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India-Pakistan
Zawahiri's 1st Al Qaeda Video For Kashmiri Terrorists
2019-07-11
From the official Indian press communique:
In his first video on Kashmir, al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahari has asked terrorists to inflict "unrelenting blows" on the Indian Army and the government to "bleed" the economy and make India suffer.

In the video, Zawahari, who took over the reins of al Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden, said, "I am of the view that the Mujaheddin in Kashmir, at this stage at least, should focus with single mind on inflicting unrelenting blows on the Indian Army and government so as to bleed the Indian economy and make India suffer sustained losses in manpower and equipment."

"All the Pakistani Army and government are interested in exploiting the mujaheddin for specific political objectives, only to dump or persecute them later," Zawahiri said.

The video was posted on As-Sahab channel, an in-house production of al Qaeda used to relay the organisation's views to the world. It also asked the terrorists "to establish stronger channels of communication with their Muslim brethren all over the world".

The video was been checked by the security agencies who believed that it was an attempt to unite the disgruntled terrorist ranks in the valley. While Zawahiri, who spoke in Arabic, did not mention Zakir Musa, the terrorist killed in May by security forces in Kashmir, his photo flashed on the screen as he spoke on Kashmir.

Zakir Musa, founder of the Indian cell of the al Qaeda, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH).
He is succeeded as emir by Abdul Hameed Lelhari (a.k.a. Haroon Abbas)


A taste from the article:
[LongWarJournal] ACCUSES PAKISTAN OF BETRAYING THE JIHADISTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND KASHMIR
The Pakistani military and intelligence establishment has traditionally supported jihadist groups focused on the Kashmiri cause, including outfits allied with al Qaeda. But Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and AGH have argued that the Pakistanis are not trustworthy in this regard. Zawahiri amplifies this critique, but parts of his story are entirely dubious.

In Zawahiri's telling, the Pakistani government and Army are "toadies of America" who prevented the "Arab Mujahideen" from "heading to Kashmir after expelling the Russians from Afghanistan."

KASHMIRI JIHAD PART OF THE UMMAH'S STRUGGLE
A central theme in Zawahiri's message is that the fight in Kashmir shouldn't be thought of as separate conflict, but is instead part of the ummah's (worldwide community of Muslims) jihad against a vast array of forces. The Egyptian al Qaeda chief calls on unnamed scholars to emphasize this point.

"You [the scholars] must clearly state that supporting the jihad in Kashmir, the Philippines, Chechnya, Central Asia, Iraq, Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, Somalia, the Islamic Maghreb and Turkistan is an individual obligation on all Muslims, until sufficient strength is achieved to expel the disbelieving occupier from Muslim lands," Zawahiri says.

In this same vein, Zawahiri says the "mujahideen in Kashmir must benefit from the jihadi awakening in the different theaters of jihad." The fighters in Kashmir "must communicate with the Mujahideen in different parts of the world, and ensure that their voice reaches them, so that the Kashmir issue is raised at the popular level within the ummah and its latest developments are continuously brought to light." Moreover, Zawahiri elaborates, the Kashmiri jihadists "need to establish stronger channels of communication with their Muslim brethren all over the Muslim world."
Posted by:Dron66046

#10  Look at who in America is having babies, Dron64066. This particular problem may have evaporated a generation from now.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-11 20:15  

#9  Yupp. We're not perfect. And we had help. The similarities to the Israeli problem with the paleos necessitate we learn a lot from each other. The one advantage if it can be called that we have is an uncontrollable anti-muslim absolutist part of society that can be depended on in times of such need. There is nothing the muslim fears more than the sikh or hindu gone berserk. And the vague nature of our secular culture allows for islamic xenophobia to dissipate into ineffectual frustration before it reaches critical stage.

If only America would go back to God. Even a rudimentary revival of customary practices backed by a rehearsed passion would prove mighty effectual against the hollow brutality of muslim mobocrats and their cultural intrusions.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-11 18:14  

#8  Hebrew being, like English, a masculine-default language.

Those bastards!
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-07-11 18:03  

#7  Well, chaverim then.

Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-11 18:00  

#6  I’m impressed with the India’s current actions in Kashmir — may these moves put an end to several generations of Pakistan-supported predation.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-11 17:51  

#5  our Israeli chaverein is that how we write it ?

The Hebrew for friend is chaver. Since it is a masculine, the plural is chaverim, with the accent on the final syllable. A female friend is chaverah, and the plural is chaverot. But the female case is used specifically when all the friends are female, Hebrew being, like English, a masculine-default language.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-11 17:48  

#4  Partial video here Zawahiri on Kashmir

Just a lot of jibber jabber by a senile bastard really. Must for some sasquatches it's like manna from heaven.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-11 09:56  

#3  The NIA (National Investigation Agency) has appropriated almost all accounts, assets and immovable property of most Kashmiri separatist leaders in the past two months. The funding and support of ISI has been cut off entirely. The ground workers are penniless, directionless and almost broken. People whom past governments invited for high tea and discussions about the future of Kashmir and 'human rights' of terrorists, are in jail, getting slapped around and starved.

The resolve of the ISI proxies is weakening in the region, this is a measure by the Egyptian to induce kashmiri muslims for jihad, infuse some 'zeal' into these buggers before we take away everything and shut down this avenue into the subcontinent. The central govt plans to totally extinguish muslim leadership in Kashmir, establish property rights and industry for hindu and other secular communities, and consolidate territorial integrity. This video is to bring them on the jihad-is-for-Allah track, now that the funds and legal support has dried out - to remind the youth that they must fight hungry, sacrifice their lives if need be and fight to death because earlier they were only motivated by abstract ideas of 'freedom' and 'independence'.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-11 09:25  

#2  I read it off an official communique to our press. So actually Rantburg got India news before Indian papers did. ☺

Of course the longwarjournal and our Israeli chaverein is that how we write it ? had seen the Ass-sahab video first. I couldn't upload the video itself so I linked to the article with the most info about it. The Indian newsreader is too busy and disinterested for real information and even if they want it, we don't give a damn. All people here want is theatrics and posturing, which is what I (rightly) presume the story must have turned to.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-11 09:03  

#1  Dron66046, am I correct in assuming that the highlighted section is your summary of the very long LWJ piece? I couldn't find any text within it that matched.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-11 08:02  

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