This document is from Jihad Unspun, a jihadi propaganda website.

Although it addresses the Belsan massacre and the Chechen situation, the jihadi authors
twisted rational for killing non-Muslims (Kuffar) he applies to everyone, including non-
Muslim Americans. Jihadis in the United States, both domestic and foreign, believe what
abu Mujaahid believes here.

Abu Mujaahids thinking in the last 3 paragraphs is worth examining and taking seriously
because it reflects thinking that motivates all jihadis who, like serial killers, believe they
are justified to kill all non-Muslims (Kuffar) so fanatically and so easily.

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EXCLUSIVE: The Truth Behind The Russian Academy Seige

Sep 08, 2004

By Kunya Abu Mujaahid, Exclusive For JUS (Jihad Unspun or www.jihadunspun.com)

We remind our viewers that the statements, opinions and points of view expressed in this article are those of
the author and shall not be deemed to mean that they are those of Jihad Unspun, the publisher, editor,
writers, contributors or staff.

"Oh you who Believe! If a Liar comes to you with a news, verify it, lest you should harm people in
ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful for what you have done." [EMQ 49:6]

The siege of a Russian school/higher education and military academy in North Ossetia has ended in
massive bloodshed and loss of life, leaving possibly hundreds dead. Some analysts report that at least 700
people have been killed in total.

Fridays events are but the latest in a chain of recent attacks inside Russia that have almost floored Russia
and the failing Putin Presidency. The academy was seized on Wednesday by an group calling itself the
Phalanges or divisions of the Martyrs of Riyaadh as-Saaliheen.

A total of 32 men and women stormed the academy in Beslan during its opening ceremony for the new
term, taking hostages as human-shields in order to make a political statement to the Russian authority and
to the world about the brutal occupation of Chechnya by the Russian invaders.

The mujahideen's demands were ten-fold:

Putin must be put on trial (with Islam as the judicial process) as a war criminal for Genocide in Chechnya
A clear timetable for the withdrawal of the occupying Russian forces from Chechnya must be laid out
A "Release to Release" policy where for every ten academy hostages released the Russians would release
a hundred Chechan prisoners languishing in Russian jails, some 6500 to date
Economic compensation for the Russian aggression

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 The result of the recent rigged elections must be overturned
To leave the country by the agreed date and to let the people in Chechnya take authority
The removal of all foreign forces in the region
To allow all the displaced Chechan's to return back to Chechnya from the surrounding areas
To put the Chechans who work with the Russian authority on trial as traitors who have committed a grave
crime in the sight of Islam.

Though officials put the number of hostages at 354, up to 1,500 people were, in fact, taken hostage
exposing the Russian lies.

Putin refused to negotiate to save the lives of the hostages. His overriding aim was to demonstrate, though a
ruthless and violent action, the power of the state, once he had learnt of the mujahideens demands
especially with respect to himself. Indeed, the mujahideen made attempts to release all the children inside
the academy freeing 26 women and a number of the youngest children on Thursday. More had been ear-
marked to be released. At no-stage did the mujahideen ever contemplate killing women and children, as this
was expressly forbidden by Islam, this is borne out by the statements made by those captured and paraded
by the Russians on state-run TV.

With the refusal to negotiate, the Russians prepared to attack the academy because as the siege continued to
be drawn out more and more people had started to focus on the root causes of the crisis and the atrocities
committed by Russia in Chechnya.

On Friday, September 3, after the Russians had cut off power to the academy as well as the food and water
supplies, they made an assault using Russian Special Forces brought into Beslan from outside the region.
Similarly to the use of the old Red Army when attempting to crush any local opposition groups, Special
Forces were ordered in to ensure that the job was done properly and that no hostages were left alive, even if
that meant killing their own country men caught in any cross fire.

The explosions and the resulting collapse of the academy roof led to scores of casualties. The fierce
fighting left hundreds injured and wounded, including many children caught in the cross-fire.

Twenty-seven of the mujahideen were taken as martyrs (shuhaadaa) and around eight escaped with some of
the hostages as protection. Putin, who visited Beslan and the hospital early Saturday, September 4, shut the
borders of North Ossetia in order to control the media reporting of the atrocity committed by his own
troops and to cover up as much of the evidence as possible.

With respect to the question of the legitimacy of targeting a school in Islam or any other building(s) for that
matter, we say the following. Because Jihaad (legislated fighting) in Islam is not restricted by time or by
place we do not need an evidence (from the Sharee'ah) to permit fighting in the mountains of Tora Bora or
in the streets of Beslan, because by its nature, Jihaad is not restricted by time or place. This much is clear.

