Osama bin Laden
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Osama bin Laden (1957 - present ), is the leader and head of al-Qaida, a militant Islamist organization that has been involved in attacks against civilian and military targets around the world.
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- 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 again 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.- Bin Laden summarizing some of his views in a 1998 statement that he declares to be a "fatwa". English translation of statement published in the Arabic language newspaper, al-Quds al-Arabi (February 23, 1998)
- 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.
- Bin Laden claiming that it is a "duty" of Muslims to kill "Americans and their allies" [1]. al-Quds al-Arabi (February 23, 1998)
- Every Muslim must rise to defend his religion. The wind of faith is blowing.
- A video statement broadcast on the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera TV station. [2] (October 7, 2001)
- We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel.
- A video statement broadcast on the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera TV station. [3] (December 26, 2001)
- If inciting people to do that [9/11] is terrorism, and if killing those who kill our sons is terrorism, then let history be witness that we are terrorists.
- CNN broadcast of an interview that Al-Jazeera conducted with bin Laden in October 2001 [4] (January 31, 2002)
- Just like you kill us, we will kill you.
- Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera [5] (November 12, 2002)
- We will continue to fight you as long as we have weapons in our hands.
- Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera [6] (October 18, 2003)
- There is no dialogue except with weapons.
- Audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera [7] (October 18, 2003)
- This war in Iraq makes millions of dollars for big corporations, either weapons manufacturers or those working in the reconstruction, such as Halliburton and its sister companies. . . It is crystal clear who benefits from igniting the fire of this war and this bloodshed: They are the merchants of war, the bloodsuckers who run the policy of the world from behind the scenes. President Bush and his ilk, the media giants, and the U.N. . . all are a fatal danger to the world, and the Zionist lobby is their most dangerous member. God willing, we will persist in fighting them. . .
- English translation by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) of statement by bin Laden (April 15, 2004)
- Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Each and every state that does not tamper with our security will have automatically assured its own security.
- Videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera TV as reported in a BBC article (October 29, 2004)
- Free people do not relinquish their security. This is contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him tell us why we did not strike Sweden, for example.
- Videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera TV as reported in a BBC article (October 29, 2004)
- We fought with you because we are free, and we don't put up with transgressions. We want to reclaim our nation. As you spoil our security, we will do so to you.
- Videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera TV as reported in a CNN article (October 29, 2004)
- It never occurred that the highest leader of the military armed forces would leave 50,000 people to face the horror that they faced all by themselves when they needed him most.
- Videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera TV as reported in a CNN article (October 29, 2004)
- And as I was looking at those towers that were destroyed in Lebanon, it occurred to me that we have to punish the transgressor with the same, and that we had to destroy the towers in America, so that they taste what we tasted and they stop killing our women and children.
- Videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera TV as reported in a CNN article (October 29, 2004)
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