The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan releases Issue #68 of al-Ṣamūd Magazine

NOTE: Previous issues: #67#66#65#64#63#62#61#60#59#58#57#56#53, and #51. You can also see English translations of articles from previous issues here.


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New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Regarding Negotiations"


It is a unambiguous reality that the Islamic movement of Taliban arose to establish an Islamic system in Afghanistan, uproot injustice, eradicate narcotics and the local writ of gunmen, strengthen security and to form national unity and with the help of Allah and with the backing and sacrifices of the nation, it was able to eradicate corruption and establish an Islamic
government in the various provinces and the capital in a very short period of time. It almost completely eliminated the years of strife and fragmentation in the whole country and was able to bring ninety five percent of the country under the control of the central government. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has always tried to solve the problems with the opposition through talks.
The ongoing issue in the country which came about ten years ago has been between two fundamental elements: on the one side is Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and on the other is the United States of America and its foreign allies.
The stance of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the beginning has been to bring about the end of the invasion of Afghanistan and to let the Afghans establish an Islamic government of their own choosing which does not pose danger to anyone. Through realization and understanding, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has time and again made clear its stance to other nations and has persistently said that the allied nations under the leadership of America will never be able to subdue the Afghans by force in order to realize its aims. We are at the moment, besides our powerful presence inside the country ready to establish a political office outside the country to come to an understanding with other nations and in this series, we have reached an initial agreement with Qatar and other related sides. Islamic Emirate has also asked for the release of its prisoners from the Guantanamo prison in exchange basis.
Apart from this, the perturbing reports spread by some news agencies and western officials about negotiations have no reality and are strongly rejected by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan releases In Fight Magazine #36

NOTE: In Fight Magazine publishes photographs from the Afghan Ṭālibān-led insurgency against the United States, NATO, and its Afghan allies. For previous issues see: #35#34#33#32#31#30#29#28#27#26#25#24#23#22#21; and #20.


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New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "The Importance of the Islamic Emirate at World Level"


For the past 15 years, since the emergence of the Taliban Islamic Movement for the establishment of national unity and an Islamic regime, until the formation of the Islamic Emirate, the Emirate has shown through its recurrent sovereign actions that it is a movement being independent, Islamic , countrywide and domestic in nature. It feels the pains and grievance of the masses and struggles for the realization of their legitimate aspirations. Though the opposition of the Islamic Emirate has tried through their wicked propaganda to show that this pure movement has foreign affiliations and tried to mitigate its importance in the political and military fronts. But contrary to the claims of the opponents of the Islamic Emirate, it has been proved that the Islamic Emirate has sprouted up from among the people and flourish in their midst.
Throughout the past decade, the Americans and their allies resorted to the use of military power against the Islamic Emirate but since the Islamic Emirate was an Islamic and national movement, its strength increased furthermore with the passage of each day with its influence spreading to all parts of the country.
Now survey institutions of the West admit that 70% of the Afghan land is under the control and influence of the Islamic Emirate. People approach courts of the Islamic Emirate instead of courts of the Kabul puppet Administration because their office procedures are swift, efficient and free from corruption.
It is not surprising that the invading countries present in Afghanistan have come around to this hard fact through their experiences to realize the importance of the Islamic Emirate and consider it a real party to the imbroglio of Afghanistan. This is because the Islamic Emirate, since its inception, has proved to the nation and to the world through its actions and clear messages that it is a people-oriented Islamic force, with comprehensive social and economic programmes for the well-being of the people. If we have a glance at the messages of the esteemed Amir-ul-Momineen Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid (may Allah protect him) which were issued on the occasions of the past Eids, we clearly see that the Islamic Emirate has viable political and economic policies for the development and prosperity of the country, being able to answer to all our current problems, both internal and external. Similarly, Islamic Emirate is free from biases and discrimination, being entirely committed to the people and having members in its ranks from all ethnicities of the country. Members of the Islamic Emirate are not involved in corruption and embezzlement but are faithful to their goal. This is a characteristic that singles out the Islamic Emirate from all other factions and groups whose very foundation has been laid down on the bases of geographical and lingual orientations and preferences and are mafiostic in nature. They are only craving for lining up their own pockets.
The Islamic Emirate knows that its strength lies in the contentment of the masses. Therefore, it will try, as a servant of the people and according to its capacity, to cater to the spiritual and material needs of the people, If God willing.
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New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Concerning the Condemnation of the 32nd Anniversary of the Former Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan"


Thirty two years ago, on this day, the 6th of Jaddi, 1358 (AH anno hegirae) corresponding to 27thDecember, 1979, the former Soviet Union, in much the same way and for much the same reason as the present-day U.S, violating all human rights and ethics, invaded our country.

