Month: February 2011

Ḥunafā' releases Part 1 of the "Book of Jihād" prepared by the Sharī'ah Committee for the Amīr of Wilāyah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia and N. Ossetia) in the Caucasus Emirate

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NOTE: Here is the introductory message from Ḥunafā’ on the reason why they are publishing it (the first part of the book starts after the flag below):

Сегодня мы начинаем публикацию первой части «Книги джихада», учебника по фикху-ль-джихаду, подготовленного Шариатским комитетом при амире Вилаята ГIалгIайче.
Как известно, в последнее время распространились два негативных явления: невежество в среде молодых мусульман и активная пропаганда лицемеров и пораженцев, направленная на отвращение молодежи от джихада.
Эта книга, написанная для облегчения изучения правовых вопросов, связанных с джихадом, призвана бороться с этими негативными явлениями.Изучивший ее мусульманин, если пожелает Аллах, будет достаточно хорошо разбираться в основных юридических вопросах, встающих перед современным муджахидом.
На русском языке уже существуют две полезные книги по джихаду. Это «Низам муджахида», подготовленный в исламском институте «Кавказ» в 1999 году группой ищущих знания муджахидов, и «Фикху-ль-джихад. Вопросы и ответы» шейха шахида Абдуррахмана Гойтинского, написанный в 2001 году. Также за последние несколько лет переведено немало работ как старых, так и современных ученых, посвященных вопросам джихада.
Тем не менее, нам кажется, есть необходимость в специальном учебнике, который бы объединил в себе все лучшее, что было в предыдущих работах на эту тему с учетом специфики сегодняшнего дня.
Просим Аллаха принять работу наших братьев и сделать ее полезной мусульманам.

ИА “ХУНАФА”
الحنفــاء

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КНИГА ДЖИХАДА

Предисловие

Поистине, хвала надлежит Аллаху. Его мы восхваляем, просим о помощи и прощении, ищем у Него защиты от зла наших душ и от наших дурных дел. Кого Аллах наставил на истинный путь, того никто не введет в заблуждение, а кого Он ввёл в заблуждение, того никто не наставит. Мы свидетельствуем, что нет истинного божества, кроме Одного Аллаха, у Которого нет сотоварищей, и свидетельствуем, что Мухаммад — Его раб и Посланник.
О те, которые уверовали! Бойтесь Аллаха должным образом и не умирайте, кроме как будучи мусульманами!

О люди! Бойтесь Господа вашего, Который сотворил вас из одного человека, сотворил из него же пару ему и расселил множество мужчин и женщин произошедших от них обоих.Бойтесь Аллаха, именем Которого вы просите друг у друга, и бойтесь разрывать родственные связи. Поистине, Аллах наблюдает за вами!
О те, которые уверовали! Бойтесь Аллаха и говорите правое слово, и исправит Он для вас дела ваши и простит вам ваши грехи. А кто повинуется Аллаху и Его посланнику, тот достиг великого успеха!
Поистине, самые лучшие слова – это Книга Аллаха, а лучший путь – это путь Мухаммада, да благословит его Аллах и приветствует. Худшие же деяния – это нововведения, а каждое нововведение – это ересь, а каждая ересь – это заблуждение, а всякое заблуждение в Огне.
Цель данной работы – предоставить русскоязычным мусульманам, в первую очередь муджахидам, учебное пособие по вопросам фикху-ль-джихада.
Наша работа строилась на следующих принципах:

  • Стремление ограничиться необходимым минимумом информации, при этом приводя доказательства из Корана, Сунны и высказываний наиболее авторитетных ученых.
  • Максимально возможное игнорирование разногласий между учеными, и стремление дать однозначные ответы, чтобы не усложнять и не запутывать читателя.
  • Рассмотрение вопросов, остро вставших за последние десять лет, таких как операции самопожертвования, законоположения связанные с муртаддами и т.п.
  • Сокращение тем, не связанных с современной ситуацией или не несущих необходимой информации.
  • Приведение мнений современных ученых муджахидов.

