Islamist Wave 2014 - News & Discussion

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Angocachi
CNN: "Destroying Islamic State in the Levant as critical as defeating Assad" - Interview with Self Identified ISIL Defector
Video
http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/vide...n.com/2014/04/05/world/meast/syria-civil-war/

Also, Zawahiri super pissed someone kiled his representative in Syria

Al Qaeda leader urges militants to find out who killed his Syria representative

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri exhorted his fighters to find out who killed his chief representative in war-torn Syria, where militants have had a strong presence and strong rivalries amid the country's civil war.

Two suicide bombers in Aleppo killed Khaled al-Suri in February when they blew themselves up inside a compound used as a headquarters. Al-Zawahiri, in a recorded message posted on a militant website and uploaded on YouTube, deplored the action and called it "sedition."

"All Muslims should not help those who blow up the headquarters of the holy fighters or those who send them car bombs and human bombs, and to stop supporting it in any way," the speaker said.

CNN could not independently confirm that al-Zawahiri made the remarks. But his comments in the past have shown up on the same militant website.

Syria, now in its fourth year of civil warfare, has been the site of what many have called a deadly proxy war between Shiite and Sunni militants.

Iran has backed Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group, has fought in support of the government.

Sunni governments, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have supported rebels. Islamic militants, such as al Qaeda-linked groups, have taken up arms in the country.

Rivalry and fighting have emerged between extremist groups in Syria, such al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. As a result, al-Zawahiri urged all Muslims and mujahedeen to refrain from infighting.

"Whoever commits such sins should remember that he is fulfilling for the enemies of Islam what they were unable to achieve on their own with all their resources," al-Zawahiri said.

Well over 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in the civil war, the United Nations says.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/05/world/meast/syria-civil-war/

A Pro-Uighur Article from a Taiwanese Outlet

TAIPEI--Militancy is on the rise in China among Uighurs driven to despair over Beijing's “terrorist colonization,” Wu'er Kaixi, a Uighur exiled after his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has warned.

Wu'er — who spoke after two high-profile incidents outside Xinjiang, the vast, nominally autonomous western region that is home to the Muslim ethnic minority — pointed the finger of blame for the unrest squarely at Beijing.

“If you call Uighur people terrorists, did they have any other options? Who started terror and who pushed them to this place?” Wu'er, a former prominent student leader who fled China after the 1989 crackdown, told AFP in a recent interview.

“The Chinese Communist Party should be blamed ... they have been conducting terrorist colonization in my region, to my people. Where is the justice?”

The resource-rich region of Xinjiang has for years been hit by occasional unrest that Chinese authorities routinely attribute to “terrorists” seeking independence.

Attacks targeting civilians, however, were rare — until recently.

In March, a group of machete-wielding assailants killed 29 commuters and wounded 143 at Kunming railway station in an incident that sparked fear and anger throughout China and was dubbed the country's “9/11” by state media.

Victims described attackers dressed in black bursting into the station and slashing indiscriminately as people lined up to buy tickets. Online photos showed blood spattered across the station floor and medical staff crouching over bodies.

Officials have blamed separatists from Xinjiang for the attack.

And in October last year, three relatives from Xinjiang drove a car into crowds of tourists in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the symbolic heart of the Chinese state.

They killed themselves and two bystanders when the vehicle burst into flames near the portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs on the Gate of Heavenly Peace.

'Severe official repression'

Wu'er, who lives in exile in Taiwan, warned that the attacks — both of which took place hundreds of kilometers from Xinjiang — may just be the beginning.

“Those eight people in Kunming station started attacking people, they did not expect to live, that's a suicide attack,” he said.

“What brings Uighur people to the point of suicide? It has to be extreme despair.”

Rights groups say tensions in Xinjiang are driven by cultural oppression, intrusive security measures and immigration by majority Han Chinese — factors that have led to decades of discrimination and economic inequality.

The annual U.S. Human Rights Report said China carries out “severe official repression” of Uighurs in Xinjiang, including over their freedom of speech and religion.

Beijing says its policies in Xinjiang have brought prosperity and higher living standards, and promotes it as an example of a place where numerous ethnic groups live in harmony.
The region, China's largest by area, also has national security implications for Beijing as it borders eight countries.

