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Posted on 11/27/2007 12:28:21 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
On November 20, I posted on the success of the U.S.-led Iraq Threat Finance Cell in disrupting Al Qaeda in Iraq's financial network. Reuven Paz, one of the leading experts in the CT community and the founder and Director of the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements (PRISM) at the GLORIA Center in Israel, has written a follow-up to that post for us, with an analysis of Al Qaeda's admission of financial distress. I am pleased to run Mr. Paz's analysis below in its entirety with my gratitude:
On 20 November 2007, Andrew Cochran reported on this blog about the success of the U.S. ITFC in shutting down elements of Al-Qaeda's financial network in Iraq, and that the government of a key Gulf state has assisted in these efforts. On the same day, the Washington Post published a report of its own about the U.S. efforts to break Iraqi insurgents’ financial networks, and the growing interest of insurgents in money rather than ideology.
A significant evidence for the U.S. successes in this field has recently appeared from an unexpected direction - Al-Qaeda itself. The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF)—the primary indoctrination and propaganda means of Al-Qaeda, published on the same day - 20 November 2007, on the main Jihadi forum of Al-Hesbah, an unprecedented announcement, which we may title A CALL FOR DONATIONS. It was not the first time that Jihadi elements posted material on the significance of the Jihad bil-Mal (financial Jihad). However, past writings on the issue have had the religious and indoctrination nature. This time it looks as a genuine call resulting out of a real stress. The post by the “official” GIMF provides it also a nature of an official call by Al-Qaeda, not just some group belonging to the Iraqi insurgency. It does not refer to Iraq or any other place in particular, and therefore, it might also indicate the stress in which the organization is found in other regions of Jihadi fight as well, in the field of finance.
The post by GIMF—titled “A Call from the People of the Places of Fight (Ahl al-Thughur): Oh Muslims, Do You Think You are Going to Enter Paradise?”—is “upgrading,” for the first time in recent years, the financial Jihad to the same level of the fighting form of Jihad. After the process of “upgrading” and the legitimacy of the Jihad by propaganda through the Internet in the past two years, it is now the turn of the financial Jihad to receive the legitimacy of a fully recognized Jihad.
The author of this call is not hiding or coloring the financial situation of the group in the battle field:
“Oh Muslims !! this is a call for you from the fighters to the entire Muslims. Following the campaign against Islam to dry its sources, many of the people who support this religion suffer from lack of equipments and basic means for their Jihad, after the belief in Allah. The situation became really bad. Imagine brothers, that some of them carry weapons with no ammunition. Sometimes they have no food or place of refuge. I see you calling for Jihad day and night without implementing it, as if the Jihad is just carrying weapons.The picture is clear and the call seems to be genuine. There is also an interesting element in using the term Taghout for “those who suffocate the finance of the Mujahidin.” This term is used for the Arab or Muslim governments, rather than the U.S. or other Western “enemies.” This might be an indication to the cooperation of Arab governments in this field.
Brothers, in many cases the financial Jihad is not less than Jihad by fighting (Al-Jihad bil-Nafs). How could the Mujahid fulfill his huge tasks without weapons? Or without the support for his family while he is away or martyred?
The Noble Qur’an gave the financial Jihad a great priority. It is always compared to the Jihad by fighting as two sides of the equation. Moreover, in all the Qur’anic verses that record the two, except for one verse, the financial Jihad has a priority over the fighting Jihad.
… From these verses and stories, the significance of the financial Jihad is clear. The infidels spend their money to fight [the supporters of] Allah, and their reward, at the end of the day, is only defeat. Should not the believers spend their money to strengthen the basics of religion and enable its spread in the world? No one can claim that he owns nothing. I tell him, don’t you know any wealthy Muslim? Approach him and encourage him [to donate]. We know how far the infidels (Taghout) are suffocating the finance of the Mujahidin, and how dangerous it is.”
This call is significant and reassures the success in fighting the Jihadi insurgency through its “pockets.” Nevertheless, it should also be an indicator to the openness of Al-Qaeda, which runs much of its affairs in public on the Internet, and an indicator for the reliability of the E-Jihad and the significance of its profound monitoring.
In “Call for Donations,” Al Qaeda Admits Financial Stress
...set up a donation booth in San Francisco. They’ll make a fortune.
Osama’s next cave call will address the impact of the sub-prime fallout on operations. Nice to see them withering, decrepit and ultimately defeated.
Perhaps they should have a bake sale or one of those candy bar sales like the kids do!
They should run telethon on Al-jazeera/CNN like Jerry Lewis does on Labor Day Weekend............
Reid, Durbin, Obama, Ms Clinton, and the like are doing their best to even the playing field by defunding the anti-Jihad.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931182/posts
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Great story!
Apparently their porn website, GIMF MILF, has not gotten many hits.
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Maybe PBS will show 1001 Arabian Nights with fund raising breaks.
"And for a $100 pledge you get a CD of his famous radio addresses and this beautiful, cave-proven Osama bin Lantern."
Tell them I’ll chip in a bag of pork rinds, if they’ll pick them up in person.
Can you say “Al-Q’Agmire?”
LOL!
LOL. A Jihad-a-thon hosted by Bill Moyers.
I have about two dozen Teddy Bears named Mohammad they can have.
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