October 29, 2004
Al Jazeera's English language homepage has changed all of their headlines to reflect this last ditch effort by the Islamists to influence the elections. Their main headline story passes on the message from bin Laden that Bush reacted slowly to the events of 9/11 without any mention of the quick fall of the Taliban and bin Laden's own forced exile from Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera then follows this by running a discredited story written in April that President Bush was warned prior to September 11th of the impending attacks on the World Trade Center. Thus, they attempt to link bin Laden's accusation that Bush was uncaring with evidence that the President knew of the attacks in advance and did nothing.
If this were not enough, they then follow by posting a link to another old story. Those who do not bother to read the date would assume that the US Congress doubled the reward on bin Laden as a response to today's videotaped message. An attempt to show signs of fear and weakness on our part.
Following this post is a bone thrown to our European allies with an old story that bin Laden is willing to declare a truce with them if they will just stop supporting the US. While al Jazeera does not understand the American mind, they do understand the Europeans.
And what series of links at al Jazeera would be complete without the obligatory Abu Ghraib story?
The terrorists believe the American people are as weak as the Spanish, who they view as caving to their demands. The terrorists believe that bin Laden's criticism of Bush can only hurt him. The terrorists believe that the reason John Kerry has escalated his criticisms of the President is because they have sufficiently scared the Senator--something which is not true, but which they believe anyway. The terrorists believe that by escalating the threat of a near-term attack they will sway the elections towards Bush.
They are wrong on all points.
The American people will not give in to terrorism.
The American people will take any criticisms given by Osama bin Laden as a compliment to the President.
John Kerry may have escalated his criticisms of the President because he is a political opportunist, but not because he is afraid of terrorists.
Poll after poll show that the American people trust President Bush over Senator Kerry to handle terrorism. Any escalation in that threat will only help Bush.
Al Qaeda is attempting to alter the outcome of this election, just as they did in Spain, and al Jazeera is doing their best to help them. A recent videotaped message by American born al Qaeda operative Adam Yahiye Gadahn reveals the extent of the problem of the Islamists' propaganda outlet.
In the video, California native Gadahn spews forth virulently anti-American propaganda. He accuses Americans of killing innocent Muslims around the world and that we have blood on our hands. There is no insincerity in his voice. He believes that al Qaeda represents the good guys and the US represents the bad guys.
Why do so many around the world hate America? We can start with al Jazeera. Al Jazeera, and media outlets like it, blame all the world's ills on the United States. The context they provide for all images has a single unifying theme: the US is the cause of so much suffering in the world. When a picture of a dead child in Fallujah is shown, the context is that the US deliberately killed the child. When an image of a dead terrorist is shown, the context is that a freedom fighter met his fate at the hands of Imperialist aggression.
There is a reason that Osama bin Laden hates America, he believes us to be evil. There is a reason that Zarqawi murdered Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, he believed he was a spy sent by the evil Imperialist's ally. There is a reason that the Army of Ansar al-Islam murdered eleven Iraqi National Guardsman, they truly believed them to be collaborating with an enemy that routinely murders Iraqi civilians. There is a reason terrorists are demanding the release of female prisoners in Iraq in exchange for Polish hostage Teresa Borcz-Kalifa, they actually believe reports in the Arab press that American GIs are holding hundreds of woman in prison and that rape is routinely practiced by our soldiers.
In other words, many in the Muslim world are victims of the propaganda put forth by outlets such as al Jazeera. Al Jazeera and al Qaeda also believe they can foist this worldview upon the American people. They are wrong.
What will our response be to this propaganda effort? I am more confident now than I was just hours ago that President Bush will win reelection.
What should our response be to al Jazeera's propaganda efforts? Bomb al Jazeera now. Take it off the air. Destroy it.
Al Jazeera is directly responsible for the death of innocent Americans.
Al Jazeera is directly responsible for reinforcing the morale of our enemies in Iraq.
Al Jazeera is directly responsible for helping create an atmosphere of sympathy for terrorists around the world.
Al Jazeera is an enemy to the United States of America and a direct threat to our national securty. It is time we start treating them as such.
