bin Laden statement

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How are you? I know you are busy but please read this. It is a message from 
Usama Bin Laden the warrior of Islam who fights for the freedom of speech 
and assembly and religion in the Muslim world:



USAMA BIN LADEN Statement - Sunday, 7 October 2001
        [As aired on Al Jazeera, an Arab television network
     based in Qatar with text  translated from Arabic to English]

Praise be to Allah [God] and we beseech Him for help and
forgiveness.

We seek refuge with the Lord of our bad and evildoing. He whom
God guides is rightly guided but he whom God leaves to stray,
for him you will find no protector to lead him to the right way.

I bear witness that there is no God but God and Muhammad is His
Prophet.

God Almighty hit the United States at its most vulnerable spot.
He destroyed its greatest buildings.

Praise be to God.

Here is the United States. It was filled with terror from its
north to its south and from its east to its west.

Praise be to God.

What the United States tastes today is a very small thing
compared to what we have tasted for tens of years.

Our nation has been tasting this humiliation and contempt for
more than 80 years.

Its sons are being killed, its blood is being shed, its holy
places are being attacked and it is not being ruled according to
what God has decreed.

Despite this, nobody cares.

When Almighty God rendered successful a convoy of Muslims, the
vanguards of Islam, He allowed them to destroy the United
States.

I ask God Almighty to elevate their status and grant them
Paradise. He is the one who is capable to do so.

When they defended their oppressed sons, brothers and sisters in
Palestine and in many Islamic countries, the world at large
shouted. The infidels shouted, followed by the hypocrites.

One million Iraqi children have thus far died in Iraq [because
of UN/U.S. sanctions and due to the U.S.-UK-Israel war against
Iraq] although they did not do anything wrong.

Despite this, we heard no denunciation by anyone in the world or
a fatwa [Islamic decree] by the [Muslim] rulers or ulema [Muslim
scholars].

Israeli tanks and tracked vehicles wreak havoc in Palestine,
Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jala and other Islamic areas and we
hear no voices raised or moves made.

But if the sword falls on the United States, after 80 years,
hypocrisy raises its ugly head lamenting the deaths of these
killers who tampered with the blood, honor and holy places of
the Muslims.

The least that one can describe these people is that they are
morally depraved.

They [rulers of Israel, USA and UK] champion falsehood, support
the butcher against the victim, the oppressor against the
innocent child.

May God mete them the punishment they deserve.

I say that the matter is clear and explicit.

In the aftermath of this event and now that senior U.S.
officials have spoken, beginning with Bush, the head of the
world's infidels, and whoever supports him, every Muslim should
rush to defend Islam.

They came out in arrogance with their men and horses and
instigated even those countries that belong to Islam against us.

They came out to fight this group of people who declared their
faith in God and refused to abandon their religion.

They came out to fight Islam in the name of terrorism.

Hundreds of thousands of people, young and old, were killed in
the farthest point on earth in Japan.

For them this is not a crime, but rather a debatable issue.

They bombed Iraq and considered that a debatable issue.

But when dozens of people were killed in Nairobi and Dar es
Salaam [capitals of Kenya and Tanzania, where U.S. embassies
were bombed in 1998], Afghanistan [Sudan] and Iraq were bombed
and all hypocrites stood behind the head of the world's
infidelity - behind the Hubal [an idol worshipped by pagans
before the advent of Islam] of the age - namely, America and its
supporters.

These incidents divided the entire world into two regions - one
of faith where there is no hypocrisy and another of infidelity,
from which we hope God will protect us.

The winds of faith and change have blown to remove falsehood
from the [Arabian] peninsula of Prophet Muhammad, may peace be
upon him.

As for the United States, I tell it and its people these few
words: I swear by Almighty God who raised the heavens without
pillars that neither the United States nor he who lives in the
United States will enjoy security before we can see it as a
reality in Palestine and before all the infidel armies leave the
land of Muhammad, may peace be upon him.

God is great and glory to Islam.

May God's peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you.

                                  [USAMA BIN LADEN]

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