[MizSterious]

Osama issued his fatwa/declaration of war with the US in either 1994 or 1995. Anyone (including dumb journalists) can find copies of it on the net, or in one of several books published on the subject.

[Gay State Conservative]

Correct.The filthy,9th Century knuckle draggers started
this war in February 1993,if not earlier.

[theDentist]

Not that I want to criticize, but why has it taken so long for such a statement to be issued from the Exec. Branch? Is it becuase they didn't want to criticize previous Administrations? Please tell me they didn't just realize this.

[JimSEA]

Here is Osama's declaration of war

[JimSEA]

Here is Osama's declaration of war

Sorry link done improperly first time.

[Berlin_Freeper]

House of Representatives - September 07, 2000[Page: H7349]
Osama Bin Laden has made no secret of his anti-American, anti-Western and anti-Israel sentiments:

August 1998--The ``International Islamic Front for Jihad against America and Israel,'' a group sponsored by Bin Laden, issues a warning in the London-based newspaper al-Hayat that, ``strikes will continue from everywhere'' against the United States. (CNN Interactive, 8/20/98)

May 1998--Bin Laden announces the formation of an ``International Islamic Front for Jihad against America and Israel,'' according to The News, an Islamabad, Pakistan daily. (The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism web site, www.ict.org.il)

March 1998--Bin Laden faxes messages to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and U.S. consulates in Peshawar, Lahore, and Karachi threatening to attack U.S. facilities and citizens. (The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism web site, www.ict.org.il)

February 1998--Bin Laden uses a fatwa, religious decree, to call for the liberation of Muslim holy places in Saudi Arabia and Israel, as well as the death of Americans and their allies. The decree says, ``These crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger and Muslims.'' (The Washington Post, 2/25/98)

May 1997--During an interview with CNN, Bin Laden reaffirms his call for a holy war against Americans. ``We have focused our declaration of jihad on the U.S. soldiers inside Arabia ..... The U.S. government has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal through its support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.'' (Reuters, 5/11/97)

February 1997--Bin Laden threatens holy war against the U.S. in an interview on the British documentary program, Dispatches. ``This war will not only be between the people of the two sacred mosques and the Americans, but it will be between the Islamic world and the Americans and their allies because this war is a new crusade led by America against the Islamic nations.'' (Reuters, 2/20/97)

November 1996--Bin Laden issues an ultimatum to the U.S. and Western countries with troops stationed in Arab countries and declares a holy war against the ``enemy.'' Had we wanted to carry out small operations after our threat statement, we would have been able to ..... We thought that the two bombings in Riyadh and Dhahran would be enough (sic.) a signal to the wise U.S. decision-makers to avoid the real confrontation with the Islamic nation, but it seems they did not understand it.'' (The Washington Times, 11/28/96)

November 1996--Bin Laden warns U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia to expect more ``effective, qualitative'' attacks and advises Western forces to speed their ``departure'' from the Middle East. (UPI, 11/27/96)

August 1996--Bin Laden says to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that the Saudis have a ``legitimate right'' to attack the 5,000 American military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia. ``The presence of the American crusader armed forces in the countries of the Islamic Gulf is the greatest danger and the biggest harm that threatens the world's largest oil reserves ..... The infidels must be thrown out of the Arabian Peninsula.'' (The Washington Post, 8/31/96)

August 1996--In an interview with The Independent, a London daily, Bin Laden calls the June 1995 truck bomb in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia ``the beginning of war between Muslims and the United States.'' (New York Daily News, 8/11/96)

July 1996--Bin Laden warns that the terrorist who bombed American soldiers in Saudi Arabia will also attack British and French military personnel. He said ``[the bomb in Dhahran] was the result of American behavior against Muslims, its support of Jews in Palestine, and the massacre of Muslims in Palestine and Lebanon.'' (New York Times, 7/11/96)

[gridlock]

Cheney says terrorists at war with U.S. before 2001

WHAT EVER GAVE HIM THAT IDEA?