THE SMOKING GUN
by M. Fortner

No, I am not referring to WMD in Iraq, I am referring to evidence that Islam is planning, preparing, and mobilizing to destroy America and Israel, which is my interpretation of the beast with ten horns of Revelation 13.

In May of 1998, just 3 months before the two embassies in Africa were bombed, Osama Bin Laden had an interview with John Miller of ABC television. I will quote some of that interview, with explanation.

(Words in parentheses are mine.)

". . . The Americans impose themselves on everyone who believes in his religion and his rights. . . America does not have a religion that will prevent it from destroying all people.

(This refers to America's foreign policy that bullies other nations into doing what America wants them to do; and to the two atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan during World War II.)

Your situation with Muslims in Palestine is shameful, if there is any shame left in America. In the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, a cooperation between Zionist and Christian forces, houses were demolished over the heads of children. Also, by testimony of relief workers in Iraq, the American-led sanctions resulted in the death of over 1 million Iraqi children.

(I have always opposed the blockade of Iraq because it was the common people that suffered, not Sadam.)

All of this was done in the name of American interests. We believe that the biggest thieves in the world and the terrorists are the Americans. The only way for us to fend off these assaults is to use similar means.

We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians; they are all targets in this fatwa. Especially since American officials were released after the Khobar bombing, asking all American civilians to contact the security department in the embassy with information on Muslims and activists. The fatwa includes all that share or take part in killing of Muslims, assaulting holy places, or those who help the Jews occupy Muslim land.

. . . (About the attackers of the U.S. military in Saudi Arabia) They have raised the head of the Muslim nation high, and washed away some of the dishonor we had to bear by the Saudi government's collaboration with the American government in the land of Allah.

. . . I worship Allah, which includes carrying out the jihad to raise Allah's word and evict the Americans from all Muslim land.

(Notice that Osama is angry about American forces in Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia.)

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The Soviet Union entered (Afghanistan) in the last week of 1979, in December, and with Allah's help their flag was folded Dec. 25 a few years later (1991) and thrown in the trash, and there was nothing left to call Soviet Union.

(Here Osama infers that the Soviet Union collapsed because it had invaded a Muslim country; even though several of the Soviet states were predominately Muslim, such as Uzbekistan.)

We are sure of Allah's victory and our victory against the Americans and the Jews as promised by the prophet peace be up on him: "Judgment day shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, (kill them) whereas the Jews will hide behind trees and stones, and the tree and the stone will speak and say 'Muslim, behind me is a Jew, come and kill him', except for the al-Ghargad tree, which is a Jewish plant."

(The idea that only radical Muslims hate the Jews and Americans is a total fiction. The above quote was from the Hadith, which are the sayings of Muhammad. So you can see that from the very beginning the Muslims were taught to hate the Jews and that they must kill the Jews before the Day of Judgment will come. America's support for Israel is just another reason to hate America.)

We are sure of our victory. Our battle with the Americans is larger than our battle with the Russians. The Americans made a very stupid mistake that no one has made before. They attacked the Muslim symbol, the Kibla, of 200 million people. The reaction was very encouraging by the Muslim scholars and the youth.

(He is saying that many of the scholars and youth are beginning to agree with him, that America and Israel must be destroyed.)

We predict a black day for America and the end of the United States as United States, and will be separate states, and will retreat from our land and collect the bodies of its sons back to America. Allah willing.

(Here he says that not only will America suffer a great disaster, but that it will so divide the nation that some states will split from the union. The ultimate in wishful thinking on his part.)

. . . (About the Royal family of Saudi Arabia)
We predict that like the Iran Royal family, the Shah, they will disperse and disappear. After Allah gave them property on the most sacred land and gave them wealth that is unheard of before from oil, still they sinned and did not value Allah's gift. We predict destruction and dispersal after they in a great devastation against the Muslim nation, especially what happens to the Muslim people of Iraq.

(Here Osama says that the Saudi Royal family will flee from Saudi Arabia, because of a civil uprising like happened in Iran, because they are cooperating with America, including with America against Iraq.)

