Osama bin Laden’s Mandate for Nuclear Terror

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs ^ | 12-10-04 | Kelly Uphoff

[Snapple]

An Islamic religious ruling that had been kept from the public for a year-and-a-half granted Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders permission to use nuclear, biological or chemical weapons against the United States and its allies. The existence of the ruling, or fatwa, was revealed by Michael Scheuer, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who headed the agency’s Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999 during the course of a November 14 broadcast of the CBS news show Sixty Minutes.

[Snapple]

An Islamic religious ruling that had been kept from the public for a year-and-a-half granted Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders permission to use nuclear, biological or chemical weapons against the United States and its allies. The existence of the ruling, or fatwa, was revealed by Michael Scheuer, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who headed the agency’s Bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999 during the course of a November 14 broadcast of the CBS news show Sixty Minutes.

[Just Lori]

So they want to kill us. What's new?

[m3d1um]

The president needs to come out and say just like we did with the the Russians. We will have a (MAD) policly towards and attack on the homeland with a nuke..

We will destroy the top 100 Islamic City's if there is a nuke attack in the United States...

[Personal Responsibility]

From the way I read that, it sounds like they were ready to nuke/bio/chem attack us but were being held back due to religous constraints. Those constraints are now gone.

I do not believe that for a second though. Even though the article is pretty clear that someone somewhere told bin Laden that it was ok, I find it hard to believe that he has had the opportunity to strike with WMD and has turned it down on religous grounds.

[REDWOOD99]

Strange how this didn't come out BEFORE the election.

[Bazooka]

It's amazing how opportunistic these muslim extremists are. They do anything (and I mean: Any Thing) to stich to the letter of the law in their Quran, but where in that book does it say that they are allowed to use modern weaponry suck as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons?

I say they've lost the plot.

[Snapple]

I would agree. They use the Koran to justify what they want to do just like the Communists used Marxism-Leninism to justify what they wanted to do.

I do think that Osama wants to appear to be operating withing Islamic law because the people really do believe in that.

[Snapple]

It think what is new is that they have set up a central religious authority the Salafi Jihadi/Taliban that justifies using WMD. Mainstream Islamic scholars are against this:

Sheik Nasir bin Hamid al Fahd, the cleric who granted the decree concerning WMD, is part of an ultra-conservative trio of Saudi religious leaders that has been relentlessly criticized by the Saudi government for inciting terrorist fervor and supporting terrorist organizations. According to a London-based, Saudi-owned newspaper, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, al Fahd, and his two colleagues, Ali al-Khudayr and Ahmad al-Khaladi, are part of what is known as the “Salafi Jihadi” trend. This movement is part of the recent emergence of a self-proclaimed “utterly pure Islamic model” that began to appear in the late 1990s, at the same time the Taliban regime emerged in Afghanistan. The Salafi School was formed in order to reply “to any criticism of the Taliban’s measures that did not enjoy the approval of prominent scholars of the Islamic world.” The movement simply served to justify any actions condemned by mainstream Islam. To them, the Taliban regime was the most legitimate representative of Islam and anyone who joins the cause of fighting international terrorism, i.e. dismantling Al Qaeda and the Taliban, is an “infidel”.