NOTE: I wrote this about a month ago and it was finally published on Monday so it is kind of dated, but is a good summary. It follows up on my piece about the fitnah that surrounded the Caucasus Emirate in the second half 2010 and first half of 2011 that I wrote about for the Atlantic, which you can read here. Below is the opening paragraph of my new piece for the Central Asia Caucasus Institute Analyst.
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In late July 2011, the Caucasus Emirate’s official media mouthpiece Kavkaz Center announced that the two rival factions within the emirate had reconciled their differences through a Shari’ah court. Aslambek Vadalov and Khusayn Gakayev, as well as other commanders who previously rescinded their bay’at to Doku Umarov, renewed their allegiance. This episode provides further evidence of the decline of Arab fighter influence in the Caucasus jihad, yet paradoxically shows the impact of popular Arab online jihadi shaykhs. It also solidifies Umarov’s pan-Caucasus project as the leading resistance to Russian aggression in contrast to the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s claims as the true representatives of the more nationalist-Islamist Chechen struggle.
Read the rest here.
Category: Russia
Kavkaz Center presents a new video message from the Amīr of the Caucasus Emirate Dokku Umarov: "Fitnah Among the Mujāhidīn Overcome, Insha'Allah!"
UPDATE 9/20/11 9:23 AM: Here is an English translation of the below video message in Russian:
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the accursed. In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise be to Allah from whom we seek help and forgiveness. We seek Allah’s salvation from the evil of our soules. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah’s servant and His Messenger. “O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims.” (Surat Ahl ‘Imran : 102)I, the Amir of the Caucasus Mujahideen, appeal today to all Muslims and Mujahideen. Today is 10th of Sha’aban of the year 1432 from Hijra, in 10-15 days begins month of Ramadan(July 11, 2011). We all know that there is very little joy for Muslims today in this world, caused by Muslims themselves. Allah gives little joy to Muslims because we turned away from the religion of Allah. I appeal today to Muslims and Mujahideen of the whole Caucasus and the whole world. I want to inform you about a good news from the Caucasus: the fitnah that was here in Caucasus, is over. Praise be to Allah, with whose help, it ended. Every single Mujahid of Wilayah Nokhchicho gave Bayah and I’m sure that all Mujahideen and all Amirs, who labor today to elevate the word of Allah in the Caucasus, are also subordinate to their Amir and are under Bayah. It’s a big joy for all of us.As we know, this fitnah was planned by disbelievers and hypocrites. Hypocrites who sat on warm sofas in front of their TVs, to give the impression they work. We, AlHamduliLlah – the Mujahideen and Amirs who were in this fitnah – understood what’s right and came to an unanimous decision, established by a Sharia court. Thats why the fitnah is over, AlHamduliLlah. I appeal to all Mujahideen of Caucasus, to the Mujahideen in Russia, who gave us their oath. I appeal to all of you: direct all [your] forces against the enemies of Allah. Today, Allah ordered us to do Jihad against the enemies of Allah. We know that it’s our obligation to do this Jihad. It’s our duty to elevate the word of Allah on the territory which the Almighty gave us. Therefore, dear brothers I hope that this news is a big joy for you, because I know that you are true Mujahideen, true Muslims and that’s why you all were doing Dua’a and worried about that fitnah. AlhamduliLlah, it is over. With the help of Allah, with help of your Dua’a, Allah answered at our Dua’a. Dear brothers, dear Mujahideen, don’t worry, in the future, Insha’Allah, we will try to prevent such fitnah, Insha’Allah, in the future we will try to be guided only by Sharia law. Allah ordered us to live in accordance with that law and to be guided by it in our affairs AlHamduliLlah, AlHamduliLlah, AlHamduliLlah. We praise Allah, Who took this fitnah away. And our last prayer is to praise Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. As Salamu Aleykum Wa RahmatuLlahi Wa Barakatuhu. Translation by Abdullah Umarov, may Allah (swt) reward him, for the Kavaz-Jihad blog and JamaatShariat. Adaptations and editions by the Kavkaz-Jihad blog._______
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Kavkaz Center presents three new Omra's [Decrees] from the Amīr of the The Caucasus Emirate Dokku Umarov
English:
Omra № 27
On the appointment of the Naib Emirs of Provınce of Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad, his family, his companions and all those who follow him until the Day of Judgement. And then:
