[Note: The author of this communique, Abu Hafs, a Jordanian national and representative of the Chechen mujahideen Shura council, is believed to be the same individual profiled by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in his February 5, 2003 speech before the United Nations as a principle conspirator in "[Abu Musab] Al-Zarqawi's Iraq-linked Terrorist Network." According to Time Magazine, Abu Hafs last slipped into Chechnya through Georgia's Pankisi Gorge in August 2002. Since the recent deaths of Ibn-ul-Khattab and Abu al-Walid al-Ghamidi, Abu Hafs seems to have taken control of the Al-Qaida-linked foreign mujahideen brigade active in the Caucasus."In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious Most Merciful:" "
Allah says, fight and kill for the sake of Allah only against those whose who attack and kill you [first], because Allah does not favor the aggressors." "The leaders of the Chechen and the Ansaar [foreign] mujahideen now declare the commencement of attacks on Russian and American interests in Chechnya after having observed that the Russian and American sides continue to [attack] the honor and dignity of Islam and the Muslims in Chechnya, Palestine, Iraq, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and in other Muslim countries. All this has happened within earshot and sight of the International Community, and yet, it has not moved the conscience of a single Arab leader because their consciences are soiled by treason against Allah, our religion, and our society
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"Does there exist a civilization as pure and noble as the civilization based on Islamic justice? 
We have taken it upon ourselves to make a pledge before Allah. We will make Russia and America taste death, and Ramadan will be the month of conquests through martyrdom operations everywhere across this universe. We will hit any target that we encounter and we fear only Allah
and those of us in the Military Shura Council appear to the Muslims to help support their fighting brothers with prayer and money."
Abu Hafs al-Urdani
— Commander of the Eastern Front and of "al-Ansaar" (the foreign mujahideen brigade) in the Caucasus
- Representative of the Military Shura [Advisory] Council of the Mujahideen Government September 19, 2004 |