“Osama’s Cause is Just,”
Former UK Minister Clair Short declares to the Gulf News.
Answering questions focused around Prime minister Tony Blair, Iraq and the future of the Middle East, Short’s responses were often long and in-depth. They included this remark, which has not been published before: “I have just been reading this book by this senior American intelligence analyst, called Imperial Hubris. Everyone should read it because it’s the most sympathetic account of what Osama Bin Laden is doing that I have ever read.“(The author) says that Osama Bin Laden considers it a war, a defensive jihad, because the people in the Middle East are being crushed and destroyed and their resources their oil misused and that they have got to defend their civilisation and their religion. So I think the killing of civilians is always wrong, all the Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) teachings said it was wrong, but I think the cause is just.”
This comment was later followed by another which clearly backs up our initial report that accurately quotes Short comparing militants to the French Resistance movement that fought Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
From the Oct 9th edition.