Still, more than three decades after the former Red Army invasion of Afghanistan, the Afghan are suffering from the aftermath of the war and the impact of it appears to be seen largely in terms of destruction of our country and economic infrastructure. Millions of our countrymen were made homeless leaving their country to migrate to other countries. The former Soviet Union invasion cost the Afghans the gravest material, emotional and psychological losses in addition to losses of lives of more than one and a half million Afghans. The Afghan Muslim nation is still suffering from the negative effect of what happened, in return, the world including the America were disposed of the Red Empire by the downfall of the former Soviet Unions at the hands of Afghan Muslim nation which got several countries permanent independence and recognition of their identities. At this stage, the US and the other countries, having been disposed of the Red Empire, had to comfort the miserable Afghans and extent assistance to the war-torn country. Contrarily, the worst was yet to come. The US and their allied countries destroyed and ruined whatever parts of our country had been left of the former Soviet Unions. Afghans, with help of Allah, are well-trained and able to carry out Jihad and combat all the invaders. The Afghan Muslim nation, in the same way as in the past defeated the entire Eastern bloc headed by the former Soviet Unions though their Jihad getting the world rid of the communism, are successfully withstanding all the coalition forces led by the US invaders and will make them all face the same fate that befell the then Red Army who under the pretext of Peace Treaty of Geneva pulled out of Afghanistan in failure. The current invaders are, too, looking for the pretence to withdrew from Afghanistan in a face-saving way and are in the point of fleeing. )  لِلَّهِ الأَمْرُ مِن قَبْلُ وَمِن بَعْدُ وَيَوْمَئِذٍ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ   بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ يَنصُرُ مَن يَشَاء وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ( To Allah belonged the matter before and (to Him it belongs) thereafter. And on the day the believers will rejoice with Allah’s help. He help whomsoever He wills, And He is the Mighty, the Very-Merciful. The sequence of the events, if observed, it becomes crystal clear that Afghanistan has never been and is never a country where the invaders can survive or be settled. Besides, the collapse of the Genghis, British Empire, and Red Empire are the living examples that the US may learn from. The US invaders and their allies, Instead of putting the tested brave Afghan nation to the test and fighting them, are to put an end to their invasion. Furthermore, the western nations should insist on their rulers not to commit war crimes any longer that may further disgrace their nations nationally and internationally but to let the miserable Afghans live freely. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan believes that Afghanistan is sure to be liberated from the occupation of the US invaders with help of Allah Almighty and through their Jihad the and the current invaders are bound to be destined with the same fate that the former ones befell, if Allah wills it. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

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New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's Qārī' Yusef Aḥmadī: "Remarks Regarding the Supposed Surrender of 50 Mujāhidīn"


On Tuesday the 20th of December 2011, the media once again reported the re-integration of 50 Taliban fighters with the Kabul regime in Panjwai district of Kandahar province through the mouthpiece of the stooge officials under the theatrical
process of peace and reconciliation. The head of this group who introduced himself as Haji Mu’alim to the press baselessly claimed that his men were active in Kandahar city, Panjwai and Maiwand districts.
We must say regarding this fallacious claim that it is nothing more then a part of the failed propaganda which is regularly disseminated by the moral lacking enemy which we must categorically repudiate. The person (Haji Mu’alim) who ties himself to the Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate is an absolute fraud. According to our information, there is no one associated by this name in the ranks of Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate. It can be assumed that this unknown person has made this claim and utilized the name of Islamic Emirate for the purposes of financial incentives and power grabbing. It can also be considered the handy work and manifesto of the stooge administration which is being pushed so it can conceal its deteriorating condition and depict as if the Mujahideen have been weakened and have lost the will to put up resistance against the enemy.
Before this self-made melodrama, a person by the name of Noor-ul-Aziz was also paraded in front of the media four months earlier who was supposedly associated with Mujahideen and had surrendered with 50 of his men to the Karzai regime. After investigating the matter, it was irrefutably proven that no such person was ever present in the ranks of the Mujahideen.
The invader enemy and its hirelings who are facing defeats and failures on a daily basis have lost all abilities to confront the head on attacks and bombings of Mujahideen and are trying to create rifts and doubts amongst the Mujahideen by resorting such fabricated propaganda and failed strategies.
We strongly reject such claims of the enemy and once again call on our Mujahideen and Mujahid nation to be heedful of the plots of the deceitful enemy and to never trust such baseless claims.
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
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New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Americans Must Substantially Recompense Iraq for Nine Years of Occupation!!"

