The Islamic response to the US governments nine accusations by
The 9/11 Shoura' Council
13-03-2009
THE ISLAMIC RESPONSE TO THE GOVERNMENT'S NINE
ACCUSATIONS
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate
The 9/11 Shura' Council
Many thanks to God who revealed the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran, and may God
praise his messenger, the prophet Mohamed, so that he causes mercy to the two
realms. Also, may God praise the prophet's household, his entire companionship,
and his followers until judgment day.
With regards to these nine accusations that you are putting us on trial for; to
us, they are not accusations. To us they are badges of honor, which we carry
with pride. Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform
the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims.
Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you,
responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty
in our religion. These actions are our offerings to God. In addition, it is the
imposed reality on Muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, in the land
of the two holy sites [Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia], and in the rest of the
world, where Muslims are suffering from your brutality, terrorism, killing of
the innocent, and occupying their lands and their holy sites. Nevertheless, it
would have been the greatest religious duty to fight you over your infidelity.
However, today, we fight you over defending Muslims, their land, their holy
sites, and their religion as a whole.
The following is our Islamic response back to your nine untenable, just like a
spider web, accusations:
First, "the conspiracy accusation":
This is a very laughable accusation. Were you expecting us to inform you about
our secret attack plans? Your intelligence apparatus, with all its abilities,
human and logistical, had failed to discover our military attack plans before
the blessed 11 September operation. They were unable to foil our attack. We ask,
why then should you blame us, holding us accountable and putting us on trial?
Blame yourselves and
your failed intelligence apparatus and hold them accountable, not us.
With regards to us, we were exercising caution and secrecy in our war against
you. This is a natural matter, where God has taught us in his book [the Qur'an],
verse 71 from An-Nisa [sura 4]: O you believers! Take your precautions, and
either go forth (on on expedition) in parties, or go forth together.
Also, as the prophet has stated: "War is to deceive."
With regards to the second, third, and forth accusations; "Attacking civilians,"
"Attacking civilian objects," and "deliberately causing grave bodily harm"
We ask you; who initiated the attacks on civilians? Who is attacking civilian
objects? And who is causing grave bodily harm against civilians? Is it us, or is
it you?
You are attacking us in Palestine and Lebanon by providing political, military,
and economic support to the terrorist state of Israel, which in turn, is
attacking unarmed innocent civilians. In addition, Israel attacks Palestinian
and Lebanese civilian objects by bombing them and destroying them. Furthermore,
Israel is causing grave bodily harm by using weapons that are forbidden
internationally, such as: cluster bombs in Lebanon and the rubber and live
ammunitions in Palestine and breaking bones of Palestinian children. Moreover,
the Israeli criminal list is long and endless, against civilians in Lebanon and
Palestine.
In addition, was it not you that attacked an entire population in Iraq,
destroying civilian targets and its infrastructure? Was it not you that has
killed one million Iraqi children caused by your oppressed economic sanctions,
which you imposed after the first Gulf War? In fact, it was you who had wiped
out two entire cities off the face of the earth and killed roughly half a
million people in a few minutes and caused grave bodily harm by nuclear
radiation? Did you forget about your nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
You are the last nation that has the right to speak about civilians and killing
civilians. You are professional criminals, with all the meaning the words carry.
Therefore, we will treat you the same. We will attack you, just like you have
attacked us, and whomever initiated the attacks is the guilty party. In God's
book, verse 193, Al-Baqara [sura 2], he states: The sacred month is for the
sacred month, and for the prohibited things, there is the law of equality. Then,
whoever transgresses the prohibition against you, you transgress likewise
against him.
God stated, in verse 179, Al-Baqarah [sura 2]: And there is (a saving of) life
for you in Al-Qisas (The law of equality in punishment), O men of understanding,
that you may become Al-Muttaquin (the pious).
God also stated, in verse 40, AI-Shura [sura 42]: The recompense for an evil is
an evil like thereof.
In verse 45, Al-Maida [sura 5]: Life for life, eye for an eye, nose fora nose,
ear for an ear, tooth for a tooth, and wounds equal for equal.
In verse 193, Al-Baqara [sura 2]: ... Let there be no hostility except to those
who practice oppression.
With regards to accusations five and six. "Crimes in violation of the law of
war." and "Destroying property in violation of the law of war":
Who is breaking the law of war in this world? Is it us, or is it you? You have
disobeyed all heaven and earth's laws of war, to include your own laws.
You have violated the law of war by supporting the Israeli occupation of Arab
land in Palestine and Lebanon, and for displacing five million Palestinians
outside their land. You have supported the oppressor over the oppressed and the
butcher over the victim.
Also, you have violated the law of war by attacking an independent sovereign
Arab nation with you first crusade campaign in 1991. By force, you have occupied
the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. In addition, today, you are occupying Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Also, you have violated all laws of war, and in particular, your treatment of
Prisoners of War, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are the best example of such
violations and your "Black Sites" for torturing prisoners. This, and with your
"Abu-Ghurayb" prison in Iraq. Guantanamo camps are witness to all of that.
So, you are the first class war criminals, and the whole world witnesses this.
You have no values and ethics and no principles. You are a nation without a
religion. On the other hand, we are a great nation, with a great religion,
values, ethics, and principles, which we comply with and follow, and we invite
people to following our ways. History will testify on our actions. You should
look back at Salah Al-Din and how ethically he treated your crusader ancestors
that were prisoners to him. We fight you to defense our nation, our religion,
and our land. All heavenly and earthly laws guarantee our rights to do so. We,
Muslims, are content with God's book, the Quran, to fight you with. God has
granted us to fight, in verse 39, Al-Hajj [sura 22]: To those against whom war
is waged, permission is given (to fight,) because they are wronged and verily,
Allah is most powerful for their aid.
God stated in his book, verse 190, Al-Baqara [sura 2]: And fight in the way of
Allah those who fight you, but be not the transgressor, Allah likes not the
transgressors.
With regards to the seventh accusation, "Hijacking and/or endangering a vessel
or an aircraft":
In return, we ask you: Which is more dangerous; Hijacking and/or endangering a
vessel or an aircraft, or endangering an entire population with a military
occupation, killing and endangering innocent civilians by starving them with an
economic sanction?
If you do not respect the innocent in our countries, then we will do the same,
by exposing you to danger and hijacking in the air, at sea, and land.
In God's book, he ordered us to fight you everywhere we find you, even if you
were inside the holiest of all holy cities, The Mosque in Mecca, and the holy
city of Mecca, and even during sacred months.
In God's book, verse 9, Al-Tawbah [sura 9]: Then fight and slay the pagans
wherever you find them, and seize them, and besiege them and lie in wait for
them in each and every ambush.
Remember, that you are the ones who attacked the Iranian civilian aircraft,
flight 655, in 1988 with your Cruise missiles over the Hermuz straights, killing
all of its 290 passengers, among them 66 children. They are still shedding tears
today over your victims. Does your blood have a value and the blood of Muslims
not?
With regards to the "Terrorism" accusations:
Who are the real terrorists? Is it us, or is it you? America is the terrorist
country number one in the world. Is [sic] has nuclear weapons of mass
destruction, and the hydrogen bombs, and the biological weapons, and its ocean
fleets are around the world, threatening countries' security and safety and any
country that is not subjected to its oppressed will.
In addition, America is the main shepherd of the main support to the Israeli
terrorism against Muslims in the occupied state of Palestine, and also support
and bond with the terrorist governments of the Arab and Islamic world, which, in
turn, oppress and suppress their own people that are calling for freedom, and
the application of Islamic law.
We do not possess your military might, not your nuclear weapons. Nevertheless,
we fight you with the almighty God. So, if our act of Jihad and our fighting
with you caused fear and terror, then many thanks to God, because it is him that
has thrown fear into your hearts, which resulted in your infidelity, paganism,
and your statement that God had a son and your trinity beliefs.
God stated in his book, verse 151, Al-Umran [sura 3]: Soon shall we cast terror
into the hearts of the unbelievers, for that they joined companies with Allah,
for which he has sent no authority; There [sic] place will be the fire; and evil
is the home of the wrongdoers.
God also stated in his book, verse 60, Al-Anfal [sura 8]: Against them make
ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to
strike terror into the heart of the enemies of Allah and your enemies.
Also, God has informed us, in his book, of what is in your heart from fear and
terror towards us, and that you fear and have been terrorized from us more than
God himself. Verse 13, Al-Hashir [sura 59]: Of a truth you (Muslims) are more
feared in their (the infidels from Christians, Jews, and others) hearts, than
Allah. This is because they are men devoid of understanding.
Therefore, you do not fight us face-to-face, man-to-man. But rather, you fight
us from behind roadblocks, trenches, and warplanes, which are thousands of feet
in the air. Your status in Iraq and Afghanistan does not need any further
explanation. God has demonstrated to us your mental and your defeated fighting
moral status.
God has stated in his book, verse 14, Al-Hashir [sura 59]: They fight not
against you even together, except in fortified townships, or from behind walls,
their enmity among themselves is very great, you would think that they were
united, but their hearts are divided. That is because they are a people who
understand not.
Our prophet was victorious because of fear. At a month distant, the enemy did
not hear from him. So, our religion is a religion of fear and terror to the
enemies of God: the Jews, Christians, and pagans. With God's wiling, we are
terrorists to the bone. So, many thanks to God.
The Arab poet, Abu-Ubaydah Al-Hadrami, has stated: We will terrorize you, as
long as we live with swords, fire, and airplanes.
With regards to the ninth accusation. "Material support to terrorism":
America is the number one, and the largest country in the world, in spreading
military might and terrorism. Also, America is the principle and greatest
supplier to the occupying terrorist state of Israel in Palestine. Also, America
supports and finances the terrorist regimes that govern the countries of the
Arab world, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
Nevertheless, we are defending our rights, land, religion, and our oppressed
Muslim brethrens [sic] around the world. Therefore, we would spend all of our
money and properties for this cause. This is not strange, since Muslims are all
part of the same Umma [community].
We will make all of our materials available, to defend and deter, and egress you
and the filthy Jews from our countries.
God has ordered us to spend for Jihad in his cause. This is evident in many
Quranic verses.
Verse 195, Al-Baqara [sura 2]: And spend of your substance in the cause of
Allah, and make not your own hands contribute to your destruction, but do good;
for Allah loves those who do good.
We ask to be near to God, we fight you and destroy you and terrorize you. The
Jihad in god's [sic] cause is a great duty in our religion. We have news for
you, the news is: You will be greatly defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq and that
America will fall, politically, militarily, and economically. Your end is very
near and your fall will be just as the fall of the towers on the blessed 9/11
day. We will raise [sic] from the ruins, God willing. We will leave this
imprisonment with our noses raised high in dignity, as the lion emerges from his
den. We shall pass over the blades of the sword into the gates of heaven.
So we ask from God to accept our contributions to the great attack, the great
attack on America, and to place our nineteen martyred brethren among the highest
peaks in paradise.
God is great and pride for God, the prophet, and the believers....
Signed: The 9/11 Shura Council
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Ramzi bin As-Shibh
Walid bin 'Attash
Mustafa Ahmed AI-Hawsawi
'Ali 'abd Al-'Aziz 'Ali
Sunday, 3/1/1429h
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Submitted by a Mujahid