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UPDATE: An update on my thoughts are posted here. A number of e-mails have come in in the past few minutes, including one from M.H. King who is following the story, alerting me to a story that al Jazeera will be running a new video featuring Osama bin Laden. The video is purported to show bin Laden directly addressing the American people. Let's just say I'm a bit skeptical that the voice on the tape is bin Laden. Despite what they show you on CSI, voice recognition is less science than it is art. If it turns out to be a video, I will want to see some references to recent events in order to be convinced that bin Laden is still alive. A number of sources have claimed to have positively identified bin Laden in the region of South Waziristan which borders Pakistan and India, some of them even claiming bin Laden had crossed into India proper, but I did not run the story for lack of credibility. As I told one person who ran with it, "Bin Laden is the Elvis of South Asia." MSNBC:
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden tells the American people that “Bush cannot protect you” in a new taped message received by the Arab satellite television station Al-Jazeera, U.S. officials told NBC News on Friday.Mike sent me a link to this Fox News analysis. I am not saying that the voice on the tape is not necessarily bin Laden, but how recent can this really be? I want something more than just a video of bin Laden lecturing on the evils of Bush. I want something, anything, that shows this video is more than two years old.Al-Jazeera said the tape, to be aired at 4 p.m. ET, dealt with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and their consequences. While the announcer said the message was an audiotape, the station’s Web site called it a video.
Multiple sources told FOX News that the 18-minute videotape is authentic and said its release was timed to coincide with Tuesday's presidential elections. Bin Laden makes reference to recent conflicts in Iraq and addresses the American people directly, sources said.I might remind my readers that the Army of Ansar al Sunnah recently praised John Kerry for his criticisms of George Bush. The same message also noted that Kerry's criticism is a result of his fear of terrorism--a sign that terrorist tactics are working. For the record, I do not believe Kerry's criticisms are the result of his fear of terrorism. However, a Kerry victory would clearly be interpreted by the terrorists themselves as a sign that they are winning this war.U.S. officials said the tape appears to have been made recently.
Critical Update I:CTV Canada adds this tidbit to the mix, which means I may be wrong: "Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened," bin Laden tells Americans. Holy schneike!! My lefty readers are already jumping on this as evidence of George Bush's failures.
Three things: 1) Al Jazeera released the video--an obvious ploy to affect the outcome of the elections. 2) When bin Laden criticizes you that's not exactly a bad thing. 3) To reiterate--since the polls consistently show the American people trust George Bush on terrorism more than Kerry, well, you do the math.
UPDATE: Many of you may be watching the Fox News broadcast of the tape. Digger is doing live updates as they happen. more...
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UPDATE 5/10: Army of Ansar al-Sunna website releases images of Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito. Images, story, and link to website.
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One of my readers in the UK just informed me that Ch. 4 has just reported Japanese hostage Shosei Koda has been killed in Iraq. Shosei Koda was captured by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist organization two days ago and threatened with beheading if Japan did not pull all of its forces out of Iraq.
A Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq has been killed, Kyodo news agency says, citing information obtained by the Japanese government.The Courier-Mail Australia, which identifies Koda as "a backpacker":
THE Japanese Government was told early today that a Japanese man taken hostage by militants in Iraq had been killed, the Kyodo news agency reported.Interesting that his body was said to have been found in Tikrit. Earlier reports today had denied that the body of an "Asian man" found in Tikrit was not that of the Japanese hostage.A body found near the Iraqi town of Tikrit was identified as that of Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old backpacker captured by militants, the news agency said.
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Previous posts: Deadline Passes for Japanese Hostage: Body of Asian man found in Tikrit, Zarqawi Threatens to Behead Japanese Hostage
(Initial reports identified the man as Akio Koda, but later reports identified him as Shosei Koda. This post has been updated to reflect that)
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The Japanese government, for their part, is taking the lack of any announcement on Koda's fate as a sign of hope. Reuters reports:
"We are making every effort to rescue him on the premise that he is alive," Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said.
In Tikrit, the body of an Asian man was found this morning causing early speculation that the victim was Koda. However, an AFP report in ABC News Australia suggest that the body does not match the description of Koda.
"The body is for someone with a large build, dark skin and a black moustache. He was wearing a white shirt and pants and he is between the age of 35 and 40," said Duraid al-Tikriti at Tikrit general hospital.Other sources suggest the victim was probably either from Pakistan or India.He added the man had gunshot wounds to the head and body.
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Two cameramen have also gone missing in Afghanistan in recent days. Najibullah Quraishi and Aslamouddin Mael were both cameramen working on a documentary in the country.
The NZ Herald reports that following the kidnapping of the Western election workers:
A massive manhunt was immediately launched throughout Kabul, with NATO helicopters hovering above the city and roadblocks set up. One British UN official said: "After the election went so peacefully foreigners here became complacent. First of all there was the suicide bomb attack, now this."
