The following are excerpts from video clips of Al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan, which was downloaded in September 2005 from the website of Al-Qaeda's Jihad Media Battalion (www.k-j-i.tk)

Speaker: Oh, people of "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah's Prophet" – "Rank hatred has already appeared from the mouths of your enemy, but what their hearts conceal is worse still." You all heard what the American General Boykin said, when he was speaking at a certain church. He said: "This war is a war of faith between Satan and Christianity." Who is this Crusader describing as Satan? Is it not God Almighty who ordered His believers: "Fight them until there is no more discord, and religion is held wholly for the sake of Allah"?

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Mu'ataz Al-Ghamidi, Ambush Squad: The day the Crusader mobilized his army he claimed through his collaborators, who have betrayed their nation - the apostate rulers and their scholars of evil – that the vanguard of victory and the youth of Jihad are nothing but a group that went astray, overcome by their lust for shedding blood and spreading fear – it has become apparent that this claim is nonsense, an utter lie.

By Allah, we have been drawn out of our homes by nothing but the concerns of our nation and its tragedies. Allah be praised, today we live with the sons of our nation, side by side. We are its sons. The vanguard of victory and the youth of Jihad are not only a force fighting on behalf of the nation, but they are a force striving to militarize all echelons and sectors of the nation to fight the Crusaders shoulder to shoulder. Today, the spirit of Jihad has spread throughout the nation. Everyone from near and afar share the joy of the mujahideen, share their concerns and join them in their grief. Moreover, they share food and shelter with us.

Let it be known to the entire world, especially the Crusader alliance, that they will not be safe from the attacks of the mujahideen, wherever they may be. The youth of this noble nation will strike at their economic centers and at their vital enterprises with all their might. "He who pays in kind is not acting unjustly."

The basic cause of all sectors of the nation, in which they invest their efforts and for which they spill their blood, is the liberation of their holy places - the Al-Haram Mosque (in Mecca), the Mosque of the Prophet (in Al-Madina), and the liberation of the third mosque of the Prophet's nocturnal journey, from the hands of the Jews who occupy it. Their cause is also to erase any manifestation of heresy and apostasy in the countries of Islam, and to instate the Law of Allah throughout the world.

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Al-Mula Bilal, Anti-Aircraft Squad: Global heresy accuses us of being terrorist and fundamentalists. Dearly beloved, they accuse us of terrorism, but they themselves are the source of evil and terrorism. How can they be anything but terrorists, when the entire world suffers from their terrorism? What Israel is doing – is this not terrorism? What is happening in Kashmir – is this not terrorism? What is happening in the entire world today is an attempt to occupy the Muslim countries.

Did they not occupy Iraq and spread fear and terrorism there? Did they not kill our mothers, sons, and sisters in Afghanistan? Is this not terrorism? But when we take up arms to defend ourselves and to defend our religion and our faith... When we take up arms for this purpose, they call us terrorists and fundamentalists. If this is terrorism, then terrorists and fundamentalists we are! We will never abandon our principles because of their biased propaganda. Dearly beloved, I address my final words to you: Rise and join this blessed Jihad. Rise for the sake of Allah, and join us in this blessed Jihad, along with Mulla 'Omar and Sheik Osama Bin Laden. Allah is our lord and our protector.

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'Atallah, Missile Squad: The mujahideen gathered from all countries of the world alongside the Emir of the Believers, together with those of pure intentions. They united to fight this new global Crusader alliance and their hypocritical lackeys, mercenaries, and highway bandits, such as (Afghan President) Hamed Karzai, (Afghan General) Dostum, (former Afghan minister) Fahim, and others. Allah be praised, these operations hardly ever cease in Afghanistan's provinces, causing the Americans and their allies to lose sleep. The proud Afghan people fights for its faith. Allah willing, this will be the end of America and its allies in Afghanistan, and its grave will lie with the graves of the invaders, such as the English and the Russians. I say to the proud and deep-rooted Iraqi people, which raised the head of the Islamic nation high throughout the world, and especially in the Arab-Islamic world: "Oh, people of Iraq, oh, sons of Muslims in Iraq, strike your enemies, the enemies of Islam, and fight them, and do not let them rejoice and do whatever they please in your country, while you watch them. Our hearts are with you from here, and we pray to Allah to give you and us strength. We are fighting them in Afghanistan, and you fight them in Iraq. Allah willing, victory is by Allah, and victory is near, and Allah's vengeance is mighty."