But, as in Tibet, resentment has been stirred by an influx in recent decades of millions of ethnic Han, who account for 92 percent of China's population.

Riots between Uighurs and ethnic majority Han left 200 people dead in the regional capital of Urumqi in 2009.

The Han Chinese supported past military crackdowns in ethnic regions, Wu'er said. As a result, Uighurs tend to see all Han Chinese as “guilty.”

“Tibetans so far have had over 100 self-immolations, you can also see that as over 100 suicides ... we Uighurs are not Buddhists, we probably see in a different way. When we decide the life we had is enough ... some Uighurs decide to take a few Hans down together.”

Great Wall of Distrust

The resentment, however, is not entirely one-sided. Some Chinese view Uighurs with growing suspicion, especially after the Kunming and Tiananmen attacks.

“I won't let them into my taxi. They are all drug addicts and everyone outside Xinjiang distrusts them,” a taxi driver in Kunming said last month after the mass stabbing. “They are trouble. Most people thought like this before, so you can imagine what people think now.”

The mutual distrust dividing Uighurs from the rest of China leaves no room for common ground, Wu'er said. “We have to define in our own terms about what is terrorism and what is not, what is innocent and what is guilty.”

And the international community, he said, must take its share of the blame for perpetuating the situation by prioritizing good business relations with Beijing rather than human rights.

“They (Uighurs) have tried everything ... They have tried to raise this issue in the international arena.

“But whenever it involves the Chinese Communist Party, the Western world ... decides that business interests come first, it's called national interest.

“So listening to a few Uighurs talk about their human rights issues is inconvenient.”

The international community, he added, could condemn terrorism as it has the luxury of options. In Xinjiang, however, “I just don't see that option now.”

“The world should ... listen to the people who are forced to have no option but to go for this path,” he said.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/national-news/2014/04/08/404739/Uighur-militancy.htm
Angocachi

Baghdad: A powerful rival organisation has accused al-Qaeda leaders of betraying the jihadist cause, in the latest widening of divisions rooted in Syria's civil war.

"al-Qaeda today is no longer a base of jihad (holy war)," Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said in a statement posted on jihadist forums.

"Its leadership has become a hammer to break the project of the Islamic State," Adnani said, adding that "the leaders of al-Qaeda have deviated from the correct path."

"They have divided the ranks of the mujahideen (holy warriors) in every place," he said.

Powerful rebel groups in Syria, including al-Qaeda's designated affiliate al-Nusra Front, have been locked in fierce fighting with ISIL since January that has killed thousands of fighters.

ISIL was initially welcomed by other rebels, who have been fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since 2011, but allegations of brutal abuses against civilians as well as rival opposition fighters sparked a backlash.

Some critics of ISIL have gone so far as to accuse it of serving the interests of Assad's regime by splitting rebel ranks and tarnishing the image of the uprising in the West.


Both Al-Nusra and ISIL have roots in al-Qaeda's onetime Iraqi affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq.

But the two have never merged, with al-Nusra's leader rejecting a union proposed by ISIL, and al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urging ISIL to return to Iraq after its fighters moved into Syria.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world...qaeda-of-betraying-jihadist-cause_925440.html

Angocachi
The Golan Heights, where al-Qaeda fights Hezbollah

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While the border with Israel is mostly held by Islamist rebels, pro-Assad forces maintain pockets of control

The latest news coming out of Syria is not what Israeli residents of the Golan Heights want to hear. The same goes for Syrians on the other side of the border fence.

Most of the Syrian Golan has fallen to the opposition. Along the entire Syrian-Israeli border, there are only two areas still under the rule of the Assad regime in Damascus — Quneitra in the central Golan; and Khader, the Druze area in the northern heights. ​
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Groups affiliated with al-Qaeda maintain a strong presence here. What’s more, Jabhat al-Nusra, the group created as the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda in Iraq (until it began fighting with the leaders of The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) now controls the southern Syrian Golan Heights.

From the Israeli side of the border, one can make out Jabhat al-Nusra’s black flags waving over the homes in the village of Kudna.

