...the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism: http:// www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm. of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches,...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples." These political, religious, and economic causes then lead to the claim that America has declared war...

...universally known: we will list them, in order to remind everyone." "First, for seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases on the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some people...

...continued American military presence in Saudi Arabia, which is called an "occupation" that has been "plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples"; the devastation of the Iraqi people; and American subservience to Israel.182 The first point is very...

...Crusaders." It accuses the United States of "occupying the lands ot Islam in the holiest places . . . plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating...spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim people." The assembled warriors issued a fatwa (religious decreeI demanding that all "Americans and...

...the gravity of this threat to the Muslim world the US "occupation" of the holiest places of Islam — plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating...terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the [Arabian] Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight its neighboring Muslim people' [especially...

...organizes the "crimes and sins" around "three facts known to everyone." First, he claims that the United States "has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula." Second, he argues that "despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people . . . and despite...

...crusader armies spreading in it like locusts." The fatwa continued, "[F]or over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula." It concluded, [W]e issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: the ruling to kill the Americans and their...

...apart, Arabia had been overrun by Americans, bin Laden said. "For more than seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of territories, Arabia, plundering its riches, overwhelming its rulers, humiliating its people, threatening...

...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 in the past argued about the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula...

...like locusts, eating its riches and wiping out its plantations. . . . For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. . . . We issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies...