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124 Voices of Jihad
the pro-US regimes. Hence, a decision has been made to resort to the
[repression by force] policy . . . . This provides a future guarantee for
Israel’s security. Nevertheless, history gives the lie to all such plans, for
the Crusaders stayed in Greater Syria for 200 years but then had to
leave even though they were a model of a settler occupation just like
Israel today. Likewise communism was consigned to history and pursued
by curses after 70 years of oppression, obliteration of identity, and
population transfers.” (al-Zawahiri, 2001)
“. . . and at a time when our wounds have not yet healed in the aftermath
of the Crusades against the Islamic world during the last century,
and as a result of the Sykes-Picot agreement 15 between Britain and
France that led to the partition of the Muslim world into pieces and
disembodied limbs, and which the agents of the Crusaders still rule
today, a new Sykes-Picot agreement looms: the Bush-Blair agreement,
which is under the same standard and purpose. It is the standard of
the Cross, and the purpose is to crush and rob our beloved Prophet’s
nation, peace and blessings upon him.
“The Bush-Blair agreement claims that it aims to destroy terrorism,
but it is now clear to everybody, even the general public, that it seeks to
destroy Islam.” (bin Laden, 2003b)
“For a long time, the enemies [the Jews] have been planning, skillfully
and with precision, for the achievement of what they have attained.
They took into consideration the causes affecting the current of events.
They strived to amass great and substantive material wealth which they
devoted to the realisation of their dream. With their money, they took
control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses,
broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions
in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their
interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French
Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we
heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed
secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others
in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies
and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to
15 The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret political agreement signed by Britain and France on May 16, 1916, near
the end of World War I, to work together to divide up the territories of the Ottoman Empire and put them under
British and French control—in effect, making them colonies. Under the League of Nations, these divisions were
“mandates” under which Britain and France were to prepare the new nations for self-government, something that
did not happen until after World War II.