Sheikh Shariff according to Alshabaab

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"`The Apostate Sharif Succeeds the Apostate Yusuf as Head of the Apostasy Government`

"After a long game and after evasiveness that was just as long, `Sharir` (`Evil` in place of `Sharif`) Ahmad has climbed, over the torn bodies of the mujahidin and the skulls of the martyrs, to the helm of a government the validity of which has expired for the Somali Muslim people. Sharir began his activities by an oath in which he tacitly said, `I swear by Allah the Almighty to respect the statues and the stone idols.` Yes. This is what Sharif stated in front of international and local media screens when he said, `I swear by Allah the Almighty to perform my duty and to respect the Constitution of the Transitional Temporary Government.` Any one with a mind knows what unbelief, disasters, and dire catastrophes are contained in this constitution, but we are not going to mention or list them in these few papers now.

"We had mentioned time and time again that all that Sharif seeks is to reach the chair of power dressed in the garb of a man of religion, irrespective of what this costs, whether in the form of unbelief elections or other ways that make a person renege on religion. I do not claim to know the future--God forbids--but was talking about a snake pit from which the nation was bitten time and time again. I was not alone in expecting these events, which were also expected by anyone who has the least background on the conflict between right and wrong and the succession of events in the region. For the way one walks is indicative of the road he takes, and the sound made by the animal indicates he is a mule.

"This `Sharir` is not acting out of his own will but in accordance with a scheme and a careful study through which the United States managed to convince the Islamic world, since the days of the Islamic Courts, that this man was the `Mullah Umar` of Somalia. His plan, or rather the plan of the United States in the region, passed through the following stages:

"First: Finishing off the warlords because the United States wanted to pluck more fruits through infiltrating among the Muslim Somali people in the name of religion, having failed to end the jihadist awakening in the region through the warlords. The apostate Sharir resorted to the aid of the mujahidin to help him in implementing this American plan after he pretended to them to love jihad and the consecration of God`s Shari`ah on earth.

"Second: Joining all armed and unarmed Somali factions in the region under the umbrella of the Islamic Courts, and assembling arms in specific regions in order to facilitate getting rid of them, so that the Muslim Somali people remain without arms and it becomes easy to control them and dictate to them.

"After this process, Ethiopian forces were called in to crush the weapons and the equipment. Sharif was among the first to retreat to the jungles of southern Somalia.

"Third: This was the crucial stage in which God exposed the apostate Sharir. After Sharir withdrew with the mujahidin to the jungles of the Somali south he could not tolerate life in the jun gle. His plan went into a delicate phase in which he had to be outside the jungle. The plan came from somewhere, and suddenly without any preliminaries Sharir, who was acting the role of the mujahid Sharif, turned himself in to Kenyan forces deployed on the artificial borders between Somalia and Kenya. This amazed every one, for the mujahid hero and great fighter, the Emir of the Islamic Courts, surrendered to the enemy and the enemy did not hurt him at all! Shaykh Hasan Turki, the Amir of Kamboni Camp, said about Sharif in an interview conducted with him by a local ratio station `we were together for the last time before he turned himself in to the enemy. He told me he would search for water for us to drink, and I did not hear anything except that the man had surrendered himself to the Kenyan Army.` This is what he said. Apparently he was not looking for water but for a way to get out of the jungle to Kenya, using Al-Thurayya phone which is linked by artificial satellites, even though any one who used Al-Thurayya at the time was bombed by American planes that roamed the skies of the area day and night.

"Fourth: The political stage that started after his shuttle trip from the American Embassy in Kenya, passing by Sana`a, until he settled with his old cook, the vampire of the blood of the Eritrean mujahidin and stealer of their fruits, Isayas Afewerki who in turn welcomed Sharif in order to prepare a plan for stealing the fruits of jihad in Somalia. One of the most important bulwarks in this phase was to hoodwink the former armed factions after they lost their weapons in the political process because they became closer than ever to accepting the democracy dressed in the garb of middle-of-the-road solutions.

"Indeed, most if not all the factions and Islamic groups converged to Asmara. Sharif proposed the agenda he had already prepared in which he calls for submitting to the status quo and acceptance of sharing power with the government of the apostate Abdullahi Yusuf, and forming an alliance comprising everybody including Somali secularists and animists, with the help of the UN and the United States, to evict the Ethiopian occupier from Somalia, as they claimed. It was then that the movement of the Mujahidin Youth (also known as Al-Shabaab) announced its boycott of that conference and that it was withdrawing from the former alliance. This process was one of the effective changes in the history of Salafi jihad in the Horn of African region.

"Fifth: After the idea was hatched in Asmara, according to the plan, some of the members who joined had been formerly counted in jihad and among the mujahidin, like Hasan Tahir Aweys who was placed by the United States on the international terror list but who has of late been scrambling and asking to be tried by the `International Injustice Court` in The Hague. He asserted that `there is no difference between him and the members of the apostate government except rivalry over who sits at the government chair.` But the organizers of the plan did not like it that Hasan Tahir Aweys should share with them the cake that took a long time to cook. They preferred to keep it to themselves in Djibouti after the two apostates, Sharif Hasan and Sharif Ahmad, signed a treaty for sharing powers and cabinet portfolios with the Abdullahi Yusuf government. That government itself was not free from the beginning of internal conflicts over leadership, with this leading to the toppling of former Prime Minister Gedi and after him Nur Adde.

"Sixth: The phase of moving over and assuming power. It was the planning of God Almighty that this coincided with the end of the tenure of the Bush government. The plan was delayed, so they wanted from this to accelerate the plan as evident from the quick movements undertaken by the apostate `Sharir Ahmad` before the end of 2008. In the last months of 2008, Sharif landed at Mogadishu International Airport, under the pr o tection of the Crusading Ethiopian forces and the Uganda forces. This had negative reflections on Sharir`s reputation among the Somali commoners and elite alike. From there (meaning Mogadishu) he headed to Djibouti to complete the final phases of the plan, namely holding elections in parliament to choose a new president to replace Abdullahi Yusuf, who fled from Baidoa when he sensed the signs of the escape of Ethiopian forces from Somalia under the blows of the mujahidin.

"Seventh: After the mujahidin took control of Baidoa, the last headquarters for the apostasy government, Sharif is trying to ignite the fires of tribalism and of `love of salam (peace) at the expense of Islam` in the hearts of the Muslim Somali nation that is alert, especially the inhabitants of the capital Mogadishu. This phase was preceded by a partial phase prepared by some of those who claim knowledge of Shari`ah and who circulate lies and nonsense about the war having ended, that the mujahidin should lay down their arms and go to their homes, and that anyone who does not lay down his arms will be regarded as an outsider and a renegade, as one of the paid pens stated at the Abu-Hurayrah Mosque.

"The conclusion in a nutshell: everything we mentioned above falls under one name or one word, namely `shrewdness.` Here for you is what was mentioned about shrewdness in the Holy Koran:

1 - `Those who lived before them did, too, devise many a blasphemy-whereupon God visited with destruction all that they had ever built, (striking) at its very foundations, so that the roof fell in upon them from above and suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came` (Koranic verse; Al Nahl, 16:26). The author of `Tafsir Al-Zilal` says in interpreting this verse: "Those before them did also plot` is an expression that shows this plotting in the shape of a structure with foundations, corners, and a ceiling, to emphasize its meticulous and tight structure and its solidness and enormity. But all this did not stand in the face of Allah`s power and plans, `But Allah tore their structures by the foundations, and the roof fell down on them from above.` This is a scene of full and comprehensive destruction that hits them from above and from under their feet. The foundations that carry the structure were wrecked and collapsed from their foundations, and the roof falls on them from above, nailing them and burying them: `And the wrath seized them from directions they did not perceive.` Lo, the structure that they built, tightened, and counted on finding protection in became their grave and their ruin that hits them from above and blow, even though they took it for protection and did not think danger would come to them from it!

"This is a complete scene of destruction and death that mocks the shrewdness of their shrewd ones and the plotting of the planners who stand against God`s advocacy and think that their shrewdness cannot be deterred or that their plans cannot fail, when God is behind them and surrounding them!`

2 - `Now those who lived before these (sinners) did, too, devise many a blasphemy-but the most subtle devising is that of God, who knows what each human being deserves : and the deniers of the truth will (in time) come to know to whom the future belongs` (Koranic verse; Al-Ra`d, 13:42). The Imam of the interpreters, Ibn Kuthayr, says in his interpretation of the verse: "Those before them did (also) devise plots` against their prophets, and wanted to drive them out of their countries, but Allah`s plan for them materialized and gave victory to those who fear Him. As the Almighty said, `AND (remember, O Prophet,) how those who were bent on denying the truth were scheming against thee, in order to restrain thee (from preaching), or to slay thee, or to drive thee away: thus have they (always) schemed: but God brought their scheming to nought-for God is above all schemers` (Koranic verse; Al-Anfal, 8:30). The Almighty said, `And so they devi se d an evil scheme; but We devised a subtle scheme (of Our own), and they perceived it not. Behold, then, what all their scheming came to in the end: We utterly destroyed them and their people, all of them; and (now) those dwellings of theirs are empty, (ruined) as an outcome of their evil deeds. In this, behold, there is a message indeed for people of (innate) knowledge` (Koranic verse; Al-Naml, 27:50-52).

"And His Almighty`s saying: `He knoweth the doings of every soul,` means that the Almighty knows everything that is in hearts and minds and will reward every one according to his deeds.

"`... and soon will the unbelievers (unbeliever in one account) know who gets home in the end`, meaning who will get the final result and the reward, them or the followers of the prophets? No, it is for the followers of the prophets in this world and beyond. Thanks and gratitude to Allah.`

"We end with the final prayer that gratitude is for God, the God of the worlds.

"Written by Abu-Talhah al-Somali"