Old Joe has emboldened jihadis not just in Iran, but all over the world. But what is with all the Islamic terminology in the communiques from al-Shabaab quoted below? Don’t these guys know that they have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam? John Kerry should fly his private jet over to Kenya and explain the true, peaceful Islam to them.
“Al-Shabab Releases Video Of Attack On U.S. Base In Kenya, Vows To Continue Attacks On U.S. Targets,” MEMRI, January 31, 2021 (thanks to the Geller Report):
January 31, 2021:
The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
On January 29, 2021, Al-Qaeda’s Somali affiliate Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen released a new video documenting the preparations for the raid it conducted on the U.S. military base at Camp Simba near Manda Bay, Kenya on January 5, 2020 in which three Americans were killed and several aircraft destroyed.[1] The 55-minute video was produced by the group’s Al-Kata’ib media wing and distributed by the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) on its Rocket.Chat platform and on Telegram. The video features never-before-seen footage of a meeting between Al-Shabab leader Abu Ubaydah Ahmad Omar and the attackers; training and preparations for the raid; final messages from the attackers; and drone footage of the raid in progress. The video is interspersed with archival audio clips from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri and past leaders Osama bin Laden, Anwar Al-‘Awlaki, Abu Mus’ab Abd Al-Wudoud, and others. It stresses that the Manda Bay raid was perpetrated as part of Al-Qaeda’s “Jerusalem Will Never Be Judaized” campaign which was launched in response to the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.[2]
The excerpts in the following report are based on the English translation provided by Al-Shabab:
The video opens with audio clips of bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri describing Al-Qaeda’s commitment to the cause?] of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It then shows the meeting of Al-Shabab leader Abu Ubaydah with the men who subsequently carried out the attack. In his address to his men, Abu Ubaydah rejoices that Al-Shabab is currently “in a direct confrontation with the U.S. He instructs the men to confirm the killing of wounded U.S. soldiers, and states that their top priority is to destroy as many U.S. aircraft as possible at the base.
Abu Ubaydah begins his speech by celebrating the fact that his group is fighting the U.S., and speaks about the U.S. base in Manda Bay and its importance. He boasts that in spite of all its intelligence capabilities the U.S. is completely unaware of the impending attack “You are headed towards the American military base in Kenya. Allahu Akbar! Our war has passed through several stages, hasn’t it? … Today, we are engaged in a direct war against the Americans. As you sit here now, do you think that the Americans know that you are about to attack them? No they don’t. They can continue to boast about having intelligence, advanced technology, surveillance cameras and drones but know that you are more powerful than their drones. The U.S. military base is located in Kenya. It is known as Manda Bay base and it is situated in Lamu County. It is a secret military base on which the Mujahideen have conducted extensive reconnaissance and you will soon be shown more information regarding the base.
“The base is one of the major military bases belonging to US-AFRICOM in East Africa, particularly in Lamu, Kenya. It is the equivalent of Ballidoogle in Kenya and that is where you are headed. It is a base of evil and disbelief. It is the base from where attacks against innocent Muslims are launched. That is where you are headed. You are going to retaliate on behalf of those innocent Muslims and on behalf of the Mujahideen leaders who were killed by the Americans. They are in an alliance with the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). The base serves to protect the Kenyan invaders and train their forces. That is where you are headed. Therefore, you will engage the Americans directly in a close combat.”
Abu Ubaydah then prioritizes the targets for the attackers after they enter the base:
“When you reach the base, know that your mission, which the Muslims are waiting for you to accomplish, is to kill the American forces present there and finish off their wounded. Your mission is to destroy and set ablaze the equipment and military hardware present in the base. There are many military aircraft in the base and you will be shown a visual evidence of them. We will confront the Americans who are flying above us now in their own base. Yes, you will encounter many military aircraft in the base and destroying them should be your primary objective. If you used to hide from those planes under the trees, you will soon target them in their airfield. The blaze of the burning aircraft should be visible to all the people in Lamu and we will watch it through the lens of Al-Kataib Foundation. Beware of leaving anything intact. Target the military aircraft in particular and proceed according to priority. Your first priority is to destroy the aircraft in the base, and then followed by the armored military vehicles and storage facilities.”
