Osama's vision for a cruel, despotic Iraq:
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Islam's War on the West
The conflict with the West is "a fateful war between unbelief and Islam, between the army of Muhammad, the army of belief, and the people of the cross…
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The UN is an Atheist Organization of Infidel Countries
According to bin Laden, the UN is "an organization of infidel [countries] that shapes the nature of the relations between the lords of the veto, headed by America, and the slaves of the General Assembly, and then speaks mendaciously and distortingly of justice, equality, and freedom."
Jihad in Palestine and Iraq is Incumbent upon the Residents of All Muslim Countries
Bin Laden criticized the Muslim clerics who argue that Jihad in Iraq and in the Palestinian territories is a commandment incumbent only upon the local residents of these lands. He said that "the Jihad in Palestine and in Iraq is a personal duty incumbent upon the residents of the two countries [alone] – [but] if they are unable to carry it out, [this duty] is incumbent upon [the residents of the] adjacent [countries], and so on and so forth, until the circle includes all the Muslim countries…
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Aiding America, the Allawi Government, or Abu Mazen's Government Is Apostasy
"Aiding America, or the Allawi government [in Iraq] which is apostate [Murtada], or the Karzai government [in Afghanistan], or the Mahmoud Abbas government [in the Palestinian Authority] which is apostate, or the other apostate governments in their war against the Muslims, is the greatest apostasy of all, and amounts to abandonment of the Muslim community.
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The Blood of the Iraqi Security Forces Is Permitted
"Personnel of the [Iraqi] military, security apparatuses, and national guard … their blood is permitted. They are apostates who should not be prayed over upon their deaths. They cannot inherit, and they must not be inherited from [after their deaths]. Their wives are divorced from them, and they must not be buried in Muslim cemeteries."
Participation in the Iraqi or Palestinian Elections Is Apostasy
"Muslims must beware of these kinds of elections. They must unite around the Jihad warriors and those who resist the occupiers." He continued, "Anyone who participates in these elections … has committed apostasy against Allah."
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Zarqawi Is the Commander [Amir] of Al-Qa'ida in Iraq
"The warrior commander [and] honored comrade Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi and the groups who joined him are the best of the community that is fighting for the sake of the word of Allah. Their courageous operations against the Americans and against the apostate Allawi government have gladdened us…
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Bin Laden stated in his speech that "the expenses of the Al-Qa'ida organization in Iraq reach €200,000 per week."
Oil Pipelines Must be Attacked; Company Owners in Islamic Countries Must be Assassinated
Bin Laden said: "I call upon you to attack reinforcement lines and oil [pipe]lines, to sow powerful mines … and to assassinate the owners of companies aiding the needs of the enemy, whether in Riyadh, Kuwait, Jordan, Turkey, or other [countries]." |