После каждой главы мы разместили вопросы для самопроверки, и каждый, кто не сумел ответить на них, должен изучить главу заново.
Все, что в нашей работе правильно – от Аллаха, а все ошибки от нас самих, а Аллах – Податель успеха, и да благословит Он нашего Пророка Мухаммада, его род и его сподвижников.

Глава первая. Общие основы

1. Основы фикха

Сказал имам аль-Бухари: «Знание предшествует словам и делам».
Фикх– это наука о шариатских законоположениях (хукмах), связанных с действиями и извлеченных из конкретных доказательств (далилей) для конкретных вопросов.
Фикх, в отличие от акиды, главным образом исследует соответствие Шариату внешней стороны действий.
Фикх, в отличие от усулю-ль-фикх, исследует далили для ответа на конкретные вопросы. Далили эти ищутся в источниках фикха.
Основными источниками фикха являются:
1. Коран.
2. Сунна – комплекс достоверных сообщений о словах, действиях, молчаливом одобрении, внешних и внутренних качествах и биографии пророка Мухаммада, да благословит его Аллах и приветствует.
3. Иджма’ – единодушное мнение ученых Уммы
4. Кияс – суждение, основанное на аналогии и сравнении, вынесенное ученым в результате иджтихада.
Законоположения (хукмы), связанные с обязательностью, представлены пятью категориями:
1. Фард (ваджиб) – обязательное, например, пост в рамадан, выплата заката, осуществление исламского призыва.
2. Сунна (мандуб, мустахабб) – желательное, одобряемое, например, использование сивака перед омовением.
3. Мубах – разрешенное, например, еда, питье, сон.
4. Макрух – нежелательное, например, употребление в пищу лука и чеснока.
5. Харам – запрещенное, например, употребление в пищу алкоголя или мяса животного, не заколотого по Шариату.
Фард включает 2 вида:
1. Фард-кифайа – обязанность, общая для всех мусульман, которая, если её выполнит достаточное количество людей, снимается с остальных. Если же её не будет исполнять достаточное количество людей, то грех ляжет на всех, кто не участвовал в выполнении. Например, если на приветствие ответит хотя бы один из группы людей, то это снимает обязанность со всей группы.
2. Фард-айн – обязанность, лежащая на каждом мусульманине индивидуально, как ежедневная пятикратная молитва.

2. Определение джихада

Джихад – это военные действия мусульман против кафиров для возвышения Слова Аллаха.
Исходя из этого определения, фикх рассматривает джихад как военную активность,

New statement from Abū Ibrāhīm al-'Almānī of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: "Our Way to IMU"

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NOTE: The below statement is about how Abū Ibrāhīm al-‘Almānī and his brother Abū Adam al-‘Almānī traveled from Germany to Yemen, where they met Anwar al ‘Awlaqī, and then went to Pakistan to join up with al-Qā’idah, but later joined the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan instead. For more details on the below statement see Florian Flade’s write up over at his Jih@d Blog.
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Click the following link for a copy of the statement: Abū Ibrāhīm al-‘Almānī — “Our Way to IMU”

al-Ma’sādat Media Foundation presents a new video message from Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī: "Related Events in Tunisia and Egypt"

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NOTE: Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī [Abed Shihadeh al-Tahawi], is a global jihadist cleric from Jordan. He  is acquaintances with Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī. Humām al-Bilāwī [Abū Dujānah al-Khurāsānī] gave him a shout out in his interview with al-Qā’idah Central’s As-Saḥāb Media prior to his “martyrdom” and killing seven CIA officers in Khost, Afghanistan in December 2009:

Before anything else, I send my Salām to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī, I send my Salām to Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ṭaḥāwī, and I send my Salām to all the Mujāhidīn in Jordan, and I tell them: be patient, for by Allah, we have seen Jordanian intelligence and its prisons, and we have seen how the intelligence officers would forbid brothers from reciting the Qur’ān in an audible voice. Even reading the Qur’ān is forbidden! So I tell them: be patient, but I also tell them: there is no solution to the situation in Jordan other than mobilizing to the land of Jihād to learn the arts of war and train in them, then return to Jordan and begin operations.

