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AbuUsama
22nd February 2008, 02:25 PM
The Religion Is The Advice


All praise be to Allah we thank Him we seek His guidance and forgiveness, we seek His refuge from our evils and bad deeds, who ever guided by Allah is never led to astray, and who ever led astray by Allah is never to be guided.


I bear witness that No God But Allah , He has no partner and Muhammad is His slave and messenger.


Our speech today is about the blessed land (Palestine) in which the last dangerous events were a proof that the Jews and their agents respect not the ties, either of kinship or of covenant towards the Muslims in Palestine who were besieged unfairly. This land (Palestine) which Allah honored and said: [Glorified (and Exalted) be He (Allâh) Who took His slave (Muhammad SAW) for a journey by night from Al-Masjid-al-Harâm (at Makkah) to the farthest mosque (in Jerusalem), the neighbourhood where of We have blessed, in order that We might show him (Muhammad SAW) of Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, etc.). Verily, He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer]. (17:1).

And He made a worship the packing up to its (Palestine) Masjids, the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The packing up is not to be except for three Masjids: al-Masjid al-Haram (holy Kaaba), Masjid of the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in al-Madina and al-Masjid al-Aqsa (in al-Quds, Palestine)..

And He honored its people with the Jihad, the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A sect from my Ummah (nation) still being firm on the truth, fighting their enemy and not harmed by the discord of the others except the distress from which they suffer till the order of Allah is destined". They (companions) said: O Messenger of Allah, where are they? He said: "in Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) and the areas around it".

We believe that the axis of our battle is about our sacred things, so turning people away from them (sacred things) is an aim the Jews and their agents enemies of the religion are planning for, whether with the direct occupation as the case of al-Quds (Jerusalem), or indirect occupation as their agents do in the Sharif Haramain (Makka and Medina).

And because the Jews are the origin and core of the corruption, because the real battle against them is about al-Quds (Jerusalem) and because the battle against them is existing till the stones and trees will fight with us and the victory will be for the religion of Islam and its people.

Our speech today is on our viewpoint about the battle with the Jews on the land of resurrection, and before this we prefer stressing on some facts in which we believe and which are necessary before talking about the solution:

First: the issue of al-Aqsa (Jerusalem) is an islamic affair which concerns every Muslim, and it can't be restricted in an abominable nationalism nor an infamous patriotism, and whatever the merchants of al-Aqsa tried to silence the voices of truth, every Muslim is concerned about and responsible of freeing al-Aqsa as every Palestinian Muslim is responsible of freeing Iraq, Chechnya an other Islamic countries.
Allah said: [Truly! This, your Ummah (Shari'ah or religion (Islâmic Monotheism)) is one religion, and I am your Lord, therefore worship Me (Alone). (21:112)

This fact is stable in the hearts of the Ummah in general and in the people of al-Quds (Jerusalem) specially, praise be to Allah. It makes me crying, me and my brothers the article of an old man (over 100 years old) from al-Quds (Jerusalem) in which he replied to the Jews when they asked him to sell his house and they gave him a blank check to write the amount that he wants on, so he replied and told them: I accept to give you my house but with one condition, you should bring the signature of every Muslim all over the world even if his age is two months, if all of them accepted to sell their house, then I will give it to you without money and I leave my affair to Allah.

Second: Israel is founded on a religious basis, it is a religious state, and he is a liar he who claims that it is a secular state exploiting the religion. It is a malignant bacterium sowed in the body of the Ummahs and it must be plucked out even if the traitors signed with it thousands of surrender treaties.

Third: There is no difference for us between the Judaism and Zionism, and restricting the battle with the Zionists is an intentional malicious forgery, because the specifications of the Jews mentioned in Allah's book were extended in the history and inherited generation after generation. Allah said: [Every time they kindled the fire of war, Allâh extinguished it; and they (ever) strive to make mischief on the earth. And Allâh does not like the Mufsidűn (mischief-makers)]. (5:120).

