For prior parts for this video series see: #2 and #1.
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Click here for the first part in this video series.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — Condolences and Sympathy Regarding the Earthquake In Afghanistan
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al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — Regarding the blessed al-Aqsa Flood Operation (En)
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — Ṣadā al-Malāḥim Magazine #17
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The title of this release is in reference to 7:164. Here it is is in full: “And when a community among them said, ‘Why do you advise [or warn] a people whom God is [about] to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?’ they [the advisors] said, ‘To be absolved before your Lord and perhaps they may fear Him.'”
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al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — To Be Absolved Before Your Lord and Perhaps They May Fear Him
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There are two main reasons for this: 1. pledges are leader-specific rather than group-specific and thus need to be renewed with each succession and 2. it is a way to legitimize al-Qurashi’s rule and create a media event so that the group can promote itself as it transitions to a new phase.
The first reason is also something that IS pointed to when it began to overtly feud with al-Qaeda (AQ) in 2013, by saying that following Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s death, his successor Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir gave baya to the newly created Islamic State of Iraq’s leader Abu ‘Umar al-Baghdadi and even after Abu ‘Umar was killed, when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over in 2010 and then Usamah Bin Laden was killed in 2011, Abu Bakr never publicly gave baya to Ayman al-Zawahiri, even if al-Zawahiri claims he gave it to him privately. Therefore, from the perspective of IS this whole process is not trivial, but important for legitimacy of its leadership and to potentially weed out any insubordination before it manifests into something larger as it already did in the past vis-a-vis AQ.
This post will be updated with the latest official pledges.
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August 5, 2023:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq
Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyah – Krenoa Region
August 6, 2023:
Wilāyat al-Ṣūmāl
Wilāyat al-Yaman
August 7, 2023:
Wilāyat al-Sāḥil – Tri-Border Area
Wilāyat Bākistān
August 8, 2023:
Wilāyat Wasaṭ Ifrīqīyah
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq
Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyah – al-Buhayrah Region
Wilāyat al-Sāḥil – Anderamboukane
August 9, 2023:
Wilāyat Khurāsān
Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyah – Sambisa Region
Wilāyat al-Sāḥil – Azawagh
August 10, 2023:
Wilāyat al-Shām
Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyah – al-Faruq Region and Banki Region
August 11, 2023:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq
August 12, 2023:
Wilāyat Sharq Asīā
August 14, 2023:
Wilāyat Mūzambīq
Wilāyat Bākistān
Wilāyat Sāḥil – Burkina Faso
August 16, 2023:
Wilāyat al-‘Irāq
Wilāyat al-Shām
