Egypt: Islamic Group announces Jihad against the US

The Egyptian Islamic Group on Sunday issued a statement in which it said that fighting the Americans is a "divine order."

The statement added that what is taking place in Iraq "is a shame for the Islamic nation." After the statement asserted a need for Jihad against America, it stressed the need of total boycotting of all American and British products and the expulsion of the British and American ambassadors from the Islamic countries.

It appealed to the Iraqi people not "to permit the return back of the committee of blasphemy, known as inspection committees to come back to Iraq."

The statement added that Islamic movements have to carry out their roles in backing Muslims in Iraq and to be united in challenge of the American attacks, adding that, "The scholars of the Islamic nation are demanded to withstand this fierce onslaught and to carry out their roles in this regard and then to work for trying the residents of the US White House as war criminals."