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? 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