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Old 10-17-2001, 07:23 PM  
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Letters from bin Laden

Extracts from the letters allegedly written by Osama bin Laden

August 23 1996
"The greatest disaster that the Muslims have suffered since the death of the Prophet is the occupation of the land of the two sacred mosques, the land of the Ka'ba and the Qibla, by the Christian armies of the Americans and their allies.
They have hunted me in Sudan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, but thanks to Allah a secure base has been founded on the peaks of the Hindu Kush, which witnessed the destruction of the greatest atheist army on Earth to the cry "Allah is great".
The Americans have imposed their policies on the production of oil on the basis of their economic interests. The people of the two mosques have been deprived of its sustenance.
It is necessary to concentrate our efforts to kill, fight, create traps, to destroy the intruders until their defeat... Muslims should avoid internal wars... to avoid the destruction of the oil. We appeal to our brothers to exclude from the war the wealth of the Islamic nation which is about to arise.
Our terrorism against you who occupy our land in arms is our duty. You are like a serpent that enters a man's house and then the man kills it. He who allows you to move around his land with your arms while you enjoy peace and security is a coward... You have the problem of how to convince soldiers to fight, we have to convince our young men to wait for their moment to fight."

April 16 1998
"The United States have announced their decision to add the Islamic government of Afghanistan to the list of countries that support terrorism, opening the way for the punishments considered necessary by American laws and policies around the world.
This decision is for us a certificate of good conduct for the government of the Taliban and it acquits them of the accusation of being followers or agents of America. The fact that the... Taliban offered aid to Osama bin Laden has saved them from the accusation of being agents of America.
The American decision also has an amusing political aspect, since it implies the recognition on the part of the US government of the existence of the Taliban government, cited in the list as a country and not as a terrorist organisation.
The American accusations against states, groups or individuals of being terrorists have neither value nor credibility. It's well known that they affect any nation, group or individual who opposes their imperialistic policy or their desire to expand.
America carries out the worst international terrorism. Is it not terrible terrorism that America is carrying out in Iraq on children, women and the old, having condemned them to hunger?
Is it not clear the aid that America gives to Zionist terrorists in Palestine, Lebanon and elsewhere, terrorists who even open the bellies of pregnant women, break the bones of children and decapitate old men?
Accusations of terrorism made by America against any group lose their value outside the US. Compliments to the Taliban government."

May 7 1998
"May Allah be praised, the revealer of the truth and all who spread it, the destroyers of falsehood and the false. May the peace and blessing of Allah be on our Prophet Mohammed who said: "Drive out the polytheists from the Arabic peninsula."
The response of the Muslim nation to the American invasion of the holy places is active, increases and deepens, expands and spreads.
The latest example is the fatwa pronounced by the Afghan intellectuals which establishes the duty to expel American forces from the Arabic peninsula and the land of the holy places.
They agree that the responsibility for this expulsion rests on the entire Muslim nation and not just on the people of the Arabic peninsula. Furthermore, they declare jihad against the Americans.
God Almighty has opposed the conspiracy carried out by the Saudi regime and by those who support it... God has revealed the truth of this situation many times through those who were thrown into prison.
The interest of the Muslim nation in this question is growing... both within and without the Arabic peninsula. Muslims do not approve the American military presence nor that of any other force belonging to an infidel country."

May 29 1998
"A great happiness filled the hearts of Muslims when Pakistan exploded five nuclear devices in response to the Indians. We congratulate the entire Islamic nation and Pakistan in particular because for the first time Muslims possess a nuclear weapon. ...The countries of the unbelievers are no longer able to limit the influence of the Islamic nation upon it. We thank God because the Pakistani people did not give in to American deceit.
It is well known that the US government exerted great pressure to prevent Pakistan from possessing nuclear arms. Although India is the only recognised enemy in the region, in reality the true enemies are the Christian and Jewish allies led by the US who occupy Saudi Arabia, and Israel which violates our holy places.
All Muslims will be beside the Pakistanis with all their forces, their men and money. We invite Muslim brothers to imitate Pakistan... [to possess] nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
And any agreement on the end of the spread of nuclear weapons must not halt them, since the enemy does not, and without these arms Muslims would be without protection in the face of the 200 nuclear warheads of Israel and the arms of total destruction amassed in the Christian countries commanded by America and Great Britain. It is the duty of Muslims to strengthen themselves to strike fear into the enemy of God."
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