DECLARATION
OF
WAR
AGAINST
THE
AMERICANS
OCCUPYING
23/8/
1996
(From
My
Archives)
Usamah bin Muhammad bin Laden
DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE AMERICANS OCCUPYING THE LAND OF THE TWO
HOLY PLACES
(EXPEL THE INFIDELS FROM THE ARAB PENINSULA)
A MESSAGE FROM USAMA BIN MUHAMMAD BIN LADEN UNTO HIS MUSLIM BRETHREN ALL
OVER THE WORLD GENERALLY AND IN THE ARAB PENINSULA SPECIFICALLY
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 has 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.
*
Allah's blessing and salutations on His slave and messenger who said:
"The people are close to an all encompassing punishment from Allah if
they see the oppressor and fail to restrain him." It should not be
hidden from you that the people of Islam had suffered from aggression,
iniquity and injustice imposed on them by the ZionistCrusaders 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
Tajakestan, Burma, Cashmere, Assam, Philippine, Fatani, Ogadin, Somalia,
Erithria, Chechnia and in BosniaHerzegovina 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.
**
People are fully concerned about their every day livings; every body
talks about the deterioration of the economy, inflation, ever increasing
debts and jails full of prisoners. Government employees with limited
income talk about debts of ten thousands and hundred thousands of Saudi
Riyals . They complain that the value of the Riyal is greatly and
continuously deteriorating among most of the main currencies. Great
merchants and contractors speak about hundreds and thousands of million
Riyals owed to them by the government. More than three hundred forty
billions of Riyal owed by the government to the people in addition to
the daily accumulated interest, let alone the foreign debt. People
wonder whether we are the largest oil exporting country! They even
believe that this situation is a curse put on them by Allah for not
objecting to the oppressive and illegitimate behaviour and measures of
the ruling regime.
Ignoring the divine Shari'ah law; depriving people of their legitimate
rights; allowing the American to occupy the land of the two Holy Places;
imprisonment, unjustly, of the sincere scholars....All agreed that the
country is heading toward a great catastrophe, the depth of which is not
known except by Allah....Numerous princes share with the people their
feelings, privately expressing their concerns and objecting to the
corruption, repression and the intimidation taking place in the country.
But the competition between influential princes for personal gains and
interest had destroyed the country. Through its course of actions the
regime has torn off its legitimacy:
(1) Suspension of the Islamic Shari'ah law and exchanging it with man
made civil law...
(2) The inability of the regime to protect the country, and allowing the
enemy of the Ummah the American crusader forces to occupy the land for
the longest of years...
Quick efforts were made by individuals and by different groups of the
society to contain the situation and to prevent the danger. They advised
the government both privately and openly; they send letters and poems,
reports after reports, reminders after reminders, they explored every
avenue and enlist every influential man in their movement of reform and
correction. They wrote with style of passion, diplomacy and wisdom
asking for corrective measures and repentance from the "great wrong
doings and corruption " that had engulfed even the basic principles of
the religion and the legitimate rights of the people. But to our deepest
regret the regime refused to listen to the people accusing them of being
ridiculous and imbecile. The matter got worse as previous wrong doings
were followed by mischief's of greater magnitudes. All of this taking
place in the land of the two Holy Places! It is no longer possible to be
quiet. It is not acceptable to give a blind eye to this matter.
...In 1411 A.H. (May 1991), at the time of the gulf war, a letter, the
famous letter of Shawwaal, with over four hundred signatures was send to
the king demanding the lift of oppression and the implementation of
corrective actions. The king humiliated those people and choose to
ignore the content of their letter; and the very bad situation of the
country became even worse....One particular report, the glorious
Memorandum Of Advice, was handed over to the king on Muharram, 1413 A.H
(July 1992), which tackled the problem pointed out the illness and
prescribed the medicine in an original, righteous and scientific style.
