Osama bin Laden, Founder of Al-Qaeda, Date Undetermined

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Osama bin Laden
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“For it is, in fact, part of our religion to impose our particular beliefs upon others… we are to force people by the power of the sword to [our] particular understandings, customs, and conditions, all in order to induce debasement and humility, just like Allah commanded… And the West’s notions that Islam is a religion of jihad and enmity toward the religions of the infidels and the infidels themselves is an accurate and true depiction.”Raymond Ibrahim, trans., The Al-Qaeda Reader (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 51-52.

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We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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