Bin Laden warns against a religious war to control the Gulf region
The leader of al-Qaida organization, Osama Bin Laden, said that Iraq's occupation is part of an economic and religious war launched by the west to control the Gulf states.
In a new recorded message, broadcasted by al-Jazeera TV, Bin Laden criticized strongly the rulers of the Gulf, saying that their position in supporting the recent war against Iraq.
Bin Laden also criticized on his tape, which seems to be recent because it remarks capturing the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the demands to change the curricula in the Arab and Islamic countries.
The man, whom the US failed to arrested, called on Muslims to continue Jihad against what he called "conspiracies against them," noting in particular the occupation of Iraq, the Roadmap and the Geneva peace agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
Bin Laden continued his evidences on the discrepancy of Muslims leaders concerning Washington. He explained the history of dealing with the Palestinian question and how the concessions given by leaders since the beginning of the conflict was an evidence on their readiness to give more concessions in the future. Bin Laden also criticized Arab leaders fighting of the Palestinian resistance, "starting as from Sharm Esh Sheikh in 1996 through the Beirut summit initiative to the Roadmap." Bin Laden concluded in his message that the reason behind what he called the setback in the situation of Arabs and Muslims lies in ignoring Islam as a jurisprudence. He called on Muslims to found a judiciary council to fill the gap of the "legitimate fall of the ruling regimes." He said that the mission of this council will be unifying the word "and raising the banner of Jihad to stop the Roman invasion against Muslims started in Iraq."
