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April 12, 2007 Special Dispatch No. 1538

Is it Legitimate to Use Nuclear Weapons Against the West? A Debate on An Islamist Forum

April 12, 2007
Special Dispatch No. 1538

The Islamist website Al-Firdaws recently posted an article by a certain Abu Zabadi titled "Religious Grounds for [Launching] a Nuclear Attack."[1] The article, presented as a response to "recent rumors about Al-Qaeda's plan to attack the U.S. with WMDs such as a nuclear bomb," unequivocally opposes the use of WMDs by Muslims against the West, and attempts to counter the legal justifications for their use recently put forward by some prominent religious scholars affiliated with Al-Qaeda and other jihad movements.[2] ...

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