Abu Ubaydah rallies his fighters, hailing them as “soldiers of Allah” and saying that many other jihad fighters will follow in their path:
“I hope that base becomes the place where we hear the defeat of the disbelievers, where you attain your martyrdom and that this operation soothes the hearts of the Muslims. Know that other military detachments will come after you, by the permission of Allah. Your blood will draw other Mujahideen to the cause, like a magnet… Allah will defeeat the enemy and protect the religion through your blood… Are the disbelievers able to penetrate the Wilaayaat [the Somali territories controlled by Al-Shabab] and abduct the teachers? No, they cannot, because there are Mujahideen fighters in front of them…”
Abu Ubaydah encourages Muslims, especially those in the Horn of Africa, to join the ranks of his group: “We tell the Muslims living in the lands of Kufr, particularly the youth in East Africa, that it is obligatory upon you to make Hijra [to immigrate to a Muslim land, i.e. to join Al-Shabab] and wage Jihad. On whom do you entrust the responsibility of defending your religion, preserving the honour of Muslim women and fighting the enemies of Islam? How is it acceptable to any Muslim with a conscience that young disbelieving men of your age plunder your wealth, violate your dignity, and send to prison whomever they will among you whenever they will and torture him? It is only through Jihad that you can regain your honour and dignity, as well as a pleasant life in both this world and the hereafter and a justification in front of Allah. Therefore, rise and stand up for Jihad. Emulate your brothers who made Hijra before you and sacrificed their lives for the sake of Allah…”
Drone footage of burning aircraft in Camp Simba
He concludes his exhortations with a prayer: “O Allah kill the disbelievers who are hindering people from Your path and are belying Your messengers and cast upon them Your punishment and torment. O Allah kill the disbelievers from the people of the Book…” This segment is followed by a scene in which Abu Ubaydah is seen handing the “flag of tawhid”[3] [which symbolizes the Islamic concept of monotheism] to the commander of the operation, Ahmad Al-Muhajir, who states: “By the will of Allah, this banner will not be raised in any other place other than the American base in Manda Bay…”
The video then shows original footage of the attack which Al-Shabab filmed with drones, against a backdrop of audio from Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki and the commander of the U.S. military’s AFRICOM. The footage shows fire and smoke rising from Camp Simba.
This section is followed by a commemoration of each of the five operatives who participated in the attack, including a short biography and each one’s final message. The common themes among all the messages are threats to “Jews and Americans;” the vow that the attacks in the framework of the “Jerusalem Will Never Be Judaized” campaign will continue; and the reassurance to the Palestinians that Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabab are committed to fighting for the “liberation” of Al-Aqsa, and so on. The fighters all wear red headbands bearing the slogan “Jerusalem Will Never Be Judaized.”
Commander of the raid, Ahmad Al-Muhajir, wearing a red headband with the slogan “Jerusalem Will Never Be Judaized.”
For example, in his final message before embarking on the operation, the leader of the raid, Ahmad Al-Muhajir, declares:
“O Jews and Americans! Do not think that we are wearing these headbands for adornment or for exhibition purposes only. Know that Al-Quds [Jerusalem] belongs to the Muslims and it will forever belong to the Muslims. It does not belong to filth like you who spread corruption in the land. O America! If you did not learn anything from the operations in 14 Riverside [in Nairobi] and Ballidoogle,[4] then you will now learn a lesson that you did not expect. What is coming your way is not words, it is action, and not just mere action, but rather a great deal of action. Masha-Allah, Allah made it possible for the brothers to carry out the operations in 14 Riverside and Ballidoogle with success. May Allah accept their martyrdom as they proved that they are the brave ones and you are the cowards. Right now, we are on our way to continue in this series of operations and we will not stop there; many other brothers will come after us. By the will of Allah, we will not stop until the Shari’ah rules over the whole world and the Muslims live in a state of glory while you, the Kufr, live in humiliation. Islam will rule over the whole world. The word of Allah will be uppermost and the word of those who disbelieved will be lowermost.”…
Mike says
fact or fiction?
where’s the fact checkers
Did not think I would here about this on MSM
but no words on Fox, Newsmax or OAN
Ben Dejo says
Probably because much of their weekend programing is pre-recorded.
Westman says
You might have the wrong year in mind. The attack was in 2020.
Here is a reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50997769
It’s also on wiki.
Anna Yelena says
Who are they calling “ Unbelievers”? Sorry Degenerate A. H. You’re the ones who are unbelievers. We, who trust in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior will go to Heaven but y’all will go directly to Hell.
Nyambura says
That is tru
gravenimage says
‘O Allah kill the disbelievers’: Jihadis in Kenya release video of raid on US base, vow more attacks on US targets
………………
All emboldened with Biden in the White House…
Rod says
And why is there a US base in Kenya?
And would it surprise any of the planet’s sane citizens that some Kenyans, aware of the endless story of US interference in other people’s business, and the many, many occasions when this has led to wholesale death and misery (not US deaths or misery), might want the US gun-happy robots to get out of their country?
Kenyans suffered a century of oppression and exploitation from the British, who were expelled only with great difficulty. Having seen what happened to Iraq and Afghanistan, why would they want another occupation now?
gravenimage says
Here’s what DefenseOne has to say:
“The U.S. military is in Kenya training and assisting the local military in the fight against al-Shabaab; Camp Simba is used as a base for American surveillance assets and commandos working with the Kenyans in the porous border region between Somalia and Kenya”
Now, of course one can argue whether it is the best use of American blood and treasure to help the often ambivalent Kenyans defend against Al Sheba’ab and other Jihad terrorists.
But that is not why “Rod” here is enraged–that *anyone* is opposing Jihad terror is what has set him off.
What does he specifically like about Al Sheba’ab? Which of their Jihad terror attracks does he most admire? Might not be politic for him to say here…
Rod says
Of course! Just as America “assisted” in Afghanistan, and turned it into a forty year disaster area. Just as America saved Iraq (and the world) from a non-existent threat and devastated it in the process. The Kenyans must be overjoyed (except for those who we see are not). Ambivalent? What a useful term. It implies that they need help to understand what’s good for them. As the Vietnamese did, perhaps.
The idea of Americans showing other people how to run their own country is, frankly, after what we’ve seen recently, ludicrous.
Giacomo Latta says
Yes, Antifaman, Kenyans are simply overjoyed that they can now be slaughtered in great numbers in their own shopping centres, and by your friends in Islam not by Americans or anyone else. No Kenyan needs you as a friend unless they are contemplating suicide.
mortimer says
Rod, you are underinformed about how the world works. Many different first-world countries are involved in the developing countries. Many military trainers from those first-world countries are on the ground training regional armies and the officers of those military units are sent to military colleges in the first world.
Kenya is a member nation of the British Commonwealth and participates in joint military exercises with other Commonwealth countries. Learn something, Rod.
gravenimage says
“Rod” has previously expressed his rage that the vicious Taliban is not still in power. Bad dhimmis!
Then, he thinks that a nation that doesn’t have a huge Jihad terror insurgency has no right to offer advice to any other nation…
Rod says
mortimer, you are correct –
“Many different first-world countries are involved in the developing countries. ”
My country is one of them. Like most of them, NOT with military bases. Embassies, consulates, trade offices, medical facilities, educational training offices, construction of civil works. Now, isn’t that interesting. “underinformed”?
Yes, Kenya is a British Commonwealth country. So why a US military base?
Speaking of people “slaughtered in shopping centres”, perhaps it’s best to say no more to US readers.
gravenimage says
“Rod’s” sneering at the victims of the Jihad terror attack at the Westgate Shopping Centre is appalling–but hardly surprising.
Westman says
Rod: “And why is there a US base in Kenya?”
You have access to most of human knowledge at your fingertips. Why don’t you exercise those fingertips and answer your own question? Then you can inform us with citations rather than assumptions.
Andrew says
I wish the USA would stop involving themselves in other countries conflicts, there is no reason whatsoever for young Americans, most who joined for an education and career job, to die for a country, and a people, they probably couldnt have found on a World Map before Uncle Sam sent them there.
Also why are this crazy jihadi morons using a technology invented by what they call, infidels, as perhaps some of those infidels may be Jewish, but these jihadi morons also use Facebook while screaming death to America and death to the Jews, when Facebook is owned by a Jewish guy that is born, and lives in, America…
But then I really dont expect any of these goat shaggers to think it through.
Honest Ali says
We did not listen to the voice of reason, so now we need to learn the hard way… these attacks will undo some of the damage that Obama did when purging the DOJ and DOD of references to Islams link to terrorism. There is nothing like a slap in the face to wake people up.
Fred van de Bunt says
I think the West shot itself in their own foot. The peaceful terror ideology of Islam was spread as a defence against the spread of communism, and you see what happens nowadays in Western Europe for instance .
You might have called me some 30 years ago a (labour union) leftist, but since gender identity left, climate left and diversity left was created, that supports the peacefulness of Islam, and the savior Mohammed, I am a right wing supremacist racist nowadays.
The Taliban with their green climate activism, riding on those climate neutral donkeys, are the new left. They strongly oppose white supremacism, the freedom for feminists to live in mobile black tents, and a racist free society under 100% Islam.
Westman says
Likewise Fred. I was a liberal much of my life as the left blazed a “new” path trodden by so many former lost societies. Even as an agnostic I recognized that the Western left, worldwide, has passed Sodom and Gomorrah into new territory and is still moving to its own dissolution. We just stopped walking down that path and they left us behind. Now they are angry and brand us as “supremists” because we didn’t follow their “wisdom” of hedonism, addictions, and abortion of the results.
mortimer says
The counterjihad is a human rights movement.
gravenimage says
+1
newsupplements says
Who is funding the various Islamic jihadi groups in Africa? Why dosn”t the government order their ban accounts closed.
notnolib says
muslims gonna muslim.
OLD GUY says
Biden is the weak horse, that said muslims/islamics will attack the weakest as they see themselves as having the strong horse now. One has to remember that the demo’s have been the friend and easy on the islamic leaders, thinking that islamic leaders can be bought just like them.