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Ramzi Al-Shiba Al-Makki, Missile Squad: May Allah have mercy upon you, oh Sheik Alaa Yousuf (AL-'Ayerri) "Al-Battar", Turki Al-Dandani, and all those who were killed in Saudi Arabia. The only crime of these young men, who were and still are being killed by the Saud clan and by their angels of destruction in Riyadh, Mecca, and all over Saudi Arabia. They took revenge upon them merely because they lent their chests as shields against the new Crusader alliance, which tore apart their families and attacked everything sacred to their religion, in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, Iraq, and worldwide. These young men were zealous for their religion, and refused to kneel and surrender to the idol of America, like the rulers of their country and their servants from among the scholars of evil have kneeled – those who sold their religion in exchange for benefits in this world, the worshippers of the dirham and the dinar, who have bartered the signs of Allah for little gain, hypocrisy, and slander. Are you not amazed by the actions of these people, like our Sheik Yousuf "Al-Battar" and Turki Al-Dandani, about whom Allah said in the Koran: "Among the believers there are men who were true to what they swore before Allah, some of them were killed, and some are still waiting, and there are others who wait, but they have not changed their faith."

As for the scholars of evil who have bartered the signs of Allah for little gain, who call these mujahideen and young men Khawarij... They said that they were Khawarij although they set out for (the Jihad) against Bush, Sharon, and their collaborators, such as Abdallah bin Saud, Pervez (Musharraf), and others. According to the religion of these poeple, Khawarij, who refuse to be half-men. They look at the deeds of the Saud clan, which is spreading corruption in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques... They want the Arabian Peninsula and Saudi Arabia to be a second Iraq, easy (prey) for the Americans. But this is far from happening.

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Khaled Al-Sheik, Missile Squad: In the name of Allah the most Gracious, most Merciful, I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah. He is alone, he has no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad, peace be upon him, is Allah's slave and final messenger, sent to mankind and jinn to guide humanity out of the darkness of ignorance to the light of Islam. I thank Allah the almighty for guiding me to the only true religion of Islam. And I praise and thank him for giving me the honor to be among the mujahideen, who seek to demise all false idols, so that the word of Allah may be supreme, and so Allah's creation may freely have the choice to worship their creator alone, and be free from the slavery of all creation.

Oh people of the West, don't be fooled by the lies of Blair and Bush that you are free nations, for the only freedom that you have is the freedom to be slaves of your whims and desires. Your children are free to be deprived of their childhood and their innocence. Your women are free to be used as tools of business and entertainment, and all of you as a whole are the slaves of con men and women who rule you. They are your real enemies. If you only knew – they are the ones who drag your countries to the pit of America's group of scavengers, who seek to ravage the entire globe for the interests of a handful of gangsters and corporate companies. Democracy, human rights, and freedom are all but hollow illusions, with which they tranquilize inhabitants of the human farms which they control. The Muslim world is not your backyard. The Muslim world is not Germany, Japan, or South America. The honorable sons and daughters of Islam will not sit down, watching you spread your evil and immorality and infidelity to our land. The honorable sons of Islam will not just let you kill our families in Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the Balkans, Indonesia, the Caucuses, and elsewhere. It is time for us to be equals – as you kill us, you will be killed, as you bomb us, you will be bombed.

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Salah Al-Din Al-Rumi, Missile Squad: What hit the US - in Tanzania, Kenya, and on September 11, and in all subsequent operations– are revenge against America and Israel, the countries that are the most bitter enemies of Islam. America, together with Britain, killed one and a half million Iraqi children over the course of ten years. This is the extermination of an entire generation.

It provides weapons that kill women and children who defend themselves with stones against helicopters, jets and tanks. We, the mujahideen, swear to the oppressed Muslims, the victims of unlimited and endless barbarism, that we will avenge their martyrs, and that we will slit the throats of the Americans and the Jews, who slaughtered the Muslims like sheep. The same goes for their allies, Allah willing.

We call upon the victims of the tyrannical and despotic regimes manipulated by their leaders in the US, Europe, and Israel, and all their allies... We call upon them to bear witness that they will be the ones who pay the debt for the blood shed by their rulers. Their innocence has led them to the slaughter and to the guillotine. Their wives will be widowed, and their children will be orphaned, as has befallen our Islamic nation. We swear that the Jews and the Americans will never have security. At any moment, Allah, through His servants, may strike. He will send them to hell, and they will have no choice. An eye for an eye, and a life for a life.

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Abu Zubeida: From here, from the soil of Afghanistan, from the homeland of pride and glory, I say to the members of the criminal gang, who wonder whether confrontation with terrorism was a victory or a defeat – "terrorism" which has become a synonym for Jihad for the sake of Allah... I say to you: You have achieved nothing. This confrontation is the beginning of the definite end of your country, which will be destroyed, forgotten, lost, and will reach its end this way.

I say to the perplexed peoples in America and the West, who follow their governments like lost sheep – ask your leaders for the whereabouts of the coffins of your soldiers and sons. Your leaders are hiding them from you. Ask them, and let them answer - if there is indeed an answer. They are in the crematorium history. I say to the worshippers of the cross to sons of apes and pigs, the Jews, and to their lackeys, the infidels and apostates, in the East and the West – live in fear.