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Segments of a controversial al Qaeda video were shown on ABC today in which a man who identified himself as 'Azzam the American' warns of an impending terrorist attack in the United States. ABC aired the video today after news leaked out by Matt Drudge that the organization was holding the story until after Tuesday so as not to sway the election. The implication from Drudge was that any heightened terror threat would only benefit President Bush in the waning days of the close election. Surveys consistently show that the American people trust President Bush more than John Kerry on who is better equipped to handle terrorism.While 'Azzam the American's' face is covered in the video, one prominent terrorism expert told the Jawa Report that the man on the tape was probably California native Adam Yahiye Gadahn. The FBI website lists Gadahn as a man 'being sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States.' The FBI further warns Gadahn, 'SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS'.
Gadahn attended a mosque run by extreme Wahhabist, Muzammil Siddiqi, but his views became too radical even for the extreme Wahabbists running the mosque and Gadahn was expelled from the congregation.
According to Reuters:
In the portions of the tape shown by ABC, the speaker, whose face is cloaked and who has a slight accent, says he is a follower of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He denounces Americans as "guilty, guilty, guilty."The AP reports that Gadahn's parents are cooperating with the CIA, but they have been unable to identify the masked voice on the tape."You are as guilty as Bush and Cheney," he said.
The speaker vows new attacks worse than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. "After decades of American tyranny and oppression now it's your turn to die. Allah willing, the streets of America shall run red with blood matching drop for drop the blood of America's victims," he said.
ABC, for it's part, claimed that it was waiting for verification on the tape's authenticity before running with the story. However, The Jawa Report was able to authenticate the video within minutes of learning of the story, but due to an server outtage, we were unable to run the story. While it was not known how serious the threats made on the tape were, the tape was authentic. According to the Northeast Intelligence Network the tape was distributed by the media arm of the al Qaeda network, al Sahab Enterprises.
While the Mainstream Media continues to play up stories which might be damaging to the Bush reelection, they choose to suppress or ignore stories that would help. For instance, bad news coming out of Iraq, such as the recent slew of kidnappings or reports on missing weapons at al Qaqqa, recieve headline news. These stories are usually put into the context of the 'Is Bush losing the War in Iraq?' angle. The news of Polish hostage Teresa Borcz-Kalifa and Japanese hostage Akio Koda have both been run by the MSM within the caveat that the overwhelming majority of Poles and Japanese oppose the Iraq war. The news that eleven Iraqis were murdered by another terrorist organization was also accompanied by similar gainsaying.
Rarely does the MSM put such stories within the larger context of the Global War on Terror. Even more rare still is the MSM's willingness to address the issue of global terrorism as primarily routed in the teachings of Islam.
UPDATE: Via James Joyner I learn that Drudge is now reporting that "ABCNEWS withheld portions of an alarming new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11 from the CIA when they submitted the video for analysis". Amazing if true.
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This photo, released by the Palestinian Authority shows an ailing Yasser Arafat shaking hands with terrorist sympathizers of all stripes. When asked to comment on his condition Arafat could only shout the word "Timmy" over and over.According to World Net Daily, sources in Israel claim that Arafat 'could be faking it'. Could Arafat's sudden handicap have something to do with the upcoming Paris Special Olympics? No word yet but sources close to Arafat call the trip "Project Cartman".
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This is an archive page. For the latest news on The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah, an offshoot of the Army of Ansar al-Islam, and other terrorist groups in Iraq please go to the MAIN PAGE HERE.
UPDATE 5/10: Army of Ansar al-Sunna website releases images of Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito. Images, story, and link to website.
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The Army of Ansar al-Islam has murdered eleven Iraqi National Guardsman in a video released by the group today. Two days ago the same group had released a video showing the captured Iraqis, accusing them of collaboration with the enemy. Ten of the victims are seen shirtless and kneeling in the video before they are shot in the back of the head by one of the terrorists with an AK-47. The video also shows the grisly beheading of one of the Iraqi victims.
[Right: An image from the video showing the Eleven Iraqi National Guardsman-- Each hostage is told to state his name.
Left: An image from the video used for propaganda purposes showing the relationship between the Iraqi National Guard and American troops.]
The AP reports this translation of the voiceover on the video warning Iraqis who 'collaborate' to "Repent to God. ... Abandon your weapons and go home and beware of supporting the apostate Crusaders or their followers, the Iraqi government, or else you will only find death."
The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah website also carried the following warning ``We will not forget about the blood of our elderly, women and children that are shed daily in Fallujah, Samarra, Ramadi and elsewhere on your hands and the hands of those you work with.'' and according to the AP it said that the 11 slain men were ``responsible for guarding the Crusader American troops in the Radwaniya area'' in Baghdad.
Executing those accused of collaboration is a common tool of intimidation used by other Islamist terrorists in Palestine, Chechnya, and Kashmir.
A graphic video of the execution can be found at the Terrorist Media site.
WARNING: Graphic images from the video posted below. more...
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Al-Jazeera, the virulently anti-American Arabic satelite network, has broadcast a video of a previously unknown terrorist group holding a Polish woman hostage in Iraq. The group, calling itself the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Fundamentalist Brigades, says that she will not be released until two demands are met. Al-Jazeera denies that the group has threatened to kill her but has not yet released the entire video.First, the group demanded that all female Iraqi prisoners be released. The Coalition, though, has consistently denied holding more than two women since that demand was first made by The Army of Ansar al-Zawahiri, a group that had kidnapped the now released Italian aid worders Simona Pari and Simona Torretta.
The second demand by the group was that Poland withdraw it's troops from Iraq. According to Middle East Online news service Polish Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski has said "The Polish government is not in the business of meeting kidnappers' demand."
The name of the woman is not yet known, but Polish commanders on the ground say she was not attached to any of Poland's military units in any civilian or other capacity. Polish officials also say that the woman may be a US citizen of Polish ancestry.
The AP reports that a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry believes that "the woman was a longtime Iraq resident with Iraqi citizenship and was believed to have been abducted Wednesday night from her home in Baghdad. Abdul Rahman did not release her name."
Polish media reports that the woman was a long-time resident of Baghdad and may have lived across the street from the Palestine hotel. The BBC reports that the woman had worked for the Polish embassy for about a year in the 1990s.
The woman has now been identified as Teresa Borcz-Kalifa. Like kidnapped director of the Care International, Margaret Hassan, this victim was a long-time resident of Baghdad and married to an Iraqi national.
Care International announced today that it would suspend all operations in Iraq. In a simple message to Margarat Hassan's kidnappers, the Care UK website posted the following statement
CARE has closed down all operations in Iraq. Please release Mrs. Hassan to her family and friends in Iraq.As reported here yesterday, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the group formerly knows as Tawhid wal Jihad and now renamed 'Al-Qaida's Committee in Mesopotamia', has also released a videotape of a Japanese hostage. Zarqawi has threatened to behead 24 year old Japanese civilian Akio Koda within the next 24 hours if Japan's small contingent of non-combat engineering troops are not pulled out.
In other hostage developments, a new tape released by the Army of Ansar al-Islam shows the murder of eleven Iraqi National Guardsman [more info here]. In the tape, ten of the victims are shot while the video shows the gruesome beheading of one of the victims.
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PS-Rusty, always on the cutting edge, first reported this in his October 19th popst: France Junior (Belgium) Supplying Weapons to the Taliban?
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October 26, 2004
UPDATE: Updated post "Zarqawi Releases Beheading Video of Japanese Victim" here. If you are looking for the latest news and information on a more recent beheading/ murder video released by the terrorist bastards, PLEASE GO TO THE MAIN PAGE HERE.Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the group formerly knows as Tawhid wal Jihad and now renamed 'Al-Qaida's Committee in Mesopotamia', has released a videotape of a Japanese hostage. In the video, Zarqawi threatens to behead the Japanese hostage "if Tokyo did not withdraw its troops" within 48 hours. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has stated that all Japanese troops would remain in Iraq and Japan has denied that any members of it's military are missing.
[Right: Image from the video courtesy of Reuters]
According to Reuters, the terrorist group gave "...the Japanese government 48 hours to withdraw its troops from Iraq or this infidel will meet the same fate as [Nick] Berg ... and the other infidels." The man on the video does not appear to be a member of the military and it is unknown at this time what he was doing in Iraq. Japan has about 550 troops in Iraq, all of which are engaged in non-combat infrastructure building activities.
According to Channel News Asia via Simon, Japanese TV station NHK is reporting that the hostage is 24 year old Akio Koda. It is not known why Koda was in Iraq. NHK describes him as a drifter who has been out of contact with his parents for months. In the hostage video, the terrorists claim to have evidence that Koda had recently been in Israel and in Jordan recently.
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This MEMRI report, via Jane at Armies of Liberation, reveals that under the UN Oil For Food program Saddam Hussein gave Abu al-Abbas vouchers worth 11.5 million barrels of oil, of which Abbas sold nearly 1.5 million barrels of oil.
Who is Abu al-Abbas? Captured in Iraq during the war, he was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front, a group listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department and the group responsible for the murder of an American citizen on the Achille Lauro cruise ship.
The MEMRI report continues:
Abu Al-Abbas was first mentioned in a “top secret and personal” letter (No.110/2/43 of 25 January 1993) from the Iraqi intelligence service to the secretary of the president of the republic. The letter listed the terrorist organizations that could be employed by Iraq to carry out sabotage and terrorism activities against American interests in the Arab world.Now what was that again about using the UN to solve the Iraq problem instead of invading?