NOTE: Vieled message of what the Ṭālibān expects from the US after it leaves Afghanistan, too?


On the 15th of December 2011, America announced that it officially ended its nine year occupation of Iraq by withdrawing its troops and handing the country over to Iraqis.
There is heavy skepticism and doubt surrounding the extent of honestly of America regarding its statement because American sources also announced that there will still be some seventeen thousand US nationals (bigger than any single military division) remaining behind under the name of diplomats, security officials, experts of oil refineries and contractors!! However there isn’t any doubt that a large part of the American occupation has left Iraq and the last of its military convoy also exited the other day but rather the important question which needs an answer is: to what state and condition have the Iraqi people been left behind to?
It is clear that the American invaders left behind Iraq in a condition in which the country’s treasury, historical artifacts and infrastructure has been looted and destroyed; its high rise commercial and political buildings turned to rubble; its green areas and parks turned into junkyards; its roads and bridges pock-marked with craters and on top of this, one hundred and fifty thousand innocent Iraqi’s have been murdered and around one million Iraqi’s have been displaced whereas its resource rich wealthy people have been thrown into a ditch of poverty and destitution.
It is an open secret that America made baseless excuses to occupy Iraq so it can control its rich mineral resources and fill its belly with oil. To attain its objective, America (in its own words) spent about one trillion dollars and sacrificed 5000 of its soldiers but it was the will of Allah Almighty that in this Muslim country, the neck of imperialism would be broken, its plots and determination made fruitless and it would be forced to flee empty handed in the end.
The 9 year violation of Iraq by America disclosed to the Muslim Ummah (Nation) that this notorious criminal did not give Iraqi’s anything other then killings, destruction, plunder and poverty. On top of this, it ruined the nation’s unity; created and dispersed sects under the names of nationalism and faith; conjured fire and enmity under the disguise of Shia, Sunni, Arab and Kurd and then left all of it behind.
So what is needed now is that America be asked to provide justification and explanation for its violation of an Islamic country’s sanctity and sanctums, taking of its people hostage for 9 years, causing billions of dollars worth of damages, liquidating its military and political strength and for killing and maiming about half a million Iraqi’s!!?
The nations of the world must put pressure on the United Nations and other international organizations to drag and put on trial those perpetrators of the American administration who had a role in burning the Iraqi people in the flames of gunpowder for nearly a decade under false pretexts. It is the due right of the Iraqi people to expose the American authority and to ask for a heavy compensation for causing the catastrophic destruction of Iraq.
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News statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: "Regarding the Expansion of Local Militias by the Invaders"