I decree
1. To appoint as Provınce Nokhchicho’s naib Emir Khamzat to the Western direction.
2. To appoint as Province Nokhchicho’s naib Emir Hussein to the Eastern direction.
3. This Omra comes into force from the moment of its signing.
Emir of the Caucasus Emirate,
Dokku Abu Usman (Dokku Umarov)
10 Sha’ban 1432 (11/07/2011)
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Omra № 28
On the appointment of the Emir of the Armed Forces of United Province of Kabarda-Balkaria-Karachai of the Caucasus Emirate
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad, his family, his companions and all those who follow him until the Day of Judgement. And then:
I decree
1. To appoint as Commander of the Armed Forces of Province of Kabarda-Balkaria-Karachai of Alim Zankishev (Emir Ubayda).
2. This Omra comes into force from the moment of its signing.
Emir of the Caucasus Emirate,
Dokku Abu Usman (Dokku Umarov)
11 Shawwal 1432 (09/09/2011)
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Omra № 29
On the appointment of the Wali, or Governor, for the United Province of Kabarda-Balkaria-Karachai of the Caucasus Emirate
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad, his family, his companions and all those who follow him until the Day of Judgement. And then:
I decree
1. To appoint the Emir of the Armed Forces of United Province of Kabarda-Balkaria-Karachai Alim Zankishev (Emir Ubayda) as Wali of the United Province of Kabarda-Balkaria-Karachai.
2. This Omra comes into force from the moment of its signing.
Emir of the Caucasus Emirate,
Dokku Abu Usman (Dokku Umarov)
09 Shawwal 1432 (09/07/2011)
Kavkaz Center
Russian:
ОМРА N27
О назначении наибов амира вилаята Нохчийчоь Имарата Кавказ
Именем Аллаха Милостивого и Милосердного
Хвала Аллаху Господу миров. Мир и благословение пророку Мухаммаду, его семье, его сподвижникам и всем тем, кто последовал его путем вплоть до Судного Дня. И затем:
Постановляю
1. Назначить наибом Амира вилаята Нохчичоь по западному направлению Амира Хамзата
2. Назначить наибом Амира вилаята Нохчичоь по восточному направлению Амира Хусейна
3. Омра вступает в силу с момента подписания
Амир Имарата Кавказ Докку Абу Усман (Докку Умаров)
10 Шаабан 1432 год (11.07.2011)
ОМРА N28
О назначении Амира Вооруженных Сил Объединенного Вилаята Кабарды, Балкарии и Карачая Имарата Кавказ
Именем Аллаха Милостивого и Милосердного
Хвала Аллаху Господу миров. Мир и благословение пророку Мухаммаду, его семье, его сподвижникам и всем тем, кто последовал его путем вплоть до Судного Дня. И затем:
Постановляю
1. Назначить командующим Вооруженных Сил Объединенного Вилаята Кабарды, Балкарии и Карачая Алима Занкишева (Амир Убайда)
2. Омра вступает в силу с момента подписания
Амир Имарата Кавказ Докку Абу Усман (Докку Умаров)
11 Шавваль 1432 год (09.09.2011)
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ОМРА N29
О назначении Валия Объединенного Вилаята Кабарды, Балкарии и Карачая Имарата Кавказ
Именем Аллаха Милостивого и Милосердного
Хвала Аллаху Господу миров. Мир и благословение пророку Мухаммаду, его семье, его сподвижникам и всем тем, кто последовал его путем вплоть до Судного Дня. И затем:
Постановляю
1. Назначить Амира ВС Объединенного Вилаята Кабарды, Балкарии и Карачая Алима Занкишева (Амир Убайда) валием Объединенного Вилаята Кабарды, Балкарии и Карачая
2. Омра вступает в силу с момента подписания
Амир Имарата Кавказ Докку Абу Усман (Докку Умаров)
09 Шавваль 1432 год (07.09.2011)
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Kavkaz Center presents a new statement from the Amīr of the Caucasus Emirate Dokku Umarov: "Shamil asked me: 'When you become Emir, are you going to proclaim the Emirate?'"
The editor of the Kavkaz Center received a message from Emir Dokku Abu Usman, dedicated to the 4th anniversary of the proclamation of the Caucasus Emirate.
Ramadan 1428 (October 7, 2007). This date has come down as an important event in the modern history of the peoples of the Caucasus.
25 Ramadan 1428 was also the day of distinction, which revealed sincere Muslims, dedicated to spread Allah’s word, and the hypocrites, who for many years have concealed their duplicity under verbiage about freedom and independence.
In his message Emir Dokku Abu Usman reveals some little known details about the preparation for the proclamation of the Caucasus Emirate, which has been declared not spontaneously, as opponents of Sharia tried to claim, but as a result of several years of intense debate.
The decisive factor for the cardinal change of course towards the restoration of historically conditioned single Islamic state of the Muslims of the Caucasus, was the fact that the Islamic Jihad attracted young people who sacrificed their lives for the sake of not ephemeral slogans and goals, but establish laws for the sake of Allah and the conquest of Paradise.
