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As-Saḥāb presents: “Message to the people of Turkey” by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri

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UPDATE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of  Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri’s most recent video message titled: “Message to the people of Turkey.” Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

In an audiotape titled “Message to the Muslim Turkish People”, produced by As-Sahab and released on August 15, 2010, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri said that “Change will come if the Turks decided to demand their government stop cooperating with Israel and recognizing it, and stop sending its forces to kill Muslims in Afghanistan, and stop fighting Islam and its Sharia. The Turkish people must hold the responsibility of its government’s continued recognition of those who invaded Palestine and persistence in participating with the Crusaders in killing Muslims in Afghanistan. The Turkish people must regain the glorious role that the Ottoman State carried out in defense of the Muslim homelands in general and Palestine in particular.” He argued that “The role of the Muslim Turkish people in defending Islam and Muslims cannot diminish to simply sending a ship or a number of ships to aid Gaza.” And he reminded the Turks that “The Ottoman Turks used to be the mujahideen against every greedy and aggressor, and they weren’t only donors of a few tons of aid.”

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri- “Message to the Muslim Turkish People”
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The Global Islamic Media Front presents a statement from Sawt al-Jihād in Nusantara: "On the arrest of Shaykh Abū Bakār Ba’asyir, and on the Jihād of Today in Indonesia"

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UPDATE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of  the Global Islamic Media Front’s Statement on behalf of “Sawt al-Jihād Nusantara” on the Arrest of Shaykh Abū Bakār Ba’asyir. Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

On August 14, 2010, the Global Islamic Media Front published a statement on behalf of “Sawt al-Jihad Nustantara” regarding the arrest of Sheikh Abu Bakar Ba’ashir by Indonesian authorities, labeling the arrest “a great injustice to Islam and Muslims” and “part of the Crusader war that is organized by the apostate Indonesian government.” The statement also claimed that “after the execution of the three heroes from the Bali Battle, the mujahideen have unified those from among the different Salafist, Jihadist groups, and after the martyrdom of the leader mujahid Abu Maooth Norudeen bin Muhammad Toub al-Malizi, along with his heroic brothers—may Allah accept them all—…under one word and under the banner of fighting.”

GIMF Statement on Behalf of “Sawt al-Jihad Nusantara” on the Arrest of Sheikh Abu Bakar Ba’ashir
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 Arabic Statement: (يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِؤُواْ نُورَ اللّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللّهُ إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ) التوبة: 32-33

