Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East : A Documentary Reader Book

1	The radical critique of Islam	7
	The Islamist view of life as a perennial battle	11
	On the doctrine of the Muslim brothers (1940s)	27
	Islam is not a religion of pacifists (1942)	29
	Paving the way (1955)	29
	Speech at Feyziyeh Theological School (August 24, 1979)	32
	On the nature of the Islamic state (September 8, 1979)	35
	Suicide operations are legitimate defense (April 8, 1997)	36
	Speech to organization of Islamic countries meeting (December 9, 1997)	37
	Fatwa on the Taliban (November 29, 2000)	40
2	The revolutionaries	43
	The importance of Afghanistan for the Islamist revolution (January 2002)	47
	Program (February 1985)	50
	Charter (August 1988)	54
	The letter of demands to the King of Saudi Arabia (April 1992)	60
	Abdullah Azzam, the struggling Sheikh (July 1996)	62
	Interview with Umar Abd al-Rahman (April 1997)	64
	The Islamic state in Egypt is approaching (April 1997)	67
	On the Islamist revolution in Egypt (January 2002)	69
	Interview with Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdissy (December 1997)	73
	Interview with Mullah Ma'soum Afghani (April 1997)	75
3	American policy and anti-Americanism	77
	The truth about U.S. Middle East policy	81
	The United States will not intervene militarily (November 7, 1979)	106
	No room for leniency (November 12, 1979)	107
	Memo to President Jimmy Carter on Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (December 26, 1979)	108
	State of the Union Address (January 23, 1980)	110
	Speech to Syrian soldiers (October 1, 1981)	112
	U.S. policy views Mideast as "U.S. possession" (February 16, 1985)	114
	On U.S. hostages (February 1987)	115
	On U.S. policy (February 17, 1987)	117
	On U.S. hostages (February 1987)	118
	A strategy for the Arab world (February 24, 1990)	119
	Indictment against the Khobar Tower bombers of June 1996 (June 21, 2001)	123
	Second speech to organization of Islamic countries meeting (December 9, 1997)	126
	The new barbarism (December 3, 1998)	129
	Letter to President Bill Clinton (December 3, 1998)	130
	An anti-American sermon (October 2000)	131
	Why attack America (January 2002)	131
4	Usama bin Ladin and his movement	135
	Declaration of war (August 1996)	137
	Interview with Usama bin Ladin (October 1996)	142
	Statement : Jihad against Jews and Crusaders (February 23, 1998)	149
	Interview with Usama bin Ladin (December 1998)	151
	Encyclopedia of the Afghan Jihad : training manual (December 1999)	157
	Testimony of Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl (February 6-7, 2001)	169
	Testimony of Ahmad Ressam (July 3-5, 2001)	173
	Al-Qa'ida recruitment video (2000)	174
5	Al-Qa'ida's war on America	185
	FBI most wanted (October 10, 2001)	189
	Letter to al-Qa'ida cell (August 1997)	204
	Report on the bomb attacks in Kenya and Tanzania (January 1999)	207
	Testimony of Ali A. Muhammad (October 21, 2000)	209
	Testimony of John Michael Anticev (February 27-28, 2001)	210
	Responsibility for the terrorist atrocities in the United States, September 11, 2001 (October 4, 2001)	214
	Executive order : sanctions on the Afghan Taliban (July 6, 1999)	218
	Resolution 1267 (October 15, 1999)	219
	Testimony on the Taliban (July 20, 2000)	220
	Testimony of Ahmad Ressam (July 3-5, 2001)	223
	Worldwide threat 2001 : national security in a changing world (February 7, 2001)	225
6	September 11, al-Qa'ida, and the Taliban	229
	Suicide note (September 18, 2001)	233
	Responsibility for the terrorist atrocities in the United States, September 11, 2001 (October 4, 2001)	238
	The hijackers of September 11 (September 27, 2001)	240
	Videotape of a private meeting (December 13, 2001)	243
	Interview with Mullah Umar Muhammad (September 21, 2001)	247
	Broadcast by Usama bin Ladin (October 7, 2001)	249
	Al-Qa'ida statement (October 10, 2001)	251
	Al-Qa'ida statement (October 13, 2001)	253
	Broadcast by Usama bin Ladin (November 3, 2001)	255
	Dawn interview with Usama bin Ladin (November 10, 2001)	261
	Interview with Usama bin Ladin (December 27, 2001)	264
	Indictment against Zacarias Moussaoui (December 2001)	268
	September 11 as a great success (February 27, 2002)	273
	Pre-attack videotape (Summer 2001)	276
	Post-attack videotape (fall 2001)	277
7	Middle East reaction to September 11	279
	Broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (September 12, 2001)	283
	A blow from within (September 13, 2001)	284
	The American government had contaminated my humanity (September 15, 2001)	286
	Interview with Ayman al-Zawahiri (October 7, 2001)	288
	To anthrax (November 1, 2001)	289
	Is Usama bin Ladin the culprit? : has World War III started? (September 14, 2001)	291
	We would help the United States if it would help us (September 17, 2001)	293
	A little justice to help uproot terrorism (September 21, 2001)	294
	Open letter to President George W. Bush (October 19, 2001)	296
	Egypt is a sovereign state (October 19, 2001)	300
	Address to the UN general assembly (November 10, 2001)	301
	Editorial in Ha'aretz (September 12, 2001)	304
	September 11 and Islamic Sharia (September 14, 2001)	305
	After Afghanistan : liberating Islam (September 17, 2001)	307
	Envy and hate (September 22, 2001)	309
	Sharon is a terrorist - and you? (November 3, 2001)	311
	The fight against terrorism must begin with curricular, educational, and media reform in the Arab World (November 29, 2001)	313
8	September 11 and the war against terrorism	317
	Address to the nation (September 11, 2001)	319
	Address to joint session of Congress (September 20, 2001)	320
	Address to the nation (October 7, 2001)	326
	Address to the UN general assembly (November 10, 2001)	328
	Speech to the Labor Party Conference (October 1, 2001)	334
	Executive order on blocking terrorist financing (September 24, 2001)	339
	Executive order on establishing the office of homeland security (October 8, 2001)	340
	Executive order on detention, treatment, and trial of certain non-citizens in the war against terrorism (November 13, 2001)	341
	Analysis of U.S. counterterrorism legislation (October 25, 2001)	344
	Resolution 1373 (September 28, 2001)	348
App	Chronology of Middle East-connected terrorism against Americans	351