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Shamil asked me: “When you become Emir, are you going to proclaim the Emirate?
The name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful!
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, Who created us Muslims and favored us with Jihad, giving us a chance to win the Paradise.
Peace and blessings be upon the Leader of all Mujahideen, Prophet Muhammad, his family, his companions and all those who follow him until the Day of Judgment. And then…
For those who become martyrs in the jihad for the Mujahideen, for the Muslims who experience difficulties, we make Dawat, or appeal, Insha’Allah, or God’s willing. We endeavor and spare no effort and we will persevere to alleviate the burden they experience.
I praise Allah for the developments that are taking place in the Islamic world today. Muslims are waking up, people are going out against the dictators and tyrants. Many of them suffer as victims. Since they have come for the establishment of the Sharia of Allah, they will be rewarded. Those who fell in this fight will go to paradise, Insha’Allah!
But if, following a deposition of one dirty slave of infidels, another one comes to power, be it an Amr Moussa or a Mohamed ElBaradei, the dead can only regret, forgive them God. And those who led these people and made them go under fire, they will not escape punishment on Judgment Day, Insha’Allah.
We make appeal for the death of those who fell for the sake of Allah, that Sharia be established in their countries and that Muslims realize the truth and follow it.
Not once has the Islamic Ummah, or Community, experienced difficulties in their history. And always have these occurred when the Muslims were divided. At the time of the Mongols the first one to fall was Khorezm Shah. Neither the Abbasid Caliphate nor Egypt has offered him assistance.
The Mongols obliterated the caliphate. The Caliph himself was killed. Muslims went panicking. The mullahs and corrupt scholars of the time, like today, conducted their dastardly work. They argued that the Mongols were Ya’juj and Ma’juj (Gog and Magog). No way to fight against them, we should await the arrival of the Prophet Isa (peace be upon him) in prayer that God would respond and destroy both Gog and Magog. Having heard such opinions, many Muslim armies just fled not to engage in battle with the Mongols.
The Mongolian army numbered 100,000 men, and the greatest number of them reached up to 150 000. However, they have killed about 10 million Muslims.
At a difficult time, Egyptian Muslims who remained so few that if they died, the religion of Islam could disappear, according to the will of God exhibited Iman, or faith, resilience and courage. They fought the Mongols, defeated them and saved the religion of Allah.
This fact, I recall especially to our brothers in Egypt that they would not forget their true heroic story, the enemies are trying to distort, and to spread worship of filthy Egyptian pharaohs among the Muslims.
Fitnah, or split, existed in the past, the same way it does today. However, we are continuing Jihad, God’s willing, because it has been entrusted to us by Allah.
And those Muslims who are not following jihad (yes, save us Allah from that), or do not intend to pursue it will die as hypocrites.
Today, we are doing jihad as far as we can and may, if we had more forces, we would do it more. In our jihad the enemies are infidels and apostates. When we put another blow to the disbelievers, hypocrites and apostates respond stronger against us than infidels themselves.
We hit them a blow in Moscow. By Allah’s will the polytheists accurately established identity of our brother who has committed Istishhad, or self-sacrifice (at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport). We had learnt about it even before the video record was sent for publication. Only after the invaders had established the identity of our brother, did we distribute our coverage.
The Russians intensely discussed why we had not published the record earlier, in an effort to ascribe to it some importance. We know the methods of Russian infidels and therefore tried to keep relatives and friends of our brother away from their tyranny. But the enemy will still interpret events his own twisted way.
This year has started well for us, Alhamdulillah, or Praise to God. With patience, we have overcome fitnah also this year. So please, make Dawat for us. Sure, we are also experiencing difficulties. No matter how much do we try to anticipate all the nuances, not everything works.
The enemy does not sleep and also plots against us, trying to respond to our actions. Some of our plans have been thwarted, but God’s willing, all that we can do, we will do, and the result is up to Allah.
Now I would like to refer to the proclamation of the Caucasus Emirate. Many things have reached my ears recently. So, I think it will be useful to highlight some points that were not particularly well known.
Allah in His mercy has given us an understanding of what is happening in this world. As we know from the Hadith, all Muslims are like one body. Mutual love, support and brotherhood. And if one part of the body hurts, then the whole body hurts. This hadith tells us to be bound by our unity and to support one other.
Jihad goes all over the world, and the time came for us to settle its details. And if you do not correct them, the question is about your Aqida, or creed. And then, when this question arose, we proclaimed the Emirate.
We must pay attention as with whom keep contacts the hypocrites who spread lies about the Emirate. Let me quote a hadith which says that on the Judgment Day, each of us will be raised with those whom he loves in this world.
