Following are excerpts from an Al-Qaeda sermon at the recent 'Id Al-Fitr holiday. The sermon was delivered by Sheik Abu Yahya Al-Liby who had escaped Bagram prison earlier this year. The film was posted on Islamist websites in December 2005.

Script: In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate.

We are the army of Allah.

Sheik Abu Yahya Al-Liby: The Muslims have the right to rejoice on this day. But, brother in faith, how can we be happy? How can we be joyous? How can we be cheerful? How can happiness possibly enter our hearts when we watch our nation being torn apart by the spears of the criminals, and being slashed by the swords of the infidels, in the east and the west.

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Brother in Islam, let us go over the entire world. Let us look at the condition of the Muslims in Palestine. Let us see the condition of the Muslims in Palestine, the land of the Prophet Muhammad's nocturnal journey, where a martyr falls every day, where a prisoner is captured every day, where houses are demolished and women arrested every day. Oh brother in Islam, this is Palestine, the heart of Islam.

Who are those who desecrate it? Who have taken control over it? Who are those who torment its people so severely? Those who were "smitten with humiliation and misery," and "incurred the wrath of Allah." They are the offspring of the apes and the pigs. They are the ones who are tormenting our brothers there.

Let us look at our brothers in Iraq and in Afghanistan, where the infidel Crusader forces have brought their cavalry and infantry. They are destroying their homes, killing their sons, and arresting their elderly and their women, with whom they are filling their prisons in Abu Ghureib, Bagram, Qandahar, and Guantanamo.

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The first signs of victory have began to appear on the horizon, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Chechnya. Indeed, the price of victory is steep, and we pay it with our blood, and with our body parts, with our homes, our fields, and our crops.

But what lies in the future, oh Muslims? There will be glory for those who want it. There will be victory for those who seek it. There will be freedom for those who desire it.

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Victory is inevitable, in spite of the infidels, the apostates, and the hypocrites.

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America's nose will be rubbed in the mud. America will be humiliated just like the empires before it.

This is the religion of Allah, of the one and only. When He desires something, He says "become" and it comes into being. So what reason do we have to despair or be afraid? We have only two options: either we live a life of pride and strength in our religion and on our land, doing whatever we want, and worshipping our God as He ordered us, or else we are destined to Paradise.