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Osama Dead? If So, He Makes Long Speech from Grave
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Informed Comment - Dec 30, 2007
http://www.juancole.com/2007/12/osc-bin-ladin-vows-jihad-for-liberation.html
OSC: Bin Ladin Vows Jihad for
'Liberation of Entire Palestine' After Iraq
The USG Open Source Center summarizes and partially translates the new
audio release by Usama Bin Laden. He urges a focus on Iraq and Israel,
and he praises the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for having attacked the
****ites. He also pledges to attack Israel and accused HAMAS of selling
out. Bin Laden sounds increasingly desperate, appearing to realize that
the Iraqi Sunnis have turned against the Salafi Jihadis who often
admire him. The Palestinians have worked hard to keep al-Qaeda out of
Palestine, and Israeli security has forestalled effective al-Qaeda
attacks in Israel. That is a hard target, not like the US in 2001, and
he is likely to be shown up as an ineffective braggart if he starts
taking on the hardy Israelis. In fact, he seems beside himself with
frustration that the Arab League has offered full recognition to Israel
for a return to 1967 borders. Bin Laden continues the stupid policy of
attacking the ****ites, both Hizbullah in Lebanon and those of Iraq,
thus dividing the Muslims. Muslim publics have increasing turned
critical of tactics like suicide bombings. And Bin Laden's own
popularity has been plummeting among most Muslims. Fawaz Gerges has
written about how a lot of al-Qaeda members are furious at him and
Ayman al-Zawahiri for bringing the full wrath of a superpower down on
them, scattering them from Qandahar, forcing them to live as fugitives,
and virtually destroying the organization.
Bin Ladin Vows Jihad for 'Liberation of Entire Palestine'
after Iraq: Jihadist Websites
OSC Summary - Saturday, December 29, 2007
On 29 December, a participant in a jihadist website posted several
links to a 56-minute audio message by Al-Qa'ida Organization leader
Usama Bin Ladin entitled "The Way to Foil Plots" produced by the
Al-Sahab Media Production Organization, the media arm of Al-Qa'ida
Organization.
The audio recording plays against the background of a still image of
Bin Ladin and a map of Iraq.
Bin Ladin begins his message by addressing the Islamic nation in
general, the "patient and steadfast people in Iraq's fronts and
fortress towns," the "leaders of mujahidin groups and shura councils,"
and "the chieftains of free and proud tribes."
Bin Ladin says: "My talk to you is about the plots that are being
hatched by the Zionist-Crusader alliance, led by America, in
cooperation with its agents in the region, to steal the fruit of
blessed jihad in the land of two rivers, and what we should do to foil
these plots. It is no secret that America is using all military and
political means to entrench its troops in Iraq. Having realized its
military failure, it stepped up its political and media efforts to
deceive Muslims. One of its wicked schemes was to tempt the tribes and
buy their allegiance to form the councils of dissension, which they
termed as awakening councils."
He notes that "many" tribes refused to form such councils. He beseeches
God to help these tribes to adhere to this stand. He accuses late
Abd-al-Sattar Abu-Rishah, founder of Al-Anbar Awakening Council, of
"betraying the religion and nation."
Bin Ladin adds: "Recruiting hypocrite chieftains of tribes is one axis.
America, along with its agents in the region, is seeking through the
other axis to form a new government that is loyal to it, like the Gulf
countries' governments, instead of Al-Maliki government. This
government will also be called a national unity government."
He says: "In the name of the homeland and patriotism, the Crusaders are
being strengthened in the land of two rivers too by installing a
government that is agent to America, a government which agrees in
advance to the existence of major US bases in the land of Iraq and
gives the Americans whatever they want of Iraq's oil according to the
oil law to continue to subjugate it and maintain absolute hegemony over
the rest of the countries of the region."
He criticizes the "leader of the so-called Islamic Party" for calling
for signing a security agreement with the United States.
Bin Ladin calls on the "sane people" to learn a lesson from the fate of
HAMAS Movement's leader****p. He says: "It (HAMAS leader****p)
relinquished its religion and did not achieve worldly gains when it
obeyed the ruler of Riyadh and others by entering the national unity
state and respecting the unjust international charters. Will the honest
ones in HAMAS correct its course?"
Bin Ladin says: "Just as the rulers of Riyadh tempted the leaders of
HAMAS, they are seeking to tempt the mujahidin groups in Iraq. They
allow some groups to confidently move in the Gulf countries to receive
sup****t, but not official sup****t, which these groups reject. The
sup****t is channeled under the banner of raising donations by some
unofficial scholars and preachers. Many of them, however, are loyal to
the state and seek to implement its policy in Iraq by pulling the rug
from under honest mujahidin's feet. The mission of these scholars and
preachers is to convince the leaders of these groups of the same
previous condition; that is, accepting a national unity government, in
addition to urging them to air tendentious propaganda against the
Islamic State of Iraq and fight it if possible. This is one of the
secrets of the fierce military and media campaign against the state."
