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Posted on Monday, April 29 @
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Profile: Ibn-ul-Khattab
Nickname or 'nom de guerre':
Ibn-ul-Khattab, also known as Khattab
Real name: Undisclosed
Position: Ameer (Leader) of the
Foreign Mujahideen Forces in the Caucasus
Born: 1970
Nationality: GCC Member State in
the Arabian Gulf
Languages spoken: Arabic,
Russian, English, Pushto
Birthplace: Arabian Gulf
Experience in Jihad: 12 years
Lands of Jihad visited:
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Chechnya
"If you would have told me in
Afghanistan that a day will come when we will be
fighting the Russians INSIDE
Russia, I would never have
believed you." [Ibn-ul-Khattab]
Born in the Arabian Gulf,
Khattab was brought up in a relatively wealthy and
educated family. He grew
up to be a brave and strong
teenager, who was known to be daring and fearless.
After mastering the
English language, he obtained a
place in an American High School in 1987. 1987 was the
peak of the
Afghan Jihad against the
invading army of the (then) Soviet Union. Youngsters
from all over the
Muslim world were flocking to
Afghanistan after responding to the calls of Jihad
made by Islamic
personalities such as Sheikh
Abdullah Azzam (assassinated 1989), Sheikh Tamim
Adnani (died 1988)
and Usama bin Ladin. Miraculous
accounts of heroic feats and daring displays of valour
against the
World Superpower were reaching
the ears of the Muslims. As the time approached for
him to leave for a
new life of education in the
U.S., Khattab decided to follow many of his friends
and relatives to
Afghanistan for a short visit.
Since the day he waved goodbye to his parents and
family, at the end of
1987, he has never returned home
since.
One of the Mujahideen describes
the young teenage Khattab who arrived at his first
training camp in
Jalalabad, Afghanistan:
"The training camp near
Jalalabad was full of brothers coming and leaving
almost every day. We were preparing
for a large operation against
the Russians and those brothers who had completed
their training were packing
their bags and leaving the camp
to go to the front-line. As we were preparing to leave
for the front-line, a group
of new recruits arrived. It was
then that I noticed a young teenage boy amongst the
new recruits: 16-17 years
old, with long hair and a beard
that had not yet begun to grow fully yet. Immediately,
he went to the
commanders of the training camp
and starting pleading with them to let him go to the
Front-Line. The
commanders obviously refused to
send a young untrained boy to the Front without any
training. I went over,
greeted him and asked him his
name. He replied, 'Ibn-ul-Khattab'"
Khattab completed his training
and then went to the Front. One of his trainers was
Hassan As-Sarehi,
the Commander of the famous
Lion's Den operation in Jaji, Afghanistan, 1987.
[Hassan As-Sarehi has
been imprisoned in Ar-Ruwais
Concentration Camp, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia since 1996 on
allegations of
a crime whose accusees have
already been executed.] Over the next six years, this
young boy was to
turn into one of the bravest and
most formidable Mujahideen commanders that the world
has known in
the 20th Century. He was known
for his refusal to duck from oncoming fire and his
refusal to show pain
after an injury. From ambushes
to operations to raids, he fought the Soviet Regular
and Special Forces,
being present in all the major
operations in the Afghan Jihad between 1988 and 1993,
including the
conquests of Jalalabad, Khost
and Kabul. He escaped death on a number of occasions,
as it his time
had not yet arrived.
One of the Mujahideen describes
how Khattab was once shot in the stomach by a 12.7mm
Heavy
Machine Gun bullet in
Afghanistan. (12.7mm ammunition is used to pierce
armour and to break
through fortified positions: it
makes mincemeat out of human flesh, as any military
expert will testify.):
"During one of the operations,
we were sitting in the room of a small house in the
Second Line. It was evening
time and the fighting on the
Front Line was very tough. A few moments later,
Khattab entered the room; his
face was looking pale, but other
than that he seemed to act normal. He came in, walked
very slowly to the other
side of the room and sat down
next to us. Khattab was unusually quiet, so the
brothers sensed that something
must be wrong, even though he
did not even flinch once nor show any signs of pain.
We asked him if he had got
hurt; he replied that on the
Front, he had received a light injury, nothing
serious. One of the brothers then went
over to him to see the injury.