It described the gaps and the shortcoming in the philosophy of the
regime and suggested the required course of action and remedy. The
report gave a description of:
(1) The intimidation and harassment suffered by the leaders of the
society, the scholars, heads of tribes, merchants, academic teachers and
other eminent individuals;
(2) The situation of the law within the country and the arbitrary
declaration of what is Halal and Haram (lawful and unlawful) regardless
of the Shari'ah as instituted by Allah;
(3) The state of the press and the media which became a tool of
truth-hiding and misinformation; the media carried out the plan of the
enemy of idolising cult of certain personalities and spreading scandals
among the believers to repel the people away from their religion,...
4) Abuse and confiscation of human rights;
(5) The financial and the economical situation of the country and the
frightening future in the view of the enormous amount of debts and
interest owed by the government;...while imposing more custom duties and
taxes on the nation... ,
(6)The miserable situation of the social services and infrastructure
especially the water service and supply , the basic requirement of life.
(7) The state of the ill-trained and ill-prepared army and the impotence
of its commander in chief despite the incredible amount of money that
has been spent on the army...
(8) Shari'a law was suspended and man made law was used instead.
(9)And as far as the foreign policy is concerned the report exposed not
only how this policy has disregarded the Islamic issues and ignored the
Muslims, but also how help and support were provided to the enemy
against the Muslims; the cases of GazaAriha and the communist in the
south of Yemen are still fresh in the memory, and more can be said.
***
If there are more than one duty to be carried out, then the most
important one should receive priority. Clearly after Belief (Imaan)
there is no more important duty than pushing the American enemy out of
the holy land....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 among themselves; the ill
effect of ignoring these differences, at a given period of time, is much
less than the ill effect of the occupation of the Muslims' land by the
main Kufr...
... If it is not possible to fight except with the help of non righteous
military personnel and commanders, then there are two possibilities:
either fighting will be ignored and the others, who are the great danger
to this life and religion, will take control; or to fight with the help
of non righteous rulers and therefore repelling the greatest of the two
dangers and implementing most, though not all, of the Islamic laws. The
latter option is the right duty to be carried out in these circumstances
and in many other similar situation....Man fabricated laws were put
forward permitting what has been forbidden by Allah such as usury (Riba)
and other matters. Banks dealing in usury are competing, for lands, with
the two Holy Places and declaring war against Allah by disobeying
His...Be careful of your duty to Allah and relinquish what remains (due)
from usury, if you are believers. But if you do (it) not, then be
appraised of WAR from Allah and His Apostle} (Baqarah; 2:278279). This
is for the "Muslim" who deals in usury (believing that it is a sin),
what is it then to the person who make himself a partner and equal to
Allah, legalising (usury and other sins) what has been forbidden by
Allah....Under such circumstances, to push the enemy the greatest Kufr
out of the country is a prime duty. No other duty after Belief is more
important than the duty of jihad . Utmost effort should be made to
prepare and instigate the Ummah against the enemy, the AmericanIsraeli
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 (AlAqsa Mosque)...
1 consumption of the Muslims human resources as most casualties and
fatalities will be among the Muslims 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 largest oil reserve in the
world....The economical interest 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, by Allah's Permission and Grace. We also warn
the aggressors, the USA, against burning this Islamic wealth (a crime
which they may commit in order to prevent it, at the end of the war,
from falling in the hands of its' legitimate owners and to cause
economical 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 part of it by Israel. Dividing the land of the two Holy Places
is an essential demand of the ZionistCrusader 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...
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.
