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General Emir of Al-Qaeda

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is a result of the more than seven years the United States had been occupying the lands of islam in the holiest of places while plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and killing its adherents.

In 1996, Bin Laden issued a fatwa calling for American troops to get out of Saudi Arabia. In the 1998 fatwa, Al-Qaeda wrote: '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.'[20] In the December 1999 interview with Rahimullah Yusufzai, bin Laden said he felt that Americans were 'too near to Mecca' and considered this a provocation to the entire Muslim world.[26] (wikipedia),

is simply retaliation for eighty years of humiliation.

Osama's declaration in October 2001 in which he argued that 9/11 was simply retaliation for '80 years of humiliation' (see 'The Sword Fell,' cited earlier). Zawahiri and others share that analysis.

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