The recent assertions made by some generals of the foreign invading forces that they are pursuing a strategy of expanding the number of hired gunmen in the country and of creating more unaccountable local militias under various names. This in itself confirms the weak and frail state faced by the invaders because maintaining the security of an area by local militias is the very sign of fragility and failure. These are the same militias which were being disarmed by them ten years ago under the DDR initiative but today find them a necessity and are empowering them. This can only mean that all the other maneuvers and tactics used in Afghanistan have been futile and the decade of strategies and plans have not only failed but have declined to the extent that they are now repeating the failed experiences of the Soviet Union as it was about to collapse. By creating and expanding militias they are clearly laying the groundwork for arousing local disagreements and it seems as if they cannot properly fit themselves in the future of Afghanistan which is a clear testimony of their weak and declining state. That is why for the purpose of attaining final revenge from the Afghans while on the brink of defeat, they are trying to exploit and use the different tribes and regions of the nation against each other. One of these infamous processes is the creation of ‘Arbakis’ which was also used as a war stratagem by the stooge regime at the time of the Soviet invasion for its own survival and for fragmenting the united Afghan people. The atrocities perpetrated by the ‘Gilam Jam’ and other hired militias is vividly remembered by every Afghan. The Russians created these hired militias yesterday under the name of tribal contingents and the defeated America is trying to create and expand it under the banner of local police and ‘Arbaki’. The purpose behind this colonial process by both Russia and American is one and the same which is to strike Afghans by the hands of Afghans; the continuation of its stooge regime and then utilizing them to commit those crimes which they are no longer able to do themselves . Just like how the other militias failed to protect the previous stooge communist regime despite their brutalities and savagery, these ones will also face failure, Allah Willing. The religious scholars of our country, the respected tribal elders and other known figures with followers can play a key role in blocking this notorious process. Now that our country is going through a very delicate period it is incumbent on all the influential  figures to be heedful of all the ominous plans of the enemy. Permission should never be given to the innocent and naïve youth to become servile of the invaders for a few dollars whereas their life and death will both bring shame to the family. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan condemns this ominous plan of the enemy with the strongest of words and considers it as a push of our country towards destruction. We shall take every viable step in order to stop this program and alongside this we call on all the international human right groups and organizations to prevent the occupying countries from leaving behind discord in our country as they face defeat. The process of creating danger to the lives, honor and wealth at the hands of unaccountable and drug addict individuals should be blocked because by allowing and amplifying this sinister plan, the lives and peace of defenseless civilians will be put in harms way and the first targets of these notorious militias is our innocent and defenseless countrymen.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
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New statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's Zabīhullah Mujāhid: "Reaction Regarding the US Secretary of Defense’s Latest Remarks"


While on his latest unannounced visit to Afghanistan, the US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta remarked during his speech in Pakitia province and Kabul that the country was headed in the right direction and that this war is winnable whereas the Taliban have been significantly weakened but not yet defeated.
The above remarks were made by the highest ranking US military officer in hopes of boosting the morale of his jittery soldiers but affairs observed by the world and Afghans is that the American politicians, generals, their surrogates and soldiers have been traversing a crooked path for the past decade, a fact which is also confirmed by most western intellectuals. They have not gained any achievements despite their pressure and instead of winning the war they are on the verge of defeat while on the other hand; the ranks of Islamic Emirate are being swelled by fresh recruits and by utilizing new techniques, they are unabatedly carrying on with their operations against the occupiers with a very high morale in every corner of the country in this cold weather. This is in itself a testimony to the growing strength and military advancement of the Mujahideen. Due to fear of facing the backlash and reprisals of the nation, the occupiers rarely leave the safety of their bases. Below is a glimpse of a few of the very clear examples regarding the advancements of the Mujahideen:

  1. An American congress member who came to Kabul and wanted to visit the Charsad Bistar (400 bed) hospital in order to investigate the corruption had to cancel his trip after being informed of the security threats on the way by American generals.
  2. This recent visit by Panetta was not announced unlike the other American officials and it was kept secret due to security fears.
  3. A few days earlier, Karzai made his trip to the so called Loya Jirga from the Presidential Palace by helicopter as he could not dare venture out because of the lingering fear of Mujahideen.

The above given examples show the extent of the continuous fear and danger felt by the Americans and their partners inside the country. So claiming to have made advancements this year and of victory in the end in such conditions in nothing more then the continuation of that jabber which was and will be systematically uttered by Defense Secretaries such as Rumsfeld to Gates and now Panetta. They should know that the initiative of war is and will continue to be in the hands of Mujahideen. The extent of losses sustained by the invaders and their internal hirelings in the current year’s successful Badr operation can not be compared to any of the past ones. The uptick in attacks was also pointed out by United Nations in one of its current reports which stated that there has been a twenty four percent increase as compared to 2010. In such a state we can confidently say that the US Secretary of Defense wants to continue twisting the facts and deceiving its oblivious people and soldiers and just like the past ten years, continue passing the last moments of its journey in a mirage of empty promises. The ground realities witnessed here by our nation are in total contradiction to the remarks made by the American Defense Secretary during his brief observation period. Such vain words can never undermine the will and determination of our people but it will rather turn their attention even more to their religious and national obligations and they shall step-up their ongoing struggle even more and shall never give the enemy respite even for a single night. It would be better for the American officials to profess the realities and leave the country of the Afghans to the Afghans.
The Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Zabihullah Mujahid
30/01/1433
15/12/2011
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New statement from the Teḥrīk-ī-Ṭālibān Pākistān: "An Amazing Operation to Destroy the Vehicle of the Special Security Paramilitary Forces in Karachi"