He accuses the "ruler of Riyadh' of being the "main US agent in the
region."
He hails late Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi for exposing and fighting ****ite
militias in Iraq.
He calls for unity among "all honest mujahidin" in Iraq to "foil all
plots."
Bin Ladin cites as an example "an effort in the past to unify the
leaders of Afghan mujahidin."
Bin Ladin goes on to say that "those leaders are tradesmen who care
about their leader****p and give priority to their personal interests
over the cause."
He goes on to speak about the Northern Alliance, led by (former Afghan
President Borhanoddin) Rabbani and (Abd-al-Rasul) Sayyaf, which has
become a helper and a sup****ter to America against the mujahidin in
Afghanistan.
He adds that the same applies to Iraq where "the Islamic Party and some
groups, which are involved in fighting, sup****t America against
Muslims" saying that this is "outright infidelity."
He urges the Iraqi Islamic Party and other factions that are involved
in fighting "to disavow their leaders and correct the course of their
parties and groups", saying that "if this is not possible, they should
leave those hypocrite leaders and join honest mujahidin in the Land of
the Two Rivers." He adds: "America exerted great efforts in the past to
convince Afghan leaders through the governments of Riyadh and Islamabad
to join a national unity government with communists and secularists who
came from the west." He goes on to say that "the government of Riyadh
continues until this day to carry out the same malicious roles with
many Islamic action leaders and commanders of mujahidin in our nation."
He goes on to speak at length about the reasons behind the Afghan
leaders' failure to achieve unity and urges the mujahidin to be wise
and consider matters thoroughly before pledging allegiance to their
leaders.
He urges the mujahidin not to be misled by the names of parties or
their leaders. He says that Sayyaf was one of the most prominent
leaders of mujahidin, but he helped America against Muslims. He adds
that the same applies to Rabbani and Ahmad Shah Mas'ud. He condemns the
leaders who committed one of the "nullifiers of Islam" by sup****ting
"the infidels against Muslims."
Bin Ladin concludes by saying that "the brother mujahidin, especially
in the Shura councils, should not yield to the excuses of the amirs of
groups by obstructing unity and accord."
He adds that "Muslims were pleased when a number of the amirs of
groups, which are fighting for the sake of God, and a number of chiefs
of steadfast and mujahid tribes unified their stand under the banner of
monotheism and pledged allegiance to honorable Shaykh Abu-Umar
al-Baghdadi as amir of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)."
Bin Ladin says: "The states that call themselves Muslim states are
many. However, those with discerning know that they all lack the
prerequisites that are regarded as the most im****tant prerequisites of
Muslim states, chief among which is upholding God's shari'ah, not to
mention that the sovereignty of all of them is flawed, and that they
all, without exception, cooperated, in one way or another, with America
in the world war on Islam, which is a nullifier of one's Islam.
Nonetheless, many people treat these states as if they were sovereign
Muslim states. This treatment is religiously impermissible, given all
that has been said."
Bin Ladin adds: "Had complete empowerment been a prerequisite of the
establishment of an Islamic state at present, Islam would not have seen
a state of its own. This is because everybody knows that given the huge
military superiority of the adversaries, the latter can invade any
country and topple its government, as happened in Afghanistan. They
toppled the Ba'thist Iraqi Government. Nonetheless, the fall of the
state is not the end of the world, nor does it mean that the Islamic
community and the Islamic imam collapsed. As a matter of fact, jihad
against the infidels should continue, as is happening in Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Somalia."
Bin Ladin argues that "complete empowerment" is not a prerequisite of
making a pledge of allegiance to the imam, or of establi****ng an
Islamic state. He adds that the leader to whom a pledge of allegiance
is made should be obeyed. Bin Ladin says that repeated appeals were
addressed to "the mujahidin leaders" urging them to get together.
However, some of them failed to heed these appeals while some others
heeded the appeals. He urges all jihadist groups to come together under
one banner. Bin Ladin says: "He who follows the local and global
campaigns of infidelity can see that they are primarily targeted
against the Islamic State of Iraq. For America is repeatedly carrying
out campaigns, one after another, against the same city. As a matter of
fact, there has been an ongoing campaign against the whole of Diyala
for the past six months. The same holds true for Mosul and Salah
al-Din. Other campaigns are being carried out by the army, the National
Guard, and the police, not to mention other campaigns carried out by
the Al-Sadr and Al-Hakim militias. Besides, all neighboring countries
without exception are targeting the Islamic State of Iraq, not to
mention the awakening councils, parties, and groups of dissension led
by Tariq al-Ha****mi, who betrayed the faith and the Ummah. This is to
be added to the media campaigns aimed at misrepresenting the Islamic
State of Iraq for which the Riyadh rulers, their scholars, and their
media outlets are to blame."
Bin Ladin adds: "Amir Abu-Umar (al-Baghdadi) and his brothers are not
of those who would bargain over their faith and accept half-solutions,
or who would meet the enemies halfway. Rather, they come out openly
with the truth and satisfy the Creator even if this were to result in
angering the creatures." He adds that they refuse to pander to the
governments of Muslim states.
Elaborating on this issue, Bin Ladin says: "Had the leaders of the
Islamic State of Iraq joined hands with any neighboring state so that
the latter may provide it with backing and sup****t, as some groups and
parties have done, the situation would have been different," as these
groups and parties have huge budgets compared to the budget of the
Islamic State of Iraq.
Bin Ladin condemns the acceptance by Hizballah Secretary General Hasan
Nasrallah of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 on Lebanon, which
authorized the entry of "Crusader armies into Lebanese territory." He
wonders: "Are people unaware that these armies are the other face of
the US-Zionist alliance?" He adds: "Nonetheless, (Hizballah) Secretary
General Hasan Nasrallah is deceiving people. He welcomed these armies
in public and promised to facilitate their mission even though he knows
that they were coming to protect the Jews and seal off the borders in
the face of the honest mujahidin." He contends that Nasrallah did so to
accommodate the wishes of the states backing him. Bin Ladin says that
the conduct of the "amirs of mujahidin" in Iraq is not known to many
people, attributing this to "the cir***stances and security
requirements of the war." He adds: "However, I reckon that ignorance
about the affairs of the amirs of the mujahidin in Iraq is harmless
ignorance if they have been recommended by trusted, fair persons, such
as Amir Abu-Umar (al-Baghdadi), who has been recommended by trusted,
fair mujahidin. He was also recommended by Amir Abu-Mus'ab
(al-Zarqawi), may God have mercy on him, and War Minister Abu-Hamzah
al-Muhajir." Bin Ladin adds: "Refraining from pledging allegiance to
one of the amirs of mujahidin in Iraq after their recommendation by
trusted, fair persons under the pretext of not knowing their conduct
leads to great evils, one of the gravest of which is obstructing the
establishment of the great Muslim nation under one imam."
Concluding his statement, Bin Ladin says: "In conclusion, I assure
Muslims in general and our people in the neighboring states in
particular, that they will see nothing from the mujahidin but all that
is good, God willing. We are your sons. We are defending the religion
of the nation, and we are defending its sons. The Muslim victims who
fall during the operations against the infidel Crusaders or their
usurper agents are not the intended targets. God knows that we are
deeply saddened when some Muslims fall victim. Yet, we hold ourselves
responsible and seek God's forgiveness for that. We beseech God to have
mercy on them and let Paradise be their final abode and to compensate
their families and relatives. You must be aware that the enemy
deliberately takes its positions among the Muslims to let them serve as
human ****elds for it." Bin Ladin then urges the militants to avoid
common Muslims in their strikes. He says: "In fact, our enmity is with
the agent rulers, to whom we give no assurances. Rather, we are seeking
to topple them and to refer them to the Islamic judiciary. How can we
assure them while they have befriended the enemies of the nation and
have done this nation great harm? How can we assure them while they
have mixed the law of humans with the law of God Almighty? How can we
assure them while the path to the broadest front for the liberation of
Palestine p***** through the lands that are under their control? I
assure our kinfolk in Palestine in particular that we will expand our
jihad, God willing, and we will not recognize the Sykes-Picot borders
or the rulers appointed by the colonialists. By God, we have not
forgotten you after the 9/11 events. Will anyone forget his own family?
However, after those blessed raids, which hit the head and heart of
global infidelity, the biggest ally of the Zionist entity, America, we
are now busy fighting it and its agents, especially in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Islamic Magreb, and Somalia. If it is defeated along with
its agents in Iraq, God willing, then soon will the legions of
mujahidin march, in successive brigades, from Baghdad, Al-Anbar, Mosel,
Diyala, and Salah al-Din to restore Hittin to us, God willing. We will
not recognize a state for the Jews, not even on one inch of the land of
Palestine, as did all the rulers of the Arabs when they adopted the
initiative of the ruler of Riyadh years ago."
Bin Ladin adds: "Nor will we respect the international conventions
recognizing the Zionist entity over the land of Palestine, as the HAMAS
leader****p did, or as stated by some Muslim Brotherhood leaders. It
will be a jihad for the liberation of entire Palestine, from the river
to the sea, God willing, joining hands with the sincere mu jahidin
there from the cadres of HAMAS and other factions."
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