Fourth: The Arab nationalists by their ominous arabic revolution had a hand in the foundation of the state of Israel, and that was by their participation in the Britannic army and their entry to al-Quds (Jerusalem) as conquerors. They crumbled the Islamic Ummah and divided it according to "Sykes _Pico" treaty in exchange for agent weak kingdoms in Jordan, Iraq, Levant and the Arabic Peninsula.

Fifth: The Palestinian organizations with its mixture from Baathis (followers of al-Baath party), communists, seculars and others repeated for many years that they will free al-Aqsa while they are the cause of the Nakba catastrophe and the origin of the problem, and if there is something which they realized after all these years of lies, it is that Allah exposed and disgraced them, and every Muslim knew the real merchants losers of the Palestinian issue.

Sixth: The armed organizations subsequent to Al-Ikhwan (Muslim brotherhood) group especially in this epoch, on their head the HAMAS organization far be it from the faithful ones from al-Qassam (military wing of HAMAS).
They really betrayed the religion and the nation, they abandoned the martyrs blood, the series of their political leaders betrayal is continuous from years. The Palestinians know the story of the unjust material blockade imposed on al-Qassam battalions by this leadership for a long time and before the second Palestinian Intifada, and this was for stressing the faithful ones from al-Qassam to execute their ominous political decision, and the result was killing and arresting all the faithful armed ones by the hands of the Jews and their agents from authority of the betrayal.

The milestones of HAMAS leadership's betrayal are defined in points as follows:


A- Their participation in the political process in the presence of a secular man-made constitution and upon the basis of “Oslo” accord, which gave up more than three quarters of Palestine to the Jews.

B- Implied recognition of Israel, as they recognized the national Palestinian authority which was founded on the basis of “Oslo” accord, and their recognition to its apostate president, who is an agent to the Jews.

c- Declaring that they respect the international resolutions that are issued from the UN, recognition of the UN is considered as the recognition of its man-made law as well as recognition of Israel (which is a member in the UN).

D- Their indulge in a strange alliance with the apostate regimes in Egypt and Syria specially, denying the bloods of the martyrs in ‘Hamah’ village (the Sunni village that was destroyed on the hands of ‘Hafiz al-Asad’ the Syrian past president). For ‘Khalid Meshaal’ described the criminal the killer ‘Hafiz al-Asad’ as the ‘faithful Muslim , caring for the Arabic nation and the defender of the Palestinian rights!

Doesn't he (Khalid Meshaal) know that the Syrian Nusayri army assaulted and humiliated the Sunnis in Lebanon, especially the Palestinians in the camps?. ‘Is-haq Rabin’(the former Israeli prime minister) says about the Syrian interference in Lebanon, that Israel finds no cause to prevent the Syrian army from deep penetration in Lebanon, for this army fights the Palestinians and if we stopped or hindered it, then we are helping the Palestinians!

Hence allying the Syrian Rafidite regime on the pretension of liberating Palestine, is a high treason. For “Salahuddin” (the Islamic famous leader who freed Jerusalem) didn’t free it except when he first put an end with the Shiite Aubaydi state in Egypt and Levant, now the Nusayri state in Syria is more malignant.

Ibn taymiya says: “The Nusayris are Kuffar(disbelievers) upon the consensus of the Muslim scholars, it is not legalized to eat the meat of their slaughtered, not legalized to marry their women, and they are not to pay ‘Jezeyah’ [tribute] because they are apostates not Muslims, not Christians and not Jews".

E- They let down all the Mujahedeen, moreover they agreed implicitly to kill and displace the people of monotheism, for example when their leader said in Moscow that Chechnya is an internal affair for Russia, beside declaring that they have no relation with Jihad in Iraq and that they will not fire a bullet in it.

F- Saying that they are not seeking for Islamisation of the society, hence they didn’t ask for the political process to be on the basis of the Islamic Shariaa, and they didn’t rule by Shariaa (Islamic legislation) when they held the authority and when they controlled Gaza totally.

