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“Investigating Ft. Hood: Anwar al-Awlaki’s “Constants on the Path of Jihad”
By Evan Kohlmann”
SNIPPET: “One of the key questions for investigators who are now looking into potential links between radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the accused perpetrator of the massacre at Ft. Hood, Maj. Malik Nidal Hasan, is understanding to what degree al-Awlaki’s extreme sermons may have influenced Hasan’s actions. Toward that end, they should be keeping an especially close eye out for one such al-Awlaki sermon in particular—”Constants on the Path of Jihad”—which itself is based upon an Arabic-language text penned by the founder of Al-Qaida’s network in Saudi Arabia, Yousef al-Ayyiri. In order to bring al-Ayyiri’s words to an English-speaking audience, al-Awlaki dedicated a lengthy lecture to his work—a lecture that over time has become the “virtual bible” for lone wolf Muslim extremists. In “Constants”, al-Awlaki argues:
“Jihad does not end with the disappearance of a person. Jihad must continue regardless because it does not depend on any particular leader or individual… Jihad does not depend on any particular land. It is global. When the Muslim is in his land, he performs jihad… No borders or barriers stop it. The message cannot be conveyed without jihad. If a particular people or nation is classified as… ‘the people of war’ in the Shariah, that classification applies to them all over the earth. Islam cannot be customized to suit the conditions where you are, for instance Europe.”
According to Awlaki, al-Ayyiri also instructed that “victory” cannot be limited to mere “military victories” alone, and should also include “sacrifice. The Mujahid sacrificing ‘his self’ and his wealth is victory. Victory of your idea, your religion. If you die for your religion, your death will spread the da`wa… Allah chooses Shuhada (martyrs) from amongst the believers. This is a victory.””
November 9, 2009 08:35 AM
ADDING to post no. 2571:
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.218/pub_detail.asp
“Who is the Imam Consulted by the Ft. Hood Assassin?
A Look at the Terrorist Ties of Anwar al-Aulaqi and the Radicalization Process”
Print this article by Susan Schmidt
Published on November 9th, 2009
SNIPPET: “Anwar al-Aulaqi, the former imam of mosques in Falls Church and San Diego who was a spiritual advisor to two of the 9/11 hijackers is suspected of involvement in terrorist plots directed at the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other parts of the world, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials.
Aulaqi, a U.S. citizen who was imam at Virginia’s Dar al Hijrah on 9/11, moved to Yemen a few months after the attacks. Audiotapes and transcripts of his lectures on waging jihad against the West have been discovered in the password protected computer files of numerous suspects arrested in bombing plots in Europe and North America.
He pronounced suspected Fort Hood slayer Nidal Hasan “a hero” and “a man of conscience” in an internet blog posting Monday.
U.S. officials have believed for several years that Aulaqi’s activities go beyond proseletizing to include recruiting, training, marshaling resources and planning attacks.
“There is good reason to believe Anwar Aulaqi has been involved in very serious terrorist activities since leaving the United States, including plotting attacks against America and our allies,” a U.S. counterterrorism official told The Washington Post last year.
Aulaqi was arrested in Yemen on August 2006 and released in late 2007. Authorities there had little to say about why he was held. In a taped interview posted on a British website after his release, Aulaqi said he did not know why he was held, but said he was interrogated several times by the FBI. Before his arrest, Aulaqi had been teaching at an Islamist university run by Sheik Abd-alMajid al-Zindani, designated a terrorist in 2004 by the United States and the United Nations.”