Oruzgan Province

Al-Samud: What is your analysis with regards to Jihadist operations in Oruzgan province?

Answer: Praise to Allah, the operations of the Mujahideen in Oruzgan province are proceeding according the organized military plan, and are escalating every day. All of the districts of the province are in the hands of the Mujahideen with the exception of some urban centers, and the enemy is living in a state of strict siege. Movements and supplies to his fixed centers are through aircraft and helicopters.

The Mujahideen can shut all of the enemy’s supply and logistics routes at any time they wish. The main route for supplying his forces concentrated there is by the Qandahar-Oruzgan road and that road today is under constant observation by the Mujahideen and is for many and consecutive days closed to his military and supply convoys. Now it has been shut down for more than a week.

Al-Samood: What are the areas and districts under the control of the Mujahideen in Oruzgan province?

Answer: Oruzgan province includes six districts including the province center as follows:

1.Provincial capital Tarin kawt

2.Deh Rahwod

3.Gizab

4.Khas Oruzgan

5.Caher Cineh

6.Chora

Among these districts, Gizab has for a number of years been under the control of the Mujahideen and no enemy force is present there. Indeed he doesn’t have one person in this district.

The aggressors have bases in Deh Rahwod, Caher Cineh, Oruzgan Khass and Chora but because of the number of casualties, they cannot leave their bases easily or safely. Indeed the jurisdiction of the Mujahideen runs to the proximity of their military bases and the Mujahideen are involved in resolving the people’s disputes and legal struggles. Most of the areas of the Tirin Kawt district, as well as Agirstan and Oruzgan Khass are in the hands of the Mujahideen. When the enemy wants to leave the districts or his military bases, he leaves with dozens of tanks or armored vehicles or in a big military convoy shadowed by airplanes and helicopters. He can not enter the adjacent districts safely or easily.

Al-Samood: Would you please give information about recent Mujahideen operations, and the amount of losses in men and material suffered by the enemy during those operations?

Answer: The intensity of Mujahideen operations in Oruzgan province escalates noticeably with each passing day. During the past month alone we were able to destroy 38 tanks by detonating mines alone. Likewise the Mujahideen have been able in violent clashes to inflict human and material losses among the ranks of the enemy. Some days ago, the enemy conducted military operations in Kashi area of the Caher Cineh district. In these violent clashes between the enemy and the Mujahideen, the Mujahideen were able to destroy 45 tanks and 30 armored vehicles, with the understanding that hundreds of occupying and lackey soldiers took part in these operations.

On the first day they entered the area, the Mujahideen destroyed six tanks along with everyone inside them by exploding mines. In the Tujab area near to Kashi, the Mujahideen resisted those forces in a vicious confrontation. They targeted three armored vehicles with fore rocket fire, destroying them and all their passengers.

After that, the rest of their forces fled from the area. Despite the martyrdom of some of our brother Mujahideen during these clashes, the losses of the enemy exceed the losses of the Mujahideen many times over.

Likewise the enemy has a number of bases in the Deh Rahwod district. But when he moves between these bases or between the districts, the Mujahideen observe and attack him as soon as he leaves the bases. A few days ago, the Mujahideen launched a comprehensive attack on an enemy convoy in the Shambarak area of Deh Rahwod which resulted in the destruction of two tanks and four armored vehicles.

Also in Deh Rahwod, there is in Tanji district an enemy military base at which the Mujahideen launched some rockets in order to lure out the enemy tanks and military vehicles. As soon as they left the base, the Mujahideen detonated mines that had been previously planted on their route. By these mines planted a week ago the Mujahideen were able to destroy six enemy tanks and kills all their passengers.

Finally, the Mujahideen have recently conducted vicious attacks in the area of Marabad and Dar Wishan in the province capital district. These have inflicted great losses on the ranks of the enemy.

Al-Samood: To what extent do the people of Oruzgan support you and are they satisfied with the Mujahideen and their operations?

