BarnacleBob
03-23-2003, 12:29 PM
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC22Ak05.html
"We cannot let the criminals spill the blood of Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan and today in Iraq," the group said in its first statement.
The Arab-language al-Jazeera TV network showed footage last week of "dozens" of Arab volunteers flocking to Baghdad to fight against the US-led invasion - a development last seen when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s.
In other Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Indonesia and Malaysia - all US allies - usually docile, semi-official Islamic scholars have been racing to issue fatwas, religious rulings, condemning the US attack and saying it is an individual duty of every Muslim to fight "the invaders".
"We cannot let the criminals spill the blood of Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan and today in Iraq," the group said in its first statement.
The Arab-language al-Jazeera TV network showed footage last week of "dozens" of Arab volunteers flocking to Baghdad to fight against the US-led invasion - a development last seen when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the late 1970s.
In other Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Indonesia and Malaysia - all US allies - usually docile, semi-official Islamic scholars have been racing to issue fatwas, religious rulings, condemning the US attack and saying it is an individual duty of every Muslim to fight "the invaders".