But not every area in opposition hands is controlled by Islamists. In this respect, the Golan is no different than the rest of Syria. On the heights, there are a range of groups fighting the regime, with no overarching hierarchy or central command. In some areas, the Islamists are dominant, and in others more moderate groups are in charge. What they share is a common hatred for Bashar Assad.
In a speech earlier this week, Assad claimed that the military campaign against rebel forces would end this year. It’s not likely he had anything to base that claim on, except perhaps the international apathy toward his actions. In recent weeks, the Syrian army has used chemical weapons, though less deadly than that used to kill between 1,400 and 1,700 people last August.
Still, they’re chemical weapons.

The Syrian president understands that, given his Russian-Chinese support at the UN Security Council and the US weakness in the international arena, he can continue doing whatever he wants. US President Barack Obama’s policy in the wake of the Syrian chemical attack on the suburbs of Damascus — to refrain from military conflict at any cost — has led Damascus and Moscow (and to some extent, Jerusalem and Ramallah) to the inescapable conclusion that there is no one in charge.

There will be books written on the (il)logic of US foreign policy under Obama, but in the meantime, Syria continues to burn. It is hard to estimate the number of dead in the conflict, but it has likely passed 150,000. The local economy has been destroyed and will take decades to rebuild, and millions of people have lost their homes and been turned into refugees.

The war is far from its conclusion. The situation in the Golan underscores how much Assad’s statements about regime territorial control from day one have been more of a wish than reality. Most Syrian territory is still in opposition hands. The rebels have achieved significant successes across the country, including the crossings on the Turkish border and even in the Alawite region of Latakia. In Kurdish areas, the regime doesn’t even dare challenge its adversaries.

And despite all this, to Assad’s credit, his army has chalked up several successes in recent weeks, primarily on the border with Lebanon. Regime supporters, with the help of Hezbollah fighters, cleared out most of the border area of rebel strongholds. This week, the army captured Maaloula, a well-known Christian town on the Qalamoun mountain range on the border. The main goal of the Syrian and Hezbollah forces in capturing the Qalamoun ridge was to cut off the rebels in Syria from Lebanon, to prevent the flow of Lebanese jihadists, and to cut into the support opposition fighters near Damascus receive from the border area.

In other areas, the regime is content to simply maintain control, as it has done in the Quneitra area on the Israeli border and in Khader opposite the Israeli-controlled Druze town of Majdal Shams. The Druze on the Syrian side, perhaps out of fear of the Islamists, established local militias that fight on Assad’s side, and even battle neighboring opposition-held Sunni towns.
When the tail wags the dog

The military presence of al-Qaeda supporters on the Syrian Golan on the one hand, facing Syrian army units reinforced by Hezbollah on the other, presents an explosive, delicate front for Israel. Hezbollah has already declared publicly that its theater of struggle against Israel will now be the Golan.

The working assumption of Israeli forces on the Golan is that Hezbollah’s recent attempts to harm IDF soldiers using IEDs are not the last. The Shiite terrorist organization has apparently taken advantage of Syrian aid in order to place new IEDs whose location is unclear (and they might not exist at all), and they may be activated if Israel tries to attack Hezbollah convoys in Lebanon again.
Hezbollah has turned the Golan Heights into a playing field against Israel should it act in Lebanon. In the meantime, the energy and resources it dedicates to the Syrian civil war are only increasing. An AFP exclusive this week claimed that 5,000 Hezbollah fighters are operating on Syrian soil. The organization has enlisted significant numbers of young fighters just over the age of 18 to fight in Syria, sending them to months of training, at first in the Bekaa Valley, followed by advanced training in Iran. The same report said that because of the large number of new recruits to fight in Syria, enlistment of new soldiers has been halted.

Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria has brought about a drastic change in the organization’s modus operandi. From guerrilla warfare, Hezbollah has adopted fighting tactics of a regular army. Ironically, Hezbollah fighters told AFP that the Syrian soldiers show a lower level of skill than the organization’s trained warriors.
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Stubby
I'm waiting for a full transcript of the speech, I'll post it when I find it.
Stubby

Here we are:

All praise is to Allah, the Mighty, the Strong, and may blessings and peace be upon the one sent with the sword as a mercy to the worlds

As to what follows

Allah the Almighty said, "O you who have believed, persevere and endure and remain stationed in defence and fear Allah that you may be successful." [3:200]

We have seen from among those walking upon the path of Jihad many different conditions. Some walked a little, but did not remain once a turn met him in the beginning of the road, and so he sat down upon the appearance first hardship. Of them are those who walked to the middle of the road and then did not continue on persevering due to harm and the likelihood of difficulties, and so he remained and stayed aside. And yet among them are those who arrived at the ends of the path and then lost patience and turned around. All of these share the same judgment of the one who did not walk upon this path, not even a single step, and among them are ones who Shayṭān has seduced with desire or suspicion. So he deviates and is misled in his mission, and he thinks that he has done well. Also among them is the one whom Allah led astray upon knowledge. Few are the ones who walk upon the path of Jihad and are patient and persevere until they meet Allah sincere upon what Allah had promised them, pious, neither changing nor altering in their way.

There was for us in the Jihad in Iraq many signs and lessons. We read the Qur'ān and so we see it walking ahead of us upon the Earth, and we live it as a reality every day, every hour, every moment, and none understands the Qur'ān like the Mujāhid, nor does any know the religion like the Mujāhid.

Allah favoured us and opened for us the door to Jihad in Iraq, and so the Muhājirīn (emigrants) raced to come and they flocked from all sides, and thus the flag of Tawḥīd was raised, and the market of Jihad was established, and a small group of Muhājirīn and the Anṣār (supporters) engaged the mightiest force known by history with outdated equipment, with bare chests, confident of Allah's victory, determined to establish the Law of Allah. Their bodies in Iraq, their souls in the imprisoned city of Makkah, their hearts in Bayt Al-Maqdis (Jerusalem), and their eyes upon Rome.

So the war intensified, the flame was fueled, the steadfast became firm in their way, those who would collapse began to fall and Allah gave victory to the Mujāhidīn. The forearm was strengthened, the dream began to grow, and the Mujāhidīn in Iraq were of the most careful of people upon the jamā'ah and the unity of the Muslims. Shaykh Abū Muṣ ʿ ab Az-Zarqāwī hastened in giving the bay'ah (pledging allegiance) to Shaykh Usāmah, may Allah have Mercy upon them both, in an effort to unite the word of the Muslims, to enrage the disbelievers and to raise the morale of the Mujāhidīn. It was a blessed bay'ah, many similar pledges of allegiance followed it in many of the regions. The believers rejoiced, the worries of the Mujāhidīn were raised from them, the dream became closer, fighting intensified, the battles heated up, the rows began to be differentiated, the disgraced became disgraced, the deviated began to deviate, the astray began to go astray, the Mujāhidīn became steadfast and Allah granted them victory and the Mujāhidīn Shura Council was founded. It was only a matter of months until Allah enabled them to do so, and they then declared the Islamic State, they declared it with a high resonance and the dream became a reality. The Mujahidin came out from the restrictiveness of the organisations to the emancipation of the State. The Amīr of the State and the Muhājir minister may Allah have mercy on them both, announced the dissolution of Al-Qā ʿ idah in Mesopotamia (Iraq), thus ceasing to exist. Terror filled the hearts of the people of disbelief and they began to plot against the young State night and day. They gathered all of their shares and threw them in all of their paths, yet it survived by the favour of Allah alone. Nothing was known of its leaders but clarity of vision and honesty in their speech, lucidity of their flag and purity in their manhaj (methodology). They did not seek favour by flattering nor did they seek favour by attempting to please anyone on account of their religion, not at all! Never upon Allah did they fear the blame of the blamers.

The battle is becoming fiercer day by day, and the State is becoming more powerful and solid, praise be to God. The Muhājirīn and the Anṣār gather under its flag, the disputation of the tribes, continuing upon the path of the Khilāfah. Steadfast and firm, the battle intensified and the state began to expand. The enemies and the opponents of the State began to shoot together from the one bow, in addition to the people of heresy, the evildoers and the criminals. Yet the State remained throughout all of it, protecting the ones who preceded them from the Mujāhidīn in their virtue and in their status, not preceding them in their speech, nor opposing their command or their opinions, protecting the unity of the ranks of the Muslims and respecting those who preceded it from the people of favour and Jihad.