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New statement from Salafīyyah Jihādīyyah: "Moroccan Prisons: The Tragedies Continue"

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NOTE: The below statement was released in light of the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt that warns of the same possibility in Morocco eventually too.
Salafīyyah Jihādīyyah was blamed for the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2004 Madrid train bombings. They were also accused of plotting an attack against U.S. Navy ships in the Straits of Gibraltar in 2002. Click here for an article from the Jamestown Foundation’s Terrorism Monitor that provides some background on the Moroccan group in the latter half of it.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
السجون المغربية
وتستمر المآسي …………
في الوقت الذي تسعى فيه الشعوب العربية نحو الإنعتاق وتشهد على ذلك ثورتا الفل والياسمين في مصر وتونس , والسقوط المدوي لكل من بن علي ومبارك بعد سنوات من القهر والإذلال , لا زال المغرب لم يع الدرس جيدا ولا زالت الآلة القمعية البوليسية تحافظ على نفس مستوياتها في إهانة المواطن وإذلاله ولا زال حفيظ بنهاشم جلاد الأمس يمارس لعبته المفضلة في انتهاك أعراض المعتقلين في السجون المغربية والدوس على كرامتهم وإرهاقهم وإرهااق عائلاتهم والضرب بكل ما يُتشدق به إعلاميا من الشعارات والادعاءات عرض الحائط , فبعد كارثة 9 أكتوبر 2010 الذي كان السجن المركزي بالقنيطرة مسرحا لها حيث تم تعذيب المعتقلين وإهانتتهم وتمريغ كرامتهم في التراب خاصة على يد مدير السجن المركزي آنذاك المدعو ( مصطفى حجلي), تسجل في هذه الأثناء أجواء كارثية على مدار الساعة ومنذ افتتاح الملحقة السجنية لسجن سلا (غونتنامو الجديد), على مستوى الانتهاكات الخطيرة في حق المعتقلين في هذه البناية , والخطير في الأمر أن هذه الملحقة جعلها بن هاشم ليست ملحقة تابعة لسجن سلا ولكن في الحقيقة ملحقة تابعة للمعتقل السري (تمارة) وتتمثل هذه الخروقات فيما يلي :
1 : استمرار نفس الأجواء التي عاشها المعتقلون في المعتقل السري بتمارة أجواء الرعب والخوف والإرهاب واستمرار جلسات التحقيق التي يقوم بها رجال الحموشي مدير الاستخبارات بنفس البناية رغم أن هذه التحقيقات مخالفة للقانون وبغير إذن الوكيل العام للملك .
2 : حرمان المعتقلين من كل حقوقهم التي يضمنها القانون المنظم للسجون , لا فسحة ولا زيارة ولا تغدية مناسبة تليق بالبشر ولا تطبيب ولا رعاية صحية ولا كرامة ولا إنسانية ولا أي شيء من هذا القبيل .
3 : استمرار أجواء التعذيب والضرب والتعليق لأتفه الأسباب , فالمطالبة بالحق في الإستحمام مثلا هي جريمة يعاقب عليها المعتقل بالضرب والركل والتقييد لساعات طوال .
4 : الحرمان من أي وسيلة من وسائل التواصل مع الأسر والعالم الخارجي كما هو معمول به في القوانين المسطرة, لا هاتف ولا تلفزة ولا مذياع , وهي خطة كفيلة بطمس كل معالم هذه الجرائم الحقوقية التي تقع في البناية المستحدثة .
5 : والأخطر من ذلك أن القائم على هذه الانتهاكات هو المدعو مصطفى حجلي الذي قام بن هاشم بنقله إلى هذه البناية بعد تورطه في الانتهاكات التي وقعت في سجن القنيطرة يوم 9 أكتوبر 2010 وهذا التنقيل دليل آخر على رغبة بن هاشم في جعل السجون معسكرات للتعذيب ومراكز للإهانة والإذلال .
لهذه الأسباب فإننا ندعو جميع الفعاليات الحقوقية والحريصين على كرامة الإنسان في هذا البلد أن تسعى إلى فضح هذه الإنتهاكات والضرب على يد هؤلاء الجلادين الذين لا زالوا يعيشون خلف أسوار التاريخ ولم يعوا بعدُ التحولات التي تجري في محيطهم وفكرهم .
وبه وجب الإعلام
سجناء السلفية الجهادية في المغرب

al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula releases Issue #16 of its Arabic language magazine Ṣadā al-Malāḥim

