Assertion: bin laden | /r/CapableOf | issue two fatahs
Facets:
value: against the united states
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in the late 1990s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the late 1990s bin Laden issued two fatahs (declarations of holy war) against the United States for the basing of troops in the Arabian Peninsula to defend against external aggression by Saddam Hussein and because of the suffering of the Iraqi people under UN economic sanctions.
text: * Bin Laden issued a number of fatwahs (rulings on Islamic law) stating that US forces stationed in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, should be attacked.