Yes, we respected and revered, and were protective of the jamā'ah, and we remained upon this patiently, despite what we heard and saw from the affairs of that which we hated. So we were patient and persevered, publishing that which was good and covering that which was shameful, until we began to see a deviation. We remained patient and we tried to make excuses for the people of favour who preceded us, however the matter grew and the deviation became clear.

(Poetry)

Verily we and what we deny in regards to our matter – are like the bull when presented to the bearer of the sword
Or like the one who is reckoned by her family – a young virgin in her ninth year of age
We were protecting it yet it was torn – and big was the tearing for the one who sews patches
The leaders of Al-Qā ʿ idah deviated from the right manhaj, we say this as sadness overwhelms us and bitterness fills our hearts. We say it with complete regret, and how much we would have loved to not say it, but we have taken it upon ourselves that we must say the truth and to not fear the blame of the blamer. Indeed the changing and the altering has become clear and blatant, verily Al-Qā ʿ idah today is no longer the Qā'idah of Jihad, and so it is not the base of Jihad, the one praising it is of the lowest, and the tyrants flirt with it, and the deviants and the misguided attempt to woo it.

It is not the base of Jihad the one that entrenches itself among the ranks of the ṣaḥawāt and the secularists, the ones who just yesterday were against it yet today are pleased with it, and they fight against the Mujāhidīn with their fatāwā (legal verdicts).

Verily Al-Qā ʿ idah today has ceased to be the base of Jihad, rather its leadership has become an axe supporting the destruction of the project of the Islamic State and the coming Khilāfah.

They have altered the manhaj, they became suspicious, they accepted the bay'ah of the dissidents, they split the ranks of the Mujāhidīn, they began war against the Islamic State which was established upon the blood and skulls of the Monotheists, the State which the leaders of Jihad all praised and supported, and beheld its legitimacy year after year, secretly and openly, and even those who fight against it today. It reached the point that they would create poems praising its Amīr and its soldiers, recognising its favours and acknowledging the recent past, that every Muslim had a debt upon their necks to it. What has changed? The Amīr is the same Amīr, the leadership is the same leadership, the soldiers are the same soldiers and the manhaj is the same manhaj! So what has changed to cause the leadership of Al-Qā ʿ idah to cause us grief, and to label us as the descendants of Ibn Muljim, and to label us as Khawārij?! Fear Allah regarding your selves! Fear Allah regarding the Mujāhidīn! What is your evidence for this that you incite people against them, you cause their blood to flow, you work for the destruction of their State and standing in its way! Tell us, by your Lord, what is your evidence?! Verily these charges are made without evidence, never will it save you before Allah, for you shall be asked about every drop of blood that flows from the Muhājirīn and the Anṣār because of you. Have you forgotten that you shall soon stand before Allah? And yet your enemies are the Muhājirīn and the Anṣār?! And that they will cling to your necks saying, "O Lord, verily these are the ones who accused us of being Khawārij, and they incited the Muslims against us, they killed the monotheist Mujāhidīn in their fatāwā, the ones who dedicated their souls to the victory of Your Religion, and they poured their blood to exalt Your Word, and they gave their dismembered bodies for the establishment of Your Law.

O Lord, verily they in their actions caused the Mujāhidīn to become weakened, and they made the disbelievers glee over their misfortune, they strengthened them against them and they increased the suffering of the oppressed Muslims.

O Lord, verily they sat in a city far away, they did not see with their own eyes nor did they hear with their own ears, they accused us of their unsubstantiated accusations without any proof or authorisation.

O Lord, verily they split the ranks of the Mujāhidīn in every land

O Lord, they themselves do an action yet accuse others of it

O Lord, verily they consider our blood lawful to be spilled and they allow it to be spilled and they kill us, then if we leave them they destroy us, and if we defend ourselves and we respond to them they cry before the media and they label us as Khawārij

O Lord, ask them why they did not weep for Shaykh Abu Abdul-'Aziz may Allah have Mercy upon him, why did they not incite against his murderer or demand his blood to be spilled, or that he perish in old age transferred between the squares and the prisons? is it because it is certain that the State did not kill him?! And would they have been silent if it were not known who his killer was? Or do they accuse the State?

