- Contributors
- Note on the Translation
- General Introduction: Al Qaeda, the Essentials [Gilles Kepel]
- I. Osama Bin Laden
- Introduction: Osama Bin Laden, the Iconic Orator [Omar Saghi]
- The Companions’ Den (Excerpts)
- Declaration of Jihad against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries (Excerpts)
- Interview with CNN (Excerpts)
- World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad against Jews and Crusaders
- Interview with Al-Jazeera (Excerpts)
- Tactical Recommendations (Excerpts)
- Second Letter to the Muslims of Iraq
- Message to the American People
- II. Abdallah Azzam
- Introduction: Abdallah Azzam, the Imam of Jihad [Thomas Hegghammer]
- The Defense of Muslim Territories Constitutes the First Individual Duty (Excerpts)
- Join the Caravan (Excerpts)
- Morals and Jurisprudence of Jihad (Excerpts)
- To the Young Muslims of the United States (Excerpts)
- The Solid Base (Excerpts)
- III. Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Introduction: Ayman al-Zawahiri, Veteran of Jihad [Stéphane Lacroix]
- Bitter Harvest: Sixty Years of the Muslim Brotherhood (Excerpts)
- Advice to the Community to Reject the Fatwa of Sheikh Bin Baz Authorizing Parliamentary Representation (Excerpts)
- Knights under the Prophet’s Banner (Excerpts)
- Loyalty and Separation: Changing an Article of Faith and Losing Sight of Reality (Excerpts)
- IV. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
- Introduction: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jihad in “Mesopotamia” [Jean-Pierre Milelli]
- Letter to Bin Laden and Zawahiri (Excerpts)
- Annotation
- Notes to Part I: Osama Bin Laden [Omar Saghi]
- Notes to Part II: Abdallah Azzam [Thomas Hegghammer]
- Notes to Part III: Ayman al-Zawahiri [Stéphane Lacroix]
- Notes to Part IV: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [Jean-Pierre Milelli]
- Index
Al Qaeda in Its Own Words
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