[iwar] [fc:Pakistan.news.media.get.purported.bin.Laden.e-mail]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-09-16 13:07:00


Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1949-1000694073-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com>
Delivered-To: fc@all.net
Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (qmail 24907 invoked by uid 510); 17 Sep 2001 02:34:50 -0000
Received: from n25.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.75) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 17 Sep 2001 02:34:50 -0000
X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1949-1000694073-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com
Received: from [10.1.4.52] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 17 Sep 2001 02:34:33 -0000
X-Sender: fc@big.all.net
X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com
Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 17 Sep 2001 02:34:33 -0000
Received: (qmail 79324 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2001 20:07:02 -0000
Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Sep 2001 20:07:02 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 16 Sep 2001 20:07:01 -0000
Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id NAA17137 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:07:01 -0700
Message-Id: <200109162007.NAA17137@big.all.net>
To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List)
Organization: I'm not allowed to say
X-Mailer: don't even ask
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1]
From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net>
Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com
Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:07:00 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [iwar] [fc:Pakistan.news.media.get.purported.bin.Laden.e-mail]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Sunday, 16 September 2001 8:47 (ET)

Pakistan news media get purported bin Laden e-mail

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept.  16 (UPI) -- Here is the text of e-mail
allegedly sent by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to Pakistani news
media.  It was not possible to independently confirm whether the e-mail
was genuine, but no denial of authorship was issued Sunday by bin Laden. 

 The e-mail address for the message was osamabinlaadin on the
hotmail.com service, with the "i" and double "a" used in the latter
portion of the address, instead of "laden."

 The subject of the e-mail, in all capitals, was: "O THE FAITHFULS OF
MEDIA."

 Here is the text of the e-mail:

 "O THE MUSLIM FAITHFULS OF MEDIA

 "Almighty God says, 'So lose no heart nor fall into despair.  For ye
must gain mastery if ye are true in faith.'

 Praise be to God, who revealed the Book (the Koran), 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 those who disobey my orders.'

 "The Arabian Peninsula has never -- since God made it flat, created its
desert, and encircled it with seas -- been stormed by any forces like
the crusader armies now spreading in it like locusts, consuming its
riches and destroying its plantations. 

 "All this is happening at a time when nations are attacking Muslims
like people fighting over a plate of food.  In the light of the 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 formerly debated the fact of the occupation, all
the people of the peninsula have now acknowledged it. 

 "The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against
the Iraqi people using them as a staging post, even though all its
rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they
are helpless.  Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the
Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge
number of those killed, in excess of 1 million ...(editor's note: these
ellipses appear in the e-mail) 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 now they come to annihilate what is left of this people and to
humiliate their Muslim neighbors.  Third, if the Americans' aims behind
these wars are religious and economic, the aim is also to serve the
Jews' petty state and divert attention from its occupation of Jerusalem
and murder of Muslims there. 

 "The best 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 (editor's note: this is the term used in the e-mail) and
through their disunion and weakness to guarantee Israel's survival and
the continuation of the brutal crusade 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 (holy war)
is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.  This
was revealed by Imam Bin-Qadamah in 'Al-Mughni,' Imam al-Kisa'i in 'Al-
Bada'i,' al-Qurtubi in his interpretation, and the shaykh (sheikh) of
al-Islam in his books, where he said, 'As for the militant struggle, it
is aimed at defending sanctity and religion, and it is a duty as agreed. 
Nothing is more sacred than belief except repulsing an enemy who is
attacking religion and life.'

 "On that basis, and in compliance 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 from
their grip, and in order for their armies to move 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.'

 "This is in addition to the words of Almighty God: 'And why should ye
not fight in the cause of God and of those who, 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!" '

 "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 and the devil's supporters allying with them,
and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a
lesson. 

 "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.'

 "Almighty 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 will punish you with a grievous
penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the
least.  For God hath power over all things.'

 "May Allah Almighty guide you. 

 "Osama bin Ladin (editor's note: this is how the e-mail was signed,
with the "i" in "Ladin.")

Copyright 2001 by United Press International.  All rights reserved. 

Source: http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=221304


------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Do you need to encrypt all your online transactions? Secure corporate intranets? Authenticate your Web sites? Whatever
security your site needs, you'll find the perfect solution here!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/wOMkGD/Q56CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

------------------
http://all.net/ 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : 2001-09-29 21:08:44 PDT