O Lord, ask them why did they not revile in such terms the killers of the monotheists in Sinai? Why do they not incite the people against their killers? And why they praise their tyrants and pray for them?!

O Lord, verily they do not differentiate between the Mujāhidīn, the ṣaḥawāt and the criminal highway robbers. They gathered them all together and they called them 'the Ummah', they labelled them as Mujāhidīn and they blessed them, supported them and assisted them, thus delaying the Jihad by decades.

O Muslims! O Mujāhidīn! We have endured oppression and remained patient so that the symbols would not fall and so the people would not be trialed in their religion. We have been patient and endured for the sake of unifying the ranks, however we found no way available to do so, no way whatsoever! For Al-Qā ʿ idah has deviated, it has altered and changed.

The difference between the State and Al-Qā ʿ idah is not over any specific individual, nor is it about giving Bay'ah to any specific individual. The difference with them is not on fighting the ṣaḥawāt (awakening councils) who supported previously what they are upon in Iraq; but the matter is a matter of crooked Religion and deviated Manhaj, a Manhaj which has replaced declaring the Religion of Ibrāhim, disbelieving in the Ṭāghūt (tyrant) and declaring innocence from his supporters and their Jihad; a Manhaj which believes in pacifism and runs after majorities, a Manhaj which is shy from mentioning Jihad and declaring Tawḥīd, and replaces it with – revolution, popularity, uprising striving, struggle, republicanism, secularism, and that the filthy Rāfiḍah polytheists are only but accused and they should be preached to, not fought!

Al-Qā ʿi dah now runs after the bandwagon of the majority and calls them as 'the Ummah'; and softens in their stance at the expense of the religion, and the Ṭāghūt of the Ikhwān (Muslim Brotherhood), the one who fights the Mujāhidīn, the one who rules without the Law of The Most Merciful, prayers are made for him and sympathised with, described as being a hope for the Ummah, a hero of its heroes, and we know not which Ummah they are talking about, nor which bitter reaping they await!

And now the Christians have become warriors, the people of idols from the Hindus and Sikhs and others have become 'partners of the nation' and it is necessary to live with them in peace, tranquility and mildness. By Allah, no! Never a day was this the Manhaj of the State and never will it be! It is not for the State to follow the people; If they are to do good, then good shall be done, and if they are to do evil then so it shall be done. The Manhaj of the State will remain: disbelieving in the Ṭāghūt, declaring innocence from him and his supporters and fighting them with swords and spearheads, and with conclusive argumentation and evidence. So whoever agrees with it, it welcomes them, and whoever differs with it, it will give him no concern even if he were to call himself 'the Ummah', even if it were left alone in a tent and the world is in another tent.

O Muslims, this is our Manhaj which we will not deviate from by the will of Allah, even if Al-Qā ʿi dah were to fight us upon it, even if we were eradicated and not but one man was left upon it. And O you Mujāhidīn, O you Mujāhidīn, it was asked of the Islamic State to return to Iraq, behind the covers of Sykes-Picot. They have not ceased in beautifying this request in their correspondence, up until three months ago, they threatened and bargained for this return to happen, until it insisted upon obeying its Lord, the orders of its Prophet and what the early leaders of Jihad agreed upon. Then is it that its Manhaj become a Khārijī Ḥarūrī manhaj! No, even worse! It is said that it lies upon people, is hypocritical in its stances and that it uses taqiyyah. They searched for an excuse to openly declare war upon it, so they made the accusation of killing one man the door to destroying the project and burying alive the dream which thousands of Muwaḥḥidīn have migrated for, and in which its path thousand of souls and pure, kind lives have been given generously. So is this from the Book or the Sunnah? Is it from reason or wisdom? Or what is beyond these conspiracies is far beyond that? And the Manhaj has changed and been altered! So choose O Mujāhidīn, whose hand are you going to take? And from among whose ranks shall you be?

