C0537pJ268 fFatwa Urgmg J'h dAgamst - Amencans • __ --- -·--·-··· • Xt o I a --- -· • •• ·--··· ·--·---·---······ http opensource dni ic gov cgi-bin cqcgi @iware env CQ _CUR_ Unclassified ·-· -----------------·--····--···- ·-··- - - - --·· ··-·-···--····-· -··-· - --· --·-· Open Source Center Document ID FfS19980223001154 100 Entry Date 02 2 1998Version Number 01 Region Near East South Asia Snb-Region Arabian Peninsula Arab Africa Country Saudi Arabia Egypt Topic TERRORISM Source Date 02 23 1998 Text of Fatwa Urging Jihad Against Americans MM2302163198 London Al-Quds al•'Arabi in Arabic 23 Feb 98 p 3 Reference _1 MM2302142698-Lond on Al-Quds al-'Arabi Arabic 23 Feb - B Ladin Others Sign Fatwa To 'Kill Americans' Everywhere -° Text of World Islamic Front's Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders --Al-Quds al-'Arabi headline in a front-page i eport Al-Quds -'Arab says that the statement was faxed to AlQuds al-'Arabi and signed by Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin the prominent Saudj oppositionist Ayman a1 Zawahiri _ amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha a · leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group Shaykh Mir Hamzah secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema e-Pakistan and Fazlul Rahman amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh FB_IS Translated Text -Praise be to God who r vealed_ the Book controls the clouds defeats factionalism and says in His Book But when the-forbidden months are past then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them seize them beleaguer-them and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad Bin-'Abdallah who said I have been sent with the sword between my hands to ensure that no one but God is worshipped -God who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear and _who inflicts humiliation and scorn on thos who disobey my orders ·The· Arabian Peninsula has never - since God made it flat created tts desert - and enckcled it with seas -- been stormed by any forces like the crusader armies spreading in it like locus ts eating its riches and wiping ut its lantations All this is ha ening at a time in which nations -are attacking Muslims like APPROVED FOR RELEASEn DATE 25-April-2012 -_ _ 1 of3 12 6 2007 7 44 AM CO 5 3 7 3 2 •• 6 •wxt 8 OfFatwa Urgmg Jihad Agamst Am encans • • • w•-' http opensource dni ic gov cgi-bin cqcgi @rware env CQ_CUR_ • · peopl fighting over a plate of food In the light of die grave situation and the lack of support we and · you are obliged to discuss current events and we should all agree on ·how to settle the matter No one argues today about three facts that are known 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 holiest of places the Arabian Peninsula plundering its riches dictating to its rulers humiliating its people terrorizing its neighbors and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead 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 now acknowledged it · · The best proof 9f this is the Americans' continuing ggression against th Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a stagirig post even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end but they are helpless ·- -S ond despite the great devastation inflicted on the-Iraqi-people-by the-crusader-Zionist alliance and despite the huge number ·of those killed which has exceeded 1 million despite all this the Americans are once against trying'to repeat the horrific massacres as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation So here they come to annihilate ·what is left of this people and to humiliate th ir Muslim neighbors Third if the Americans' aims behind these wars are religious and economic 1 he aim is also to serve the Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem and murde i of Muslims there 11te b st proof of this is their eagerness to destroy Iraq the strongest neighboring Arab state and their endeavor to fragment all the states of the region such as Iraq Saudi Arabia Egypt and Sudan into paper statelets and through their disunion and weakness to guarantee 1$rael's survival and the continuation of the brutal cru ade occupation of the Peninsula ·· All these crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God his· messenger and Muslims And ulema have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries was revealed by Imam 11 11 Bin-Qadamah in Al- Mughni Imam al-Kisa'i in · A1-Bada'i al-Qurtubi in his interpretation and the shaykh of -Islam n t further identified in his books where he said As for the fighting to repulse an enemy it is aimed at defending sanctity and religion and it is a duty as agreed by the ulemaJ Nothing is more sa red than belief except repulsing an enemy who is attacking religion and life This · On that basis and in ompliance with God's order we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military-- is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it in order to liberate the al Aqsa Mosque and the holy mosque MeccaJ from their grip and in order for_ their armies to niove out of all the lands of Islam defeated ·and unable to threaten any Muslim This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together and fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression and there prevail justice and faith in God · 2of3 12 6 2007 7 44 AM J CO 7_ 3 2_6___ 8 tt ofFatwa U rgmg J'h Amencans · _____5 _3_ 1 ad Agamst http opensource dni ic gov cgi-bin cqcgi @rware en CQ_CUR_ • This is in addition to the w rds of Almighty God And why shoul ye not fight in the _cause of God and of those-wlto being weak are ill-treated and oppressed --women and children whose cry is 'Our Lord rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors and raise for us from _thee one who will help 111 We - with God's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it We also call on Muslim ulema leaders youths and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U S troops the devil's supporters allying with them and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson · and Almighty God said O ye who believe give your response to God and His Apostle when He calleth you to that which will give you life And ·know that God cometh between a man and-his heart and that it is He to whom ye shall all be gathered 11 • A ghty God also says O ye who believe what is the matter with you that when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of God ye cling so heavily to the earth Do ye prefer the life of this world to the hereafter But-little is the comfort of this life as compared with the hereafter Unless ye go forth He wtltpuntsh you with a grievous penal ty 1i nd put others m your place but Hiin ye would not liiiim in the --- -least For God hath power over all things 11 · Almighty God also -says 11 S0 lose no heart nor fall into despair For ye n1 st gain mastery if ye are tnie II • THIS REPORT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS Unclassified_ 3 of3 1216120017 44 AM