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UPDATE 2/16 8:32 AM: Flashpoint Intel has translated two of the articles from the below magazine:

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UPDATE 2/15 3:59 PM: Check out Gregory Johnsen’s take on the first article in the below magazine that is about the uprising in Tunisia titled “To Our People in Tunisia Don’t Waste What You Gained” on page three.
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NOTE: For those who know Arabic I would highly recommend reading through this since it will provide more insight into AQAP than Inspire Magazine, especially with regard to internal Yemeni affairs. Previous issues: #15, and #14. If you are interested in any other previous issue send me an email and I will send you a copy.
There is a new article on page 15 from AQAP’s deputy leader Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa’īd al-Shehrī) titled “Muslim Pride.” It was recently reported that Sa’īd al-Shehrī was killed, but there has been no confirmation yet from AQAP. There is also a new one from AQAP’s top Sharī’ah official Shaykh Abū Zūbayr ‘Adīl bīn ‘Abdullah al-Abāb on page 25 titled “Independence of the Religious Scholars.” Also featured are articles on the parcel bomb plot, the Ḥūthīs, and Somalia.
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Click here for the original in Arabic: Sada al-Malahim Issue #16

The leader of the United Wilāyah of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay (KBK) in the Caucasus Emirate released Omra [Decree] #7

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On 03 Rabi’ al-Awwal, 1432 AH, corresponding to February 06, 2011, at the United Province of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay of the Caucasus Emirate. Due to the current situation, provoked by the hysterical statements (1) of the infidel “Government of the KB Republic,” headed by the puppet Kanokov, and because of possible attacks against ordinary Muslims and the families of Mujahideen, I, the Wali of the United Wilayah of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay, order the following: 1. To bring into full combat readiness all groups and units of Mujahideen who are wintering or who are active, in order to take the adequate measures to stop aggression against innocent Muslims, as well as families of the Mujahideen. 2. To use all the reserve, units and mobile groups to identify and suppress the activities of the people engaged in the acts of provocation mentioned above. 3. The Mukhabarat (intelligence services) divisions on the field must collect new informations and complement to the already available informations on the places of residence, location and movement of the family members of the so-called “Head of the KB Republic”, “government”, “Heads” of districts administration, towns, villages, family members of the “anti-terrorism committee” district officials, for further retaliatory strikes against those responsible of the provocations against Muslims. 4. To punish in the most stringent way, the participants in these provocations and their accomplices, in accordance with the verse: «Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.» (Surat Al-Baqarah : 190). 5. To not to harm the families of the simple “law enforcers” (district police ‘ROVD’, militarized security guard ‘VOHR’ (2), Traffic Safety Inspectorate ‘GIBDD’ (3), etc…) who are not involved in attacks against Muslim families. 6. All the so-called “peaceful” Muslims who have no ties with the Mujahideen must, by all available means and methods, prevent the implementation of this criminal policy – imposed by the infidels and their supporters among the hypocrites – against the families of the Mujahideen. 7. The Amirs of all sectors, groups and units must report in the shortest time about their level of readiness for their task, through the existent communication channels. The Wali of the United Wilayah of KBK, Abdullah.

Translation from IslamDin by the Kavkaz-Jihad blog.
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(1) On February 1st, Kanokov announced new measures ‘to fight extremism’ including ‘increasing of the pressures’ on the families of the Mujahideen. Such ‘reprisal measures’ are already applied on large scale in all the Wilayah of the CE. These measures includes: abduction of the Mujahideen’s relatives, destruction of their family’s houses, social exculsion, harassments of various forms, etc… Others similar statements were made in early February. This Omra is the answer to these statements. Kanokov also advocated the creation of local ethnic militia to fight the Mujahideen, as it has being done in Dagestan since the November of the last year and in Nokhchicho since a long time. (2) Related to the ‘Defense Ministry’, deployed to defend various locations. (3) Almost similar to the ‘DPS’ – the police traffic.