O Allah we seek refuge in You from becoming weaker after having been united

So be assured O soldiers of the Islamic State, for we are by Allah’s Will progressing upon the Manhaj of the Imām Shaykh Usāmah, and the Amīr of the martyrdom seekers Abū Muṣ ʿ ab Az-Zarqāwī, and the founder of the state Abū ʿU mar Al-Baghdādī, and its Minister of war Abū Ḥamzah Al-Muhājir. We will never, by the Will of Allah, never alter our commitment, nor change it, until we taste what they tasted.

We are progressing upon the path of Khilāfah, nothing will harm us by the Will of Allah, for we will bring it to a return by Allah’s Will, and return its tower, return its glory, by our blood, skulls, dead bodies! So do not alter your commitment, nor change it. The Muhājirīn will continue to come in groups to the Islamic State, even if they were bind in chains, made unconscious in prisons, never will suspicion come between them and the Islamic State, not a Ṭāghūt will stop them nor will they be in obscurity by one who is misguided. Their Lord will bring them out, their Lord will guide them, and sufficient is your Lord as a Guide and Helper.

O Allah if this State is a State of the Khawārij then break its back, kill its leaders, forgo its banner and guide its soldiers to the truth.

O Allah if this is an Islamic State, ruling by Your Book and the Sunnah of Your Prophet, fighting Your enemies, then keep it firm, honour it and grant it victory, and establish it upon the earth, and make it as the Khilāfah upon the Way of Prophethood. So say Āmīn O Muslims.

O Allah, deal with all of those who split the ranks of the Mujāhidīn, and who divided the word of the Muslims, pleased the disbelievers, enraged the believers and delayed the Jihad by many years.

O Allah expose their secrets and hidden intentions, and send upon them Your Anger and Your Curse and show us in them the Miracles of Your Power and Might. Say Āmīn O Muslims

Angocachi
This refers specifically to Zawahiri who believes in popular, inclusive revolution that can be accused of neither sectarianism or theocracy.
The Islamic State in the Levant believes in establishing a Shariah government regardless of popularity or secular considerations, and will blow away with supernatural force the heretics however many they are. Furthermore, they've demonstrated that it can be done.

Other Jihadi fronts are observing and many will likely cast off Zawahiri. It makes me think that the recent meeting in Yemen is a sign that Zawahiri intends to repeat 9/11 so that he doesn't lose his organization. It will be impossible to accuse him of falling away from OBL's path if he can do that, and only that can save him.
Angocachi
ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian police and military officials said Islamist insurgents ambushed a military bus, killing at least 10 soldiers in the central Kabylie mountains.
A military official in Algiers put the toll at 10 dead with eight wounded, but a police officer in the region put the death toll at least 14.
The police officer said the soldiers were returning from an operation when they were ambushed early Sunday morning.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
Algeria fought a 10-year civil war against Islamic insurgents in the 1990s after invalidating a national election. Now the militants are largely confined to isolated regions, such as the Kabylie mountains, 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of Algiers, the capital.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/0...mbush-algerian-soldiers-in-mountains-killing/
Angocachi

-Hamas and Fatah have agreed to recognize Israel, form a unity government, and hold elections. Israel has responded by pulling out of talks and threatening sanctions. It proves that Israel only entertains the prospects of possibly thinking about one day talking about thinking about a solution so that it can buy time to settle the West Bank with its worst Jews to the point it's cut into a dozen parcels and can't possibly be included in a Palestinian state. It also proves that Hamas is a treasonous disgusting cowardly bunch that should be shot and that the flight of its pious, principled members to other groups has been complete for some time.

-Jordan and France have been taking measures to stomp Jihadi flight to and return from Syria. France's large Muslim population is due for a radicalization and an uptick in terror plots as veterans of the Syria conflict do much more than 'fail to assimilate' in Paris suburbs. The Jordani monarchy, meanwhile, has the prospect of its unemployed pissed off youfs becoming a car bomb orchestra.

-Tony Blair has said that the West needs to work with Russia, China, etc to defeat the international spread of Islamism and put aside other differences... implying Ukraine most obviously. He also means to say that America should stop accusing Russia, China, and their allies of rights violations against freedom of press, speech, sodomy, stripping in churches and so forth. The Irishman means to say 'forget about Senkaku and Taiwan, Georgia and Brzeninski... there are Jihadists afoot and the Yanks, Eurofags, Ruskies, and Orientals should be united against the Green Menace.'