الحمد لله ناصر المؤمنين، مخزي الكافرين، الذي وعدنا بالنصر والتمكين، وجعلهما في جهاد الكافرين، والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين، وإمام المجاهدين، وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين، أما بعد:
ففي يوم الاثنين بتاريخ 9/8/2010 مـ خرجت الشرطة الإندونيسية لمكافحة الإرهاب – الإسلام – لاعتقال الشيخ أبو بكر باعشير بعد أن ألقى محاضرة في ولاية جاوا الغربية. اعتقل طاغوت إندونيسيا الشيخ أبو بكر بعاشير بالجرم والقهر، ولرفض الشيخ أبي بكر لهذا الاعتقال هاجمت الشرطة الإندونيسية لمكافحة الإرهاب – الإسلام – السيارة التي كانت تقل الشيخ هجمة شرسة. فاعتقلوا الشيخ ومعه 8 من الإخوة و تركوا زوجة الشيخ وإحدى المسلمات معه. إن هذا الاعتقال ظلم عظيم للإسلام والمسلمين و إنه جزء من الحرب الصليبية تديرها حكومة إندونيسيا المرتدة. والمسرور المريد بهذا الاعتقال هو الدولة البربرية أمريكا وأوستراليا، وقد تم الاعتقال بعد أن اعترفت أمريكا على عمل الحكومة الإندونيسية ضد الإرهابيين –الذي في الحقيقة ضد المجاهدين-. ونبشر الأمة الإسلامية عامة والمجاهدين في كل مكان خاصة؛ أن المجاهدين في إندونيسيا لن يتوقفوا عن طريق الجهاد والتضحية، وإن قُتِل الكثير من قادة الجهاد والمجاهدين شهداءً و الكثير منهم المعتقل، ولكن الجيل الجهادي يتوالد في هذا البلد و راية الجهاد لن تسقط بإذن الله تعالى. ونبشركم أيها المجاهدون أنه بعد إعدام أبطال غزوة بالي الثلاثة، قد اتحد المجاهدون من الجماعات السلفية الجهادية المختلفة، وبعد استشهاد القائد المجاهد أبو معوذ نور الدين بن محمد توب الماليزيي مع إخوته الأبطال تقبلهم الله جميعا، اتحد الإخوة المجاهدون تحت الكلمة الواحدة وتحت راية القتال. وقد رأيتم بطولتهم في ولاية أتشيه أول هذه السنة. ونذكر المجاهدين والموحدين في إندونيسيا، قال الله: (وَكَأَيِّن مِّن نَّبِيٍّ قَاتَلَ مَعَهُ رِبِّيُّونَ كَثِيرٌ فَمَا وَهَنُواْ لِمَا أَصَابَهُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ وَمَا ضَعُفُواْ وَمَا اسْتَكَانُواْ وَاللّهُ يُحِبُّ الصَّابِرِينَ * وَمَا كَانَ قَوْلَهُمْ إِلاَّ أَن قَالُواْ ربَّنَا اغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَإِسْرَافَنَا فِي أَمْرِنَا وَثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَنَا وانصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ (آل عمران: 146-147)
ونقول للصليبيين الصهيونيين وعملائهم من المرتدين؛ إن شدة البلاء على المجاهدين، هي من علامات النصر والتمكين من الله عز وجل للمجاهدين. وإننا نحن أمة الإسلام لينصرن الله علينا، وإن الكافرين لمغلوبون وهم المخزون في الدنيا والآخرة.
فانتظروا إنا معكم منتظرون..
(وَاللّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ)
اللهمّ عليك باليهود والنصارى وعملائهم المرتدّين..
اللهمّ أنصرالمجاهدين في كلّ مكان، وأيدهم بمددمن عندك..
وصلى الله وسلم على نبينامحمد و على آله وصحابته أجمعين..
إخوانكم في
صوت الجهاد في نوسانتارا
جنوب شرق آسيا 1 رمضان 1431 هـ

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 Indonesian Statement:
البيان باللغة الأندونيسية
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Sawt al-Jihad Nusantara Bayanat tentang penangkapan Sheikh Abu Bakr Bashir dan situasi terkini dari Jihad di Indonesia (يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِؤُواْ نُورَ اللّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَيَأْبَى اللّهُ إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ * ُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ) Mereka berkehendak memadamkan cahaya (agama) Allah dengan mulut (ucapan-ucapan) mereka, dan Allah tidak menghendaki selain menyempurnakan cahaya-Nya, walaupun orang-orang yang kafir tidak menyukai. Dialah yang telah mengutus Rasul-Nya (dengan membawa) petunjuk (Al Qur’an) dan agama yang benar untuk dimenangkan-Nya atas segala agama, walaupun orang-orang musyrik tidak menyukai ( Al-Tawbah 32-33) الحمد لله ناصر المؤمنين، مخزي الكافرين، الذي وعدنا بالنصر والتمكين، وجعلهما في جهاد الكافرين، والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين، وإمام المجاهدين، وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين، أما بعد: Pada hari senin pagi tanggal 9/8/2010, pemerintah murtad indonesia dengan mengerahkan satuan polisi anti-terornya telah menangkap Sheikh Abu Bakr Bashir, setelah beliau memberikan ceramah agama di wilayah Jawa barat. taghut Indonesia menangkap sheikh Abu Bakr Bashir secara paksa dan licik, Sheikh Abu Bakr menolak penangkapan dirinya sehingga mobil yang ditumpanginya bersama istirinya diserang secara brutal oleh satuan polisi anti-teror. bersama Sheikh Abu Bakr juga ditangkap 8 ikhwan lainnya, sementara istri beliau dan seorang muslimah lainnya telah dibebaskan. Sesungguhnya penangkapan ini adalah kezaliman besar bagi umat Islam dan ini merupakan bagian dari perang salib yang dilancarkan terhadap islam dan kaum muslimin oleh pemerintah murtad Indonesia .
Sesungguhnya yang paling gembira dan menghendaki penangkapan ini adalah negara barbar amerika dan australia dan penangkapan ini terjadi setelah amerika menyatakan puas atas kerja indonesia memberantas teroris -yang sebenarnya memberantas Mujahidin-. Kami beritahukan kepada umat Islam secara umum dan Mujahidin di setiap tempat secara khusus: bahwasanya Mujahidin di indonesia tidak akan pernah mundur dari jalan jihad dan pengorbanan. walaupun banyak dari para pemimpin jihad dan mujahidin yang telah gugur sebagai shuhada dan sebagian besar lainnya tertangkap, tapi generasi jihad akan terus lahir di negeri ini dan bendera jihad tidak akan pernah tumbang, dengan izin Allah ta’ala. Dan kami berikan sebuah kabar gembira bagi para Mujahidin: bahwa sejak di eksekusinya trio pahlawan bom bali, para mujahidin di indonesia yang tergabung dari berbagai Jama’ah Salafiyah Jihadiyah yang berbeda mulai melakukan konsolidasi persatuan dan setelah shahidnya Al-Qaid Mujahid Abu Muawwidh Nurrudin bin Muhammad Top al-Malayzi bersama ikhwan-ikhwannya yang gagah berani (semoga Allah menerima mereka semua), para Mujahidin Indonesia telah bersatu dibawah satu kalimat dan bendera peperangan. Dan kalian telah melihat aksi mereka yang heroic di wilayah Aceh pada awal tahun ini. Dan kepada kaum Mujahidin dan Muwahidin di Indonesia, kami sampaikan ayat Allah ta’ala : (

وَكَأَيِّن

Anṣār al-Mujāhidīn English Forum translated "A Letter from the Afghan Lands to the Shaykh Abū Muḥmmad al-Maqdisī"

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UPDATE: Here is a copy of the letter in Arabic:
A Letter from the Afghan Lands to the Shaykh Abū Muḥmmad al-Maqdisī (Arabic)
NOTE: For more on Abū Muḥmmad al-Maqdisī see Jihadica.
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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new audio message from Shaykh Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa'īd al-Shehrī), deputy leader al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: "United to Overthrow Al-Saud"

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UPDATE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of Shaykh Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa’īd al-Shehrī) most recent audio message titled: “United to Overthrow Al-Saud.” Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

On August 10, 2010, an audiotape featuring Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula  (AQAP) senior commander Sheikh Abu Sufian al-Azdi (a.k.a. Saeed al-Shehri) titled “Together: To Overthrow Al-Saud” was released. Al-Azdi claimed that “the Jews and the apostates from the rulers of the Arabian Peninsula are in an alliance that was formed by America, and Iran and their Arab Shiite supporters in the region are in another alliance…And what is expected is for the war to begin by the Jews against Iran, and the reality of the battle will be in the land of the Peninsula and the ash-Sham [Middle East]: the Jews in the ash-Sham and Iran in the Peninsula.” Calling for the overthrow of the Saudi government, al-Azdi requested support from “those who belong to the military air-force, or officials in weapons storages, or officials in the army or the interior, or centers of operation and media rooms.” Specifically, he asked those who work “in the Ministry of Interior and who can bring important information that may benefit the mujahideen in assigning their targets—like houses and roads and the officer of Ministry of Interior officials—then he must send it to us via the military email that belongs to the [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] Organization.” And al-Azdi urged “any of you who is a pilot should search of martyrdom above the skies of Palestine, and any of you who work in the navy should point his weapon against the Jews there and receive the honor of martyrdom…”

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NOTE: Sa’īd al-Shehrī is of Saudi background and was one of the first prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, arriving January 21, 2002. He spent six years in Guantánamo prior to being repatriated to Saudi Arabia and enrolled in their rehabilitation program. Afterwards, he went to Yemen and has since been considered the deputy leader of al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula. It was reported this past December that al-Shehrī was killed in a drone strike and then in January 2010 was captured by the Yemeni government. All these claims were false, though, since al-Shehrī later released an audio message denying allegations that he was dead.
For more on al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula read the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s report by Alistair Harris titled “Exploiting Grievances: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.”
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al-Malāḥim Media presents a new audio message from Shaykh Abū Sufyān al-Azdī (Sa’īd al-Shehrī), deputy leader al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: “United to Overthrow Al-Saud”

Translation of 'Aṭīyyah 'Abd al-Raḥman's essay "Leaving for Battle and the Precondition of Takfīr"

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NOTE: ‘Aṭīyyah ‘Abd al-Raḥman is a senior leader in al-Qā’idah who according to the United States State Department is based in Iran. He is also purported to be the writer of a letter to Abū Muṣ’ab al-Zarqāwī on December 11, 2005, which warned al-Zarqawi:

He risked removal as al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq if he continued to alienate Sunni tribal and religious leaders and rival insurgent groups.

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Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman Atiyyah Allah al-Libi — Responses to the Ruling on Leaving for Battle and the Precondition of Takfir
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Abū Muṣ'ab al-Sūrī's book "Muslims in Central Asia and The Coming Battle of Islam?" was translated into English

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NOTE: Muṣṭafā Setmariam Naṣar (Abū Muṣ’ab al-Sūrī) is considered “the most articulate exponent of the modern jihād and its most sophisticated strategies.” He is most famous for his 1600-page book The Global Islamic Resistance Call (Da’wat al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmīyyah al-‘Alāmīyyah) which appeared on the Internet in late 2004. He was captured in the Pakistani city of Quetta in late October 2005 and it has been speculated that he was one of the prisoners held at the US ghost prisons. It is believed he was renditioned and currently in a Syrian prison. “Muslims in Central Asia and The Coming Battle of Islam?” is about the history of Central Asia, its Muslims and analysis on the Muslim nature of these countries. al-Sūrī tackles many issues, such as nuclear weapons that are stored in Central Asian countries and the indigenous Muslim jihadist movements.
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Abu Mus’ab al-Suri — Muslims in Central Asia and The Coming Battle of Islam
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Audio message from al-Qā’idah in the Islamic Maghrib’s Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd (‘Abd al-Malik Drūkdīl): “On the Failed France Operation”

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Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd (‘Abd al-Malik Drūkdīl) — On the Failed France Operation

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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As-Saḥāb presents new video statement from Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri: "Al-Quds [Jerusalem] Will Not Be Judaized”

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NOTE: Flashpoint Partners released a transcript of  Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s most recent video message titled: “Al-Quds [Jerusalem] Will Not Be Judaized”. Here is a brief abstract of the transcript and below it is the entire transcript:

In an audiotape titled “Jerusalem Will Not Be Judaized”, produced by As-Sahab and released on July 19, 2010, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri addressed President Obama: “O’ Obama, whether you admit or not, the Muslims have defeated you in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they will defeat you—and the powers that brought you—soon Inshallah in Palestine, Somalia, and the Islamic Maghreb. Not only will you be defeated militarily and economically, but also, most importantly, you were defeated morally and constituently.” He harshly criticized Muslims who applauded Obama’s speech in Cairo despite the fact that “His criminal, invasive forces were occupying Afghanistan, Iraq and the Gulf, and wide ranges in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the Islamic Maghreb and Yemen…” He then argues that “we are the greatest reason in losing Palestine because some of us are requesting to unify with the Arab Zionists and call them with prefixes like brother and president…to the end of these falsehoods, in which they realize their own lies.” For Zawahiri, “Arab Zionists are more dangerous…than the Jewish Zionists. Who is sanctioning our people in Gaza and circulates them with a metal wall underground? Who? Isn’t it the head of the Arab Zionists Husni Mubarak?…And who is helping the Mossad in killing the mujahideen and imprisoning them? Isn’t he the Arab Zionist Mahmoud Abbas?” He counsels that “we first have to liberate ourselves in order to liberate what is outside of it; we will not liberate our homelands if we are weak slaves with our fear, incompetence, greed and delusions, with the incompetent rulers and the greedy leaders and the scheming cooperatives and the apostate sheikhs.”

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Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri- “Jerusalem Will Not Be Judaized”
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