Religion, Nationalism, and Terror

Bin Laden Predicts U.S. Failure in Iraq - washingtonpost.com, September 8, 2007

Addressing his message to “the people of America,” bin Laden predicted failure for U.S. forces in Iraq and warned against what he described as the continued oppression and humiliation of Muslims by the West.

“The blood of the Muslims will not be spilled with impunity,” he said.

The tape was undergoing technical evaluation by U.S. intelligence analysts, but an initial review indicated it was authentic. “The analysis suggests that the voice on the tape is indeed that of Osama bin Laden,” said a U.S. intelligence official, speaking on the condition that he not be identified by name.

Transcript: Osama bin Laden’s latest video, September 7, 2007

“The holocaust of the Jews was carried out by your brethren in the middle of Europe, but had it been closer to our countries, most of the Jews would have been saved by taking refuge with us. And my proof for that is in what your brothers, the Spanish, did when they set up the horrible courts of the Inquisition to try Muslims and Jews, when the Jews only found safe shelter by taking refuge in our countries. And that is why the Jewish community in Morocco today is one of the largest communities in the world. They are alive with us and we have not incinerated them, but we are a people who don’t sleep under oppression and reject humiliation and disgrace, and we take revenge on the people of tyranny and aggression, and the blood of the Muslims will not be spilled with impunity, and the morrow is nigh for he who awaits.

No overt threats in new bin Laden video - Yahoo News, September 7, 2007

WASHINGTON - A new video of Osama bin Laden makes no overt threats against the United States and appears to have been made as recently as this summer, a government official said Friday.

Online NewsHour: Bin Laden’s Fatwa
Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places

World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement

 World Islamic Front Call for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, original text in Arabic, 1998
World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders

Bin Laden Statements 1996-2004

I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Mohammad, peace be upon him

Online NewsHour: Bin Laden Statement — Oct. 7, 2001

Bin Laden’s Statements 2003-2006, MEMRI Special Dispatch Series - No. 1286

Fisk Interview 1993