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Document Summary: Pages (50 – 57) of a 60 page document; page (50) is a typed letter from Osama Bin Laden to Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Raheem Al-Tahan criticizing the ruling royal family in Saudi Arabia. Pages (52 – 57) are two handwritten letters from ‘Abd Al-Rauf Bin Al-Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi (AKA – Farouq), a Tunisian residing in Canada, addressed to his brothers at large. The second letter was written on December 2, 1999.
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In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful.
His Eminence, Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Raheem Al-Tahane - God protects him – Islamic Greetings
May Allah reward you all for your comments we asked you to express in our letter entitled “Enunciation of the atheism of the Saudi regime”. After reviewing those comments, we want to inform you of the following: First : We have taken the advice that it would not be suitable to quote any scholars still serving. We have decided to omit those quotes from this letter and only mention other available evidence. Second : As you wanted to know the reasons behind raising this matter at this specific time, although there were past occasions to raise it, we would like to inform you of the following: 1-We do not disagree with you that the present Saudi regime (which is dissident from Islam) existed for a long time as shown in the letters and Fatwa’s of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al Al-Sheikh. 2-On the other hand, there were several factors and many reasons that this subject was not raised previously. The most important of these reasons is our inability to familiarize ourselves with the reality of the regime until now. The Saudi regime publicly appears to administer some of the Shari’a laws, serves as the custodian of the holy sites, spreads the D’awa (call to Islam), favors some scholars and supports some Islamic causes. The regime has largely succeeded in deceiving and misleading the nation of its secular reality.
His deception over the nation became stronger as he began utilizing governmental media sources and scholarly agencies, which spared no effort in establishing in the minds of the people the picture of the Saudi rulers as leaders of the Muslims and defenders of the religion. In the shadow of this confusion, we didn’t have a chance of knowing the real regime. Whoever lived in Al-Jazeera (Saudi Arabia) under the influence of this reality knows the truthfulness of what we say. After realizing the danger and importance of the matter, we began making contacts with some of our brothers inside; from the scholars and Du’aat (callers to Islam) and others who have the same interest in studying what has to be done. Those communications took quite some time. Our interest in this matter during the past several years (we lived abroad) was a cause of anger to the ruling regime. They attempted to discourage us with various desirous and intimidation methods. Some believe that what we are doing now to legally expose the regime and stand against it is only a reaction to the regime’s oppressive action against us; however, this is simply an illusion partly established by the unintended simultaneous announcement of some of those actions by the regime and the establishment of the Advice and Reform Commission by us. The reality is that these actions by the regime were a reaction to our moves. The matter was raised in the scientific and D’awa (call to Islam) societies and others, but not vice versa. If in your opinion the previous justifications were not sufficient to delay discussion of this grave matter, then we should be judged as having been silent while witnessing a sin being committed. We corrected our behavior and returned to the truth, and the truth should be followed. Finally, we ask Allah the Almighty to guide us all in what He loves and accepts.
Peace, mercy and blessing of Allah be upon you
Your Brother
‘Osama Bin Mohammed Bin Laden
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sciences. I had a clear idea about the degrading human reality, and the existence of a single political leader dominating the entire humanity. The Jewish media is still covering up the human realities and catastrophes, and claims that the crises are temporary and have no influence on the social life and future of humanity. They used all the media resources to mislead the people and to suppress facts so the oppressed will not know them. The origin of these catastrophes is the human relation with the universe and the nature of its existence. This subject will take a long time to explain, but the Jewish intellect hid all of these facts and assigned them deceiving intellectual formulas which did not lead to solutions. Man is the main element in this universe, and nature impels him to play a different role than other creatures. The role of man in this universe is to think about the universe and obey the Almighty creator. That’s why it is human nature to pray and obey the Almighty Allah. That is all I can say in this regard. Most importantly, the Koran explained to me the role of man in the universe. The bitter reality of humanity paved the way for me to understand the Koranic texts, where I found the truth. All human resources are incapable of explaining the role of man in this universe. The road I traveled to discover this truth was difficult, but thank Allah for saving me and guiding me on the right path. In Islam, I found incomparable blessings and peace, especially after I joined Jihad for the cause of Allah. No one knows the value of this blessing except he who tasted the Jahiliya (the period before Islam)
Your brother: ‘Abd Al-Araouf Al-Jaddi
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In the name of Allah the most merciful the most Compassionate
Peace, mercy and blessing of Allah be upon you Praise to Allah, prayer and peace on His messenger
Brother: Hussein “I pray to the Almighty Allah that you are in the best of health. (TC: He didn’t go any further in this letter).
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In the name of Allah the Merciful the Compassionate
Thursday, 1st^ of Ramadan 1420H., corresponding to December, 8th^1999
Praise to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds Peace, mercy and blessing of Allah be upon you
My dear brothers, I wanted through this to leave you a few words, may Allah help us benefit from them, asking Allah to use them as a continuous charity. Allah the Almighty says in His Holy Book, “And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)?-Men, Women, and children, whose cry is: “our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise us from thee one who will protect; and raise for us from thee one who will help”. From the beginning of Mohammed’s message, peace and blessing be upon him until now, the Muslim nation has always been an aspiration desired among the Jews, the Crusaders, and their allies. They meet in their laboratories (United Nations and black house of America (White House) and others), to cook their poisonous plans. They present these plans on a golden plate, claiming they are the necessary solutions to our crises and problems. Their allies received them and applied them on our nations. Some verses from the Koran were cited in support. Praise to Allah, who showed us the right way and blessed us with Islam. It is Islam which opened my eyes and heart for the springs of knowledge. He cites a verse from the Koran, “You all received eyesight from God, he who decides to use it benefits and he who decides not to does not benefit”. I realized this after all of these years looking for the truth. After reviewing the materialistic infidel Western intellect, and Arab secular experiments and other ideologies and ideas, I realized that Islam is the right ideology for mankind. I traveled a long way to reach this conclusion. I would like to write it for you but I have difficulty in expressing myself, and don’t want to take too much of your time. You know that the Muslim nation is going through a hard period of its history. The nation lost it status and role in world society, and became an easy target for Jews, Christians and their allies. They occupied our land, took our wealth, destroyed our homes and colonized our Holy sites. They corrupted our ethics, even our women and children.
(kill them wherever you find them, take them, encircle them and ambush them anywhere you can). Fight those infidels (let them find harshness in you), (fight them, and Allah will punish them with your hands, disgrace them, help you to be victorious over them, heal the breasts of the believers and still the indignation of their hearts, for Allah will turn (in mercy)”. Forgive me, my brothers, if I made a mistake on your behalf; I advise you with God-devoutness and reliance on him. Do not stay with your hands tied, call for Jihad and prepare for Al-Jana (heaven), as wide as the heavens and earth Allah prepared for the believers. Forgive me my poor style of writing, I wanted to write more but I do not want to take much of your time. I remind you that our nation is occupied and violated. They corrupted our lives now and in the hereafter. All of this is a result of what we committed ourselves to by turning our backs to Jihad. Stand up, dear brother, don’t be afraid of their missiles and soldiers; they are cowards. If you ignore this matter, Allah will bring other nations different from us. Come on brothers, do what you can, even if throwing rocks. Do not be afraid, victory is near, Allah willing. Pray for us, may Allah accept us and forgive our sins.
Our final prayer is Praise be to Allah, the cherisher and sustainer of the worlds.
Your brother, ‘Abd Al-Raouf Al-Tunusi AKA (Farouq)
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