8/23/1996

Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in a treatise written from Afghanistan. ” ‘You are not unaware of the injustice, repression and aggression that have befallen Muslims through the alliance of Jews, Christians, and their agents, so much so that Muslims’ blood has become the cheapest blood and their money and wealth […]

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8/23/1996

“From his new refuge in Afghanistan bin Laden issued a slew of ever more radical pronouncements, beginning with ‘The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places‘ on August 23, 1996. …’The latest of these assaults is the greatest disaster since the death of the Prophet Muhammad…that is the […]

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8/23/1996

“On August 23 [1996], Osama bin Laden signs a declaration of jihad against the United States.”  – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 303 […]

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8/23/1996

Summarizing bin Laden’s Declaration of Jihad on August 23, 1996: “Al-Qaeda had declared war on America.”  – Bob Graham with Jeff Nussbaum, Intelligence Matters, Page 31 […]

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8/23/1996

Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) wrote, quoting Frontline: “On August 23, 1996, from his base in Afghanistan, bin Laden issued a Declaration of Jihad, outlining his organization’s goals to drive U.S. forces from the Arabian Peninsula, to overthrow the government of Saudi Arabia, to ‘liberate’ Muslim holy sites, and to support Islamic revolutionary groups around the […]

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8/23/1996

“In August [23] 1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia. The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings […]

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8/23/1996

” ‘I say if the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S.,’ said bin Laden [in his ‘Declaration of War Against America‘ on August 23, 1996], ‘then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims. Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, […]

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8/23/1996

Continuing with his ‘Declaration of War Against America‘ on August 23, 1996, bin Laden said, we ” ‘hold you responsible for all 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 […]

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8/23/1996

On August 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden said, ” ‘My Muslim Brothers of The World…Your brothers in Palestine and in the land of the two Holy Places [Saudi Arabia] are calling upon your help and asking you to take part in fighting against the enemy–your enemy and their enemy–The Americans and Israelis. They are asking […]

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8/23/1996

“Osama bin Laden’s first declaration that he was at war with the United States was issued in August 23, 1996, three months after his return to Afghanistan. …’The presence of the USA Crusader military forces on land, sea and air in the states of the Islamic Gulf is the greatest danger threatening the largest oil […]

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