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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44379)	8/17/2003 1:09:19 PM
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Saudi clerics condemn terrorism in new fatwa (Updated at 0940 PST) RIYADH: As Saudi Arabia mounts a new crackdown on militants the kingdom's leading clerics issued a decree (fatwa) on Saturday condemning terrorism, a foreign news agency reported on Sunday. In a religious ruling that confronts head-on the doctrine of jihad, or holy struggle, adopted by the likes of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, a council of Islamic scholars said killing and bombing had nothing to do with furthering God's will. It is necessary under sharia law to severely punish those carrying out acts of sabotage and depravity, like bombings and murder and destruction of property. These are dangerous crimes and an aggression against human life and wealth, the council said in a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency. And those who claim sabotage, bombings and murder are jihad, they are ignorant and misguided because these acts have nothing to do with jihad for the sake of God, said the council, headed by the kingdom's highest religious authority, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh.