In an already voluminous study of Islam through secular eyes, Here's a reading list if you want to get acquainted: It's going to take a lot of reading:
"A Charge to Keep Bush, George W. (Dubya)
"Signposts" Qutb, Sayyid
"Encyclopedia of Afghan Jihad" "of Jihad"
"Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants"
"Jihad Magazine"
"Dangers & Signs of the Indian Nuclear Explosion"
"Milestones"
"Ghost Wars" Colli, Steve
"Iraq @ Crossroads: State & Society in the Shadow of a Regime Change" Simon, Steven, Dodge, Toby
"The War on Our Freedoms" Leone, Richard C.
"American Jihad" Emerson, Steven
"Al-Quds al-Arabi" newspaper, Ed. Abdul-Bari Atwan
"Al-Hayah" most important Arabic Language newspaper
"American Harvest of Blood" Abdul-Bari Atwan article
"The International Islamic Front Pledges to Continue Struggle Against Enemies of Islam"
"With God on Our Side" Aftab Ahmad Ahmad Malik (Ed.)
"An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Sayyid Jamal Writings" Nikki Keddie
"Sirat Rasul Allah" *(Bio of Messenger of God) by Ibn Ishaa is the most important historical account of the life of the Prophet
"A Treatise on the Legal Status of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction Against Infidels" Shaykh al-Fahd
"Soviet General Staff's After Action Report on Soviet-Afghan War" published by the University of Kansas Press
"Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan" by Robert D. Kaplan
"The Illusions of America" Al-Ansar Journal
"No God but God: Egypt & The Triumph of Islam" Genieve Abdo
"Among the Believers" V.S. Naipaul (about Khomeini)
"The Quranic Concept of War" S.K. Malik
Islamic Philosopher Abdul Qadir as-Sufi ad-Darqawi
"The Revival of Religious Sciences" al-Ghazali
Al Baladhuri
BEGINNING NOTEBOOK NOTES:
"...was a handwritten set of instructions, admonitions, suggestions, and ecouragements. The notes calmly advised meticulous preparations in the way the Prophet's companions prepared themselves for battle twelve centuries before. Omar said the notes were prepared by Abdul Aziz al-Omari, the Saudi who accompanied Atta to Maine.
'These words,' Omar said, 'Do not come from someone who I suppose to be decieved with vain hopes, as the hypocrites and the people of hypocrisy claim. It comes from a man who knows what he is doing and what he is to do; not an ignorant man, but a man who is a believer, where all that is hidden and all that is seen have become equal to him. Everything is the same.'
The heading on a portion of the notes was "The Last Night." It contained fifteen specific instructions. The first was 'Vow to accept death.' The last was to wash in the monring so that "the angels seek forgiveness for you.' In between, the hijackers were admonished to know the plan, sharpen their knives and prepare for the ascent to paradise where they would be welcomed as God's eternal companions, 'the time for playing has passed, and the time has arrived for the rendezvous with the eternal Truth.'
Indeed the time had arrived."
American Airlines Flight 111, a Boeing 767 with 81 passangers, crew of 11, out of Boston Logan bound for Los Angeles Intnl., scheduled dep. time 7:45, actual departure time 7:59
United Airlines Flight 175, Boeing 767 with 56 passengers, crew of 9, out of Boston Logan bound for Los Angeles Intnl., scheduled dep. time 7:58, actual dep. time 8:14
American Airlines Flight 77, Boeing 757 with 58 passangers, crew of 6, out of Washington Dulles, bound for Los Angeles Intnl., scheduled dep. time 8:10, actual dep. time 8:20.
United Airlines Flight 93, Boeing 757, 38 passengers, crew 7, Newark Intnl. bound for San Fran Intnl., scheduled 8:01, actual 8:42.
8:02 American 11 took off from Boston
8:16 United 1756 took off on the same approximate ground path
8:19 American 77 took off westbound out of Dulles
8:43 United 93 takes off out of Newark, NJ
8:46, the last data, near Trade Center, 8:46 , the first impact on the Trade Center. At that minute is when the Otis F-15s were scrambled. And, again, they were 153 miles away...Those F15s were airborne in 6 minutes
8:53, that's a minute later, in the radar reconstruction, we are now picking up the primary radar contacts off of the F15s out of Otis.
8:57, seven minutes after first impact, FAA reports impact. CNN converage appears on TV (burning towers)
9:02 United 175 crashed into the South Tower, F15s 71 miles away
9:05 FAA reports a possible hijack of 175
9:09 Langley F16s directed to battle stations, American 77 reappears on radar coverage
9:11 FAA reports a crash into South Tower
9:24 FAA reports a possible hijack of 77
9:25 American 77 reported headed towards Washington D.C. from general info on chat logs
9:27 Boston FAA reports a fifth craft missing, Delta Flight 89
9:30 Langley F 16s are airborne (it was later determined, however, rather than heading north toward Washington, the fighters were flying east over the Atlantic. When they finally got turned around, they were sent toward Baltimore, thinking they would protect the Capitol from attack from the north)
9:34 FAA unable to precisely locate 77
9:35 F16s are reported airborne
9:37 last radar data near Pentagon {F16s had just turned around and were still 150 miles away from Washington}
9:40 93 turns transponders off in W toward Ohio & begins left turn back East...
9:47 Delta 89 clears the system by landing in Cleveland
10:02 United 93 last radar data
10:07 FAA reports there may be a bomb on board 93 - four minutes after impact
10:15 they report that 93 has crashed.
Pres. Bush is in Florida doin campaign-style events at local schools
Orders were given in his stead by Vice President Dick Cheney midway through the hijacking spree to defend the nation's capital at all costs, including shooting down hijacked airliners (from his secret bunker). An aide was calling out its progress to the vice president:
"'The plane is 50 miels out. The plane is 30 miles out.' When it got down to 'The plane is 10 miles out,' the young man also said to the vice president, 'Do the orders still stand?'
And the vice president turned, and whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?'
The aircraft had long since crashed into Pennsylvania.
*each of the Trade Center Towers was a gargantuan 4.3 million sq. ft. (in an era when weights for high rises often exceeded 75 lbs, The World Trade Center was 37 lbs of steel per sq. ft.)
Mohamed el-Amir's Last Will and Testament:
In the Name of God all mighty
Death Certificate
This is what I want to happen after my death, I am Mohamed the son of Mohamed Elamir awad Elsayed: I believe that prophet Mohamed is God's messenger adn time will no come no doubt about that and God will resurrect people who are in their graves. I wanted my family and everyone who reads this will to fear the Almighty God and don't get decieved by what is in life and to fear God and to follow God and his prophets if they are real believers. In my memory, I want them to do what Ibrahim {a prophet} told his son to do, to die as a good Muslim. When I die, I want the people who will inherit my possessions to do the following:
1 The people who will prepare my body should be good Muslims because this will remind me of God and his forgiveness.
2 The people who are preparing my body should close my eyes and pray that I will go to heaven and to get me new clothes, not the ones I died in.
3 I don't want anyone to weep and cry or to rip their clothes or slap their faces because this is an ignorant thing to do.
4 I don't want anyone to visit me who didn't get along with me while I was alive or to kiss me or say goodbye when I die.
5 I don't want a pregnant woman or a person who is not clean to come and say good bye to me because I don't approve it.
6 I don't want women to come to my house to apologize for my death. I am not responsible for people who will sacrifice animals in front of my lying body because this is against Islam.
7 Those who will sit beside my body must remember Allah, God, and pray for me to be with the angels.
The people who will clean my body should be good Muslims and I do not want a lot of people to wash my body unless it is necessary.
9 The person who will wash my body near my genitals must wear gloves on his hands so he won't touch my genitals.
10 I want the clothes I wear to consist of three white pieces of cloth, not to be made of silk or expensive material.
11 I don't want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion therafter.
12 During my funeral I want everyone to be quiet because God mentioned that he likes being quiet on occasions when you recite the Qur'an, during the funeral, and when you are crawling. you must speed my funeral procession and I would like many people there to pray for me.
13 When you bury me the people with whom I will be buried should be good Muclims. I want to face East toward Mecca.
14 I should be laying on my right side. You should throw the dust on my body three times while saying from the dust, we created you dust and to dust you will return. From the dust a new person will be created. After that eeryone should mention God's name and that I died as a Muslim which is God's religion. Everyone who atends my funeral should ask that I will be forgiven for what I have done in the past (not this action).
15 The people who will attend my funeral should sit at my grave for an hour so that I will enjoy their company and slaughter animals and give the meat to the needy.
16 The custom has been to memorialize the dead every forty days or once a year but I do not want this because it is not an Islamic custom.
17 I don't want people to take time to write things on paper to be kept in their pockets as superstition. Time should be taken to pray to God instead.
18 All the money I left must be divided according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do. A third of my money should be spent on the poor and the needy. I want my books to go to any one of the Muslim mosques. I wanted the people who look at my will to be one of the heads of the Sunna religion. Whoever it is, I want that person to be from where I grew up or any person I used to follow in prayer. People will be held responsible for not following the Muslim religion. I wanted tht epeople who I left behind to hear God and not to be decieved by what life has to offer and to pray more to God and to be good believers. Whoever neglects this will or does not follow the religion, that person will be held responsible in the end.
This was written on April 11, 1996, the Islamic calendar of zoeqada is 1416
Written by Mohamed Mohamed Elamir Awad Elsayed
Witness: Abdelghani Mouzdi
Witness: Mounir el-Motassadeq
A portion of the Instructions for the hijack teams written (believed to have been) by Abdul Aziz al-Omari: (Just a portion of the letter)
1 Vow to accept death, renew admonition, shave the extra hair on the body, perfume yourself, and ritually wash yourself.
2 Know the plan well from every angle. Anticipate the reaction or the resistance of the enemy.
3 Read the Surahs of Repentance and The Spoils. Contemplate their meaning and the bounties God has prepared and established for the martyrs.
4 Remind your base self to listen and obey this night, for you will be exposed to deciseive turning points wherein listening and obeying is one hundred percent necessary. Train your base self, make it understand, convince it, and goad it on to this end. "And obey God, and His Messenger, and do not quarrel together, and so lose heart, and your power depart; and be patient; surely God is with the patient."
5 Staying up at night and imploring in prayer for victory and strength and perspicuous triumph, and the easing of our task, and concealment.
Sheikh Rahman: "Cut all links with their country (the U.S.). Destroy them thoroughly and erase them from the face of the earth. Ruin their economies, set their companies on fire, turn their conspiracies to powder and dust. Sink their ships, bring their planes down. Slay them in air, on land, on water. And (with the command of Allah) kill them wherever you find them. Catch them and put them in prison. Lie in wait for them and kill these infidels. They will surely get great oppression from you. God will make you the means of wreaking a terrible revenge on them, of degrading them. He will support you against them. He will cure the afflicted hearts of the faithful and take all anger out of their hearts.
Bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places (abridged):
Praise be to Allah, we seek His help and ask for his pardon. We take refuge in Allah from our wrongs and bad deeds. Who ever been guided by Allah will not be misled, and who ever has been misled, he will never be guided. I bear witness that there is no God except Allah - no associates with Him - and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messenger...
It should not be hidden from you that the people of Islam had suffered from aggression, iniquity and injustice impose on them by the Zionist-Crusaders alliance and their collaborators; to the extent that the Muslims blood became the cheapest and their wealth as loot in the hands of the enemies. Their blood was spilled in Palestine and Iraq. The horrifying pictures of the massacre of Qana, in Lebanon are still fresh in our memory. Massacres in Tajikstan, Burma, Kashmir, Assam, Phillipine, Fatani, Ogadin, Somalia, Eritrea, Chechnya and in Bosnia-Herzegovina took place, massacres that send shivers in the body and shake the conscience. All of this and the world watch and hear, and not only didn't respond to these atrocities, but also with a clear conspiracy between the USA and its' allies and under the cover of the iniquitous United Nations, the dispossessed people were even prevented from obtaining arms to defend themselves.
The people of Islam awakened and realized that they are the main target for the aggression of the Zionist-Crusaders alliance. All false claims and propaganda about "Human Rights" were hammered down and exposed by the massacres that took place against teh Muslims in every part of the world.
The latest and the greatest of these aggressions, incurred by the Muslims since the death of the Prophet (ALLAH"S BLESSING AND SALUTATIONS ON HIM) is the occupation of the land of the two Holy Places - the foundation of the house of ISlam, the place of the revelation, the source of the message and the place of the noble Ka-ba, the Quiblah of all Muslims - by the armies of the American Crusaders and their allies. (We bemoan this and can only say: "No power and power acquiring except through Allah.")
Under the present circumstances, and under the banner of the blessed awakening which is sweeping the world in general and the Islamic world in particular, I meet with you today. After a long absence, imposed on the scholars (Ulema) and callers (Da'ees) of Islam by the iniquitous crusaders movement under the leadership of the USA; who fears that they, the scholars and callers of Islam, will instigate the Ummah of Islam against its' enemies as their ancestor scholars - may Allah be pleased with them - like Ibn Taymiyyah and Al'iz Ibn Abdes-Salaam did. And therefore the Zionist-Crusader alliance resorted to killing and arresting the truthful Ulema and the working Da'ees. (We are not praising or sanctifying them; Allah sanctify who He pleased) They killed the Mujahid Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, and they arrested Mujahid Sheikh Ahmad Yaseen and the Mujahid Sheikh Omar Abdur Rahman (in America).
By orders from the USA they also arrested a large number of scholards, Da'ees and young people - in the lad of the two Holy Places - among them the prominent Sheikh Salman Al-Oud'a and Sheikh Safar Al-Hawali and their brothers. We, myself and my group, have suffered some of the injustice ourselves; we have been prevented from addresssing the Muslims. We have been pursued in Pakistan, Sudan, and Afghanistan, hence this long absence on my part. But by the Grace of Allah, a safe base is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan; where - by the Grace of Allah - the largest infidel military force of the world was destroyed. And the myth of the super power was withered in front of the Mujahideen cries of Allahu Akbar. Today we work from the same moutains to lift the iniquity that has been imposed on the Ummah by the Zionist-Crusader alliance, particularly after they have occupied the blessed land around Jerusalem, route of the journey of the Prophet and the land of the two Holy Places. We ask Allah to bestow us with victory, He is our Patron and He is the Most Capable.
From here, today we begin the work, talking and discussing the ways of correcting what had happened to the Islamic world in general, and the Land of the two Holy Places in particular. We wish to study the means that we could follow to return the situation to its' normal path. And to return the people their own rights, particularly after the large damages and the great aggression on the life and the religion of the people. An injustice that had affected every section and group of the people; the civilians, military and security men, government officials and merchants, the young and the old people as well as schools and university students. Hundreds of thousands of the unemployed graduates, who became the widest section of the society, were also affected...
The explosion at Riyadh and Al-Khobar is a warning of this volcanic eruption emerging as a result of the severe oppression, suffering, excessive iniquity, humiliation and poverty...
Through its course of actions in the regime has torn off its legitimacy: 1 Suspension of the Islamic Sharia law 2 The inability of the regime to protect this country...As a result of the policy imposed on the country, especially in the field of oil industry where production is restricted or expanded and prices are fixed to suit the American economy ignoring the economy of the country. Expensive deals were imposed on the country to purchase arms. People asking what is the justification for the very existence of the regime then?...
The right answer is to follow what have been decided by the people of knowledge as was said by Ibn Taymiyyah: "people of Islam should join forces and support each other to get ride of the main 'Kufr' who is controlling the countries of the Islamic world, even to bear the lesser damage to get ride of the major one, that is the great Kufr."
If there are more than one duty to be carried out, then the most important one should recieve priority. Clearly after Belief (Imaan) there is no more important duty than pushing the American enemy out of the hily land. No other priority, except belief, could be considered before it; the people of knowledge, Ibn Taymiyyah, stated: "to fight in defense of religion and Belief is a collective duty; there is no other duty after Belief than fighting the enemy who is corrupting the life and the religiion. There is no preconditions for this duty and the enemy should be fought with one best abilities. If it is not possible to push back the enemy except by the collective movement of the Muslim people, then there is a duty on the Muslims to ignore the minor differences, at a given period of tiem, is much less than the ill effect of the occupation of the Muslim's land by the main Kufr. Ibn Taymiyyah had explained this issue and emphasized the importance of dealing with the major threat on the expense of the minor one. He described the situation of the Muslims and the Mujahideen and stated that even the military personnel who are not practicing Islam are not exempted from the duty of Jihad against the enemy...
Utmost effort should be made to prepare and instigate the Ummah against the enemy, the American-Israeli alliance - occupying the country of the two Holy Places and the route of the Apostle (Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be on him) to the Furthest Mosque (Al-Aqsa Mosque). Also to remind the Muslims not to be engaged in an internal war among themselves, as that will have grieve consequences namely:
1 Consumption of the Muslim human resources as most casualities and fatalities will be among the Muslim people.
2 Exhaustion of the economic and financial resources
3 Destruction of the country infrastructures
4 Dissociation of the society
5 Destruction of the oil industries. The presence of the USA Crusader military forces on land, sea and air of the states of the Islamic Gulf is the greatest danger threatening the largerst oil reserve in the world. The existence of these forces in the area will provoke the people of the country and induce aggression on their religion, feelings adn prides and push them to take up armed struggle against the invaders occupying the land; thereforce spread of the fighting in the region will expose the oil wealth to the danger of being burned up. The economic interests of the States of the Gulf and the land of the two Holy Places will be damaged and even a greater damage will be caused to the economy of the world. I would like here to alert my brothers, the Mujahideen, the sons of the nation, to protect this (oil) wealth and not to include it in the battle as it is a great Islamic wealth and a large economical power essential for the soon to be established Islamic state. We also warn the aggressors, USA, against burning this Islamic wealth, a crime which they may commit in order to prevent it, as the end of the war, from falling into the hands of its legitimate owners and to cause economic damages to the competitors of the USA in Europe or the Far East, particularly Japan which is the major consumer of the oil of the region.
6 Division of the land of the two Holy Places, and annexing of the northerly parrt of it by Israel. Dividing the land of the two Holy Places is an essential demand of the Zionist-Crusader alliance. The existence of such a large country with its huge resources under the leadership of the forthcoming Islamic State, by Allah's Grace, represent a serious danger to the very existence of the Zionist State in Palestine. The Nobel Ka'ba - the Qiblah of all Muslims - makes the land of the two Holy Places a symbol for the unity of the Islamic world. Moreover, the presence of the world's largest oil reserve makes the land of the two Holy Places an important economical power in the Islamic world. The sons of the two Holy Places are directly related to the life style (Seerah) of their forefathers, the companions. They consider the Seerah of their forefathers as the source and an example for re-establishing the greatest of this Ummah and to reaise the word of Allah again. Furthermore the presence of a population of fighters in the south of Yemen, fighting in the causeof Allah, is a strategic threat to the Zionist-Crusader alliance in the area. The Prophet said: (around twelve thousands will emerge from Aden/Abian helping-the cause of-Allah and His messenger, they are the best, in the time, between me and them) narrated by Ahmad with a correct trustworthy reference.
7 An internal war is a great mistake, no matter what reasons are there for it. The presence of the occupier - the USA - forces will control the outcome of the battle for the benefit of the international Kufr...
It is out of date and no loger acceptable to claim that the presence of the crusaders is necessity and only a temporary measures to protect the land of the two Holy Places. Especially when the civil and the military infrastructures of Iraq were savagely destroyed showing the depth of the Zionist-Crusaders hatred to the Muslims and their children, and the rejection of the idea of replacing the crusaders forces by an Islamic force composed of the sons of the country and other Muslim people. Moreover the foundations of the claim and the claim it self were demolished and wiped out by the sequence of speeches given by the leaders of the Kufr in America. The latest of these speeches was one given by William Perry, the Defence Secretary, after the explosion in Al-Khobar saying that: the presence of the American soldiers there is to protect the interest of the USA. The imprisoned Sheikh Safar Al-Hawali, may Allah hasten his release, wrote a book of seventy pages; in it he presented evidence and proof that the presence of the Americans in the Arab Peninsula is a pre-planned military occupation. The regime want to decieve the Muslim people in the same manner when the Palestinian fighters, Mujahideen, were decieved causing the loss of Al-Aqsa Mosque. In 1304 A.H. (1936 AD) the awakened Muslims nation of Palestine started their struggle, Jihad, against the British occupying forces. Britain was impotent to stop the Mujahideen and their Jihad, but their devil inspired that there is no way to stop the armed struggle in Palestine unless through their agent King Abdul Azeez, who manged to decieve the Mujahideen. King Abdul Azeez carried out his duty to his British masters. He sent his two sons to meet the Mujahideen leaders and to inform them that the King would guarantee the promises made by the British government in leaving the area and responding positively to the demands of the Mujahideen if the latter stop their Jihad. And so King Abdul Azeez caused the loss of the first Qiblah of the Muslim people. The king joined the crusaders against the Muslims and instead of supporting the Mujahideen in the cause of Allah, to liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque, he dissapointed and humiliated them.
Today, his son, King Fahd, trying to decieve the Muslims for the second time so as to lose what is left of the sanctities. When the Islamic world resented the arrival of the crusader forces to the land of the two Holy places, the king told lies to the Ulema and to the gathering of the Islamic leaders at the conference of Rabitah which was held in the Holy City of Mecca. The King said that: "The issue is simple, the American and the alliance forces will leave the area in a few months." Today it is seven years since their arrival and the regime is not able to move them out of the country. The regime made no confession about its inability and carried on lying to the people claming that the American will leave. But never-never again; a believer will not be bitten twice from the same hole or snake! Happy is the one who takes note of the sad experiences of others!!
Instead of motivating the army, the guards, and the security men to oppose the occupiers, the regime used these men to protect the invaders and further deepening the humiliation and the betrayal. To those little group of men within the army, police and security forces who have been tricked and pressured by the regime to attack the Muslims and spill their blood, we would like to remind them of the narration: (I promise war against those who take my friends as their enemy) narrated by Al-Bukhari. And his saying (Allah's Blessings and Salutations may be on him) saying of: (In the day of judgement a man comes holding another and complaining being slain by him. Allah, asks: Why did you slay him? The accused replies: I did so that exaltation is mine, not for Mr. X! Allah, blessed be His names, says: exaltation is mine, not for Mr. X, carry all the slain man's sins (and proceed to the Hell fire!) In another wording of An-Nasa'i: "The accused says: for strengthening the rule or kingdom of Mr. X."
Today your brothers and sons, the sons of the two Holy Places, have started their Jihad in the cause of Allah, to expel the occupying enemy from of the country of the two Holy places. And there is no doubt you would like to carry out this mission too, in order to re-establish the greatness of this Ummah and to liberate its' occupied sanctities. Nevertheless, it must be obvious to you that, due to the imbalance of power between our armed forces and the enemy forces, a suitable means of fighting must be adopted, i.e. using fast moving light forces that work under complete secrecy. In other word to initiate guerrilla warfare, where the sons of the nation, and not the military forces, take part in it. And as you know, it is wise, in the present circumstances, for the armed military forces not to be engaged in a conventional fighting with the forces of the crusader enemy (the exceptions are the bold and the forceful operations carried out by the members of the armed forces individually, that is without the movement of the formal forces in its conventional shape and hence the responses will not be directed, strongly, against the army) unless a big advantage is likely to be achieved; adn great losses induced on the enemy side (that would shake and destroy its foundations and infrastructures) that will help to expel the defeated enemy from the country.
The Mujahideen, your brothers and sons, requesting that you support them in every possible way by supplying them with the necessary information, materials, and arms. Security men are especially asked to cover up for the Mujahideen and to assist them as much as possible against the occupying enemy; and to spread rumors, fear and discouragement among the members of the enemy forces.
We bring to your attention that the regime, in order to create a friction and feud between the Mujahideen and yourselves, might resort to take a deliberate action against personnel of the security, guards and military forces and blame the Mujahideen for these actions. The regime should not be allowed to have such opportunity.