New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "On the Occasion of the 22nd Anniversary of the Red Army Withdrawal from Afghanistan"

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On February 15, 1989, the invading forces of the former Soviet Union fled Afghanistan. However, to begin with, the invading army had not entered Afghanistan to face defeat vis-à-vis the resistance and   jihad of the empty-handed Afghans and
eventually  have to pull out of Afghanistan humiliatingly. The Islamic jihad and resistance of the Afghan Mujahid nation compelled the colonialist army not only to withdraw from Afghanistan, being defeated but caused their Red Empire under the name of the former Soviet Union collapse, rendering  the communist atheist ideology futile at world level.
Initially, the invading Soviets were wallowing in their intoxication, riding on  the  waves of conceit of their military might.  They occupied Afghanistan  to use it as a springboard for reaching  the Indian Pacific Ocean like what the invading Americans are doing now. But before  reaching  the Indian Ocean, they themselves drowned in the ocean of the blood and sacrifices of the Afghan Mujahid people. Waves of this hurricane of the ocean of blood  shattered down the skyscrapers in the heart of Kremlin, crumbling it  to prolong its  era of superiority. The invading Soviets like the Americans of today were hankering after extending their domination over the whole region through occupation of Afghanistan but due to the help of the Almighty Allah and as the result of the jihad and sacrifices of the Afghans,  not only they failed to prolong the occupation of Afghanistan but lost control of all their occupied republics of central Asia. Their dominance over the Eastern Europe came to an end and the Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
The Russians came around to know after a decade-long occupation of Afghanistan that arm-twisting with the brave Afghans is tantamount to annihilating oneself. Nothing  more than that, it  will yield. So they concluded that the Geneva Accords were a good pretext to withdraw their defeated troops. They pulled their morale-sagging troops out of Afghanistan disgracefully and humiliatingly. Today, another arrogant empire has occupied the same Afghanistan by dent of their invading troops and the Afghan Mujahid nation  is once again engaged in combat against the invading Americans and their coalition forces, i.e. NATO. The era of current resistance has almost completed ten years. The world community concedes that the invading Americans and their allies are now facing the same moribund situation  that their predecessor, the invading Soviets,  were facing. Their showdown of muscles has proved in vain;  they have lost their war spirit;  tens of thousands of their troops have been either killed or wounded;  their economic expenditures have broken their spine bone and strongholds of Jihad and resistance against the invaders  have sprang up all over Afghanistan.
The Americans had thought that they would occupy  central Asia and the entire region by means of occupying Afghanistan but Afghanistan by its very nature,  is not a country to give itself to occupation so smoothly. Previously, the Britons had stepped over this land with the same covetous fantasy but instead of stabilizing their occupation of Afghanistan,  they themselves ended up losing their great empire at the hands of the Afghans. Genghis Khan and Alexander had tested the strength of the Afghans’ warfare. Now the American empire is hovering over the edge of collapse. If they intend to prolong the occupation of Afghanistan and the sufferings of the Afghans because of their imbecility, they will face the fate of the Soviets and Britons which occurred in the past century.  But if they put to use their rationale rather than being bent on stubborn stupidity and put an end to this tragedy by bringing to a close the occupation of Afghanistan and withdraw their forces unconditionally,  then they will not only save themselves but will eradicate the factors of insecurity in the whole region.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, while celebrating the victory of the legitimate Jihad  of the Afghan Muslim nation against the invading Red Army and  marking the 22nd anniversary of the withdrawal of the Red army from the country, once more  re-affirms the need for continuation of the legitimate Islamic Jihad against the invading Americans and deem it an effective mean for the ouster of the invaders.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Response Regarding the Victory of the Popular Uprising in Egypt"