Allah (swt) says: "And fight in the way of Allaah those who fight you....And kill them wherever you
find them, and turn them out from wherever they have turned you out" [EMQ 2:190-191]

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This Qur'anic verse is general (Aam) and is not restricted. At the same time, Islam forbids the mujaahid
(fighter) to target those non-fighter women and children and the non-fighter elders, the disabled or those
who have any mental health problems, or those who are Priests or Monk's (of different faiths), or farmers
(who are living far away from the area of the battle), provided they are non-fighters (i.e. do not take up
arms against the Muslims). Having said all that, this does not mean however that the mujahideen are not
allowed to take hostage a school or a hospital or a place of worship or any place in the earth becasue the
Jihaad is not restricted by place.

Indeed, we find that the Muslims have always fought keeping the ideals of Islam in the back of their minds,
nor transgressing any due limits set by Allah. This is a far cry from the Russians who have carried out a
merciless war in Chechnya aimed at the suppression of the Islamic revival and demands for the creation of
an Islamic bloc in the Caucasus region.

At least 100,000 have died since 1994 in Chechnya. All of the major towns, including the capital city of
Grozny, have been razed to the ground. Even Putin was forced to concede his surprise at the extent of the
destruction of the city when he visited Grosny in May, following the assassination of the pro-Kremlin
governor and apostate, Ahmad Kadyrov. Inhabitants have been subjected to continual house searches,
kidnappings, executions, rapes, and extortion. Normal life has been made impossible.

According to the mujahideen, the Russians are responsible for destroying over 72 schools in Chechnya
while occupied by students. Thirty hospitals have been destroyed with patients still inside. Over 2 million
Muslims in Chechnya have been displaced and become refugees because of the atrocity committed by the
Russian forces. Is it any wonder then when such crimes have been committed to a people as we have
described that they might retaliate in some small manner?

With respect to the claim of the media that the mujahideen targeted children, we say bring your evidence. If
the Russian's were really sincere (and they are not because they are Kuffar and the Kuffar by default are
mujrim (criminals)) - why did Putin not delay the burial of the children and setup a public inquiry into the
events and allow time for autopsy's to be carried out on the dead to determine who had killed them. Indeed,
it would be very easy for any forensic expert to determine whether a Chechan or a Russian had killed the
children by analysing the wound and any remaining shrapnel. It is known that the mujahideen have their
own distinctive bullets which they have developed, and the Russians have their own manufactured bullets.

Instead of investigating the matter, we see Putin muzzling the media investigation and putting a cloak of
secrecy over the events. The Putin government want to hide the evidence and the truth which they fear.
Indeed, they were the ones who opened fire and started the assault on the academy and killed their own
people including women and children, akin to the storming of the Moscow theatre where hostages lost their
lives as a result of the gas employed by secret service special forces when the murderer Putin once again
failed to negotiate.

As Muslims, we must always be wary of what news the Kuffar (non-Muslims) bring us. We are not allowed
to doubt Muslims, but we are obliged to doubt the Kuffar. This principle must be known to the Muslims

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and takes on great significance in this time of deception and the 24-hour media broadcasts. Doubting the
Kaafir is part of the Muslims Aqeedah (creed). Doubting Muslims is against the Muslims Aqeedah. When a
Muslim speaks, we must believe he speaks the truth. When the Kuffar speak, we must be cbelieve mamy be
lying, especially when they speak about the affairs of the Muslims. The Kaafir journalist or reporter are
considered liars, until they can prove they are not lying. And even if they can somehow prove that they are
speaking the truth, we still must not believe them without our own verification.

Shame on those Muslims who take what the media report as free from bias or lies, and sit back in their own
armchairs whether in the U.K. or in the U.S. condemning what the media of the Kuffar have reported the
mujahideen to have carried out. Shame on those Muslims who take media reports as some kind of
revelation and issue immediate press releases declaring as "Haraam" (prohibited) the actions they know
nothing about, except what the Kuffar media have reported to them. How irresponsible is this?

It is high time we as Muslims, start to understand the demand our Aqeedah makes on us as believers, and to
stop condemning or condoning until we have heard from the Muslims themselves as to what happened,
whether that is in Afghanistan, or Iraq or wherever Muslims are working to make the word of Allaah the
highest.

"And they the non-Muslims plan, and Allaah plans, and Allaah is the best of planners" [EMQ]

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