Answer: The people of Oruzgan are famous for their Jihad and their sacrifices on a regional level. They support with everything they have and everything they are able to do and there is no division or estrangement among them. The Mujahideen of Oruzgan are from among the sons of the area, and their relationship with the people of the region is very good, praise be to Allah. The popularity of the Mujahideen in the area increases every day. All of the successes of the Mujahideen have been realized with the support of the local people. In summary, every person on Oruzgan is a Mujahid who hates the enemy and fights against him, and loves the Mujahideen and helps them any way he can.

Al-Samood: The lackey government in Kabul alleges that the people of Oruzgan are prepared to participate in the presidential elections. What is your assessment of the election campaign in Oruzgan and do the people expect them to yield?

Answer: What we know in Oruzgan province is that its people do not acknowledge the elections and do not look at them as elections, so that no one has taken an election ticket in either the province center or in the districts under the control of the Mujahideen. Likewise, those conducting the elections campaigns are not able to go to the areas.

Most of the candidates are sitting in the capital Kabul and conducting their election campaigns from there, calling on the people to participate in the elections and vote for them. A few days ago one of the candidates for Council of Deputies for Oruzgan invited the people of Oruzgan to the city of Qandahar.

There he had a big party and asked the attendees to participate in the elections and vote for the candidates. If the candidates can not go to the district, how can the people of the district take part in these elections? Is it possible to conduct election campaigns and support candidates in these jagged circumstances? I do not believe that it is in the capabilities of the lackey government or of the election candidates to put in place the ballot boxes because the people of the province do not to take part in these elections and do not want to bear the hardships of such trivial designs.

Al-Samood: Numerous reports from time to time allude to the barbaric American bombardment of the Oruzgan people and the general populace. Would be so gracious as to provide information on this barbaric bombardment and the killing of innocent civilians en masse?

Answer: You have touched upon an important and appropriate topic. Yes, the Oruzgan province is one the provinces of Afghanistan to continuously endure and suffer American iniquities and calamities. Not a week passes without there occurring abominable human massacres due to the injustice and barbarism of the Americans. Unfortunately, the media does not report these and convey the voice of those innocents to the world.

A month ago, the crusader forces surrounded a village in the Yumna district of Caher Cineh. They entered houses without asking permission and opened fire on innocent civilians resulting in the deaths of 26 civilians. Among the martyrs were two whose heads were cut off and covered in a blanket and set alight.

Likewise, a few days ago those aggressor forces surrounded a village in the Langar area of the provincial capital and killed more than 18 civilians. They have also committed dozens of similar crimes in the Oruzgan Khass district and its different area. But all of the media and newspapers are silent about publishing this and delivering the voice of these innocents to the outside world.

The people of Oruzgan undoubtedly bear great hardship and pain because of the barbaric bombing. This act is therefore one of the main factors in regional tensions and the antipathy of the people to the lackey Karzai administration.

Al-Samood: We have come to another question. You have spent a long time in Jihad and seen with your own eyes many Jihadist events and occurrences. Could you provide us with an explanation of some of the events that caused enemy losses which demonstrate the heroics of the Mujahideen or similar events that will attract the hearts of the readers?

Answer: I thank you very much for your suggestion in this well-put question. Yes, the life of Jihad is a sweet and pleasing life and each event worth remembering and announcing. But events in Afghanistan are more appealing than other events, because this is considered the most unique and uneven battle in terms of numbers and equipment in the history of the modern world: Mujahideen relying purely on divine assistance confronting all the infidel forces. And we have witnessed during our blessed Jihad throughout the past eight years amazing events and victories.

I have personally attacked the enemy 16 times but through the grace of Almighty Allah have escaped harm or mishap.

With regards to your gracious question, I say in answer: Most of my life my situation has been in Helmand province, so I would like to mention a story from the recollections of the Mujahideen and the achievement of a victory there with great human and material losses to the enemy.

1. Five years ago British forces came to the area Mizdurki-Bamdaria Kahki in Helmand province with the intention of conducting operations against the Mujahideen. Their tanks were parked in an area, and the infantry advanced to the village. But the Mujahideen were watching and before they reached the village, they attacked them from numerous fortifications and surrounded them while their tanks were far from the site of the siege. When word reached the forces stopped by the tanks they immediately fled.

The tanks also moved and fled from the area, leaving behind the infantry force. This was a force numbering between 60 and 70 personnel, all of them British forces. When the noose was tightened around them, they at first briefly resisted before finally seeking refuge in an old fort. Their military and logistical supplies were about to run out and it was expected that the Mujahideen would capture them alive. But then American aircraft arrived in the area and dropped many bombs multiple times. The bombing was so intense that that the bodies of the besieged were dismembered inside the fortress and not one corpse remained whole. All that remained were severed limbs and fragments of their broken weapons.

Then we understood that the enemy did not want their soldiers to fall prisoner in the hands of the Mujahideen, so they conducted this barbaric bombardment which led to the destruction of their remains and their bodies were turned into burned ashes. We then told this to the media and took with us the fragments of their weapons to show to the journalists to support our words. But the media did not pay attention to our news and was not concerned with it. And the Americans tried to prevent the disclosure of this news and stopped it from reaching the ears of the people.

2. There was another similar incident in which the Mujahideen were able to inflict great losses on the enemy. This incident happened in the area of Sarwan Kulla in the Sinjin ditrict of Helmand. The above-mentioned area was located in middle of mountain s and hills. We had previously entered this area for the first time a few years ago and undertook to teach Jihad and activate the Fadayeen spirit among its residents. The residents therefore greeted us warmly and bought us weapons and vehicles. One day we were sitting in this district, and we numbered 50 Majahadeen when word suddenly reached us that a large military convoy was moving towards us from the Kajki district. We rested briefly and waited a little.

The convoy was composed of 32 tanks and armored vehicles moving towards the village of Sarwan Kulla. When it entered the village we saw American tanks in the convoy, but of it were armored vehicles belonging to the lackey forces. It is well known that the Sarwan Kulla district has three access routes and they are named Saru Buzu, Kanjianu Mandah and Baba Faqeer. After the military convoy entered the village, the Mujahideen called upon the people of the village to close all those exits. So the people shut down those exits and the Mujahideen launched an attack on the convoy. Then the people of the village came out with their weapons and attacked the enemy. I even saw a woman carrying a pistol in her hand firing on the foreign forces.

I also saw a small child carrying an axe hastening towards the field of battle and an aged sheikh with an old pistol in his hand firing on the foreign forces. We saw with our eyes them intentionally driving their vehicles on the main road into excavations so they would not fall as booty in the hands of the Mujahideen. Despite that, most of them left their vehicles and tanks behind them while fleeing towards the mountains, with the Mujahideen pursuing and striking them from behind. In this incident, two of the 32 vehicles escaped and they fled to the district.

The rest of the equipment fell into the hands of the Mujahideen. We were able to take in this operation 28 vehicles, all of them sound. These forces also left behind them a great amount of weapons including four mortars with 300 rounds each. While the Mujahideen were occupied in transporting this equipment to safe places, 30 enemy helicopters appeared and rather than attack the Mujahideen they ignited the bodies of their slain soldiers as well as the ones fleeing for the hills.

Al-Samood: We thank your excellency profusely and ask Allah to bless you and guide your steps. We ask Allah to grant you success in all your Islamic goals for giving us this valuable opportunity and valuable time amidst your many deeds and concerns.

Sheikh: I also thank you and wish the brothers in al-Samood the best wishes for what you do in delivering the voice of the Mujahideen to the Afghan people and the entire Islamic world. We ask Almighty Allah to accept from you these blessed Jihadist efforts and your auspicious media efforts. May Allah sustain your efforts and grant you success in all that pleases Him.