This joint statement
by two al-Qa’ida affiliates-- Al-Qa’ida in Islamic Maghreb and Arabian Peninsula—appears
in Joshua Landis’s Syria Comment. The text was translated (with extensive commentary) by Aymenn Jawad
Al-Tamimi.
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Joint Statement (11 September: Statement No. 1)
Situation: Support for Muslims over the alliance of
Crusaders and Apostates.
[...]
The suffering of our people in Iraq and al-Sham has not been
absent from our minds, and what they have offered from bodily sacrifices. Nor
have the negative consequences- which have followed on for the people of
al-Sham from the infighting of the mujahideen- been absent from our minds. Nor
has the sadness of the arenas of jihad for the loss of its best leaders and
sons from infighting- in which the beneficiary has been the people of the
Zionists [Israel], the Cross worshippers, the Rafidites [Shi'a], the Nusayris
[Alawites] and their followers- been absent from our minds.
Then there is America- the head of disbelief- and the symbol
of the enemy and tyranny, rearing its head again, enlisting behind it allies
from the Crusaders and their apostate collaborators, leading the Crusader
attempt to wage war on Islam and Muslims, to increase the misfortunes of the
Ummah, under the pretext of striking the Islamic State and annihilate it- so
they have claimed!! We ask God to render them disappointed, defeated and slaughtered.
As for this oppressive Crusader effort, we can only stand
with Islam and Muslims, against Crusader America and its alliance
(Jewish-Crusader-Safavid-Apostate) that is the true enemy of the Ummah and the
Path and the first to wage war on Shari’a, so we declare this stance of ours to
please God, to support our mujahideen brothers over the disbelievers, and
defend our Muslim people wherever they are. Thus we say:
. Our mujahideen brothers in Iraq and al-Sham…stop
infighting among yourselves and stand as one rank in the face of the initiative
by America and its Satanic alliance lying in wait against us all to break us
again and again. Counter the unity of the nations of disbelief against you by
your unity against them, in accordance with the speech of the Almighty: “And
fight the polytheists as a whole just as they fight you as a whole, and know
that God is with those aware of Him” [...]
. Oh mujahideen and ansar [helpers/supporters], stop
name-calling and hurling of insults, and turn your truth-telling pens and
cutting swords on the head of disbelief- America- and its oppressive,
aggressive alliance.
. To all who bear arms in the face of the tyrant Bashar and
his shabiha, it is you that America will seek to finance with its
double-dealing and deception, that you may deviate from your path and only be
banners in its hand realizing its interests.
. To our people- the Ahl al-Sunna [Sunnis] in Iraq and
al-Sham, do not forget America’s crimes against your lands, and do not forget
its stance in the line of your battles, and its poisonous daggers remain
planted in your chests, so do not let its trickery deceive you, or enter into
its alliance, or become among its soldiers against your mujahideen sons.
. We call on our Muslim Ummah to support our people in Iraq
and al-Sham, and support them with what is precious and costly, and stand in
their rank against America, the head of disbelief, the source of evil and the
symbol of corruption and oppression.
. We call on our Muslim Ummah to disavow the calls of the apostate
rulers and their collaborators in error and leading astray to support the
disbelieving Americans against the mujahideen, just as we call on them to stop
their conscripted sons from participating in this oppressive enemy war that
aims in truth to preserve American Crusader hegemony over our Muslim Ummah and
protect the state of the people of Zionists [Israel].
. We call on our people in the Arabian Peninsula in
particular and in all the states in this Satanic alliance in general to stand
against their collaborationist governments and prevent them- by all lawful
means- from continuing this war on Islam under the pretext of waging war on
terrorism.
. As for you, oh allies of disbelief and evil, take heed of
what will afflict you, for black days await you. For these leaders of yours
today are sinking and are afraid to confront the knights of Islam. And indeed
you hav tested the swords of the soldiers of Islam and the assault of the
heroes of Iraq and al-Sham, so God brought you to defeat and degradation at
their hands, and your armies were defeated bearing the consequences of failure.
. We conclude these calls by reminding the Islamic Ummah of
the words of the renewer of time and vanquisher of the Americans- Sheikh Osama
[bin Laden] (may God have mercy on him and make good his soil): “Consult no one
in [fighting] the Americans.”
To conclude this statement, we offer our sincere condolences
to the mujahideen of the group Ahrar al-Sham…and we ask God to have mercy on
their martyrs and remunerate us and them in their misfortune and render us
better from it, just as we offer to our people in al-Sham in general and the
families of martyrs in particular our sincere condolences and we ask God the
Almighty, the High to connect with their hearts and pour out endurance on them.
God, provide for this Ummah a just situation in which the
people who obey you are made mighty and the people of your misfortune are laid
low. God, give victory to our mujahideen brothers in Iraq and al-Sham and in
every place.God, ruin America and whoever of its allies and those taking its
side against the mujahideen.
[...]
Qa’ida al-Jihad in the Arabian Peninsula and in the Land of
the Islamic Maghreb.
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Aymenn Al-Tamimi, Al-Qa’ida
in Islamic Maghreb and Arabian Peninsula Statement on the U.S.-led coalition
against IS, September 16, 2014
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