Al Qaeda in Iraq Promises Revenge For Alleged Rape in Iraq

By Andrew Cochran

The leader of Al Qaeda's "Islamic State of Iraq," Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, issued an audio tape today titled, “At Your Rescue, Sister,” threatening revenge for the alleged rape of "Sabrin al-Janabi" (a pseudonym for a Sunni woman) by Iraqi police. You can hear the entire tape from Evan Kohlmann's website (over 11 minutes long, of which Muhajir's message is about 7 minutes in length). Comments from Rita Katz's SITE Institute:

Muhajir claims that within ten hours of hearing this news, 300 Mujahideen volunteered for suicide operations, fifty of which are from the Janabiya tribe and twenty who want to marry Sabrin if she is not married. He states: “To you, the caravans of martyrs: Go ahead with Allah’s blessing and engulf their checkpoints in fire, destroy their homes, and spill their blood to flow as streams. Our Emir said: ‘I call upon every Mujahid to bear his arm and do not release it from his grasp until he meets Allah as a martyr or receives Allah’s reward’.” Muhajir adds additional appeals by the Emir of the Believers, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: “crush their camps, cut them into pieces, and pull their hearts from their bodies.”

You can access Evan's CT Blog posts about Muhajir and Al Qaeda in Iraq from his archives page.

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