The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) – an Islamist organization that posts online messages, usually associated with Al-Qaeda, posted on August 29, 2005, on various Islamist forums, a document dealing with the warfare policy of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The document was signed by someone identifying himself as a Saudi named Abu Abdallah Ahmad Al-Imran.
The following are main points: - Al-Zarqawi Has Become Commander of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Perhaps Even in the Entire Middle East and North Africa
- Many Saudis went to Iraq in order to join Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi, who was well known in Afghanistan.
- After the fall of the Ba'ath party, Al-Zarqawi's organization emerged under its previous name: Jamaat Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad
- Then came the great alliance: Zarqawi swore an oath of allegiance to Sheikh Al-Islam the Imam and Jihad fighter, Osama bin Laden, and became the commander of Qaedat Al-Jihad in Iraq, and perhaps in the entire Middle East and North Africa
- Zarqawi employs three main courses:
- The first course – isolating the American army: targeting Arab translators
- The second component is targeting policemen and the Iraqi National Guard
- The second course [sic] is targeting ambassadors, both Arab and foreign, to isolate the Iraqi government
"As for the claim that it is forbidden [by Shari'a] to kill the emissaries [i.e., the ambassadors], this is a completely erroneous claim, since the ban on killing emissaries applies to those to whom the emissaries are sent. If Algeria had sent its ambassador to Qaedat Al-Jihad in Iraq, then it would have been forbidden for the organization to kill him, since he would have been protected [by the ban]. [But] he [i.e. the emissary] was not sent to us... The Jihad fighters in Iraq, who are waging a holy war against the Crusader alliance, have repeatedly warned all countries not to dispatch their ambassadors, since their fate will be death. So they [the fighters] are not to blame... - The third course is targeting the infidel militias and the leaders who represent heresy and atheism among the Shiites
"We must clear the scene of all rivals now, before the American forces withdraw, at which point a bitter war will begin against this treacherous army [of] 'the descendants of Al-'Alqami.'"
"The targeting of the Badr Brigades aims to accomplish two goals: to avenge the Sunnis and Sunni religious scholars who were harmed by the Shiites, and to destroy this army before the area is free of Americans, so that the path will be clear for the Jihad fighters to take control of Iraq, establish Shari'a courts, suppress innovation and deviation from religious law and custom, and [put an end to] reprehensible actions.
- Qaedat Al-Jihad in Iraq is in fact the re-establishment of another Al-Qaeda organization which spreads Jihad around the world, just like the mother organization did after Afghanistan.
- Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi spent over a year preparing for the war against the Americans before the American invasion of Iraq, establishing bases and stores and recruiting supporters – especially in the Najd and Hijaz regions and in Yemen – and these supporters then became [his] recruitment agents in these regions.
High on a Throne of Royal State, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Hind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showrs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl & Gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd
To that bad eminence; and from despair
Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires
Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue
Vain Warr with Heav'n, and by success untaught
His proud imaginations thus displaid. |
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