...again this week, bin Ladin publicly vowed to wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder and their history is bloody. In recent years, they killed...

...because of the American military presence in Arabia, he was calling for the deaths of all Americans. "We do not differentiate between those dressed in...military uniforms and civilians: they are all targets," he said, predicting a "black day for America."2 By then the plots to bomb the American embassies in...

...for America, and has sought to give it the status of a jihad, or religious war. 'Hostility towards America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God,' he said in an interview with Time in 1999. He has identified Jews and 'Crusaders' (Christians) as imperialists...

...religion cannot deny that whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin. ... Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God. — Osama bin Laden, interview from Afghanistan, 22 December 1998, Time (1 1 January 1999) God continues...

...1993]. This was achieved by the grace of God and the efforts of the mujanideen . . . Hostility towards America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded for it by God. I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America."...

...again this week, bin Ladin publicly vowed to wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder and their history is bloody. In recent years, they killed...

...fidèles et celui des infidèles. - Il faut purifier le monde en faisant disparaître les impurs. — « We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians ; they are ail targets in this Fatwa.» (Ben Laden à John Miller, ABC Télévision, 26 mai 1998.) On pourrait...

...arrest me. It has failed. This blockade does not hurt much. We expect to be rewarded by God. . . . Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God.3 Earlier, bin Laden had issued a religious fatwa in which he declared, "We — with God's help...

...(London: Routledge, 2.001), 75. 43. In an interview with John Muller in 1998, Osama bin Laden stated that "|W]e do not differentiate between those dressed in...military uniforms and civilians: They are all targets." See Bergen, Holy War, Inc., 105, nz 44. Fora discussion of the operational level of war, see Luttwak,...

...possess the weapons that would prevent infidels from inflicting harm on Muslims. Hostility towards America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded for it by God.' "186 Thus, bin Laden's jihad seeks to destroy the power of the United States, both militarily and financially....