...occupying 2 bTS'CLASSIFIED SUBJECT: Fatwas or Religious Ruling! by Militant Islamic Groups Against the US the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian...people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its base* in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some...

...UNCLASSIFIED SUBJECT: Far* as or Religious Ruling! by Militant Islamic Groups Against the US the Unas of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula,...people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its base* in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some...

...to everyone; we will list them, in order to remind everyone: First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorising its neighbours, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to...

..."the Jews' petty state." But the first two focused on Iraq: First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people. . . . The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using...

...Medina. riches and destroying its plantations," bin Laden seethed in one of his own fatwas. "The United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples." Bin Laden's rage only intensified when the Americans—after expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in...

...States with various sins beginning with the continuing affront, that "for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.' The fatwa cited the Qu ran and various Muslim sources to legitimize the position taken in light of...

...to everyone; we will list them, in order to remind everyone: First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some people have formerly debated the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have...

...kind of language used earlier against the Soviets in Afghanistan. For more than seven years America has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some people in the past have argued about the fact of the occupation. all the people of the Peninsula...

...incarnate." The reason bin Laden gave for targeting America was its list of "crimes," which included "occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places,...spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples."12 In response to what bin Laden regarded as a declaration of war on Muslims by America, he...

...kind of language used earlier against the Soviets in Afghanistan. For more than seven years America has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest...its rulers, humiliating its people. terrorizing its neighhors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighhoring...