the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan:
Interview With The General Mujahideen Official In Nuristan,
Esteemed Sheikh Dost Muhammad
Zil Hajj 26, 1432 A.H, Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Biography
The General Official of the Mujahideen in Nuristan Province is Sheikh Dost
Muhammad, son of al-Hajj Safar Muhammad, and one of the sons of Nuristan in east
Afghanistan. He conducted his elementary studies in this region, then traveled
to continue his Shari'ah studies in Pakistan. After graduating, he became
occupied with teaching in a number of schools and has long experience in the
fields of tafseer, Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence. He has authored a number of
books on Jihad and other Shari'ah matters, and is renowned as a professor on
both sides of the border. The Sheikh has dedicated a large part of his life to
Jihad and educating the Mujahideen in addition to teaching and writing. He has
lived the life of the Mujahideen in the mountains, caves and forests, away from
the pleasures of life. Although the Sheikh's beard has whitened, his soul is
still as strong as if he was in his twenties. Now the Sheikh continues to work
in the general leadership of the Mujahideen in Nuristan province under the
command of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Recently, al-Somood magazine met
with him and conducted this interview, which we invite you to read.
Question: Your Excellency, to start we thank you for allowing us the
opportunity to met you to learn the situation in Nuristan. We wish for you to
give us a general overview of this province.
Answer: We praise Allah and we pray upon His
kind messenger. Thereafter, we thank you also for bearing the hardship of coming
here, and we ask Allah to reward you. To answer your question, Nuristan province
is located in eastern Afghanistan and includes seven districts in addition to
the center Parun. This province is divided into three main regions: eastern
Nuristan, central Nuristan and western Nuristan. East Nuristan includes
Barg-e-Matal and Kamdesh districts. Central Nuristan includes the Wanat and Wama
districts as well as the province capital Parun. Western Nuristan includes three
districts including Nur Karam, Dawab and Mandol. Nuristan province has a rocky,
mountainous nature and the plains are few. Mountains, forests and rivers form
the majority of the province's landscape. Therefore the lands of this province
are considered among the most suitable for Jihadist operations and guerrilla
warfare. And so this province was among the most dangerous and damaging to the
Russians during their occupation of this country and has now becomes one of the
most dangerous for the Americans and their allies.
Question: What are the details of the situation in the various regions in
this province, and which areas are under the control of the Mujahideen and which
are under the control of the enemy? Are there bases for the invading foreign
forces in the land of Nuristan?
Answer: Like in the rest of Afghanistan's
provinces, the Americans established their military bases in Nuristan. One of
the strongest bases was in Nuristan in different areas of Kamdesh district.
Through the grace of Allah and the sacrifices of the Mujahideen, the province of
Nuristan has been cleansed of the presence of American forces and they now have
no bases in all of Nuristan province with the exception of Nur Karam base in
extreme western Nuristan adjacent to the village of Kalagush in Laghman
province. They have no other presence in the rest of Nuristan. As for the
districts of the province, the Mujahideen, through the grace of Allah, control
three districts: Kamdesh, Mandol and Waygal are all under the complete control
of the Mujahideen.
As for the districts of Wama and Barg-e-Matal, lackey forces are present in the
district centers and cannot leave them because there are Mujahideen bases
located no farther than 1 kilometer away. As for the center of Barun district,
it is completed surrounded by the Mujahideen. The center is tantamount to a few
square kilometers of land surrounded by a fence of security barracks. The rest
of the district area and the roads leading to it are under the control of the
Mujahideen. In general, American forces are only present in Noorgaram near
Laghman province. The Lackey forces are besieged in the centers of Parun, Wama
and Barg-e-Matal and supplies are delivered via air only. Allah Almighty
willing, the Mujahideen will be successful through His aid to them, and they
will conquer the remaining besieged centers and the lackey soldiers will
surrender to the Mujahideen or they will flee on helicopters, Allah Almighty
permitting.
Question: You spoke about the province center Parun. The lackey
government has recently displayed great concern over it and said that the city
is in danger of falling into the hands of the Mujahideen. Is there a plan for a
comprehensive assault on it?
Answer: Yes,. The Mujahideen in Nuristan
have reached the final stages of the plan drawn up to cleanse the center of the
enemy, as they did in Kamdesh and Wanat. This year we intend to focus our
operations upon the province center. If Allah Almighty grants it to us to
conquer the province center, this will mean that Nuristan has been liberated in
its entirety, Allah willing, because the rest of the province has already been
conquered by the Mujahideen. In the remaining area where the enemy is present,
this presence is weak and incapable of mounting resistance. All roads leading to
the center have been closed and are under the control of the Mujahideen. The
Mujahideen have attacked some of the enemy's defensive positions as a prelude to
the final assault, Allah Almighty willing. They have conquered three of these
points and have also shot down a helicopter bringing supplies to the province
from Kabul. But the final assault has not yet begun.