Khattab refused to let him see, adding that the injury
was nothing serious. This
brother forced Khattab to let
him see and then felt his hand on Khattab's abdomen.
He saw that his clothes were
soaked with blood and he was
bleeding heavily. We then immediately called a vehicle
and rushed him to the
nearest field hospital, during
which he was complaining all the time that the injury
was light and nothing
serious."
As the Soviet Army withdrew from
Afghanistan and the Communists were defeated by the
Mujahideen,
Khattab and a small group of
friends heard about the war against the same enemy,
but this time in
Tajikistan. He then packed his
bags and went over to Tajikistan in 1993 with a small
group of brothers.
Two years they stayed there
fighting the Russians in snowy, mountainous terrain
with a lack of proper
weapons and ammunition.
It was in Tajikistan that
Khattab lost two fingers of his right hand whilst
attempting to throw a
homemade grenade. The grenade
exploded in his hand and two of his fingers were
severed by the
explosion. His fellow Mujahideen
tried to persuade him to go to Peshawar for medical
attention, but
Khattab refused, insisting that
putting some honey on the wound (like the Sunnah of
the Prophet
Muhammad SAWS) and bandaging it
will do the job and that there is no need to go all
the way to
Peshawar. His fingers have
remained in a similar bandage ever since that day.
After two years in Tajikistan,
Khattab returned with his small group to Afghanistan,
early in 1995. It was
at this time that the war in
Chechnya had just begun and everyone was confused as
to the religious
inclinations of the Chechens and
the religious significance of this war.
Khattab describes his feelings
when he saw the news about Chechnya on satellite
television one
evening in Afghanistan:
"When I saw groups of Chechens
wearing headbands with 'La ilaha illalah...' (There is
no god but Allah and
Muhammad is His Messenger)
written on them, and shouting takbeers (Allahu-Akbar),
I decided that there was
a Jihad going on in Chechnya and
I must go there."
From Afghanistan, Khattab
travelled with a group of eight of his fellow
Mujahideen, direct to Chechnya,
arriving there in the Spring of
1995. The next four years were to make Khattab's
exploits in
Afghanistan and Tajikistan look
like games in a nursery playground. According to
official Russian
statistics, more Russian
soldiers were killed in three years of the war in
Chechnya than were killed in
the entire ten-year Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan.
Khattab was joined by a few more
of his fellow Mujahideen from Afghanistan and they set
about
training the local Chechens in
both military warfare and Islamic knowledge. They
carried out a number
of daring operations against the
Russians inside Chechnya (Khartashoi, 1995; Shatoi,
1996;
Yashmardy, 1996) and Russia
itself (Dagestan, 1997 and now, 1999).
One of his most daring
operations was the Ambush of Shatoi on 16 April 1996,
in which he led a group
of 50 Mujahideen to annhiliate a
convoy of 50 Russian vehicles leaving Chechnya.
Official Russian
military sources said that 223
Russian soldiers were killed (including 26 senior
officers) and every
single vehicle was destroyed.
This operation led to the sacking of two or three
senior Russian Generals
in Moscow and Boris Yeltsin
announced news of the operation to the Russian
Parliament. Five of the
Mujahideen were martyred in that
operation. The entire operation was filmed and clips
and photographs
of it can be seen at
http://www.azzam.com in the Photo Library section.
A few months after that, his
group carried out a raid on a Russian Army barracks,
destroying Russian
helicopter gunships with AT-3
Sagger wire-guided anti-tank missiles. Again, this
entire operation,
including the destruction of the
helicopters was filmed.
A group of his fighters also
participated in the famous Grozny offensive of August
1996, led by Shamil
Basayev.
He also came to the scene on 22
December 1997, in which he led a group of 100 Chechen
and Foreign
Mujahideen 100km inside Russian
territory and attacked the headquarters of the 136
Motorised Rifle
Brigade of the Russian Army. 300
Russian vehicles were destroyed and scores of Russian
troops were
killed. Two Mujahideen were
killed in this operation, including one of Khattab's
senior most
commanders from Afghanistan,
Commander Abu Bakr Aqeedah.
