http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD88405
What is the Al-Qa'ida Organization in Iraq?
"...What is the Al-Qa'ida organization in Iraq? This is an organization
consisting of a group of Muslims from amongst the followers of the
tradition and the community of believers [ahl al-sunna wa'l jama'a]
which tries to please Allah by committing themselves to keep Allah's
orders and proscriptions and to see to it that others do so [as well]...
it has set for itself a number of central goals which are mutually
interrelated and complementary:
"1) Renewing pure monotheism which was brought by our Prophet Muhammad
amongst those whose monotheism was sullied by the filth of polytheistic
elements, and the spreading of the axiom 'there is no God but Allah' in
lands where Islam has not yet arrived.
"2) Jihad for the sake of Allah, so that His message be supreme, and in
order to recapture all the lands of the Muslims from the hands of the
infidels and the apostates, and to apply the Shari'a law, Allah's law,
in these areas, without any distinction [in this respect] between ruler
and ruled, and to free the Muslim prisoners of war, since this is a
personal obligation [incumbent] on every Muslim, as all the ulama
agree...
"3) To come to the aid of Muslims wherever they are and to reclaim the
Muslim's dignity, which has been soiled by the [foreign] invaders and
their agents, and his human rights of which he has been deprived, and to
strive to improve his conditions and circumstances in every respect,
both religious and this-wordly – material, social, educational, etc. –
in accordance with the teachings of Islam...
"4) To re-establish the Rightly-Guided Caliphate in accordance with the
Prophet's example, because [according to the tradition] 'whoever dies
without having sworn allegiance to a Muslim ruler dies as an
unbeliever.' [2]
"Our guiding principle with regard to our great goals is: [to follow]
the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet, in the way of the righteous
early generations, and [to follow] the elucidations of the great ulama
from among those faithful to the Sunna [ahl al-sunna] .
"One of the great principles of our faith is that we should not spill
even a drop of Muslim blood unjustly, for the end of the whole world is
less significant than the spilling of one Muslim's blood."...
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"You know you're over the target when you start receiving flak."
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