From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 02:07:58 -0700
To: "Rad Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Leninist International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [R-G] Text of al-Qaida statement
Text of al-Qaida statement
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Issued by bin Laden spokesman
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."
� 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be
published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Macdonald Stainsby
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