the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan:
An indepth interview with Haji Ahmad Saeed,
head of operations in Kandahar city
Zilhajj 04, 1431 A.H, Thursday, November 11, 2010
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
The recent operations in the province of Kandahar, by the enemy I.S.A.F forces
are viewed by the western-orientated media, as the last military push against
the Mujahideen. The majority of them are of the opinion that should these
operations fail as well; the Americans would have no other option but to leave
Afghanistan.
The enemy admits, that the essential objective of this operation is to prevent
the collapse of Kandahar city (which is Afghanistan’s second largest city) to
the Mujahideen forces. To achieve this, the enemy, besides conducting operations
in the districts surrounding Kandahar city, has now also started military
operations in the city centre as well. To find out exactly what impact these
operations have had on the Mujahideen forces, we talked to Haji Ahmad Saeed, who
is in charge of Mujahideen military operations in Kandahar city. This detailed
interview is presented below.
Alemarah: First of all, please give us some
general information of the recent operations of the invading forces: what are
some of the activities the invaders have undertaken?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: All Praise is to Allah,
Kandahar city, which has in the past many years, bore witness to some of the
Mujahideen’s greatest operations and bravery, has seen sustained attacks by
Mujahideen warriors. These attacks have caused our internal and external
enemies’ to panic, to the point of admitting that could very well fall to the
banner of Islamic Emirate’s soldiers. Since then, the enemy has completely
revised its strategy, focusing almost exclusively on Kandahar city and its
surrounding regions. In line with this strategy, the enemy has increased its
presence in the region considerably.
This increase has been witnessed in the city centre as well, where the enemy has
increased its infantry and motorized battalions. They have also carried out
large scale raids against civilian population by surrounding entire districts,
then carrying out house to house searches for weapons and Mujahideen. They have
also started operations in regions that are under Mujahideen control. They have
infested the city centre with numerous foreign and army outposts, besides the
normal police stations. They have set up more and more check points on the roads
and increased their intelligence gathering spy-rings. All this has given
Kandahar city the appearance of a city under siege.
The enemy has caused all this commotion and carried out these measures to stop
our activities in the region but Alhamdulillah and again Alhamdulillah, as our
recent operations in the heart of the city have shown, the enemy has utterly
failed in this objective. Even the westerners’ own governmental and
non-governmental agencies confirm our success by stating that Mujahideen
activities in Kandahar, instead of decreasing, have increased by over
twenty-four percent.
Alemarah: The enemy invaders claim that they
have set up a belt our Kandahar city to choke the movements of Mujahideen into
and out of the city. What information do you have regarding this?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: It is true that the enemy
has set up various check points on the roads leading into the city and on the
main highways and constructed some ten large army stations. One of these army
posts is on the Panjwaee road near Kobai; another is one the way from Khanjakak
towards Soop; another is on the Heart road near Seelo; another is on the
Arghandab road near Mir Ahmad Khan’s Kalachi; one near Kotal, one on Shah Wali
Kote road, on Kabul road near Ainoominy; on the Boldak road from Shurandam
towards the city. They have also set up two new army posts on the roads leading
from Mahlajat. All these outposts have some of the most high-tech detection and
identification tools available to the west.
Yet despite this they have never captured any of our Mujahideen, nor detected
any explosive-laden vehicle. Everyday our explosive filled vehicles pass over
these army checkpoints and army posts without being detected or captured. This
is all by the Grace of Allah who has favoured us in all opportunities. The
enemy’s so called ‘belt’ has achieved no other purpose besides harassing the
local populace. As you can see, our attacks on the city have increased rather
than decrease. Therefore this belt is no impediment to the Mujahideen operations
and its purpose has been inflated far beyond its capabilities.
Alemarah: How are Mujahideen’s operations
inside Kandahar city?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: In the city, as of old, as
soon as darkness spreads the stooge governments rule comes to an end, our
battalions start their patrols and our operations begin. At night, we set up our
ambushes on all the major roads, sealing the enemy inside their outposts. Due to
our ambushes, now the enemy has accepted that they cannot provide support to
their other outposts if and when they get attacked. Similarly, the Mujahideen
always watch their activities during day time. Everyday enemy spies and soldiers
are shot dead by our snipers. Several days ago, on the Kandahar bypass road,
Mujahideen conducted searches of cargo trucks finding and subsequently burning
those trucks carrying supplies to enemy soldiers. All this proves that the
Mujahideen have the capabilities and willingness, to conduct operations in the
city according to their own initiative, while the enemy has lost all morale and
determination to fight.
Alemarah: It is said that since this new
operation was launched, many innocent residents have gone missing, some of whom
have subsequently been found and have reported to have been kidnapped by
American and puppet government officers. What information do you have regarding
this?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: It is true that the enemy
has arrested many innocent people, the majority of whom are still suffering in
prisons. These people have been arrested by government intelligence services as
well as by various local militias. Many of them have been arrested due to
personal or tribal rivalries. These incidents require a thorough investigation
because many of these innocent arrestee’s have often been tortured to death
without any legal process. These are all innocent Afghan civilians whose death
should be investigated by all Afghan and global societies.
Alemarah: Enemy has been announcing recently
that they have captured a large cache of weapons, explosives and mines from the
Mujahideen. What is your information regarding this?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: This is yet another of the enemy’s baseless claims. We have
not yet faced a situation where the Mujahideen’s weapons or mines have been
captured due to the enemy’s intelligence gathering. However, it has sometimes
happened that some of our mines have failed to explode due to some technical or
electronic failure. These have subsequently fallen into enemy hands further
inflating their egos.
Alemarah: The issue of civilian casualties
is hotly debated in Kandahar. The enemy propaganda claims that civilians are
often killed in Mujahideen operations. What do you have to say about this?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: I, as the head of Kandahar
operations, feel very sensitive to this issue, first in front of Allah and then
in front of our Afghan people. If we did not fear for causing harm to our own
people then our operations in Kandahar would be ten times more than they are
today. We have always tried our best to completely end any civilians casualties
on our part. We often have had to cancel our operations when we fear the
possibility of civilian casualties. On the other hand, the enemy always seeks to
stay and move in our population centres so that if Mujahideen attack them, any
resulting civilian damage would be blamed on the Mujahideen. As much as we want
to attack the enemy, we know that they want to use our people as human shields
for their protection and therefore we abstain from confronting them in these
areas.
Alemarah: Partly as a result of the recent
operations and partly due to the targeted killings of government workers, some
people in Kandahar are beginning to think that these shootings and bombings are
random and indiscriminate. For this reason these people are very fearful of the
present situation. What is your message to these people
Haji Ahmad Saeed: I want to tell these
people that if they are not government workers then they should be completely
calm and relaxed. The operation in Kandahar are not random and spirit of the
moment operations, instead each step is thoroughly planed and meticulously
executed. The Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate first conduct thorough background
research into their targets and when their relationship with the puppet
government and their foreign paymasters is fully confirmed, do they proceed to
punish these collaborators. Only once during my term has one of our Mujahids
mistaken an innocent person (who fully resembled the intended target and was
present in the same neighbourhood) for an intended target and killed him. On
that occasion we contacted the family of the deceased and resolved the matter
under the law of Shariah.
Other than that no innocent person has been killed in these targeted
assassinations. I want to console my fellow countrymen that the valiant
Mujahideen would never steep to randomly killing their own countrymen. It is
quite possible that the puppet government and the foreign invaders have put some
moles in the city that terrify the populace by defaming the name of the pious
Mujahideen. We have provided a contact number to the people of Kandahar to seek
our help if ever confronted by these stooge government bandits.
Alemarah: How would you describe the
Kandahar government?
Haji Ahmad Saeed: The government in Kandahar
is barely capable of defending itself. We can see that the Kandahar government
has no staff or functioning bureaucracy. Its only functioning organs are the
police stations, which are run by the American invaders. On the other hand, the
Mujahideen have set up various different committees which are always busy
resolving the daily disputes of the local people in Kandahar.
Alemarah: To end, if you would like to say
something or send a message, feel free.
Haji Ahmad Saeed: I, as a Mujahid and Muslim
Afghan, would like to outline three issues which, if acted upon, will Inshallah
bring success in this world and the one to follow.
My first message is to the puppet government workers. I say to them as a Muslim
Afghan to leave this government. The government they work for is neither lawful
nor Shar’ee (which applies the rule of Allah) but is a slave institution set up
by the Americans to further their imperial goals. It does not befit a Muslim to
work for the infidels in such an institution. They should hasten to leave this
institution, and the Mujahideen will uphold all their rights.
My second message is to the various different contractors responsible for
working for the Americans in exchange for money. I tell them that even if your
collaboration with the foreigners brings you wealth; it also increases the
misery of Afghanistan under foreign occupation. For this reason you must give up
on earning such unlawful wealth and give up your collaboration with the American
invaders.
My third message is to the various militias around Kandahar that are set up and
run by the American invaders. Most of the commanders and soldiers in these
militias are those same bandits that infested Kandahar before the inception of
the Islamic Emirate. These bandits were once disarmed after the invasion but
have once more been re-armed to serve as the shovels of Americans. I ask these
men to consult their consciousness. How the Americans used them at the start of
the invasion and then denounced them as bandits and miscreants. Now that they
are again knee-deep in the mud, they invoke you to do their dirty deeds. Is it
not enough for you to learn from your previous mistakes. You should not involve
yourself once again in this dangerous war.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan