Category: Leaders

Video message from al-Qā’idah in the Islamic Maghrib’s Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd (‘Abd al-Malik Drūkdīl): “We Don’t Surrender…We Win or We Die”

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NOTE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of  Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd’s (‘Abd al-Malik Drūkdīl) most recent audio message titled: “We Don’t Surrender…We Win or We Die.” Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

On July 29, 2010, an audiotape featuring Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) commander Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud was released titled, “We Don’t Surrender…We Win or We Die.” In the tape, Abdel Wadoud argued that “calls to recede and surrender are proof and a confession from the enemy that the military solution has failed, as the apostates have realized that defeating the mujahideen militarily is highly impossible…the sword destroyed the arrogance of those murdering criminals who shed much of the Muslim blood. And we praise Allah because the rains of bullets and the infiltrations of the intended-martyrs and the detonation of explosive devices shattered their hegemony and brought humiliation upon them.” He then vowed: “We do not surrender. We win or we die. We do not surrender. We win or we die. First you have to fight our Jihadist generation and our men who are spread in the mountains and the valleys, in the cities and the deserts…” The U.S. Treasury Department has noted that in 2006 Abdel Wadoud “stated that he had consulted with…Ayman al-Zawahiri regarding AQIM’s upcoming plans and missions in Algeria and the Maghreb countries.”

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Al-Katāayb Foundation for Media Productions presents statement from Ḥarakat al-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn “Regarding the Blessed Kampala operations”

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UPDATE 2: An individual from the forums has translated Shaykh Mukhtar Abū az-Zubayr message:

“And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves” Sura Alshura/39
Allah most Gracious And High described the believers that they are against injustice and avengers from the ones who assaults them.
The so called “AMISOM” in Mogadishu committed bloody massacres worst than ones committed by their predecessors the Ethiopians and Americans. The cannons are constantly targeting the civilians, the tanks leveled to the ground the buildings of Mogadishu, and the machine guns are targeting civilian transportation, all this has become a habit known by the “AMISOM”.
We say to Islamic Ummah in general, and in particular to the people of Mogadishu: inshallah, we will revenge all who were martyred by the AMISOM guns, and what happened in Kampala is only the beginning.
Secondly, we congratulate the brigade of Shaheed Salih Alnabhan who were blessed by execution of the operation in Mogadishu, and we say to them: “These faces are of success, and may Allah reward you on behave of us, and Islam and Muslims.
And finally, we say a message to Mosifini, the leader of the massacres committed against our people:
“Poetry in Swahili”

UPDATE: al-Shabāb released an audio recording of its leader, Shaykh Mukhtar Abū az-Zubayr, regarding the recent bombings in Uganda. Here is a link to the audio in Arabic and Swahili: https://bit.ly/aZdcEG. Here are some highlights of the audio message courtesy of Evan Kohlmann:

“We would like to congratulate the Martyr Saleh Nabhan Brigade which graciously fulfilled the mission [in Kampala].”
“I say to the Ugandan president that what has happened in Kampala was only the beginning. Our revenge will continue.”

Also, check out Michael Scheuer’s, former CIA analyst, thoughts on the al-Shabāb bombings over at his website Non-Intervention.
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NOTE: For more on the al-Shabāb bombings in Uganda, see the following analyses: Leah Farrall of All Things Counterterrorism (https://bit.ly/agwfgc), Christopher Harnisch of AEI’s Critical Threats Project (https://bit.ly/agnurS) and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (https://bit.ly/av5up7). Due to al-Shabāb password-protecting the document, I cannot upload it to Scribd, though, there is a safe PDF file you can download below. The statement is in English.
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Statement Regarding the Blessed Kampala operations

al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula releases its first English language magazine “Inspire”

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UPDATE 7: Inspire Magazine has been translated into Arabic as an ‘Īd al-Fiṭr gift to the Muslim ummah (community) by the Arabic Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn Forum.

Click here: Inspire Magazine Arabic
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UPDATE 6: The Investigative Project on Terrorism weighs in on “Inspire Magazine” and its potential negative effects on radicalization.
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UPDATE 5: Katherine Zimmerman of the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project explains the implications of AQAP’s “Inspire Magazine”.
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UPDATE 4: Aaron Weisburd of the Internet Haganah provides his take on the full release of AQAP’s “Inspire Magazine”.
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UPDATE 3: After 12 days,AQAP releases the full version of “Inspire Magazine” without corruption. Also, checkout Jarret Brachman’s quick take analysis of the new magazine.
Click here: AQAP – Inspire Magazine Volume 1 – UNCORRUPTED
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UPDATE 2: J.M. Berger of IntelWire along with Thomas Hegghammer of Jihadica posted new blog entries detailing past English language magazines by jihādīs and the continued lack of understanding by the mainstream media when reporting on the “Inspire” magazine.
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UPDATE: After the forums released the new English language magazine “Inspire” within an hour or so they took it down since the pdf file was corrupted. The first three pages — the table of contents — was fine, but afterwards the text was gibberish. I am still keeping this corrupted file up so people can see what it looked like. For more on why the file was corrupted and taken down check out the Internet Haganah’s analysis. Also, it is worthwhile to read J.M. Berger of IntelWire’s critique of the US media coverage of the “Inspire” magazine release.
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NOTE: al-Malāḥim Media, al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) media outfit, released a new English language magazine called “Inspire”, which features interviews with the amīr (leader) of AQAP Abū Basīr (Nāṣir al-Wūḥayshī) and Anwar al-‘Awlakī.
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Original corrupted file (won’t harm your computer, gibberish after a few pages): AQAP – Inspire Magazine Volume 1

