Who is Anwar al-Awlaki?

A quick bio of the Muslim cleric who praised the Fort Hood shooter for “doing the right thing”—and has sparked an FBI controversy

With the news that Maj. Nidal Hasan had been corresponding with an extremist Muslim cleric named Anwar al-Awlaki, focus has shifted to this mysterious figure—and his Al Qaeda ties. (Watch Anwar al-Awlaki lecture on religious zeal.) As has become clear, al-Awlaki is no stranger to controversy or to brushes with the law. Here is what’s being reported:

He is an American citizen: Born in New Mexico in 1971, Anwar al-Awlaki was an imam at mosques in California, Colorado and Washington DC from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. He left the U.S. in 2002.

He is a Facebook aficionado: Devoutly supported by young Muslims, al-Awlaki has exploited social networking to spread his teachings. He has groups on Facebook and MySpace and his “fans” include American high school students.

He advocates Jihad: al-Awlaki’s extensive pro-Jihad writings include his controversial essay, “44 Ways to Support Jihad“—considered a key text for Al Qaeda members—which calls for young Muslims to receive arms-training for potential battles.

He is allegedly linked to Osama Bin Laden: His links to Al Qaeda were first suspected by U.S. authorities as long ago as 1999, when the FBI claims he had contact with one of Osama Bin Laden’s “procurement agents.”

He has specific ties to 9/11: Two of the terrorists who hijacked Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon on 9/11 had a “close relationship” with the imam in San Diego and in Washington, DC. In the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11, al-Awlaki is referred to as their “spiritual advisor.”

Nidal Hasan was a member of his congregation: The Fort Hood shooter — who’s reported to view the imam’s teachings with “deep respect” — attended the Washington, DC mosque where al-Awlaki preached.

The UK has censored him: al-Awlaki was banned from speaking via teleconference at a London event in August 2009 to raise money for Muslims held in Guantanamo Bay.

He has written in support of the Fort Hood shootings: al-Awlaki posted comments on Monday in support of the Fort Hood attack on his website, calling Nidal Hasan a “hero” for fighting against “American tyranny.” His website has since gone offline for unknown reasons.

The extremist cleric who praised the Fort Hood shooter

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Imam Anwar @ Cageprisoners Ramadhan Fundraising Dinner

Cageprisoners presents

BEYOND GUANTANAMO: Is This The End?
Iftar, auction and fundraising dinner

Sunday 30th August 2009
5.30 pm

Venue:
Kensington Town Hall
Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Speakers:

Sami El Haj - Al-Jazeera, former Guantanamo prisoner
Mustafa Terry Holdbrooks Jnr - Former US Military Policeman who embraced Islam in Guantanamo
Binyam Mohamed -  Former Guantanamo prisoner, speaking publicly for the first time since his release
Imam Anwar al-Awlaki – Eminent Islamic Scholar (video message)
Ahmed Ghappour - Lawyer for the legal charity Reprieve, who represent over 30 prisoners in Guantanamo
Moazzam Begg – Director, Cageprisoners, former Guantanamo detainee
Yvonne Ridley -  Journalist, Patron, Cageprisoners, speaking about the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her visit to Bagram
Amir Sulaiman – Acclaimed poet of the spoken word, reciting his works and some poems from Guantanamo
Mustafidh Gani – Shariah Graduate and Teacher

Al-Wasatiyyah: Imam Anwar al-Awlaki – “Virtues of the Sahabah”

Imam Anwar in Pakistan: State of the Ummah lecture, March 1st

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatuhu.

This is like a dream come true. Being from Pakistan myself and listening to Imam Anwar for years, I thought it would be a long time before we see Imam Anwar spreading over the paki mindedness. Alhamdulillah since the events are changing at such a fast pace, It was not a surprise to come to know about this event.

Many of us wondering why Imam Anwar is taking a stance among such deviants. I think first and for most we should trust our beloved Imam’s wisdom. Second, I think there are few reasons :

Dr. Israr is indeed against the jihad in Afghanistan but some of his lectures like tafseer of surah Asar etc are just wonderful. He knows the history of Pakistan like no other speaker I know of. Pakistanis in this day an age have some fundamental issues, one of them is identity crisis. They intend to take Pakistan as their religion instead of Islam. So what ever threatens Pakistani way of life has to be a Zionist issue, may it be Islam. and So Dr.Israr can do an excellent job on this subject. As long as he only sticks to this issue. bottom line would be that it is better to be Dr.Israr than a Pakistani.
Plz get a glimpse about Pakistani culture/religion at this blog.

http://www.pakpositive.com/2008/12/22/pakistans-first-girl-pop-band-creates-waves/

ZZ Hamid is indeed an ISPR mouth piece who has played on the pakistani anti-american emotions. where Pakistanis in general are far away from religion they still hate America. plus because of the pakistani’s paki attitude, this conspirator has made them into believing that PTT is funded by RAW. All this is done to break the Mujahideen unity in Afghan Pak region. This stupid man will not talk about 80% of supplies going through pakistan. or pakistan’s 130,000 troops fighting across border against the Taliban. or how much the mujahideen have sacrificed cause of ISI. Yet he is able to deceive the public into thinking that the real jihad is in Afghanistan and not Pakistan.

BUT Alhmadulillah Alhamdulillah. All that is happening in Pakistan is for a reason. just have a look how arrogant he was about mumbai attacks at TV one. This program is in English.

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/mumbai-drama-exposed-by-ahmed-quraishi-zaid-hamid/

and see how public went mad after him. So there’s a ZZ Hamid fever going on in Pakistan. After that Pakistan Govt had to accept the Pakistani individuals’ involvement. and its like a slap on Ziad’s face. and the whole country is dumb struck. Now at least they will be careful into believing in conspiracy theories.

Also before ZZ Hamid came on to Brass Tracks. People in Pakistan would consider every mujahid on the battle field as a terrorist and had nothing to do with Jihad. Now at least they consider or most of them consider jihad in Afghanistan as the real jihad.

We also see that it seems very strange about PTT. A group that was labelled as RAW agents by Ziad Hamid, to be implementing sharia.
Very soon we shall see his lies come out to the public.

Beloved Imam Anwar : well we see that people would come to listen to ZZ Hamid and Dr.Israr more than they would for Imam Anwar because of their popularity in Pakistan. and so why not speak in a bigger crowd *can anyone refute Imam Anwar easily?* I don’t think Imam Anwar would put him self in a situation with out knowing it, So Brothers RELAX inshaAllah.
I have heard our sheikh say a few beautiful things about Pakistani region. Allhamdulillah that has made me/us proud to be from Pakistan. Pakistan has given the most number of sacrifices for waging jihad fi sabilillah against the kuffar. Think about fighting against the British, then the Russians, then Americans. Also, almost every jihad today can be tracked back to Afghanistan/Pakistan region. This is a place of gems and jewels inshaAllah. I think Imam Anwar would consider on issues that concern Pakistani community the most, such as the importance of implementing Islamic Sharia. and the identity of a Muslim.and most importantly they need to know our history. LIFE OF SAHABA (ra). so they can evaluate their own way of life style with that of the Pakistani Culture.

Hope I made sense inshaAllah.

This is an actual conference in Pakistan that will have Imam Anwar speak from Yemen. It will be 5PM Islamabad time, which means 7AM for US Eastern Time Zone.

For those who are unable to attend, please listen the recorded lecture at Ayyaz’s Website. At 5:00pm, In Sha’ Allah.

Exhausted Nation

Following is taken from BBC.

The picture by Tim Hetherington (who won the 2007 World Press PhotoAward)  shows an American soldier in a bunker in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley during fierce fighting with the Taleban.

‘Everyone was exhausted’

The day this picture was a pretty intense day. We’d already had two engagements with Taleban or foreign fighter insurgents in the area, and they had established a line of fire inside the base.

