Translation of Purported Al Qaeda Statement

Dec. 2 -- This is an ABCNEWS translation of an alleged al Qaeda Web site report claiming responsibility for the Kenyan attacks. The purported statement was originally reported by Arab-language news station, al Jazeera.

A statement from al Qaeda regarding the Mombasa operation:

In the name of God the merciful

Thank God who said: "kill the atheist wherever you find them and take them and besiege them?." (verse from the Quran) prayer and peace be upon the noblest of prophets Mohamed and on all his people

In this holy month, and in the blessed last ten days of it, we greet our people in Palestine first and the Islamic nation second. We intentionally delayed this greeting for it to be timed with the two Kenyan, Mombasa operations against Israeli interests, so that the greeting becomes more meaningful under the circumstances that the nation is suffering from on the hands of its enemies of Crusaders and Jews.

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From the same place, where the Crusade-Jewish coalition was hit four years ago, specifically in Nairobi and Dar Es Salam against the American embassies, here are the fighters (mujjaheddun) (from Al Qaeda) returning once again to hit this treacherous coalition, but this time it's against the Jews, thereby delivering the following message: what you practice in terms of damage and occupation of our sanctities and criminal acts against our people in Palestine, killing children, women and the elderly and destroying homes and pulling out trees and the continuous siege will not go without you suffering from similar acts that are more effective if God permits. Your children in return for our children, your women in return for our women, and in return for our elderly your elderly and in return for our homes your buildings and in return for the siege on food and living the siege of terror and fright, we will follow you with it with God's permit wherever you are on land, sea or in the air.

The fighters (mujjahedun) fulfilled their promise to God for victory of his religion and fulfilled their promise to the nation in lifting the humiliation and degradation through launching painful strikes and successful operations with God's help against the treacherous Crusader-Jewish coalition wherever it is and thank God for the following:

Destruction of the American embassy in Nairobi Destruction of the American embassy in Dar Es Salam Destruction of the American destroyer (Cole) in Aden