Statement from the Islamic State of Iraq: "Condolences on the Death of the Martyr Shaykh Muṣṭafā Abū al-Yazīd"

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=&1=&يقول تعالى: {وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَاءَ وَاللَّهُ لا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِمِينَ، وَلِيُمَحِّصَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَيَمْحَقَ الْكَافِرِينَ، أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَعْلَمِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا مِنْكُمْ وَيَعْلَمَ الصَّابِرِينَ}[آل عمران:140-142].
فبقلوب راضية بقضاء الله ومُسلّمةٍ لقدره، تلقّينا الخبر المؤلم الذي أعلنه إخوتنا في تنظيم القاعدة بمقتل الشّيخ المجاهد البطل مُصطفى أبي اليزيد في ثُـلّةٍ مؤمنةٍ من أهل بيته، فإنّا لله وإنّا إليه راجعون، تقبلهم الله وأسكنهم فسيح الجنان، مع النّبيين والصّديقين والشّهداء والصّالحين وحسُن أولئك رفيقا.
واللهَ نسألُ أن يجيرَ هذه الأمّة المكلومة ويرحمها في مُصابها، ويخلفها خيرا منه، وأن يُكرم الشّيخ بما كانَ يتمنّى فيتقبّله في الشّهداء، ويُجزل له الأجر والمثوبة والعطاء، ويُحسِن لذويه وإخوته في درب الجهاد العزاء، وعلى رأسهم الإمامين الفاضلين الشّيخ أسامة بن لادن والشّيخ الدّكتور أيمن الظواهري حفظهما الله وثبّت أقدامهما ونصرهما على أعداء الملّة والدّين…
وقد رحل الشّيخ وترجّل إلى دار الكرامة نحسبه والله حسيبه، بعد مسيرةٍ طويلةٍ حافلة، ضارباً مثلاً آخر على قدَرِ أبناء هذه الطّائفةِ المُجاهدةِ المنصورة، التي يأبى قادتها إلا الموتَ قتلاً في سوح النّزال، وهم يلبّون نداء ربّهم ويُسارعون لجنانِ خُلده ويُسابقون لنُصرةِ دينه ولسانُ حالهم..
ستذكُرني المعامعُ كلَّ وقتٍ على طُولِ الحياة ِ إلى المَمات
فذاكَ الذِّكْرُ يبْقى لَيْسَ يَفْنى مَدى الأَيَّام في ماضٍ وآت
ولا عجب فهذا دأبُ القادة الربّانيّين، وهذا هو موقعُهم قُدوةً للأمّة، ومشاعلَ نورٍ لأبنائها، فأنِعم بهم من أئمّةٍ يتقدّمون رَكب قومِهم ويحوزون المنازل العُلا عند ربهم، قال رسول الله صلّى الله عليه وسلّم: (الذين يلقون في الصّف الأول فلا يلفتون وجوههم حتى يُقتلوا، أولئك يتلبّطون في الغُرف العُلى من الجنّة).
أمّا مِلّةُ الكُفر وحاملةُ لواء الصّليب فيها فنقول لهم، أبشِروا بما يقضّ مضاجعكم أيّها الجبناء، فقد وُلِد جيلٌ مُجاهدٌ فريدٌ، تربّى على إرث المجد وسيرةِ الأبطال، لا يرضى بذِلّةٍ ولا ينامُ على ضيم، يُحبّ الموت أشدّ مما تُحبونَ الحياة، جيلٌ طلّق الدّنيا ورغبَ فيما وعده الله في الآخرة، ولن تزيده دماء الشيوخ إلا ثباتاً على درب الجهاد وعزيمةً على الثأر منكم والبطش بكم، فلن يدوم فرحكم الذي تصنّعتموه طويلاً بإذن الله، ولتسمعُنّ منهم ما يصمّ الآذان ويشلّ الأركان، وإنّ غدا لناظره قريب…
وإنّا لَقومٌ لا نَرى المَوت سُبّة إذا ما رأتْه للصّليب فُلول
يقربُ حبّ الموتِ آجالَنا لَنا وتَكرهُه آجالهم فتطُُولُ
وما ماتَ منّا سيّد حتْف أنْفه ولا طلّ منّا حيثُ كان قتيلُ

{وَاللَّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لا يَعْلَمُونَ}
وزارةُ الإعلام / دولة العراق الإسلاميّة

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As-Saḥāb releases video message by Usāmah Bin Lāden addressed to the American people

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NOTE: As-Saḥāb (“The Clouds”) Foundation for Islamic Media Publication officially released a video message of Usāmah Bin Lāden speaking to the American people. It was first aired on al-Jazeera TV back in March. The main highlights of the video include:

“My message is about the captives that you have taken from us. Your friend in the White House [President Barack Obama] has been following the footsteps of his predecessor [President George W. Bush] in many important issues, such as escalating the war in Afghanistan and unjustly treating our people that you took as captives.”
Bin Laden threatened to murder anyone they captured if the United States kills Khāled Shaykh Moḥammed.

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Poem by Online Jihādi Mourning the Death of AQC #3 Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid

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You are a real hero
O Mustafa Abu Yazid
You spent your whole life fighting
Until you fell down Shaheed
You are a real terror
Against America
You sent their soldiers running
With shots of your Pee-Ka
You are a real Mujahid
To Allah you belong
Never did you give up
You were firm and you were strong
You are a Freedom Fighter
A Lion of Islam
You finally left this Dunya
And joined the Caravan
You are very lucky
To gain the Shahadah
Married to the Hooris
In the Gardens of Jannah
With the Lions that have fallen
In Kitaeb-ul-Qassam
Chechnya and Kashmir
Iraq and Afghanistan
Asadullah Alshishani salutes you
And he prays for the day
That he meets you in Jannah
And is killed as a Fidaye
And I pray
For the day, O that day
When I’m killed as a Fidaye
Audio File of Poem: https://bit.ly/atQXEH (FLV File)

Statement from the Islamic State of Iraq: "From the Consultative Council"

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الحمدُ لله العزيز الحكيم القائل: {وَشَاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ فَإِذَا عَزَمْتَ فَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُتَوَكِّلِينَ}، والصّلاة والسلام على نبيّ الملحمة والرّحمة، الأمّي القُرشيّ القائل: (وأنا آمرُكم بخمسٍ الله أمرني بهنّ: بالجَماعة، والسّمع والطّاعة، والهجرة، والجهادِ في سَبيل الله، فإنه من خَرج من الجماعة قيدَ شِبر فقد خلعَ رِبقة الإسلام من عُنقه إلاّ أن يَرجع، ومن دَعا بدَعوى الجاهلية فهو مِن جثاء جهنّم)، وبعد..

فبعد الواقعة التي قدّر الله أن يُقتل فيها الشّيخان الجليلان، أمير المؤمنين بدولة العراق الإسلاميّة أبو عمر البغداديّ، ووزيره الأول أبو حمزة المُهاجر رحمهما الله وتقبّلهما في زمرة الشّهداء، انعقد مجلس شورى الدّولة الإسلاميّة مباشرة لحسم مسألة إمارةِ الدّولة، والتي آلت بفضل الله ومنّه إلى وِفق ما خطّط لها الشيخان الشّهيدان في مثل هذه الظّروف الخاصّة.

وظلّ مجلس الشّورى في حال انعقادٍ مستمرّ طيلة الفترة الماضية للقاء وزراء الدّولة وولاتها وأهل الحلّ والعقد وأصحاب الرأي فيها، ونبشّر أمّة الإسلام ونخصّ منهم طليعتها المُجاهدة، وفي مقدّمتهم شيوخُ الأمّة وقادة الجهاد في كلّ مكان، بأنّ الكلمة قد اجتمعت على بيعةِ الشّيخ المجاهد أبي بكر البغداديّ الحُسينيّ القرشيّ أميراً للمؤمنين بدولة العراق الإسلاميّة، وكذا على تولية الشيخ المجاهد أبي عبد الله الحَسنيّ القُرشيّ وزيراً أوّلا ونائباً له.

والشّيخان الفاضلان من أهلِ القدم الراسخة في العِلم والسّابقة في الدّعوة لدينِ الله والجهاد في سبيله نحسبهما كذلك والله حسيبُهما، نسأل الله أن يُسدّد رأيهما ويُقيّض لهما بطانةً صالحةً تأمُرهما بالخَير وتحضهما عليه، وأن يعصمهما ويُتمّ على يديهما ما بدأه الشّيخان الشّهيدان في رفع راية الجهاد والسّعي لتحكيم شرع الله وبناء دولة إسلاميّة قويّة عزيزة.

{وَاللَّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ}
مجلسُ شورى دَولة العِراق الإسلاميّة

المصدر : ( مركز الفجر للإعلام )