G- Their extreme enmity towards the Salafi Jihadi path, especially the current time, and their serious hard and continuous trials to abort any of their held projects, their story with Jaish Al-Islam is well known, and their story with the British journalist who was kidnapped by Jaish Al- Islam is famous, we were told that the brothers were about to gain a lot from Britain before HAMAS interfere in the issue and free the Journalist.

H- Their claim that the Palestinian's blood is forbidden, even if he is apostate or infidel, like the apostate Bahaei ‘Mahmoud Abbas’ and his alike, just as if Allah Almighty didn’t say in his book: [O you who believe! Whoever from among you turns back from his religion (Islâm), Allâh will bring a people whom He will love and they will love Him;] (5:54).

About the solution to all this we say:


First- We should know that what the paganism and Batil built over years will take long time to be demolished, add to this building a strong fixed building of right, which is not shacked by wind, Allah says: [Whoever disbelieves in Tâghűt and believes in Allâh, then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold that will never break]. (2:256).
As well, we are in the estrangement time, the time of disappearance of a lot of Islam rules and signs, the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says “Islam began strange and it will be once strange as it began, blessed are the strangers.”

I hope our people in Palestine realize that the solution is the Jihad under a banner of the pure monotheism, no difference between the white and black, nor between the Jewish infidel and the Palestinian apostate, no difference between “Olmert” the Israeli prime minister and his gang or “Mahmoud Abbes” and his gang, rather the apostates are more criminal, Allah says: [O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you](9:123). And He said: [Indeed there has been an excellent example for you in Ibrâhim (Abraham) and those with him, when they said to their people: "Verily, we are free from you and whatever you worship besides Allâh, we have rejected you, and there has started between us and you, hostility and hatred for ever, until you believe in Allâh Alone," except the saying of Ibrâhim (Abraham) to his father: "Verily, I will ask for forgiveness (from Allâh) for you, but I have no power to do anything for you before Allâh ] ." Our Lord! In You (Alone) we put our trust, and to You (Alone) we turn in repentance, and to You (Alone) is (our) final Return,] (60:4).

Sheikh ‘Hamad Bin Atteeq’ says : (how many people do not commit shirk (polytheism) however they do not show hostility to the Mushriks (polytheists). Allah says: [we have rejected you, and there has started between us and you, hostility and hatred for ever, until you believe in Allâh Alone,"], since Allah says: "there has started", that means appeared and be frank. Ponder He mentioned first showing enmity to hatred, because to it is more important, for man may hate infidels but don’t show enmity towards them, then he is not doing the obligation upon him, till he shows enmity and hatred together, apparently.

Allah says: [ you who believe! Whoever from among you turns back from his religion (Islâm), Allâh will bring a people whom He will love and they will love Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers, fighting in the Way of Allâh, and never afraid of the blame of the blamers. That is the Grace of Allâh which He bestows on whom He wills. And Allâh is All¬Sufficient for His creatures' needs, All¬Knower.] (5:54).

Sheikh al Islam Ibn Taymiya said : (Allah brings people whom He loves and they love Him, they fight for His sake, those who had been apostatized from religion or part of it, like He does with those who fight the apostate Shiites always, Allah only is responsible to make us from the people He loves and who love Him, who fight the apostates without fear of blame.)

The other type of people who should be targeted strongly are the Rafeda (Shiites), for their malignant cancer began to march towards our people in Palestine, taking the chance of poverty and unawareness of our people there, and protected by a group of traitors, and agents to Iran, under the banner of “resistance’. The crime that was before committed in Iraq, for since when “Al Basrah” city was Rafidite (Shiite)? till it has been today with a Rafidite majority!!

The criminals succeeded to convince the heads of the tribes and people with the Shiite methodology, with the pressure of money, adultery that they name "al-Motaa marriage”, and other means, what led to conversion of the whole tribes to Shiism, for the Shiism age in Iraq is only about 50 to 70 years not more.

Know O Allah’s soldiers that Shiism is a different religion other than Islam that was revealed upon Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). Shiism is based on worshipping another god beside Allah, and on the cheap adultery which gave it promotion and widespread.

Things which may help our people in their fight and Jihad against the Jews, Magus and their agents are:


First: wise and experienced men from the carriers of the Salafi method, try to organize their efforts and form a Salafi group both in method and belief. This group will try to guide and relead the path, to make the Jihadist Intifadha (uprise), which is flourishing in the Aqsa's youth, more mature. They should base their launch on sons of the Masajids and Tawhid (monotheism) and should contact the sages and Masajids' Imams to educate the stone children according to the Jihad's utter aims:

Making Allah's word the highest and uprooting the patriotic and nationalist thinking which made the Ummah backward for a long period. This thinking made of the apostate Palestinian's blood inviolable and considered the blood of the Chechen Mujahid as an internal local affair.

Second: The pure sons of el Qassem Brigades should announce their separation from Hamas and isolate its deviated rotten political leadership. We know that many of el Qassem youth and some leaders among them started to feel upset of their leadership and their political deviation. Hadn't we found that this leadership is so deviant from Allah's legislation; we should have never called the Qassam soldiers to topple down their leadership in the time that we are the ones who never give up calling the factions to the union and we know that through this we're opening the door wide open for criticism, mainly from Media bodies belonging to their movement. Yet Allah's pleasure is first and last and the advice is our aim. We ask wise and experienced men to start a campaign of Daawah among el Qassem soldiers and assure that none of them will be missed and using enough secrecy.

They should gather as much as they can the arms and men using all legitimate ways to do that. The advice, secret or overt, did not succeed with this deviant leadership. Why not! if their counterpart brothers in Iraq leaders of the Islamic Party , Islamic Army and Hamas el-Iraq are fighting nowadays with the crusaders hand in hand against the monotheists. He who doesn't believe this can have a glance at Baghdad channel and listen to Tarik el-Hashemi speeches and Abu Azzem Atamimi's, the vice Emir of the Islamic Army. Therefore, those who hug and follow Iran's Magus and Syria's Nusayriyah and boast with their good relationship with Omar Soleiman, Egyptian intelligence leader who violated the honor of thousands of the chaste women in prisons.

As for the role of the Ummah to back up the liberation of el Aqsa, it can have multiple roles:


First: opening new battlefields to lighten the Judaic-American pressure on our brothers in Palestine and continuing in the process of sustaining and strengthening existing battlefields mainly those which witness a direct war with the American cow boy as in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here we send our thunderstruck thanks to the champions of Nahr el Barid, Muhajireen (migrants) and Ansar (hosts) who drew the best Islamic epic in the Levant with their blood, and proved that a small group of monotheists can make an uncurable hurt in the body of disbelief. I am sure that Allah won't let the fruit of your bloodshed to be lost and with Allah's will your blood will be the trigger to the Jihad in Levant mainly against Jews in the three fronts of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

We congratulate the Ummah with the rescue of the defeater of the crusade and the knight of the Levant Shakir el Abssi may Allah make him a leader of Jihad in that country, for he is a man of will, truth and righteousness, may Allah on his hands grant victory.

Second- The Ummah should break the shameful barriers which are seizing our brothers in Palestine and in order to achieve this, the Palestinians should revolt in Jordan and break the frontiers with the Western Bank, the Egyptians should revolt mainly in the Levant part breaking the barriers with their brothers in Gaza since, as it is known, the first Egyptian territory starts from el Arish.

Al-Maqrizi said:"el-Arish is a town between Palestine and Egypt and it is a shame for the Palestinian weapon in Syria and Lebanon to stay incapable of lifting the siege from their brothers. At least, they should open secret loopholes to help our brothers with arms and food. If the apostate governments betrayed, the Muslim peoples should never be silent and share the governments in their crimes."

Third-Peoples should break the material siege and blockade imposed on our households and we suggest that every Muslim should save two dollars monthly from his income, half of it should be sent to Palestine and the other half to other fronts. This can be achieved through forming secret associations spread in every street and in a very narrow space to gather this money with the help of the pious pure sons of the Ummah, mainly the scholars and Ulama. We suggest that every Masjid should form an independent association and I warn you of expansion and I advice you with secrecy and that we should start with the pious committed people.

Fourth- The sage people (Ulama) should break the barriers of fear and from them there should spring Martyr Ulamas as one good man called them, to clarify the danger of the apostate regimes for the religion and the present life, to support the Mujahideen with opinions and Fatwas and to warn from continuing in supporting the secular and defeatist organizations.

Fifth- Supporting the Mujahideen with the real media and propaganda and show their good deeds and forgive their mistakes, unless they do not touch the monotheism' Aqida (Tawhid). They should be advised secretly and overtly.

As for the role of the Islamic State in the land of Iraq to liberate Palestine, we have the hope in Allah and we ask him for our State to be like the State of Noureddine Shahid and his student Salah Eddine, and which was the cornerstone in Hittin battle to get back the Aqsa Masjid. We hope to enter the Aqsa as Omar el Farouk may Allah be pleased with him did. We ask Allah that The Islamic State today should be the cornerstone to get back el-Quds (Jerusalem). The Americans and Jews recognized this and tried to repulse us against this aim using any means. Their fierce campaign against el-Anbar, where the work was much more advanced, was carried out because they knew that the Mujahideen could easily bomb Israel from some regions of el Anbar using medium missiles as the dead Seddam have done. They are sure that these missiles are still there and they can be easily made.

The Ikhwan's (Muslim brotherhood) groups in the land of two rivers mainly Hamas el iraq, the Islamic party, the Islamic Army and their forming of the apostate awakening councils are but means to get us out of el-Anbar using direct contracts with the Americans to prevent us from helping you even if from farther places. But cheer up since what's coming is good for us all with Allah's help. We won't be deviated from the truth by the discourage of a weak-hearted nor betrayal of an agent.

In spite of all this, we are ready to help with what we have of little money and we're ready to train your leader starting from bombs and ending with missile industry.

And before that we incite our children and women not to forget you with hitting arrows, a Duaa bi Dhahri el Ghayb (prayers in secrecy).

At the end we admit our default and we ask forgiveness and success from Allah.


Allah has full power over his affairs, but most people know not.


Your Brother Abu Omar el Quraishi el-Baghdadi

source
http://anti-imperialist.info/vb/index.php

AbuOmar
22nd February 2008, 02:29 PM
Jazkhallah khair bro for posting this very informative translated speech.

AbuUsama
22nd February 2008, 02:33 PM
Al-Qaeda Warns Iraq Will Be Base for Attacks on Israel

By Michael Scheuer

“We will not recognize a state for the Jews, not even one inch of the land of Palestine … Blood calls for more blood and demolishing calls for further demolishing” [1]. Osama bin Laden said these words on December 29, 2007, signaling the accomplishment of his longstanding goal of acquiring safe haven for al-Qaeda in territory contiguous to the Levant. They also carried more energy and specificity than any of the organization’s previous threats toward Israel. Since bin Laden spoke, the jihadist media have carried instructions for the Palestinians on how to prepare for al-Qaeda’s arrival, as well as speeches by several Islamist leaders allied with al-Qaeda indicating that their organizations—with al-Qaeda—are preparing to come to the aid of the Palestinians. While there is no imminent threat in any of this material, it shows that al-Qaeda and its allies intend to infiltrate the Levant from Iraq and then attack Israel from Jordan, Lebanon and Gaza over the next few years. One author says that “undoubtedly, Palestine will be the main destination for al-Qaeda [fighters after]…the graduation of the largest class in Iraq’s history of world-class jihad officers” [2].

Just a month after bin Laden’s statement, an essay written by an al-Qaeda author using the pseudonym “AsadAl-Jiahd2” and entitled “The Timing of the Entrance of al-Qaeda Organization in the Palestinian Territories” appeared on the al-Boraq website [3]. The essay referred to bin Laden’s late-2007 promise of aid for the Palestinians before claiming that al-Qaeda has been preparing to engage Israel for a long time but had not spoken publicly about its planning. He said, however, that he could now announce that al-Qaeda is engaged in a three-year period of preparation for operations against Israel which began in 2007 and will “conclude at the end of 2009,” when al-Qaeda will be in position “for direct confrontation with the Jews in occupied Palestine.” The author adds that in the post-2009 period, “the attacks against the Jews will not be limited to occupied Palestine but will continue to reach all the areas in which Jews have a strong influence.”

Telling Palestinians that they must be patient, he said that “the opening of a branch or a front of al-Qaeda in Palestine cannot happen overnight” and would not be declared “before the end of the American elections.” The essay then says that there is preparatory work that the Palestinians themselves must do to ready al-Qaeda’s passage. The author explains “the most important advice that needs to be taken into consideration and applied by the Palestinians for the next three to four months,” noting that “I will not ask you to perform miracles” at this stage, but only “simple things” in which you must “remain discreet” [4].

• Train in martial arts, how to assemble bombs and how to manufacture explosives and rockets. In particular, “fighting and scientific skills” should be taught as quickly as possible to “committed Palestinian youth.”

• Establish methods and routes for bringing muhajirun (foreign fighters) into Palestine and “protect them at the beginning and provide them with housing.” The author says this directive is “more particularly [addressed] to the proud people of Gaza,” where if only 350 mujahideen “could train and prepare and learn the skills of war and join al-Qaeda, they will strongly shake the Zionist entity.”

• Acquire as many weapons as possible, store them safely and draw “encrypted maps” of their locations.

• Learn to store essential foods for long periods and identify what foods are most important in wartime.

• Form small, compartmented groups of no more than five individuals and meet only once a week. Each group should have a specific task; for example, to build explosives or to disseminate the messages of al-Qaeda’s leaders, especially the speeches of Ayman al-Zawahiri and the videos and lectures of “the beloved al-Zarqawi.”

• Salafist preachers should teach the people in “a lenient and merciful manner,” and there should be no “fighting with the mujahideen brothers in Hamas.”

Following the issuance of these instructions, two al-Qaeda-allied insurgent leaders reinforced bin Laden’s message that military help and manpower was on the way for the Palestinians. On February 13, a statement by Fatah al-Islam’s leader in Palestine, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Ghazzawi, was published. It declared that the group “has realized and understood God’s purpose for us and that is the need to offer our support [to the Palestinians]” [5]. As did AsadAl-Jiahd2, al-Ghazzawi endorsed bin Laden’s late 2007 pledge of near-term support for the Palestinians and agreed that the cause of Palestine is central to “the global jihad,” a cause for all Muslims that “borders and languages cannot come between.” Al-Ghazzawi also stressed his intention to “begin our war [against Israel] from Palestine” because the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah—whom he calls “the protectors of the Jews, the hizb (party) of Satan”—has prevented Fatah al-Islam from moving into southern Lebanon. Faced with this reality, al-Ghawazzi said that he would bring “immigrants”—foreign fighters—into Palestine. Uniting supporters already there, these would fight any members of Fatah (Palestinian National Liberation Movement—not to be confused with Fatah al-Islam), Hamas or the Shiite who would “restrain us from the Jews.”

Then, on February 14, the purported leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, Abu-Umar al-Baghdadi, issued an even stronger indictment of Israel, declaring that it is a religious state, that there is no difference between Judaism and Zionism—both are “the core and origin of corruption”—and that Israel is “a malignant germ that has been planted in the body of the ummah (Islamic community) that must be extracted” [6]. Unlike AsadAl-Jiahd2 and al-Ghazzawi, al-Baghdadi declares that President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization and the political leadership of Hamas are as much the enemy of Muslims as is Israel; claiming, for example, that there is “no difference between Olmert and his criminals and between Abbas and his gang—indeed the latter deserve more to be fought.” Like the others, he also berates the Shiite—naming Hezbollah and Iran—and the political leadership of Hamas, but exempts from condemnation “those sincere people in the al-Qassim Brigades” of Hamas.

Al-Baghdadi then offers advice to the Palestinians that is much like that offered by AsadAl-Jiahd2; namely, preach Salafism ever more broadly and teach the young men a love for jihad; encourage the Hamas military wing to join hands with al-Qaeda and its allies; prepare to assist the “immigrant” mujahideen who will arrive from Jordan, Syria and Lebanon; and devote increasing attention and resources to the dissemination of jihadist media products. Finally, al-Baghdadi stresses that “the cause of the al-Aqsa Mosque is an Islamic cause of interest to every Muslim” and emphasizes the role the mujahideen in Iraq will play in efforts to free Palestine. “As for the role of the Islamic state in the Land of the Two Rivers in the liberation of Palestine,” he declared:

"We trust in God and pray to Him and hope that just as the state of Nur al-Din the martyr [1118-1174] was the foundation stone in the return of the al-Aqsa Mosque to the nation—and it was later entered by his student Saladin as a conqueror in the Battle of Hittin, just as the Caliph Umar entered it—the Islamic state of Iraq will be the foundation stone for the return of Jerusalem. The Jews and the Americans realize this, and have sought to prevent us by every means from achieving this aim. The ferocious campaign against al-Anbar and the excessive boasting about the weakening of operations there is due to their knowledge that it is easy to bombard Israel from some of its areas" [7].

While it is impossible to know for sure whether al-Qaeda arranged for the three messages discussed herein to follow and supplement bin Laden’s December 2007 statement, the likelihood of coincidence seems small. Like bin Laden’s message, the three subsequent communications sharply threaten Israel and Fatah; each draws a clear distinction between the “traitorous” political leaders of Hamas and the praiseworthy fighters of al-Qassim Brigades; each stresses the importance of Iraq and the Levant countries—and the al-Qaeda allies residing therein—as bases from which military assistance can be sent to the Palestinians; each implicitly asserts that the Palestinians cannot defeat Israel by themselves and so need the assistance of muhajirun; each advises patience, noting that time and clandestine operations will be needed to insert immigrant fighters and train local mujahideen; and each focuses on the importance of improving the media capabilities of the Palestinians to inculcate Salafist doctrine and military and scientific training among the young. Overall, three conclusions seem reasonable: (a) al-Qaeda believes it has achieved a durable strategic victory by gaining safe haven in Iraq contiguous to the Levant; (b) Israel has assumed a heretofore unprecedented priority on the target list of al-Qaeda and its allies; and (c) however remote and dangerous the Pakistani-Afghan border region, bin Laden and his lieutenants appear quite capable of arranging a coordinated propaganda campaign over a distance of thousands of miles.

Notes

1. Osama bin Laden, “The Way to Foil Plots,” al-Sahab Media Production Organization, December 29, 2007.
2. “The Timing of the Entrance of the al-Qaeda Organization to Palestine,” al-boraq.info, January 28.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid. The assigning of so-called “simple things” for the Palestinians to prepare for a more intense war against Israel mirrors exactly the kinds of tasks assigned by bin Laden in 1996 to the Saudi population to help them prepare for a war against the United States and the al-Saud regime. See Osama bin Laden, “Declaration of War on the United States,” al-Islah, September 2, 1996.
5. Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Ghazzawi, “An Announcement and Statement to the Islamic Nation,” Media Division of Fatah al-Islam, February 13.
6. Abu-Umar al-Baghdadi, “Religion is Sincere Advice,” muslim.net, February 14.
7. Ibid.

Source: Jamestown.org

(copied from brother_mujahid thread)

Abu Maysara
22nd February 2008, 02:41 PM
JazakAllahu kheiyran Brother AbuUsama