The regime is fully responsible for what had been incurred by the country and the nation; however the occupying American enemy is the principle and the main cause of the situation. Therefore efforts should be concentrated on destroying, fighting and killing the enemy until, by the Grace of Allah, it is completely defeated. The time will come - by the Permission of Allah - when you'll perform your decisive role so that the word of Allah will be supreme and the word of the infidels (Kaferoon) will be the inferior. You will hit with iron fist against the aggressors. You'll re-establish the normal course and give the people their rights and carry out your truly Islamic duty. Allah willing, I'll have a separate talk about these issues.
My Muslim Brothers (particularly those of the Arab Peninsula): The money you pay to buy American goods will be transformed into bullets and used against our brothers in Palestine and tomorrow (future) against our sons in the land of the two Holy places. By buying these goods we are strengthening their economy while our dispossession and poverty increases.
Muslim Brothers of land of the two Holy places:
It is incredible that our country is the world's largest buyer of arms from the USA and the area biggest commercial partners of the Americans who are assisting their Zionist brothers in occupying Palestine and in evicting and killing the Muslims there, by providing arms, men and financial supports.
To deny these occupiers from the enormous revenues of their trading without country is a very important help for our Jihad against them. To express our anger and hate to them is a very important moral gesture. By doing so we would have taken part in the process of cleansing our sanctities from the crusaders and the Zionists and forcing them, by the Permission of Allah, to leave disappointed and defeated.
We expect the woman of the land of the two Holy Places and other countries to carry out their role in boycotting the American goods.
If economical boycotting is intertwined with the military operations of the Mujahideen, then defeating the enemy will be even nearer, by the Permission of Allah. However if Muslims don't co-operate and support their Mujahideen brothers then, in effect, they are supplying the army of the enemy with financial help and extending the war and increasing the suffering of the Muslims.
The security and the intelligence services of the entire world can not force a single citizen to buy the goods of his/her enemy. Economical boycotting of the American goods is a very effective weapon of hitting and weakening the enemy, and it is not under the control of the security forces of the regime...
Few days ago the news agencies had reported that the Defense Sec. of the Crusading Americans had said that "the explosion at Riyadh and Al-Khobar had taught him one lesson: that it not to withdraw when attacked by coward terrorists."
We say to the Defense Secretary that this talk can induce a grieving mother to laughter! and shows the fears that had enshrined you all. Where was this false courage of yours when the explosion in Beirut took place on 1983 AD (1403 A.H.) You were turned into scattered pits and pieces at that time; 241 mainly marine soldiers were killed. And where was this courage of yours when two explosions made you leave Aden in less than twenty four hours!
But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; where - after vigorous propaganda about the power of the USA and its post cold war leadership of the new world order - you moved tens of thousands of international forces, including twenty eight thousands American soldiers into Somalia. However, when tens of your soldiers were killed in minor battles and one American Pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area carrying dissapointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you. Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge, but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear. It was a pleasure for the "heart" of every Muslim and a remedy to the "chests" of believing nations to see you defeated in the three Islamic cities of Beirut, Aden, and Mogadishu.
I say to the Secretary of Defense: The sons of the land of the two Holy Places had come out to fight against the Russians in Afghanistan, the Serb in Bosnia-Herzegovina and today they are fighting in Chechnya and - by the Permission of Allah - they have been made victorious over your partner, the Russians. By the command of Allah, they are also fighting in Tajikistan.
I say: Since the sons of the land of the two Holy Places feel and strongly believe that fighting (Jihad) against the Kufr in every part of the world, is absolutely essential; then they would be even more enthusiastic, more powerful and larger in number upon fighting on their own land - the place of their births - defending the greatest of their sanctities, the noble Ka'ba (the Qiblah of all Muslims). They know that the Muslims of the world will assist and help them to victory. To liberate their sanctities is the greatest of issues concerning all Muslims; it is the duty of every Muslim in this world.
I say to you William (Defense Secretary) that: These youths love death as you love life. They inherit dignity, pride, courage, generosity, truthfulness and sacrifice from father to father. They are most delivering and steadfast at war. They inherit these values from their ancestors (even from the time of the Jaheliyyah, before Islam). These values were approved and completed by the arriving Islam as stated by the messenger of Allah: "I have been sent to perfect the good values".
