...regime outside the religious community. Osama bin Laden, March 1997. For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders, 23 February 1998. You [America] will...

...September 1 1 attacks, Osama Bin Laden had already registered his contempt for America: the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim people. (Osama Bin Laden, 1998; Source: Strategic Studies Institute, www.army.mil. usassi) In subsequent...

...reads in part: 'First, for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of 1slam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. . . . The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the 1raqi people using...

...Before indicating how things are to be settled, however, the edict makes three points. First, the United States "has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula" and using Arabian wealth; second, to fight Muslims, especially Iraqis, who historically have occupied...

...cited by bin Laden and his associates is that since the Gulf War, the United States has been militarily "occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula"; that is, the presence of US military personnel and materiel in Saudi Arabia, although present there...

...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...

...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...

...[since the introduction of 500,000 US troops following Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait] 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...

...have a religion that will prevent it from destroying all people.... For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the...people, terrorizing its neighbors and turning its bases into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. (Osama bin Laden as quoted...

...particular: • the presence of US military forces within Saudi Arabia, land of Islam's holiest places, "plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating...through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples"; • the use of Saudi bases by the US in its campaign to isolate and strangle Saddam Hussein's Baathist...