The prophet said, "A woman entered hell because of a cat. She did not feed it and blocked it from finding food on its own." She is going to hell for blocking cat to death, but what say to those who agreed and gave reason for the hundreds of thousands of troops to blockade millions of Muslims in Iraq?

. . . you will leave when the youth send you the wooden boxes and the coffins, and you will carry in it the bodies of American troops and civilians. This is when you will leave.

(Osama says that America will suffer a great hell because of the embargo that America caused to happen against Iraq, and that we will leave the Middle East after the young Muslims cause the deaths of many troops and civilians.)

The Muslim masses are moving toward liberating the Muslim worlds. Allah willing, we will win.
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After the Americans entered the Holy Land, many emotions were roused in the Muslim world, more than we have seen before. A great meeting took place a few days ago in Pakistan, and it was attended by 150 scholars in Pakistan. The goal of the meeting was to work toward liberating the Holy Land and coordinate efforts between Muslim masses in the area.

(A meeting took place to discuss how best to force America to leave Saudi Arabia, and to bring their message to the general population of Muslim people. This is very important.)

Also, with Allah's blessings, scholars from Afghanistan, India and other Muslim nations' individual fatwas were passed, but here great joint fatwas were passed. The cooperation is expanding between general supporters of this religion. From this effort, the International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders was formed, which we are a member of with other groups. It has a higher council to coordinate rousing the Muslim nation to carry out jihad against the Jews and the crusaders.

(This is very important; many Muslims from several different nations had a meeting where they issued religious commands to bring death and destruction to America and Israel; and they formed a new organization which is an affiliation of Islamic terrorist organizations. They also formed a committee to awaken the general population of Muslims around the world to join them in their holy war against the Jews and America. This could be the first meeting that results in the eventual formation of the beast with 10 horns.)

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If we look at sensitive departments in the present government like the Department of Defense or the State Department, or sensitive security departments like the CIA and others, we find that Jews have the first word in the American government, which is how they use America to carry out their plans in the world and especially the Muslim world.

(Osama thinks that Jews control the American government, merely because some Jews are employed by those government agencies.)

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The American government is throwing away the lives of Americans in Saudi Arabia for the interests of the Jews. The Jews are a people who Allah cited in his holy book the Koran as those who attacked prophets with lies and killings, and attacked Mary and accused her of a great sin. They are a people who killed Allah's prophets — would they not kill, rape and steal from humans?

(Does any of this sound familiar to you? It reminds me of Hitler, who's main purpose in waging World War II was to kill Jews.)

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So, we tell the American as a people, and we tell the mothers of soldiers, and American mothers in general, if they value their lives and those of their children, find a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and not the interest of the Jews.
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Can the America government explain to its people when a SAM missile is launched against a passenger military airplane with 250 soldiers abroad? Can they justify their deaths? What the Saudi Arabian government captured is much less than what was not captured. The American government, if it has anything left to hang on to, has no choice but to pull its sons from the Holy Land especially and the Muslim land in general. And to refrain from supporting in any way the Israeli government and Jews who occupy our land.

We place the complete responsibility on the American government of any attacks against Muslims and its support of regimes in our countries against the best interest of the people. We also hold them responsible for its attacks on Islamic symbols, Sheik Abdel Rahman, who is considered one of most prominent Islamic scholars who Allah gave the courage to speak the truth.

We hear that he is in a bad health condition, and he is a man beyond 60 years of age and is blind and America treats him badly. The imprisonment of Sheik Omar is an attack on the Muslim religion, and countries. We hold it completely responsible for the imprisonment of Sheik Omar and the imprisonment of other Muslims in America.

My word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that, but to ask what had their government done that forced us to defend ourselves?

This is all I have to say.

(They are waging a war not just because America supports Israel, but also because America supports leaders in Islamic countries that will do what the American government wants them to do because of the large amount of money America pays them every year. I can see why they would fight a war against that. In that sense, our government is bringing World War III down upon us by its interference into the affairs of other nations.)

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Our duty is to call on all nations to join the light. Our first duty is being people of this religion and to fight for this religion. . . . It is our duty to lead people to light.