• “Verily, they (Our servants) will be aided. Verily Our army will be victorious.” (Surah As-Saaffaat)
• “Allah aided him with such armies which you could not see.” (Surah At-Taubah)
• “Unto Allah belong the armies of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is The Mighty, The Wise.” (Sural Al-Fatah)
• “And no one knows the armies of your Rabb except He.” (Surah Mud-dath-thir)
Allah Ta’ala has appointed the Mu’mineen as His vicegerents on earth to administer His Law. From the very inception of Islam, Allah Ta’ala had made the Muslims the rulers of the world to enable them to govern justly and benevolently according to the sacred Law which Muhammadur Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) delivered to mankind from Allah Azza Wa Jal.
As long as Muslims had acquitted themselves correctly in their sacred Office of Vicegerency, Allah Ta’ala sustained their kingdom with honour. When the Ummah became indolent and indifferent to the sacred purpose for which Allah Ta’ala had created them, they lapsed into the spiritual rut and rot in which non-Muslims were floundering.
Allah Ta’ala says in the Qur’aan Majeed: “And, if among you there are twenty Saabiroon, they will vanquish two hundred, and if there are of you a hundred (Saabiroon), they will defeat a thousand of those who have become kuffaar. This is because they are a people who do not understand.”
The Qur’aan Shareef, the Ahadith of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), and the practical demonstrations of the Sahaabah and the early Muslims testify that the power and victory of Muslims are not dependent on military superiority, nor can the conspiracies of the enemies overwhelm the Believers. Confirming this, the Qur’aan states: “And if you adopt taqwa and sabr, never will their plots be able to ever harm you.”
The Jihad in Afghanistan is also on the upsurge. Clashes with U.S. troops and their surrogates are occurring daily.
The Mujahideen attacks are increasingly assuming the Iraqi pattern. Recently heavy casualties have been inflicted on U.S. forces and soldiers of the stooge government. Some of the recent achievements of the Afghan Mujahideen are detailed below:
* In an encounter in the Province of Zabul more than 24 U.S. troops were killed. This attack was quickly followed up with an attack on Afghan ‘government’ forces headquarters in the Province of Arghendab. All government soldiers fled the scene of the battle. The Mujahideen pursued them and the local commander, Isa Muhammad was killed.
In Iraq more than 100 operations are staged daily by the Resistance forces across the country. This means that in one month more than 3000 Mujahideen and other Resistance forces operations take place. It is impossible to report all these operations.
In this issue of Al-Haq we have briefly mentioned just a few operations. This represents the tip of the huge iceberg of Mujahideen operations against the U.S. military and its stooge appendages in Iraq.
The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said that the violence in Iraq was serious. “It is worse than we had anticipated.”
Indeed it will be extremely serious and bad for the aggressors who had anticipated roses and garlands of flowers when they set their feet in Iraq.
During 1999, General Kazanstev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army which had invaded the Muslim land of Chechnya, boasted: “This time, the war will be over in two —three weeks.” Several generals who were with Kazanstec when he made this pronouncement were grinning their approval and exuding with confidence.
Today, 30 June 2005, is the 302nd week which sees the Chechen Jihad in strong progress, Alhamdulillah! 302 weeks is a far cry from the promised two to three weeks.
In addition to the war not being ‘over’, it has in fact extended to the whole of the Northern Caucasus region. The paucity of news from the Jihad zone due to the news blackout has concealed the plight of Russia in Chechnya.
Contrary to Putin’s claims and empty promises of “the end of the war”, the Chechen Mujahideen have captured large areas. The whole Vedeno region is under Mujahid control.
The Mujahideen now move around in big groups either on foot or riding on horses. The state of their arms have also improved.
In Mahachkla and Johar explosions and attacks of the Mujahideen are on the increase. In Ingusheti, the Russian armies are more under Mujahideen attack than even in Chechnya. But the news blackout is keeping the world in the dark about the developments in these regions.
The Mujahideen are also active in Kabardino-Balkaria. The resistance in Dagestan is as strong as ever. The fighting has not reduced, and the Mujahideen have diversified their activities.
According to independent observers about 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the current Russian-Chechen war which began in 1999 and in the previous war between 1994 and 1996. However, according to Chechen sources 45,000 Russian soldiers have perished in the second war (from 1991), and 80,000 in the first Chechen-Russian war.
The frequent sabre-rattling by the U.S.A. at Iran and Syria has created the notion that an American invasion of these two countries is imminent. The American debacle in Iraq precludes any invasion into Iran and Syria.
The furthest which could be postulated in the present scenario is strikes from the air and from far a field —from bases and from the sea.
When the U.S.A. has demonstrated its impotency in Iraq— when its military is grinding under the terrible yoke of the Iraqi ‘insurgency’-when it has run out of essential equipment like Humvees and other military hardware, does not seem plausible that Bush & Co. will act with total insanity to invade Iraq and Syria. While strikes from great distances are probable, the U.S.A. no longer possesses the military wind for other land battles which may prove to be more intractable, more gruelling and violent than the Iraqi conflagration.