-A Somali-American boy ran away from his dad and snuck into the wheel well of a Boeing 767. He made it from California to Hawaii unconcious in conditions that would be expected to kill a person. He was trying to make it to Somalia to see his mother.
In sum, remember that while the TSA is rubbing on your wife's titties and zapping your nuts in a scanner, a Somali teenager could have easily tucked an altitude triggered explosive into the belly of the plane you're about to board.

Bob Dylan Roof
Somalis are especially adept at unauthorized boardings of large vessels. This is their racial essence.
Angocachi
Israel's top military officer warned today that Hezbollah's capabilities have grown substantially since the 2006 war, putting much of Israel within the reach of the Lebanese Shiite militant organization.

Israel ’s top military officer warned today that Hezbollah is more powerful than most of the world’s armies and that a confrontation between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militant organization was a near certainty.

While the threat posed by conventional Arab armies has diminished in recent years, Israel now faces highly mobile enemies like Hezbollah, skilled in asymmetric warfare and equipped with advanced weapons systems, Gen. Benny Gantz said. However, the massive destruction Israel can inflict on Hezbollah’s assets and Lebanon’s infrastructure continues to deter Hezbollah from overt aggression against Israel.

“Bring me four or five states that have more firepower than Hezbollah: Russia, China, Israel, France, and England,” he told Israel’s annual security-oriented Herzliya Conference. “What is this enormous power that they [Hezbollah] have that can cover every area of the state of Israel?”

Gantz’s comments reflect Israel's longstanding concern about Hezbollah’s growing might, which has soared in terms of weaponry, technology, and personnel since the two enemies last fought each other in open war in 2006.

Last week, an anonymous Israeli intelligence officer wrote in Israel’s Maarachot military magazine that in the next war, Hezbollah would not merely defend against an Israeli invasion but could make a “ground offensive and multi-pronged attack on Israeli territory."

In the past eight years, the Iran-backed group is believed to have acquired GPS-guided Syrian-manufactured missiles fitted with 1,100-pound warheads with ranges of at least 150 miles. That puts Tel Aviv within range of the Lebanese border. It also has drones that can carry dozens of pounds of explosive. In October 2012, a drone operated by Hezbollah penetrated Israeli airspace in the south before being detected and shot down by Israeli jets.

Hezbollah’s reconnaissance and communications capabilities have also improved. Fighters serving in Syria use thermal imaging cameras to monitor rebel movements and prepare ambushes, including one in February that killed 175 rebel fighters near Otaiba, east of Damascus. It has built a few dozen training camps across the Bekaa Valley in recent years to process the steady influx of new recruits.

But the most significant change may be the crucial combat experience Hezbollah's cadres have gained from fighting in Syria's war on behalf of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Hezbollah is credited with helping turn the tide against the rebel forces in the past year, granting Mr. Assad the confidence to hold a presidential election last week that saw him earn his third seven-year term in office in a poll widely derided by the Syrian opposition and the West.

“Iran is investing a lot in Hezbollah in Syria.... Hezbollah is involved up to their necks in it,” Gantz said.

It is fortunate for Israel that Hezbollah's attention is divided between domestic politics, military preparations against Israel, and its intervention in Syria, Gantz said. Fear of a damaging war has served as a mutual deterrence.

“Hezbollah is like a state and they know exactly what is going to happen in Lebanon if they start a war with us, and that this would set Lebanon back decades,” he said.

Despite that, tensions rose in February and March after an Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah facility in the Bekaa Valley. The target was a 2,450-sq.-ft. utility building, possibly a temporary arms storage facility, beside a track used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons into Lebanon from neighboring Syria, according to comparisons of satellite imagery on Google Earth.

It was the first Israeli air attack against Hezbollah in Lebanon since 2006. In response, Hezbollah detonated a roadside bomb against Israeli troops on Lebanon’s southern border. It is also thought responsible for staging three other attacks against soldiers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, wounding four.

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-hezbollah-now-stronger-arab-army-161239663.html