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A new video released by the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah shows 11 Iraqi National Guard soldiers being held hostage by the group. The video can be downloaded here. The video shows the eleven men sitting in what appears to be the same courtyard the group has used to murder several other hostages. The video shows each soldier dressed in various Iraqi National Guard uniforms or in 'LSF' shirts and each soldier is asked to state his name for the camera. [Right: image from the video showing the hostages] While this Boston Globe article claims that 'the authenticity of the posting cannot be confirmed', let me just put that to rest. This is authentic. The saddest part is that these men are dead already. The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has murdered all of their hostages, including several Iraqi nationals and those who appeared to 'repent' of their collaboration with the US. All of their earlier victims have been civilians. Further, as reported here earlier, the group has deepened it's ties to al Qaeda in the past few weeks. more...
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October 25, 2004
I cannot recognize the position of Andrew Sullivan, and John Kerry, as legimiate or honorable. Their shared position is unserious, highly partisan, and morally obscene. Those who would urge the nation into a war, or vote the nation into war, without contemplating the possible difficulties and pain of the struggle are cowards-- and worse than cowards. A man who would send another man to his death for a cause he does not think is important is a villain. [empahsis mine] What else can one call it?That about sums up my feelings toward John Kerry. Assuming that John Kerry's nuanced position on the war in Iraq is coherent (which I doubt) then he is worse than a flip-flopper--he is morally bankrupt. He supported a war in which he knew Americans would die, and now argues that this war was a mistake. In his view, American soldiers who have died have done so in vain. The sacrifice of so many thus deprived of any greater meaning. There is something worse than losing a son or daughter in war--losing a son or daughter in a war that is not for a great and noble cause. more...
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Before you buy that fake Armani T-shirt or knock-off Gucci bag, remember that you could be lining the pockets of mobsters and terrorists.That was the warning from Interpol during a global conference on counterfeiting on Thursday...
"When you buy for example a counterfeit watch, the money is channelled into the pockets of Mafia groups, terrorist groups," said Jean-Michel Louboutin, executive director of police services at Interpol.
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France's antiterrorist police on Friday identified a young Frenchman killed fighting the United States in Iraq, the first confirmed case of what is believed to be a growing stream of Muslims heading from Europe to fight what they regard as a new holy war.Jane has some thoughts on this too. more...Redouane el-Hakim, 19, the son of Tunisian immigrants, died during an American bombardment of insurgents in Falluja on July 17, according to an intelligence official close to the case....
"We consider these people dangerous because those who go will come back once their mission is accomplished," the intelligence official said. "Then they can use the knowledge gained there in France, Europe or the United States. It's the same as those who went to Afghanistan or Chechnya."...
French intelligence officials say they know of at least two other Frenchmen in Falluja and believe that there are at least 10 others in Iraq, mostly of Tunisian origin from working-class suburbs of Paris.
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Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has escalated the Iraq insurgency crisis by claiming responsibility for the massacre of more than 50 members of the Iraqi national guard.Evan F. Kohlman confirms that Zarqawi's group was behind the massacre. The entire translated communique can be found here. Here is an excerpt:Zarqawi's group, Jamaat al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad [note: Zarqawi has officially changed his group's name to 'Al-Qaida's Jihad Committee in Mesopotamia'], said on an internet site that it had carried out the apparently execution-style killings. The bodies of at least 51 new recruits were found on a remote road in eastern Iraq....
Iraqi officials said the national guard victims, who had just finished three weeks' training at the Kir Kush military base near the Iranian border, were ambushed on Saturday evening at a bogus checkpoint between Balad Ruz and Qazaniya in Diyala province, 80 kilometres north-east of Baghdad...
A senior defence ministry official, Brigadier Salih Sarhan, said the soldiers, who were unarmed and wearing civilian clothing, "were ordered from their buses by men in police uniforms, told to lie face down on the ground, and then shot in the back of the head". He said the attack appeared to have been well planned and indicated the growing confidence of insurgents in the restive Sunni Triangle.
Several sons of Al-Qaida’s Jihad Committee in Mesopotamia have succeeded in killing 48 corrupt heads, members of the pagan Iraqi guard, as a group of them was departing the Kirkush training camp located between the cities of Balad Ruz and Mandali in the eastern part of the country. [They were] en route to the southern part of the country on vacation in four vehicles, numbering a total of 48 apostates. Allah enabled the mujahideen to kill them all, and [the mujahideen] stole two vehicles and the salaries that the soldiers had just received from their masters, praise be to Allah for his blessing.”
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