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin
The more than two- week long  popular uprising in Egypt,  at last, compelled Hosni Mubarak, ruler of that country, to step down by ceding  to  the basic condition of the protesters. He was at the helms of affairs of the Egyptian government for the last thirty years and had been enjoying all-sided American and Israeli assistance in financial, political and intelligence fields. However, ground realities established  (once more) that arsenal of weapons, huge army and foreign support is no guarantee for  continuation of power;  nor they can prevent the caravan of the aspirations of the people from forging ahead. Whenever, the patience of the people overwhelms its brims, it is set to lead its way as a strong tide. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan prays to the Almighty Allah to grant further success to the Egyptian people like the victory of the historical uprising which they have already attained, so that they will succeed in establishing a real, independent  and Islamic government and foil conspiracies of the foreign enemies. Though the uprisings of the Egyptian people have reached its destination of victory but the real phase of trial has just began. The Egyptian people must use these crucial moments to their advantage and carve out  a new political life and direction as a Muslin nation. The developments in Egypt have a clear message for the invading Americans and their surrogates in Afghanistan, unveiling that: 1.     Your use of advanced weapons, destruction of orchards and houses and filling prisons with free people  does not contribute to your continuation of  authority. The atrocities that you commit against the Afghan people today will soon usher in a revolution and the vessel of your arrogance will drown surely following inception of a popular uprising, if God willing. 2.     You are intending to establish a colonialist system in this 21st century. This is an adventure being both against the aspirations of the people and the time. You will never succeed in your wicked (ambitious) plan in this juncture of history. The time and people both are against you. 3.     The two-faced America urges peaceful transition of regime in Egypt but in reaction to self-same popular demands in Afghanistan, they bombard villages;  turn wedding ceremonies and other festivities into scenes of mourning; martyr innocent Afghans in the stillness of night while  being  fast a sleep. All these are being committed  (against them) because the Afghans demand their legitimate rights. What face and conscience remain to  Americans  to  make show of  their democracy and liberty while they have themselves unleashed a river of blood in Afghanistan  under  the empty and fatuous slogan of democracy! 4.     The stooge Kabul Administration has taken now the shape of a mafia state. Government vehicles are used for drug trafficking and wealth have been  accumulated in hands of a few pro-American sycophants. This inequity will pave the way for the inception of a popular revolution, and will eradicate this tenure of tyranny and atrocity through a comprehensive revolutionary movement. 5.     For almost the last   decade, you have   fought against the Afghan Mujahid people with all your power but you gained nothing except humiliation, financial crisis and a spine-breaking load of debts. Do you think you will be able to bring Afghanistan under your belly  so  smoothly?. Or otherwise,  you will be buried in this graveyard of the empires as a result of the inundating tides of a popular uprising. 6.     We tell the rulers of the White House and Pentagon how long would you be able to create mounds in the way of the aspirations of the masses through launching  fraudulent elections, meaningless conferences,  hatching conspiracies and rearing  qualm less surrogates and continue your colonialist policy interminably?. How long would you be able to hide your life and equipment losses from the eyes of your people? Have you forgotten the financial melt-down in America  during last year?. Is the nearly $ 1.5 trillion budget deficit not a sign of your imminent downfall? 7.     Almost 24 hours had not passed after  the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, that some American rulers and the Time publication started pointing to him with insulting  remarks. We remind the present rulers of the Kabul incumbent Administration that  the American colonialism do use you against your people today  and  give you tapping on your back but tomorrow,  these same  invaders will call you murderers of humanity and traitors. They will clean their blood-stained and soiled hands with your clothes. Now it is high time;  come to yourselves; abandon slavery of foreigners and choose the way of your people. 8.     All people of Afghanistan must be cautious in these crucial moments at the current juncture of time and be on guard against all subversive plans and conspiracies of the enemies of Islam and the country. Give hands of brotherhood to each other against the Western colonialism, injustice, atrocities, brutality, corruption and the western culture of nakedness; move forward like a solid-cemented wall in the direction of popular Islamic revolution! The Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate are at your service and side. We believe,  the (final) victory is ours. The enemy will happen to become   debased and humiliated,  if God willing. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan