*** SO by this logic, who is responsible for the deaths during the 5 years the Mujahideen were fighting each other before the rise of the Taliban? How many thousands died?
And is it by this same logic that you justify the killing of Muslims - of Afghans - by bombing the market places frequented by women and children? How about attacking Muslims in the Masaajid and pronouncing kufr and nifaaq as if to say you do indeed see into the hearts of people? Is this what Muhammad (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) did?
In the worst times - when battles raged - did he (Peace Be Upon Him) EVER slay his own people to advance his goals? Even ONCE did he (Peace Be Upon Him) do this? You and the likes of you have to answer for the blood of ALL innocent people - do you really feel that confident as if to say Allah has made you of the Ashra Mubasharah? Then meet your maker willingly and brazenly, Anwar. MS ***
FROM: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/world/middleeast/24awlaki.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
WASHINGTON — In a newly released video, Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim cleric believed to be an inspiration for a series of recent terrorism plots, justifies the mass killing of American civilians and taunts the authorities to come find him in Yemen.
Terrorism experts said on Sunday that the full video interview, excerpts of which had previously been released, shows an increasing radicalization by Mr. Awlaki, an American-born imam who this year became the first United States citizen to be placed on a Central Intelligence Agency list of terrorists approved as a target for killing.
In his remarks, Mr. Awlaki praises the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest flight headed to Detroit.
“Those who could have been killed in that plane are a drop in the sea,” Mr. Awlaki said, in a translation provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors statements by jihadists. “And we should treat them the same way they treat us and attack them the same way they attack us.”
Mr. Awlaki has been on record defending attacks on American military targets, both overseas and within the United States. He has praised the Fort Hood, Tex., shootings, carried out in November by an Army psychiatrist with whom Mr. Awlaki had exchanged e-mail messages. But the new video shows that Mr. Awlaki is now urging his supporters not to distinguish between military and civilian targets, citing what he claims are “no less than a million women and children” who had been killed as a result of American military action in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Mr. Awlaki’s sermons have drawn followers in spots around the world. A senior administration official said on Sunday that it had become clear that Mr. Awlaki “is not just someone who seeks to inspire others to undertake murderous acts, but has been and continues to be operational in plans against our interests and against the homeland.”
The interview also shows how tight the collaboration has become between Mr. Awlaki and the Yemen-based group known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said Richard Wachtel, a spokesman for the Middle East Media Research Institute, which also translated the remarks, which were released by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Qaeda leaders there recently released a statement defending Mr. Awlaki and offering him protection.
In the video, Mr. Awlaki said he had cut off telephone communications to avoid being detected.
“If the Americans want me, let them search for me,” he said. “Allah is the best protector.”
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, made it clear on Sunday that the search for Mr. Awlaki was very much underway. “We are actively trying to find him and many others throughout the world that seek to do our country and to do our interests great harm,” Mr. Gibbs said on the CBS News program “Face the Nation.”
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
ANWAR AL AWLAKI TARGETTED
*** The problem is that Muslims today are being forced to hear, Jihadi, Jihad, Jihad. The Prophet (AlayhiSalaam) said "Islam is built on five... (faith, prayer, fasting, charity and Hajj)". Jihad is not - and has never been - a pillar of Islam.
In the first 10 years of Islam - when hostility was highest and Muslims were killed and tortured for their faith in Allah - NO action was taken. I am not saying that pacifism is what I encourage of the Muslim world, but SURELY, it does not have to be Jihad, Jihad, Jihad, yes?
Even the verse that legitimizes Jihad acknowledges it is a thing disliked. Awlaki defines this in his 'Constants on the Path of Jihad' as indicative of the cowardice of the people (that's why they dislike it) but in reality, it is because of their peaceful and non hostile nature over those 10 years in Mecca - an example shown and corroborated by Allah Himself in the Quran in referring to Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) as a 'Mercy to the Worlds'. ANYONE who does a word search of the Quran should compare how many times the word PATIENCE comes as opposed to ANY kind of action verb: jihad, kill and fight. Do it and you shall see what the Quran says much more of than is claimed.
Look at the example of our much-maligned Prophet (AlayhiSalaam). The people of Taif cast him out, the street thugs throwing rocks at him - we all know the story. He PRAYS for them. The guy who comes into the Masjid and takes a leak in the corner - the Prophet (AlayhiSalaam) LET HIM FINISH before he politely told him why he should not do so. We all know these stories - the body of a MUSHRIK woman was seen among the dead and how upset did that make our Nabi (AlayhiSalaam)? He condemned who would do such a thing.
Anwar Al Awlaki: we will ALL have to answer for ourselves. We all know the hadeeth of the three types to be brought before Allah: The one who claimed he died in Jihad for God's sake, the scholar who claims he too did it for God, and the rich man who says he gave in charity honestly. People SAY they do it for Islam and Allah BUT when they go against the Beloved Example of the Prophet (AlayhiSalaam), things are not so open and shut. We know how that hadeeth ends: all three of them are proven (by God alone) to be liars and are eventually cast into hell.
Seek the way of mercy - do not drag in the Blessed Family of the Prophet (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) who reside in Yemen also.
Or would you slay them too? MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100523/world/us_radical_cleric_white_house
WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the U.S. is actively hunting American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The radical cleric is calling for the killing of American civilians, in a new video released Sunday by Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot, al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula.
The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama will continue to take action directly against terrorists like al-Awlaki, and keep the U.S. safe from what Gibbs calls "murderous thugs."
Senior administration officials say al-Awlaki is on a list of terrorists U.S. forces are authorized to capture, or kill. His Internet sermons are believed to have helped inspire attacks on the U.S.
Gibbs appeared Sunday on CBS television's "Face the Nation."
In the first 10 years of Islam - when hostility was highest and Muslims were killed and tortured for their faith in Allah - NO action was taken. I am not saying that pacifism is what I encourage of the Muslim world, but SURELY, it does not have to be Jihad, Jihad, Jihad, yes?
Even the verse that legitimizes Jihad acknowledges it is a thing disliked. Awlaki defines this in his 'Constants on the Path of Jihad' as indicative of the cowardice of the people (that's why they dislike it) but in reality, it is because of their peaceful and non hostile nature over those 10 years in Mecca - an example shown and corroborated by Allah Himself in the Quran in referring to Muhammad (Peace be Upon Him) as a 'Mercy to the Worlds'. ANYONE who does a word search of the Quran should compare how many times the word PATIENCE comes as opposed to ANY kind of action verb: jihad, kill and fight. Do it and you shall see what the Quran says much more of than is claimed.
Look at the example of our much-maligned Prophet (AlayhiSalaam). The people of Taif cast him out, the street thugs throwing rocks at him - we all know the story. He PRAYS for them. The guy who comes into the Masjid and takes a leak in the corner - the Prophet (AlayhiSalaam) LET HIM FINISH before he politely told him why he should not do so. We all know these stories - the body of a MUSHRIK woman was seen among the dead and how upset did that make our Nabi (AlayhiSalaam)? He condemned who would do such a thing.
Anwar Al Awlaki: we will ALL have to answer for ourselves. We all know the hadeeth of the three types to be brought before Allah: The one who claimed he died in Jihad for God's sake, the scholar who claims he too did it for God, and the rich man who says he gave in charity honestly. People SAY they do it for Islam and Allah BUT when they go against the Beloved Example of the Prophet (AlayhiSalaam), things are not so open and shut. We know how that hadeeth ends: all three of them are proven (by God alone) to be liars and are eventually cast into hell.
Seek the way of mercy - do not drag in the Blessed Family of the Prophet (SallAllahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) who reside in Yemen also.
Or would you slay them too? MS ***
FROM: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100523/world/us_radical_cleric_white_house
WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the U.S. is actively hunting American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The radical cleric is calling for the killing of American civilians, in a new video released Sunday by Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot, al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula.
The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama will continue to take action directly against terrorists like al-Awlaki, and keep the U.S. safe from what Gibbs calls "murderous thugs."
Senior administration officials say al-Awlaki is on a list of terrorists U.S. forces are authorized to capture, or kill. His Internet sermons are believed to have helped inspire attacks on the U.S.
Gibbs appeared Sunday on CBS television's "Face the Nation."
Thursday, December 24, 2009
ANWAR AWLAKI KILLED BY DRONE STRIKE?!
*** No confirmation YET ***
*** http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/25/world/main6022035.shtml says Awlaki was NOT killed. ***
Yemeni airstrike targets top al Qaeda leaders
(From Intelwire)
The leader and the second in command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as a radical, Yemeni-American cleric who is said to have inspired the Ft. Hood massacre, are said to have been killed during an airstrike in Yemen today, according to Yemeni officials. The deaths have not been confirmed by the US.
The Yemeni Air Force targeted Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and his deputy Said al Shihri, as they gathered for a high-level meeting of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The terror group's top leaders were thought to have been gathering at the home of Anwar al Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric who provided religious justification for US Army Major Nidal Hasan to carry out a deadly shooting spree against US soldiers in Ft. Hood, Texas.
Wuhayshi and Shihri are said to have held the meeting at Awlaki's home to plot a response to last week's controversial cruise missile attack against terror camps in Sana'a and Abyan, Saba News, the official outlet of the Yemeni government, reported. The strike took place in the Al Said district in the Shabwa province. The government claimed that "about 30 al Qaeda suspects from Yemeni and foreign nationalities" were killed.
Wuhayshi is thought to have survived the strike, but the status of Shihri and Awlaki is unknown, according to the Yemen Observer.
US officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not comment on the status of Wuhayshi, Shihri, or Awlaki, nor would they discuss any US role in today's strike. The US carried out the Dec. 17 strike using air-launched cruise missiles.
The Yemeni government claimed 34 al Qaeda operatives were killed during the Dec. 17 strikes, including Abu Salih al Kazimi and two wanted Saudis, two Egyptians, and two Chechens. Kazimi commanded a terror training camp in Abyan and was the leader of a cell that killed eight Spanish tourists in Marib in July 2007. Opposition figures in Abyan claimed that 81 civilians were killed and 213 were wounded, all of them civilians. But al Mohammed Saleh al Awlaki, an al Qaeda leader in the region, addressed a crowd in Abyan and said the group's fight is against the US and that the group not wish to target the Yemeni military.
Wuhayshi is a top al Qaeda commander and a rising star in the organization. Wuhayshi served as Osama bin Laden's aide-de-camp and was one of 23 al Qaeda operatives to escape from a Yemeni jail in 2006. He is considered to be a top contender to take command of the global terror network if al Qaeda's central leadership based in Pakistan is decapitated in Pakistan, a senior US military intelligence official who closely tracks al Qaeda's network told The Long War Journal.
Shihri is a Saudi citizen who was detained by the US and transferred to Guantanamo Bay for his connections to al Qaeda. He served as an "al Qaeda travel facilitator" in Mashad, Iran, where he would help al Qaeda operatives enter Afghanistan. He was also connected to the Saudi 'charity' al Wafa, which has been designated under Executive Order 13224 as a terrorist organization and is briefly mentioned in the 9/11 Commission’s report as an al Qaeda front.
Shihri was released from Guantánamo in November of 2007 and placed into Saudi custody, where he then entered a rehabilitation program for former jihadists that is run by the government. Shihri played a direct role in al Qaeda’s attack on the American embassy in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, in September of 2008. That attack killed 10 civilians, along with six terrorists.
Awlaki is believed to be the cleric for three of the Sept. 11 hijackers. He fled to Yemen in 2002 after coming under suspicion and is associated with a Yemeni university run by Abdulmajeed al Zindani, Osama bin Laden’s spiritual advisor. Awlaki was in direct email communication with Major Hasan before the latter killed 13 US soldiers and civilians at a staging center for troops deploying overseas. Awlaki recently disclosed his conversations with Hasan to Al Jazeera.
"He was asking about killing American soldiers and officers. [He asked] whether this is a religiously legitimate act or not," al Awlaki told Aljazeera.net, according to a report in CBS News.
"The first message was asking for an edict regarding the [possibility] of a Muslim soldier killing his colleagues who serve with him in the American army," Awlaki continued. "In other messages, Nidal was clarifying his position regarding the killing of Israeli civilians. He was in support of this, and in his messages he mentioned the religious justifications for targeting the Jews with missiles. Then there were some messages in which he asked for a way through which he could transfer some funds to us [and by this] participate in charitable activities."
*** http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/25/world/main6022035.shtml says Awlaki was NOT killed. ***
Yemeni airstrike targets top al Qaeda leaders
(From Intelwire)
The leader and the second in command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as well as a radical, Yemeni-American cleric who is said to have inspired the Ft. Hood massacre, are said to have been killed during an airstrike in Yemen today, according to Yemeni officials. The deaths have not been confirmed by the US.
The Yemeni Air Force targeted Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and his deputy Said al Shihri, as they gathered for a high-level meeting of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The terror group's top leaders were thought to have been gathering at the home of Anwar al Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric who provided religious justification for US Army Major Nidal Hasan to carry out a deadly shooting spree against US soldiers in Ft. Hood, Texas.
Wuhayshi and Shihri are said to have held the meeting at Awlaki's home to plot a response to last week's controversial cruise missile attack against terror camps in Sana'a and Abyan, Saba News, the official outlet of the Yemeni government, reported. The strike took place in the Al Said district in the Shabwa province. The government claimed that "about 30 al Qaeda suspects from Yemeni and foreign nationalities" were killed.
Wuhayshi is thought to have survived the strike, but the status of Shihri and Awlaki is unknown, according to the Yemen Observer.
US officials contacted by The Long War Journal would not comment on the status of Wuhayshi, Shihri, or Awlaki, nor would they discuss any US role in today's strike. The US carried out the Dec. 17 strike using air-launched cruise missiles.
The Yemeni government claimed 34 al Qaeda operatives were killed during the Dec. 17 strikes, including Abu Salih al Kazimi and two wanted Saudis, two Egyptians, and two Chechens. Kazimi commanded a terror training camp in Abyan and was the leader of a cell that killed eight Spanish tourists in Marib in July 2007. Opposition figures in Abyan claimed that 81 civilians were killed and 213 were wounded, all of them civilians. But al Mohammed Saleh al Awlaki, an al Qaeda leader in the region, addressed a crowd in Abyan and said the group's fight is against the US and that the group not wish to target the Yemeni military.
Wuhayshi is a top al Qaeda commander and a rising star in the organization. Wuhayshi served as Osama bin Laden's aide-de-camp and was one of 23 al Qaeda operatives to escape from a Yemeni jail in 2006. He is considered to be a top contender to take command of the global terror network if al Qaeda's central leadership based in Pakistan is decapitated in Pakistan, a senior US military intelligence official who closely tracks al Qaeda's network told The Long War Journal.
Shihri is a Saudi citizen who was detained by the US and transferred to Guantanamo Bay for his connections to al Qaeda. He served as an "al Qaeda travel facilitator" in Mashad, Iran, where he would help al Qaeda operatives enter Afghanistan. He was also connected to the Saudi 'charity' al Wafa, which has been designated under Executive Order 13224 as a terrorist organization and is briefly mentioned in the 9/11 Commission’s report as an al Qaeda front.
Shihri was released from Guantánamo in November of 2007 and placed into Saudi custody, where he then entered a rehabilitation program for former jihadists that is run by the government. Shihri played a direct role in al Qaeda’s attack on the American embassy in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, in September of 2008. That attack killed 10 civilians, along with six terrorists.
Awlaki is believed to be the cleric for three of the Sept. 11 hijackers. He fled to Yemen in 2002 after coming under suspicion and is associated with a Yemeni university run by Abdulmajeed al Zindani, Osama bin Laden’s spiritual advisor. Awlaki was in direct email communication with Major Hasan before the latter killed 13 US soldiers and civilians at a staging center for troops deploying overseas. Awlaki recently disclosed his conversations with Hasan to Al Jazeera.
"He was asking about killing American soldiers and officers. [He asked] whether this is a religiously legitimate act or not," al Awlaki told Aljazeera.net, according to a report in CBS News.
"The first message was asking for an edict regarding the [possibility] of a Muslim soldier killing his colleagues who serve with him in the American army," Awlaki continued. "In other messages, Nidal was clarifying his position regarding the killing of Israeli civilians. He was in support of this, and in his messages he mentioned the religious justifications for targeting the Jews with missiles. Then there were some messages in which he asked for a way through which he could transfer some funds to us [and by this] participate in charitable activities."
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