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Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement

23 February 1998

Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin

Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt

Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group

Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan

Fazlul Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh

Praise be to God, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats
factionalism, and says in His Book: "But when the forbidden months are
past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize them,
beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)";
and peace be upon our Prophet, Muhammad Bin-'Abdallah, who said: I have
been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no one but God
is worshipped, God who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear
and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my orders. 

The Arabian Peninsula has never -- since God made it flat, created its
desert, and encircled it with seas -- been stormed by any forces like
the crusader armies spreading in it like locusts, eating its riches and
wiping out its plantations.  All this is happening at a time in which
nations are attacking Muslims like people fighting over a plate of food. 
In the light of the grave situation and the lack of support, we and you
are obliged to discuss current events, and we should all agree on how to
settle the matter. 

No one argues today about three facts that are known to everyone; we
will list them, in order to remind everyone:

First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the
lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula,
plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people,
terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a
spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. 

If some people have in the past argued about the fact of the occupation,
all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it.  The best
proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi
people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers
are against their territories being used to that end, but they are
helpless. 

Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by
the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those
killed, which has exceeded 1 million...  despite all this, the Americans
are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they
are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious
war or the fragmentation and devastation. 

So here they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to
humiliate their Muslim neighbors.  Third, if the Americans' aims behind
these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the
Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem
and murder of Muslims there.  The best proof of this is their eagerness
to destroy Iraq, the strongest neighboring Arab state, and their
endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq, Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion
and weakness to guarantee Israel's survival and the continuation of the
brutal crusade occupation of the Peninsula. 

All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear
declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims.  And ulema have
throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an
individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.  This was
revealed by Imam Bin-Qadamah in "Al- Mughni," Imam al-Kisa'i in
"Al-Bada'i," al-Qurtubi in his interpretation, and the shaykh of
al-Islam in his books, where he said: "As for the fighting to repulse
[an enemy], it is aimed at defending sanctity and religion, and it is a
duty as agreed [by the ulema].  Nothing is more sacred than belief
except repulsing an enemy who is attacking religion and life."

On that basis, and in compliance with God's order, we issue the
following fatwa to all Muslims:

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and
military -- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any
country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the
al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque [Mecca] from their grip, and in order
for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and
unable to threaten any Muslim.  This is in accordance with the words of
Almighty God, "and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all
together," and "fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression,
and there prevail justice and faith in God."

This is in addition to the words of Almighty God: "And why should ye not
fight in the cause of God and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated
(and oppressed)? -- women and children, whose cry is: 'Our Lord, rescue
us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from
thee one who will help!'"

We -- with God's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in God and
wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans
and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.  We also
call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid
on Satan's U.S.  troops and the devil's supporters allying with them,
and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a
lesson. 

Almighty God said: "O ye who believe, give your response to God and His
Apostle, when He calleth you to that which will give you life.  And know
that God cometh between a man and his heart, and that it is He to whom
ye shall all be gathered."

Almighty God also says: "O ye who believe, what is the matter with you,
that when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of God, ye cling so
heavily to the earth! Do ye prefer the life of this world to the
hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the
hereafter.  Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous
penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the
least.  For God hath power over all things."

Almighty God also says: "So lose no heart, nor fall into despair.  For
ye must gain mastery if ye are true in faith."

© 2001 The Washington Post Company 

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