After the withdrawal of the
Russian troops from Chechnya in the Autumn of 1996,
Khattab was
proclaimed a national hero in
Chechnya. He was presented with a medal of courage and
bravery by the
Chechen Government and assigned
an official rank of General, in a ceremony attended by
Shamil
Basayev and Salman Raduyev, the
most brilliant commanders of the Chechen war. Before
General
Jawhar Dudayev was killed, he
held Khattab in the utmost respect.This was a respect
earned by his
actions, not by his words.
Khattab believes in the Jihad of
media. He was once reported as saying: "Allah orders
us to fight the
disbelievers as they fight us.
They fight us with media and propaganda, so we should
also fight them with our
media." For this reason, he is
insistent on filming each and every one of his
operations. It is said that
he possesses a library of
hundreds of video cassettes from Afghanistan,
Tajikistan and Chechnya. He
believes that words alone are
not enough to answer false claims of the enemy's
media: video footage
must answer those claims. He has
also taken extensive video footage of the destruction
of the Russian
forces in the recent Dagestan
operation, August 1999, which shows over 400 Russian
dead, ten times
more than the 'official' Russian
figure of 40 soldiers killed.
Khattab has been likened by many
Muslims as the 'Khalid bin Waleed of our times'. He
firmly believes
that his death will only come at
the time written and appointed by Allah, not a minute
earlier and not a
minute later. He has escaped
death and assassination attempts on many occasions,
the closest of
which was when he was driving a
four tonne Russian truck, which was bombed by the
Russians. The
truck was blown to pieces as was
his passenger, but Khattab survived without a scratch.
He is intelligent, brave and has
a strong personality. He is well-liked by his
soldiers, but known as
someone you cannot play games
with. He regularly checks upon his soldiers, solving
any personal
problems they have and giving
them money from his own pocket to go and spend in the
shops. He has
a team of highly-trained and
experienced commanders, each one of whom is capable of
taking over his
role were he to be killed.
In an advice to the Muslims
around the world, he once said:
"The main thing that prevents
all of us from coming to Jihad is our families. All of
us who came here, came
without our family's permission.
If we had listened to our families and gone back home,
who would carry on this
work that we are doing? Every
time I telephone my mother, even now she asks me to
come home, even though
I have not seen her for the last
12 years. If I was to go back to visit my mother, who
would continue this
work?"
Khattab's ambition is to carry
on fighting the Russians until they leave every piece
of Muslim land, from
the Caucasus to the Central
Asian Republics. He once said: "We know the Russians
and we know their
tactics. We know their weak
points; and that is why it is easier for us to fight
them than to fight other armies."
False media propaganda has
accused Khattab of carrying out terrorist acts around
the world. Anyone
who has read this article with
an unbiased mind will know that Khattab's nature is to
confront the enemy
face to face. And if fighting
soldiers and armies who destroy your peoples' lives,
turn your women into
widows and your children into
orphans, amounts to terrorism, then let history bear
witness that Khattab
is a terrorist.
In 1979, the Soviet Union
invaded Afghanistan. Twenty years on, there is no
Soviet Union, and what
remains of it is being invaded
by the Mujahideen forces created as a result of that
invasion, which was
perhaps the biggest mistake ever
made by a Government in the 20th Century.
"A small group. They are the
ones who carry ambitions for the Muslim Ummah. And an
even smaller group from
this small group. They are the
ones who sacrifice their personal worldly interests in
order to act upon those
ambitions. And an even smaller
group from this elite. They are the ones who sacrifice
their souls and their blood
in order to bring victory to
these ambitions and convictions. So, they are a small
group within a small group
within a small group." [Shaheed
Dr Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, assassinated 1989]
Azzam Publications, August 1999
LINKS:
1) Azzam Publications.
Photographs, video clips and information about
Khattab's operations inside
Chechnya. Home Page:
http://www.azzam.com
2) Zionist Freeman Center for
Strategic Studies Article about Mujahideen in Chechnya
by Yossef
Bodansky, refuted by Azzam
Publications.
http://freeman.io.com/m_online/bodansky/chechnya.htm
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by Tariq on Monday, April 29 @
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The distance between the lowest
and the highest levels of Jannah of Allah is as if one
looks up at the sky, and sees the stars.
May his creator grant him the
best of the best.
Aameen
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