When the pagan King Amroo Ibn Hind tried to humiliate the pagan Amroo Ibn Kulthoom, the latter cut the head of the King with his sword, rejecting aggression, humiliation and indignation...
Those youths know that their rewards in fighting you, the USA, is double their rewards in fighting some one else not from the people of the book. They have no intention except to enter paradise by killing you. An infidel, the enemy of God like you, cannot be in the same hell with his righteous excecutioner...
So to abuse the grandsons of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them, by calling them cowards and challenging them by refusing to leave the land of the two Holy Places shows the insanity and imbalance you are suffering from. Its appropriate "remedy" however, is in the hands of the youths of Islam, as the poet said:
I am willing to sacrifice self and wealth for knights who never dissapoint me.
Knights who are never fed up or deterred by death, even if the mill of war turns.
In the heat of battle they do not care, and cure the insanity of the enemy by their "insane" courage.
Terrorizing you, while they are carrying arms on our land, is a legitimate and morally demanded duty. It is a legitimate right well known to all humans and other creatures. Your example and our example is like a snake which entered into a house of a man and got killed by him. The coward is the one who lets you walk, while carrying arms, freely on his land and provides you wil peace and security.
Those youths are different from your soldiers. Your problem will be how to convince yoru troops to fight, while our problem will be how to restrain our youths to wait for their turn in fighting and in operations...
I remind the youths of the Islamic world, who fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia Herzegovina with their wealth, pens, tongues, and themselves that the battle had not finished yet. I remind them about the talk between Gabriel and the messenger of Allah after the battle of Ahzab when the messenger of Allah returned to Medinah and before putting his sword aside; when Jibreel descended saying "are you putting your sword aside? by Allah the angels haven't dropped their arms yet; march with your companions to Bani Quyaydah, I am (going) ahead of you to throw fears in their hearts and to shake their fortresses on them." Jibreel marched with the angels followed by the messenger of Allah marching with the immigrants, Muhajeroon, and supporters, Ansar.
These youths know that: if one is not to be killed one will die (anyway) and the most honorable death is to be killed in the way of Allah. They are even more determined after the martyrdom of the four heroes who bombed the Americans in Riyadh. Those youths who raised high the head of the Ummah and humiliated the Americans - the occupier - by their occupation in Riyadh. They remember the poetry of Ja'far, the second commander in the battle of Mu'tah, in which three thousand Muslims faced over a hundred thousand Romans:
How good is the Paradise and its nearness, good with cool drink. But the Romans are promised punishment (in Hell) if I meet them.
I will fight them....
My Muslim Brothers of the World:
Your brothers in Palestine in the land of the two Holy Places are calling upon your help and asking you to take part in fighting against the enemy - your enemy and their enemy - the Americans and the Israelis. They are asking you to do whatever you can, with ones own means and ability, to expel the enemy, humiliated and defeated, out of the sanctities of Islam.
Vision:
The searching stare of a young African-American prompted a vision of Sheikh Rahman - "the blind sheikh" - blinded by birth - at a glance - one eye was (white-cloudy) - an image formed of a truck bomb trigger hidden below my back-bumper - sensor trigger in sync w/ my ignition as I walked from the library - a stairway assassination - or - dislodging the weapon as he approached (having hidden myself behind a willow tree) vision of Rahman as Oedipus
Broad design of epic -
Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman *sp of planes hitting towers. The Sheikh, an Oedipusian figure, sits in prison dreaming, envisioning, eyes (figuratively) to Mecca (opens) on morning prayers, possibly during "holy time" of approaching daylight, thickest darkness, must announce the entrance of the planes - in a forthright manner, starting with "Raid" or "fly." "Raid" their buildings with utmost striving..."Raid the skies" "Fly into eternal bliss" "Fly and accept death - into eternal life...are all possibilities
Rather, the order, the freedom of the air craft has been usurped - raided, the flight attendant's throat is slashed, the hijackers have control of the plane - their maneuvers (their guerilla tactics) of the muscle men are almost unconsciously done, w/out mercy, to sieze control, their power, muscle, their oratory power prevents the onrush of the passengers (also threat of the bomb). The passengers are compliant, panicked, calling loved ones.
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