As the picture shows, everyone was exhausted. One guy had to jump into the base and broke his leg, requiring a medical evacuation by helicopter later in the night.

We later received a radio communication that a supply of grenades and suicide vests had entered the valley. We were perched on the hillside in this valley fearing the enemy had come to the perimeter of the bunker, maybe 30 meters or so and might attempt to overrun us. Let’s just say we were concerned.

In the spring, another American base in Nuristan was on the end of a concentrated attack. US troops ended up calling in air support on their own compound to survive. With that fresh in our minds it wasn’t impossible to contemplate the idea of being overrun.

Mumbai terror attacks: Islamabad admits for the first time that assault was homegrown

Al-Anfal And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism: i.e. worshipping others besides Allâh) and the religion (worship) will all be for Allâh Alone [in the whole of the world. But if they cease (worshipping others besides Allâh), then certainly, Allâh is All-Seer of what they do.

Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:

Allah's Apostle said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 24)

Mumbai terror attacks: Pakistan arrests alleged ringleader and five others

Islamabad admits for first time that assault was homegrown

Pakistan said today it had arrested the alleged ringleader and five other suspects behind the Mumbai terror attacks that left 179 people dead as it acknowledged for the first time that they were launched from Pakistani soil.

"Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan," Rehman Malik, Islamabad's top interior ministry official, told reporters. "Most of them [the suspects] are in custody.”

He said investigators had traced a boat used by the attackers to reach India from Pakistan and discovered two of the suspects’ hideouts near the southern port city of Karachi. Other leads pointed to Europe and the US and Malik said Pakistan would ask the FBI for help.

India, which has maintained that the attack was planned and carried out by militants in Pakistan, has been pressing the Pakistani government to crack down on Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group widely blamed for the bloodshed. Pakistan has already arrested several of its leaders.

Tracing telephone calls and bank transfers had led to the capture of a key figure in the conspiracy, Hammad Amin Sadiq, Malik said. “He was basically the main operator,” Malik said, adding that his interrogation led to the raid on the two hideouts, one in Karachi, and the other two hours’ drive way.

Malik said the breakthrough in the investigation came when the authorities traced the fishing boat used by the militants, and purchases of equipment such as life jackets and the engine for the rubber dinghy used by them to go ashore in Mumbai, India’s financial centre.

“They had some kind of training, they went into the ocean,” Malik said, saying they had sailed from Karachi. “Some of the accused who have been arrested … have given us the full rundown.”

Malik said investigators had been unable to establish the identities of the nine gunmen killed in the attack last November, although Pakistan has confirmed that Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the gunman caught alive, was a Pakistani. He added that the evidence collected made a connection to the leadership of Lashkar-e-Taiba, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and Zarrar Shah, who India says masterminded the attacks. The Indian foreign ministry said that the information would be studied before any reaction was given.

Pakistan released the results of its investigation as Richard Holbrooke, Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, finished a four-day visit to the country. Holbrooke was scheduled to arrive in Kabul today and is due to visit India next week on the final leg of a regional tour to devise a new strategy for stabilising the region.

May Allah accept the deeds of our brothers, May He have mercy on Ajmal Kasab. May Allah guide our murtad army towards its true enemy.

Imam Anwar:: 21st Century Muslim (Sydney – Mon 21:30, London – Mon 10:30, Islamabad – Mon 15:30, Washington DC – Mon 05:30 )

InshaAllah do not miss this event. I am forwarding some links which the brothers have made from his previous talks. please listen to these five minute clips so you know what you are missing. just to have an idea about Imam Anwar’s popularity in the west, plz visit his blog

A very amazing lecture by Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki on DEATH

WHAT ABOUT THAT?! “I’M ABU DUJANA!” {HD}

The VICTORIOUS group in ISLAM!!!

Can the Ummah Trust Its Scholars?