Question: If Allah wills success for the operation to liberate the
province, what will your future plans be?
Answer: As we mentioned to you previously,
some enemy forces remain, even if only in a token fashion, in the Barg-e-Matal
and Wama districts, which have been under siege by the Mujahideen for a long
time. We will seek to purify these districts also of their presence. With that,
the presence of the enemy will be limited to the Nur Karam districts in west
Nuristan only. As for the rest of the Nuristan, it will be purified of the
ungodliness of the enemy entirely, Allah willing.
Question: The past years in Nuristan have witnessed, through the grace of
Allah, great achievements for the Mujahideen. More than once, they liberated the
Barg-e-Matal district, and they destroyed 5 strong American bases in Kamdesh.
Lastly, they completely liberated Wanat Waygal district. So, what do you see as
the secret of the Mujahideen's victories?
Answer: We believe that our victories are
derived entirely from the grace of Allah and the special mercy that he has
granted to our unarmed Mujahideen to destroy the strongest American bases in the
area. After that, we do not forget sacrifices of the Mujahideen and the general
populace, because the people of Nuristan stand loyally and entirely by the side
of the Mujahideen, and cooperate with them in carrying out the duty of fighting.
Eliminating the enemy from this region is the best proof of the cooperation of
the people with the Mujahideen. And now, throughout the entire province, there
is no one who opposes the Mujahideen except some puppets in the province center.
This because all of those who had allied themselves with the enemy has run away
to Jalalabad or to the capital Kabul. The rest of the people are standing
alongside the Mujahideen and praise Allah for that.
Question: Nuristan province is a mountainous, rocky region, and far
removed from media coverage. Any time a battle takes place, the enemy claims
they have inflicted big losses on the Mujahideen. It is hard to confirm some of
these claims. So, are the losses of the Mujahideen indeed as the enemy claims?
Answer: Making such claims is the enemy's
last ditch effort to raise the morale of their defeated soldiers. The truth is
that the Mujahideen's losses are very few because the Mujahideen have now
understood through their experiences of the past few years how to deal with
enemy air raids and have to come to know ways of preventing them. Additionally,
the terrain of Nuristan are mostly mountainous in nature and covered with vast
forests, so the air raids do not have much of an impact. So if the enemy's air
raids have lost their impact due to natural factors and the enemy's forces on
the ground have become minimal or non-existent, then how could the Mujahideen
face bog losses? Throughout recent years we haven't witnessed any big blows
inflicted on the Mujahideen. As for the enemy's attacks on villages and homes,
this has happened numerous times and many among the general public have been
killed.
Question: You mentioned the enemy's attacks on villages and homes and
perpetrating massacres against civilians. Would you please give us some
examples?
Answer: Years ago, American forces raided
the village of Batikhel in Kamdesh district and killed 20 civilians, most of
whom were women and children. Also, American aircraft bombed a passenger bus in
Kordish village in the same district, killing 8 civilians. Additionally, they
bombed a village in Barg-e-Matal killing 40 civilians, and killed more 30
civilians in an attack on a village in Dawab district. The story of heinous
crimes committed by the Americans is very long, and it has many chapters in this
region. Relating it all would take a long time. But, through the grace of Allah,
the enemy cannot attack us on the ground and therefore cools his anger through
indiscriminate aerial bombardment. But these air strikes have little impact, as
I said.
Question: Since most of regions of Nuristan province have been liberated, what
are your plans for civil administration to run the liberated areas?
Answer: The agenda of the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan gives clear instructions for the management of liberated regions.
There should be a civil administration, judicial administration, a council of
scholars and committees for education, Da'wa and guidance. We have assigned
officials according to these instructions, and they are managing the liberated
areas and serving the people in accordance with the directives of the Islamic
Emirate. People go to them with their business. Praise be to Allah, there is
complete cooperation between these officials and the people.
Question: To close, what is your message to the Muslims and to the
Mujahideen?
Answer: My message to the Muslims and the
Mujahideen is that our Jihad is on the brink of victory, Allah willing, and it
is time to reap its fruits. Let us all be wary of the plots of the enemy at this
sensitive stage, because the enemy in these stages seeks to spread strife and to
divide the Mujahideen by cunning ploys. Let us all be alert for the enemy's
plots and let us march with our Jihad to the final stage seriously and
cautiously.
Al-Somood: Thank you, Sheikh, for the
opportunity to meet with you, and we ask Allah to bless you in your Jihad, and
give you victory over the enemy.
Answer: We thank you also. May Allah
Almighty grant you that which is best.
Translated From The Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan: Al-Somood
Magazine, Issue # 61 (June-July 2011)
The Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan