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20 Voices of Jihad reward you, oh Mowhad. I am your brother, do not go without me!’ Mowhad was prompting him, ‘May Allah have mercy on your parents, where are you? You are late.’ And Abu Hashim al-Sayyed replied, ‘I am close.’ Then, Abu Hashim was heard on the radio running and inciting the youths to jihad and he swore he could smell the scent of paradise. . . . I contacted Abi al-Harith the Egyptian and we changed to the private frequency. I told him to ‘beware for Mowhad is upset and excited. Do not let the youths move [from their positions]. The company of Abu Hashim al-Sayyed should be enough for him. Do not let them move beyond the trap.’ Then Sheikh Abu Harith the Egyptian said, ‘I understand that, but it is getting hot here. I will try to calm the youths and make them keep their positions.’ I went back to the ‘general’ frequency. “Mowhad and his brothers were harvesting ‘the souls of the enemy,’ greatening Allah and walking between corpses. Then he started running ahead in pursuit of the enemy who was retreating. He took the youths with him. They left their positions and followed him running on the road, like the company of Abu Hashim. At this point, the airplanes intervened and started bombing the road, and as I mentioned, Abu Hashim said that he could smell the scent of paradise. Then the hero fell in martyrdom and other heroes fell around him. Thus fell the martyrs Sheikh Abu Yussef the Mauritanian, Hamza the Qatari, and I have personally felt the wonderful scent that was covering him and his face was wearing a beautiful smile, and what a smile that was – as well as Samir the Najdi who seemed very gracious and beautiful in death despite the blood covering his body. “. . . the two tanks . . . joined the battle, as well as the machinegun manned by Adham the Egyptian and Abu Amar the Palestinian. There were between them and the aircrafts impressive duels, and some extraordinarily courageous deeds. The aircrafts in the sky were firing everywhere, while they were shooting from their machinegun at the aircrafts. They could not reach the aircrafts, which were far in the sky, and the missiles dropping from the sky did not reach them. The duel lasted for quite a while. Amir al-Fatah used his tank to fire [at the airplanes] . . . . However, his tank was hit directly by a missile, and a second one exploded close by. “The whole crew escaped safely except for Khalid who received a fragment in his head that deprived him from the use of his left side for four months. However, he recovered after that and only his left hand bears signs of the wound. Currently he is back to training in
a secret base near the Pakistani-Afghani border in one of al-Qaeda’s secret bases. “As for Amir al-Fatah’s Elephant, it was very respected by the Americans. They kept looking for it. Then they divided the area in squares and scanned them until they found the Elephant and destroyed it. However, Amir al-Fatah and his crew escaped to safety after a fierce battle where the Elephant humiliated the Apaches. However, the Elephant earned himself a ‘medal of honor’ in this battle. “Thus, we lost our heavy back-up in tanks, as well as the missile launcher, and this is a serious matter. However, the enemy lost a large number of its fighters and their fighting spirit was crushed, and after that, they only shot [at us] from a distance. The Americans could not entice them to advance any more. We had won the ground battle 13 which lasted five days, without respite.” (al-Adel, 2003) 14 Terror in Konduz, Afghanistan “A British Muslim woman called Umm-Hafsah carried out another operation during which she killed two Americans. She was with her husband and brother in the forces that were also besieged in Konduz. “. . . Her husband, an Arab, went with the forces that left the city safely. Umm-Hafsah and her brother were Jews who converted to Islam in Britain before they immigrated to Afghanistan and settled in it. But they still carried their original passports that were issued in their Jewish names. “Umm-Hafsah hid explosives under her clothes and she and her brother surrendered to the Shiite Hezb-E Wahdat-E [Eslami] and Abdol Rashid Dostum factions. When they spoke in English with these forces’ vanguards, the latter thought they were Americans because of their European looks and they were taken in a vehicle to Mazar-E Sharif where US units were deployed. They claimed there that they were working for Oxfam Relief Agency inside Konduz Province when the Taliban forces entered and took up positions in it after their withdrawal from Mazar-E Sharif. They were sent to the US Forces’ command center in Kabul to check their claims. Life in Jihad 21 13 Kandahar finally fell on December 7, 2001, under a negotiated surrender agreement, but the Taliban and al- Qaeda fighters fled the city with their weapons. 14 Saif al-Adel is an al-Qaeda commander and possible member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He was implicated in the 1998 African embassy bombings and is currently believed to reside in Iran.
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a secret base near the Pakistani-Afghani border in one <strong>of</strong> al-Qaeda’s<br />
secret bases.<br />
“As for Amir al-Fatah’s Elephant, it was very respected by the Americans.<br />
They kept looking for it. Then they divided the area in squares<br />
and scanned them until they found the Elephant and destroyed it.<br />
However, Amir al-Fatah and his crew escaped to safety after a fierce<br />
battle where the Elephant humiliated the Apaches. However, the Elephant<br />
earned himself a ‘medal <strong>of</strong> honor’ in this battle.<br />
“Thus, we lost our heavy back-up in tanks, as well as the missile<br />
launcher, and this is a serious matter. However, the enemy lost a large<br />
number <strong>of</strong> its fighters and their fighting spirit was crushed, and after<br />
that, they only shot [at us] from a distance. The Americans could not<br />
entice them to advance any more. We had won the ground battle 13<br />
which lasted five days, without respite.” (al-Adel, 2003) 14<br />
Terror in Konduz, Afghanistan<br />
“A British Muslim woman called Umm-Hafsah carried out another<br />
operation during which she killed two Americans. She was with her<br />
husband and brother in the forces that were also besieged in Konduz.<br />
“. . . Her husband, an Arab, went with the forces that left the city<br />
safely. Umm-Hafsah and her brother were Jews who converted to Islam<br />
in Britain before they immigrated to Afghanistan and settled in it.<br />
But they still carried their original passports that were issued in their<br />
Jewish names.<br />
“Umm-Hafsah hid explosives under her clothes and she and her<br />
brother surrendered to the Shiite Hezb-E Wahdat-E [Eslami] and<br />
Abdol Rashid Dostum factions. When they spoke in English with<br />
these forces’ vanguards, the latter thought they were Americans because<br />
<strong>of</strong> their European looks and they were taken in a vehicle to Mazar-E<br />
Sharif where US units were deployed. They claimed there that they<br />
were working for Oxfam Relief Agency inside Konduz Province when<br />
the Taliban forces entered and took up positions in it after their withdrawal<br />
from Mazar-E Sharif. They were sent to the US Forces’ command<br />
center in Kabul to check their claims.<br />
Life in <strong>Jihad</strong> 21<br />
13 Kandahar finally fell on December 7, 2001, under a negotiated surrender agreement, but the Taliban and al-<br />
Qaeda fighters fled the city with their weapons.<br />
14 Saif al-Adel is an al-Qaeda commander and possible member <strong>of</strong> Egyptian Islamic <strong>Jihad</strong>. He was implicated in<br />
the 1998 African embassy bombings and is currently believed to reside in Iran.
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