Sha'ban 13, 1431 A.H, Monday, July 26, 2010
Sheikh Nur ul-Haqq Mujahid bin
Mohammed, from the Maidan Wardak province. Born in the year
1386H in the village Mohamed Nur Kheil in the Zimnio area of
Jalreez district.
Education
He received his elementary education
in the local schools in his birthplace then immigrated to
Pakistan where he continued his learning in different schools
until graduating from the Imdad ‘Ulum Shari’a school in
Peshawar in 1413H, graduating with the highest certificate.
After his graduation, he began teaching students and
conducting preaching and reform activities in his area, laying
the cornerstone for a Sharia school and establishing a student
association by the name of Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama’a in the
Maidan Wardak district.
Joining the
Islamic Emirate Caravan
Sheikh Nur ul-Haqq joined the
caravan of the Islamic Emirate upon its establishment and
assumed a number of administrative responsibilities in
different regions of Afghanistan, rising to become commander
of military security in the Nangarhar province in eastern
Afghanistan. After the American occupation of Afghanistan, he
began Jihad against the Americans and their helpers and
trained hundreds of Mujahideen and sent to the combat zone.
One year after the American
invasion, the leadership of the Islamic Emirate entrusted him
with general supervision of all military formations in the
Maidan Wardak province. His Excellency enjoys extensive
military experience in addition to a broad awareness and
understanding of political issues and their analysis.
Al-Somood magazine has conducted an
interview with his Excellency about the military situation in
Maidan Wardak to present this to its readers.
Question:
Gracious Sheikh, we would like
to present a picture, even a brief picture, on the military
situation and Jihadist activity in Maidan Wardak province.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, praise
be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, a happy outcome to the Pious,
prayers and peace upon the best of creation, the noblest
Prophet and Messenger, and upon his family, and companions and
all those guided by him.
By the Grace of Allah, High and
Exalted, the military situation in the Maidan Wardak province
is completely to the advantage of the Mujahideen. The
co-operation of the people and their standing with the
Mujahideen has advanced the combat activities of the
Mujahideen and exposed the schemes of the crusader enemy to
failure and cast fear into them.
You know that the province of Maidan
Wardak is tantamount to the main gateway to the capital Kabul.
The Mujahideen have been able to achieve a military advance to
reach this strategic gateway and thereby established a strong
front on the heights overlooking Kabul city. With great ease,
the Mujahideen are able to attack this main corridor which
crosses the province and connects Kabul with other main cities
like Ghazni and Qandahar. We can say that the Mujahideen have
expanded their control over 85% of the territory of Maidan
Wardak while the crusader enemy is held up and besieged in the
provincial and district buildings.
Question: Where
are the crusader invader forces concentrated in Maidan Wardak
province and to what extent have their schemes in the province
succeeded?
Answer:
The province of Maidan Wardak is composed of 9 districts and
the crusaders have a military base in the province capital as
well as scattered military positions along the main Kabul-Qandahar
corridor that dissects the country. Despite the security
fortifications that surround their military points along this
corridor, their military columns are subjected to the
campaigns of the Mujahideen which strike at them.
The Mujahideen are trying to block
this main corridor and close it permanently. Battles between
the Mujahideen and crusaders occur to control the corridor and
the two sides will swap control of it during the day while at
the night the Mujahideen will take complete control of it and
all the roads leading to the district. Public vehicles and
commercial convoys can cross the corridor at any time during
the night, but the trucks of the vehicles of the Americans and
their helpers are blocked completely.
Whenever the Mujahideen launch
attacks on the crusaders in the main corridor they seize great
amounts of booty and inflict huge casualties. The vehicles and
other military equipment that we have in our possession, all
of it were seized by the Mujahideen as booty.
Question:
Where are the
fields of your military operations and what kind of attacks
are you undertaking against the enemy and their bases?
Answer:
I said previously that we can attack the enemy at any place in
Maidan Wardak province, but in order to harass and weaken the
enemy we concentrate on high-impact raids against the military
convoys that pass through the main corridor. At the beginning
of Mujahideen operations in this province, the Mujahideen were
few in number and the enemy possessed vast military resources.
So we were planting mines and carrying out surprise attacks.
These methods brought positive results and sapped the enemy’s
strength. Now the number of Mujahideen has increased and the
enemy is overcome by weakness. So in addition to planting
mines, launching surprise raids and setting up ambushes, we
also carry out military clashes.
As a result of these operations, the
enemy has sustained huge losses in soldiers killed and tanks
destroyed and loss of various equipment as booty. The proof of
what we say are these Ranger military vehicles and Surf
vehicles each of which carry markings indicating that they
belonged to the military units and brigades of the army of the
puppet administration in Kabul.
Question: Additional
American troops have arrived to Maidan Wardak this year. What
impact has this had on the operations of the Mujahideen?
Answer:
The dispatch of additional American troops to Maidan Wardak
province has had no negative impact on Mujahideen operations.
Rather, it has increased Mujahideen operations because the
arrival of new soldiers has meant that the number of military
targets has doubled. The spine of the military equation is
soldiers’ morale not their number. What ails the Americans in
Afghanistan is the collapsed morale of their frightened
soldiers. This ailment cannot be evaded by increasing the
number of troops.
Question:
If you please
could, we would like you to give us brief information on your
combat operations in the past three months.
Answer:
Through the Grace of Allah, this year was a bloody and violent
year for the Americans and their crusader allies. The American
invaders acknowledge this truth. This was a year of violent
front-lines and ferocious battles in all parts of Afghanistan
and especially Maidan Wardak, where the operations temp of the
Mujahideen increased.
During the past three months, our
area of operations has encompassed wide regions from Sarbil to
Sheikh Abad and Salar all along the main corridor. We have
killed large numbers of crusaders and destroyed their armored
and other military vehicles. We have burned many supply trucks
in addition to killing many lackeys and forcing the crusaders
and their agents to stay besieged in their holes.
Question:What
is the effective military strategy that must be taken to
weaken the morale of the enemy?
Answer:
An effective military strategy varies from province to
province. For example, in Kunar and Nuristan provinces, the
most suitable military method is a military clash because
those two provinces possess a geographic situation suitable
for this military strategy. Meanwhile in Helmand and the
southwest of Afghanistan the preferred method is to plant
mines and use explosives because the terrain of those areas is
desert terrain which does not afford the Mujahideen secure
places to hide.
As for Kabul, martyrdom operations
and surprise attacks are best because the open concentration
of large numbers of invaders there gives the Mujahideen an
opportunity to launch those kinds of campaigns against their
bases and barracks.
Praise be to Allah, the Mujahideen
will take advantage of the methods which suit their geographic
situation and injure the enemy the most.
Question:You
are situated in Maidan Wardak province close to the capital
Kabul. The enemy is able to move fast to assist and rescue its
personnel. How are you able to launch attacks on the enemy’s
mobile targets?
Answer:
First of all, I will say that our battle with the enemy relies
upon the aid of Allah, the Exalted and Sublime, and faith in
Him. Our Jihad in the cause of Allah continues with His aid
and help, not with material things or modern, fabricated
methods. If it were not so, how could the isolated Mujahideen
in wounded Afghanistan confront 45 advanced nations with huge
armies, armed with advanced weapons? This is a confrontation
in which the Mujahideen will be victories, Allah willing.
We accept that our resources are
limited and that our capabilities are less than the huge
capabilities of the enemy. Indeed there is no comparison
between the Mujahideen and the enemy.
Yes, in answer to your question I
say that Maidan Wardak is located a stone’s throw away from
Kabul and that the enemy can easily assist his army during a
battle there. But I must make clear that the enemy has
sustained the greatest losses in this province, many of his
armored vehicles have been destroyed and the necks of many the
arrogant and haughty ones have been broken on its rocks.
Question:
What is your view regarding the
dispatch of more foreign troops to Afghanistan and how do you
analyze this situation?
Answer:
I have previously indicated that victory in war hinges upon
the high-morale of soldiers not on an increase in their
numbers. The number of American soldiers has been continuously
on the increase throughout the war, from 8,000 in the
beginning to almost 70,000 in the past year. But Mc Chrystal
is requesting 30,000 more additional troops. If victory in war
hinged on increasing the number of soldiers, then America
would have achieved something in the past year, 2009. But, by
admission of the Americans, that the losses among their
soldiers during this past year have been more severe and that
the Mujahideen have made greater progress.
Question:
When will the Mujahideen be able to dislodge the occupation
forces in Afghanistan and make them flee (the country)?
Answer:
When will the Americans and their crusader allies leave
Afghanistan? This matter is among the secrets known only to
Allah. But, by my reading of the current situation, it is
clear that the date of their flight is imminent.
Their analysts and politicians are
reporting the speedy defeat of the Americans and the victory
of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. As for the Mujahideen, they
must continue to wage jihad against the American and crusading
invaders in order to establish an Islamic regime. The moment
of picking the fruit of their labor has approached, Allah
willing. They see with their eyes that by the blessing of
their jihad the enemy will be broken and will drag their tails
defeated and broken and in flight, just like the arrogant,
tyrannical English and Russian invaders were defeated and
broken.
Al-Somood: Your
Excellency Sheikh! We thank you for your speaking with us and
your open-mindedness to our questions. We beseech Allah to
grant you success in your Jihad.
The leader:
I thank you also.
Translated and submitted by a Mujahid