Allah Is Preparing Us For Victory: Part 9

Ascension of Jesus (Isa) according to Islam by Anwar Awlaki

Anwar Awlaki – One Easy Deed

Allah is preparing us for VICTORY! Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki

No More Soft Islam

Imam Anwar on youtube (Misc clips)

If you would like to listen to his lecture live on the Internet, below are the details. This lecture will be recorded for the public benefit, In Sha’ Allah.

This coming Monday, 9th February, Imam Anwar Al Awlaki will be giving a LIVE talk via phone to our brothers and sisters in Australia. Don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity.

Monday 9th February, 9:30pm @ Lakemba Mosque.

For those who are unable to attend, please listen LIVE via web cast at Imedia webcast. At 9:30pm EST.

Titile of talk: 21st Century Muslim

Defying All Odds—for the sake of ALLAH (BLOG’S BACK)

http://revolution.thabaat.net/

الحمد الله, after a brief halt, our blog has returned. The blog was not shutdown due to any hacks or infiltration or heavy traffic or server reports, rather it was shutdown on our own accord in order that we may move the servers. We apologize for the delay, however the move is successful and this will be permanent, In Sha’ Allah.

The lying enemy of Allah, Bill Warner – may Allah destroy him – claimed that he was the one who shut down our blog. Let this be a testimony that this disbeliever is a liar. May Allah send a hurricane over his house so that he can be wiped out, humiliated.

In addition, al-Thabaat forums are back up. Please visit the main page here.

We have dedicated a video to the return of the blog below to strike fear in the hearts of the Kuffaar and Munafiqeen.

Please pass the message on.

Biden In Pakistan To Check On His Trained Dogs

This is really bizarre. Where Pakistanis  have a dislike towards Americans, they still don’t blame their Army and the Govt. for supporting American terrorists. With Biden’s recent visit to Pakistan, around 15 billion dollars are promised in exchange of Muslims, who have been fighting to free Palestine from Jewish terrorists. Pakistan Army has lost over 1300 to 1400 of it’s soldiers, it has rounded up and terrorized its Pakistani community, with over 1000 disappearances. From which Dr.Afia’s case surfaced, not because of Pakistan Army’s efforts instead they threatened her family to keep silent. Only Allah knows about the rest of the cases. 91% of the Guantanamo cases were arrested by the Pakistani Intelligence Agencies and Northern Alliance only 5% are the direct victims of US aggression. Only 7% of the cases in Guantanamo have any credible evidence. In all over 83,000 Muslims have been arrested around the globe with the help of Muslim tyrant regimes.

Following is taken from CBS news.

(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)

Vice President-elect Joe Biden was in Pakistan for talks Friday with the leaders of the country at the heart of the fight against Islamic extremists, the U.S. Embassy confirmed.

Biden was due to meet president Asif Ali Zardari and prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, said a senior Pakistani government official, who said a third meeting was likely to take place with Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, the army’s chief of staff.

Biden’s visit came just hours after a U.S. counterterrorism official told CBS News correspondent Bob Orr that an American missile strike had killed two senior al Qaeda figures in Pakistan.

The men were identified as Usama al-Kini, al Qaeda’s operations chief in Pakistan, and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, a top lieutenant.

A senior Pakistani security official confirmed the killing of the two militants, saying Pakistan had, “knowledge of the killing,” but declining to give further details on the grounds that it would compromise important security information.

Al Kini and Swedan, “were very high on our list of people that we (U.S. and Pakistan) wanted to catch,” said the Pakistani security official.

A Senior Western diplomat said it was important to note that confirmation of the killings coincided with Biden’s visit. It’s not the first time the arrest or killing of important terror suspects linked to Pakistan has come just as senior U.S. officials visit the country.

“The Pakistanis will be keen to impress Mr. Biden, who will be a key figure in the next U.S. administration, that they are vital players in the war on terror,” said one Western diplomat in Islamabad, who, like the other sources, did not want to be named.

Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University, told the Washington Post that the targeted strikes by U.S. drones appear to be hitting al Qaeda’s senior members hard, and it could be thanks to the Pakistanis.

“It is a stunning testament of the accuracy of intelligence that the United States is obtaining,” Hoffman told the paper. “Either we have built up an impressive network of sources that facilitates such precision targeting, or the Pakistani authorities are cooperating big-time.”

Least we can do for the Mujahideen, Make dua’

With the Muslims who have Nifaq in their hearts, attacking those (the Mujahideen) who have left their families and businesses for the sake of Allah, the Least we can do for the Mujahideen is to Love them and make dua for them and beg Allah to make them Victorious inshaAllah.

Br. Abdul Rahman Saleem (may Allah Hasten his release) delivers some inspiring words.

. There is nobody today like the mujahideen, when we speak about them we raise our head up high, we are proud of them because they are our sons.

.They are the lions of Tawheed, they are the lions of jihad, they are the lions of this ummah, when they roar, the Kings and the Queens, the Presidents, Prime ministers stand still to listen to those people.

.They left their women and their children to fight for the sake of Allah, Who among us left their women and their children, who among us left their millions to fight for the sake of Allah. They left their houses and their palaces to go and fight. They sleep in their caves, the skys are their blankets,the ground that they sleep on is their mattress, They rugs and stones that they sleep on are their pillows.

.How dare anybody attacks them, they are the people of Isa (as), because of them we walk with our heads up high, anybody who attacks them are from the kuffar and from the munafiqeen. Nobody loves them but the muwahideen and the muslims.

.We are the ones who should follow them, there is nobody like them on this earth.We should not say uff against them. when we speak about them, we speak with Adab (respect), cus may be they are the ones who are shuhada, whom Allah mentioned with the Prophets in Quran. who among us Allah mentioned in The Quran ?

.Yet Muslims attack them day and night, the little you can do for them, you donot even dothat. The small you can do, we dont do. The dua the small dua that you can raise your hands to Allah and do, no you dont do that, at all.

.Make dua for your self. The one who wants a job, makes dua, O! Allah please make it a pass for me for this job. who wants to pass his driving test, he makes exam for that, who wants a child he makes dua for that, who wants a wife, he looks in the heavens and earth for that. but youcannot make dua for them. And yet Allah said, that the dua is the Ibada’ (worship). Dua itself is the worship.

. If we ask we ask from Allah, if we beg we beg Allah, nobody else. A little that you can do, you dont make dua? yes we should make dua for them, thats the least we can do. For those who cant go and fight. And know that if you cant go and fight you wont be following the shuhada.

.Make dua for them, and when you make dua for them believe that Allah (Swt) is going to respond to your dua, believe that Allah (swt) is going to listen to your dua, believe that He is going to respond before you put your hands down, when you ask Allah He is going to respond, before your hand are dropped somewhere on this earth Allah is going to respond, so you ask, dont ask halfheartedly, ask with full conviction in your heart.

.Ask Allah to remove those Kuffar from our lands, ask Allah to let their blood run on Falluja, let their blood run on the mountains of Afghanistan, let the mujahideen kill them and destroy them one after the other.

.Allahhum mansur mujahideen fi kulli makkan is what you want to ask Allahum mansur sheikh usama is what you want to ask, let their heavens throw their planes out of the sky, let the oceans swallow their ships, let the mountains around them crumble, let the ground beneath them shake, that is what you want to ask my dear brothers. When you want to ask Allah (swt) ask for the victory of the mujahideen, let their women become widows, like our women become widows, let their children become orphans, like our children become orphans, donot be ashamed when you ask for the victory of the mujahideen, they are the ones who are fighting for the sake of Allah, if anybody deserves to be among the citizens of jannah, they deserve to be among the citizens of jannah, if anybody deserves to be from among the khulafa, they deserve to be among the khulafa.

.My dear brother/sisters that is the least that you can do for those mujahideen. and hope and pray that one day.