"Army of Islam" wants Islamic Palestinian state: Website
(AFP)

27 June 2006

PARIS - The "Army of Islam," which was involved in a brazen raid 
by Palestinian militants on an Israeli army post, vowed Tuesday 
to continue attacks until an Islamic state is established in the
Palestine territories.

"Your brethren in the Army of Islam carried out an operation, along
with the (Ezzedine) Al Qassam Brigades (Hamas's armed wing) and the 
Al Nasser Salaheddin Brigades (of the Popular Resistance Committees),
which heralds other operations ... aimed at establishing an Islamic
caliphate," an Internet statement said.

The statement was posted on several Islamist websites, including one
used by Al Qaeda's branch and other armed groups in Iraq.

[...]

"We are not waging jihad (holy war) for the sake of (recovering) a
plot of land, illusory frontiers or nationalism ... Our jihad is much
loftier," a statement said.

"This religion (Islam) will not be able to triumph through a
generation made rotten by (worldly) pleasures or broken by the
security services of tyrannical governments," it said.

"Our jihad is based on a solid foundation and aims to end occupation
and tyranny as a prelude to the establishment of an Islamic caliphate"
in the Palestine territories, the group added.

It did not define what the borders of the caliphate should be. The
standard view among Palestinian Islamists has always included not only
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but also the territory covered by
Israel.

[...]

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