I address now my brothers of the security and military forces and the
national guards may Allah preserve you hoard for Islam and the Muslims
people: O you protectors of unity and guardians of Faith; O you
descendent of the ancestors who carried the light (torch) of guidance
and spread it all over the world. ¼ ; you competed to join the army and
the guard forces with the intention to carry out Jihad in the cause of
Allah raising His word and to defend the faith of Islam and the land of
the two Holy Places against the invaders and the occupying forces....The
crusaders were permitted to be in the land of the two Holy Places. Not
surprisingly though, the King himself wore the cross on his chest. The
country was widely opened from the north to the south and from east to
the west for the crusaders. The land was filled with the military bases
of the USA and the allies. The regime became unable to keep control
without the help of these bases. You know more than any body else about
the size, intention and the danger of the presence of the USA military
bases in the area. The regime betrayed the Ummah and joined the Kufr,
assisting and helping them against the Muslims....It is out of date and
no longer 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
ZionistCrusaders 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 Kuffar in America. The latest of these speeches was the
one given by William Perry, the Defence Secretary, after the explosion
in AlKhobar saying that: the presence of the American solders there is
to protect the interest of the USA. The imprisoned Sheikh Safar
AlHawali, 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 preplanned military occupation. The regime
want to deceive the Muslims people in the same manner when the
Palestinian fighters, Mujahideen, were deceived causing the loss of
AlAqsa Mosque....The King said that: "the issue is simple, the American
and the alliance forces will leave the area in 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 claiming that the American will
leave. But never, never again ; a believer will not be bitten twice from
the same hole or snake!...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 a guerrilla warfare, were the sons of the nation, and not the
military forces, take part in it....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 rumours, fear and discouragement among the members of the enemy
forces....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....You will hit with iron
fist against the aggressors. You'll reestablish the normal course and
give the people their rights and carry out your truly Islamic duty...
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.
Muslims Brothers of land of the two Holy Places:
It is incredible that our country is the world 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 with our country is a very important help for our Jihad
against them...
****
Few days ago the news agencies had reported that the Defence Secretary
of the Crusading Americans had said that "the explosion at Riyadh and
AlKhobar had taught him one lesson: that is not to withdraw when
attacked by coward terrorists".
We say to the Defence Secretary that his 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 CE (1403 A.H). You were turned into scattered pits and
pieces at that time; 241 mainly marines soldiers were killed. And where
was this courage of yours when two explosions made you to leave Aden in
less than twenty four hours!
But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; whereafter 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
force, including twenty eight thousands American solders into Somalia.
However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one
American Pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area
carrying disappointment, 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....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 Secretary of Defence: The sons of the land of the two Holy
Places had come out to fight against the Russian in Afghanistan, the
Serb in BosniaHerzegovina and today they are fighting in Chechenia 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 Tajakistan.
*****
[Speaking to Defense Secretary Willims]
The youths you called cowards are competing among themselves for
fighting and killing you; reciting what one of them said:
The crusader army became dust when we detonated alKhobar With courageous
youth of Islam fearing no danger.
******
For more than a decade, they carried arms on their shoulders in
Afghanistan and they have made vows to Allah that as long as they are
alive, they will continue to carry arms against you until you are Allah
willing expelled, defeated and humiliated, they will carry on as long as
they live saying:
*******
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 the imbalance you
are suffering from...
I am willing to sacrifice self and wealth for knights who never
disappointed 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.
Terrorising you, while you 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 with peace and security.
Those youths are different from your soldiers. Your problem will be how
to convince your troops to fight, while our problem will be how to
restrain our youths to wait for their turn in fighting and in
operations. These youths are commendation and praiseworthy.
*******
If I do not fight you, then my mother must be insane! The youths hold
you responsible for all of the killings and evictions of the Muslims and
the violation of the sanctities, carried out by your Zionist brothers in
Lebanon; you openly supplied them with arms and finance. More than
600,000 Iraqi children have died due to lack of food and medicine and as
a result of the unjustifiable aggression (sanction) imposed on Iraq and
its nation.
The children of Iraq are our children. You, the USA, together with the
Saudi regime are responsible for the shedding of the blood of these
innocent children. Due to all of that, what ever treaty you have with
our country is now null and void.
******
My Muslim Brothers of The World:
Your brothers in Palestine and 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 one own means and
ability, to expel the enemy, humiliated and defeated, out of the
sanctities of Islam. Exalted be to Allah said in His book: { and if they
ask your support, because they are oppressed in their faith, then
support them!} (Anfaal; 8:72)
*****
And our last supplication is: All praise is due to Allah .
Usamah bin Muhammad bin Laden
Friday, 9/4/1417 A.H (23/8/1996 CE) Hindukush Mountains, Khurasan,
Afghanistan.
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