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By Ayman Al-Zawahiri | TRANSLATED
BY JIHAD UNSPUN
October 8, 2002
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The US campaign against Afghanistan is now one year old. What is your view on what has transpired so far and what are your intentions for the future? |
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As for the American campaign against Afghanistan, what is most striking to any observer is that the campaign hasn't achieved any of its goals after one year. By the mercy of Allah, the Most Gracious, America and its allies were not able to strike the leader of the Al-Qaida organization or the Taliban including Mullah Muhammad Omar and Sheikh Osama bin Laden, may Allah preserve them, who both are enjoying a good health and are leading all sincere Mujahideen in the battle against the American Crusader invasion of Afghanistan.
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There are more and more American statements that ensure the necessity to launch a new aggressive campaign against Iraq. |
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The campaign against Iraq has goals that surpass Iraq and they are to conquer the Arab and Islamic world. The objective is the destruction of any effective military power close to Israel. Furthermore, America aims to establish Israel's monopoly on weapons of mass destruction in the region, without any competitor, in order to ensure the submission of the Arab and Muslim countries to its desires and imperialistic ambitions.
America is clearly lying concerning any news related to Afghanistan. The whole world is witnessing the tragedy of Guantanamo and it is the ludicrous when hundreds are captured in America with no regard for any law or trial. As for Saudi Arabia, according to what was now been decided in the Congress, they are intending to divide it into different regions so that there would be an eastern region that includes most of the oil fields which would be under direct US control. |
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What is your message to your enemies and their agents? |
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As for our message to our enemies, America and their allies should know that their crimes won't pass without retaliation by the permission of Allah. We advise them to hurry and leave Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula and Afghanistan and all other Muslim countries before they loose everything.
We have sent some messages to the allies of American so that they may stop their involvement in its Crusade. The Mujahideen youth have issued messages to Germany and another one to France. So if this is not enough, then we are prepared to increase it by the help of Allah.
As for America, it must expect to be treated the same way that it has committed crimes, like the destruction of the Palestinians' homes by the Jews using US weapons and like the murder of Muhammad Al-Durra and other Palestinian children by the Jews with US weapons. Then the American people will curse Bush and his administration dead or alive due to the extremely high price they are repaid with. We will continue our strikes against the American economic lifelines. |
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