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Special Dispatch No. 5313
Taliban Magazine 'Azan' Calls For Jihad To Retake Andalus*
A new English-language magazine along the lines of Al-Qaeda's Inspire, published by the Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, seeks to recruit Muslim youth to the jihadi cause with calls for assassinating U.S. President Barack Obama, appeals to Islamic hackers to defeat the drone technology, and encrypted email contact information, and seeks to turn the attention of young potential jihadis to Andalus.*
The magazine, Azan, was released through a Pakistani online jihadi forum by the "Taliban in Khurasan," "Kurasan" denoting the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.[1] It quotes from past and present jihadi leaders, including Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, and includes several articles accusing the Pakistani military and Saudi Arabia of facilitating the U.S. drone strikes on jihadi fighters in Pakistan and Yemen. The magazine declares: "We are fighting in Khurasan, but our eyes are on [liberating] Palestine [from Israel]."[2]
Also included in the magazine are: an article by the late Al-Qaeda leader Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi rejecting democracy and one by Islamic scholar Maulana Abdullah Muhammadi rejecting territorial nationalism in favor of global Islamism; an interview with former Pakistani military commando and taliban militant commander Adnan Rasheed, in which he announces the formation of a death squad to kill former Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf; and a review of jihadi movements, which are presented as establishing a global Islamic caliphate; and others.
*In the Islamic perception, "Andalus" refers to the Iberian Peninsula, which includes today's Spain, Portugal and parts of southeast France.
Special Dispatch No. 5314
Tunisian Salafist Kamel Zarouq Talks About Future Conquest Of Andalusia, Rome, And Jerusalem
Following are excerpts from an address delivered by Sheikh Kamel Zarouq, a member of Ansar Al-Sharia in Tunisia, which was posted on the Internet on April 30, 2013.
Sheik Kamel Zarouq: ''I would like to declare loud and clear that the Al-Nusra Front, Ansar Al-Sharia, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq, and the mujahideen in Somalia, in Mali, and in Algeria – we all stand united against the enemies.''
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''Our goal is to support the Islamic nation, to support our religion, to elevate the shari'a, and to spread the law of Muhammad. Our goal is to pull the nations out of darkness and into light. Our goal is to instate the shari'a, and regain Andalusia and Jerusalem.''
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''The Prophet Muhammad said: "Rome shall be conquered." Rome will be conquered in our days.
''This is the age of the Muslims. Gone are the days of secularists and of democracy. We are looking down upon them. We are looking down upon them from above. They are beneath us.''
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