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for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples (World Islamic Front, 1998, p. 202).

The statement also accused the United States of having formed a "crusader-Zionist alliance" in support of Israel and for the purpose of decimating the Muslims in the area. The signers saw these U.S. actions as a declaration of war on the Arab people. Thus, they also saw it as their religious duty to fight back (World Islamic Front, 1998, p. 203). In furtherance of this religious duty, the World Islamic Front issued a fatwa in their statement calling for every Muslim to kill all Americans û civilian and military û and their allies as a means of repelling further intrusion into their holy land (World Islamic Front, 1998, p. 203).

On September 11, 2001, nineteen men of Arabic descent hijacked four passenger airplanes in the United States and flew those planes into two of the United States' most recognizable symbols of economic and

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ons. First, they translated many of the principles of American domestic reform, free trade, open agreements, democracy and self_determination into American foreign policy (U.S. Department of State, undated, p. 1). Second, they constituted the only statement by any of the parties to the war of their war aims. As noted above, this announcement gained the United States significant approval in the Middle East, where the countries knew their fates were to be decided by the combatants. Third and finally, the Fourteen Points speech is important because it marks a moment in time when, at least to the Middle East, the United States appeared to be a noble and just country that believed in an honest and open foreign policy with no imperial aims. Significantly, Wilson stated in the speech: What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace_loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this inte
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