The Humpty-Dumpty Kadyrov said: “I respect Mr. Putin, I like Mr. Putin”. Hence, on the Day of Judgment he will be resurrected along with Putin, Insha’Allah.
Another one is doing time with Berezovsky. We must remember that neither Berezovsky nor anyone else in Moscow could earn money, if he hadn’t been under the umbrella of the KGB, could not and can spend his earnings without permission awarded by “the office”. We also know that the KGB, the FSB and the related people never retire. They can only change the scope of their activities up to the need of their organization. Berezovsky’s money is a fund of the KGB, which is replenished at the expense of its business in Russia.
Zakayev, who also draws from the fund, teaches children and provides for his family, on the Day of Judgment also will join those whom he loved in this world, God’s willing.
Therefore, anything those people said or spoken or will say about the Emirate – is a lie There isn’t but one gram of truth in their words.
I joined jihad to raise Allah’s word, God’s willing, to perform the fard, or obligatory, because I love God, love His religion, like the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Just come with me and my brothers in Islam, Insha’Allah.
Aslan Maskhadov, subject to the global geopolitical configuration, for political reasons, in an effort to give people a break and a rest to gather strengths, played by their rules, to confront those who firmly insisted on moving to the position of Islam.
In keeping with this position and policy, he nurtured hope that the West would indeed accomplish its declarations in expectation of some sort of justice from them.
I dealt with him a lot. Aslan in his heart knew the price of all these western leaders. I can testify it that he was a genuine Muslim brother and he loved Islam.
So in 2002, Aslan chose Abdul-Khalim his naib, or deputy. And in the event of Abdul-Khalim’s death, the function would devolve to Abu-Usman (Dokku Umarov).
Why did Aslan choose me, why did he establish that chain? Because my views have not been firmly fixed yet, although I knew the price of the infidels. Aslan knew my relationship with Zakayev and therefore he hoped that, via those channels, the options would remain open to reach out for a sort of Western intermediation in order to ease the situation of the people. For this reason I was chosen naib to Abdul-Khalim.
In fact misunderstanding prevailed among the people. In 2002, Arsanov, Khamzat Gelayev, and Abdul-Malik Mezhidov refused to swear Bayat, or an oath of obedience, to Aslan Maskhadov.
We met with them. We asked them to state the motivation to refuse Bayat, and their first argument was that they were supposedly called FSB agents, insulted, and so on …
The meeting was attended by Shamil
ImāmTV presents a new video message from Amīr Abū Muslim of Wilāyah Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate: "Allah is with us, the 'Federal Center' is with you"
New statement from Wilāyah Dagestān of the Caucasus Emirate: "Statement of the Mujāhidīn of the Kadar Zone – West Dagestān’s Central Sector"
English:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, Peace and Blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family and his companions, as well as those who followed them till the Day of Judgement!
And then:
Ali Alibekov
In 1999, when a son of Gubden – Ahmad – was killed, he shouted to the Muslims: “Where is your Allah, why He does not help you? As for us, our OMON help us! “Ali-Kadi Kadiev
Alcoholic. Drunking during the month of Ramadan. Together with his son Amaem, they burned a house where surviving Muslims gathered after the ‘miliatry operation’, and they gave them false informations. His youngest son was in the milita against the Muslims.Zaynudin Zaynutov
FSB collaborator. Outspoken opponent of Islam. Back in 1994, he said: “The 6th division proposed us: you go against the Jamaat (2), and we will finish [the job]“
Shapi Gadisov, Khussein, son of Sagidula
According to the former vice deputy head of the 6th Division Gamzat Gamzatov, they [Shapi and Khuseyn] are also agents of the same department.
Nabi, son of Paykhomat
Paykhomat himself sold the mosque for 3000 rubles to drug addicts, they transformed it into a brothel (A’udhu Billah).
Khamit – from Chabanmakhi
Vagab – from Chabanmakhi
Yusup Zhiguli
Abakar Galimov
Magomed Gadisov
Yusuf Gadisov
Victory or Paradise! Allahu Akbar
The Mujahideen of the Kadar zone – Central Sector of Wilayah Dagestan
Translation (with adaptations) from VDagestan, by the Kavkaz-Jihad blog.
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ImāmTV presents a new video message from the Tsumada Mountain Sector of Wilāyah Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate: "Message from a Mujāhid"
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New sermon from 'Alī Abū Muḥammad al-Dagestanī the Qāḍī of the Caucasus Emirate: "Patience"
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Ghurabā' presents a new video message from the 'Mountainous' sector Amīr and Qāḍī of Wilāyah Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate, Shaykh Muḥammad Abū Usmān al-Gimravy
NOTE: The below lecture is part one of a series on Dr. Faḍl’s famous Foundation in Preparing for Jihād.
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