
> of the Islamic nation. The nation must take up its response and in the end I
> thank God for allowing us to start this jihad. This battle is a decisive
battle
> between faithlessness and faith. And I ask God to give us victory in the face
of
> our enemy and return them defeated."
>
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