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[Abstract] In this interview, Al-Ẓawāhirī recalls the meeting between the leader of the Ṭālibān Mullā ʿUmar and the head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency Turkī Al-Faīṣal, which was intended to discuss the expulsion of Bin Lāden from Afġānistān, and according to Al-Ẓawāhirī, in that circumstance the leader of the Ṭālibān categorically refused to cede Bin Lāden to the US, and accused Saudi Arabia of selling their honor and doing the Americans dirty work for them. Al-Ẓawāhirī states, "So Saudi Arabia broke his relationship with the Islamic Emirate, in spite of the fact that Saudi Arabia was one of only three countries to recognize its legitimacy."

As for the Ṭālibān, in spite of their criticisms against Saudi Arabia, they would like to gain a seat at the United Nations, under the pretext that they will continue to implement the Šarīʿah and that they will apply only what is in accordance with the Šarīʿah. But this is a clear contradiction, because the UN Charter stipulates, inter alia, that the obligations of UN Member States under the Charter prevail, in the event of a conflict, over their obligations under any other international agreement. (Article 103), and the mere acceptance of this single article is already in contrast with the Šarīʿah!

Rather tellingly, many constitutional experts have dubbed this article 'the supremacy clause of the U.N.’, because it establishes the supremacy of federal law over State law, so the Charter is being seen as the constitution of the world community, ie the supporting frame of all international law and, at the same time, the highest layer in a hierarchy of norms of international law. (See B. Fassbender, ‘The United Nations Charter as Constitution of the International Community’, 1998, 36 Columbia J Trans. Law, 529–619, 594 and 577–78. See also G.P. Fletcher and S. Sheppard, ‘American Law in a Global Context: The Basics’, Oxford, New York, 2005, 150 and 277).

As for Al-Ẓawāhirī, see what follows:

 
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