Prof publishes bin Laden's words
Duke scholar's book an attempt
to explain terrorist leader
Posted: September 15, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Bruce Lawrence (courtesy: The Chronicle)

In an attempt to explain the motivations of Osama bin Laden, a 
Duke University professor has published the first English language
collection of the al-Qaida leader's writings.

Bruce Lawrence, a professor of religion, concludes, however, bin Laden
does not have an ultimate goal that he wants to achieve in his jihad,
though he does have a specific target.

"He has no special bad language for Republican or Democratic
presidentsuthey are all bad," Lawrence told The Chronicle, the
university's independent daily newspaper.

Other analysts, however, insist bin Laden has made his ultimate aim
clear - the establishment of the Caliphate, or "Allah's rule on earth"
through jihad, which he sees as the responsibility of every Muslim.
America and its allies must be destroyed because they stand in the way
of that aim, according to bin Laden.

The al-Qaida leader told an interviewer in 1997: "We believe that God
used our holy war in Afghanistan to destroy the Russian army and the
Soviet Union - and now we ask God to use us one more time to do the
same to America, to make it a shadow of itself."

Lawrence's "Messages to the World - The Statements of Osama bin Laden"
will arrive in bookstores this fall. 

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Source: "WorldNetDaily"
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46323


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