Jihadist group claims credit for Arizona wildfire

Fire jihad. Whether there is any truth to their claim or not, consider how savage and depraved it is for anyone or any group to take credit for so monstrous an act, and in the name of their religion, no less. Allah FUBAR.

The devout Muslim group, Al Qaeda, has long urged the setting of forest fires as a form of jihad (holy war). Spring 2012: al-Qaeda’s English-language online magazine, Inspire, published an
article called “It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb,” which
featured instructions on how to build an incendiary bomb to light
forests on fire.

Palestinian jihadist group claims credit for Arizona wildfire By David Barnett, Long War Journal, July 3, 2013
(thanks to Darla)

A Palestinian jihadist group, Masada al Mujahideen, recently
claimed credit for ongoing wildfires in Arizona in a statement posted to
jihadist forums today. The statement, titled “Masada al-Mujahideen
Fulfilled its Promise and Attacked America Again After the Expiration of
the Period with Fires that Achieved Historic Results,” was obtained and
translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.

“We had previously announced an unconventional war against the
occupation state of Israel, and then we escalated this war to reach its
main supporter, America, so that it receives a major share of it, which
will destroy their flora and fauna, with permission from Allah and then
with our hands,” the group said.

The statement further said that the group targeted the United States
“in order to make it clear and to make it know we can reach it when we
warn it, and to make it certain that our hands don’t just reach it but
also strike it.”

The group warned that the attacks “will not be the last…if America
does not respond to our demands.” The statement boasted that 19 firefighters had been killed in the fires.

Contrary to the claims of Masada al Mujahideen, authorities have said
that they believe the fires were started as a result of lighting.

Today’s statement was not the first highly dubious claim by the
jihadist group related to fires in the US. In January 2012, the group
claimed credit for wildfires in Nevada.

According to SITE, in addition to claiming responsibility for fires
in the US, the jihadist group has claimed credit for more than a dozen
fires in Israel since 2010.

Masada al Mujahideen

Masada al Mujahideen announced its formation in April 2008 and said its
leader is Abu Omar al Ansari, according to SITE. The terror group has
claimed numerous attacks against Israel, including rocket and mortar
attacks.

In May 2011, Masada al Mujahideen eulogized Osama bin Laden
immediately after he was killed by US Navy SEALs in Abbottabad,
Pakistan. “Although Sheikh Osama has been killed, his creed will not be
killed, and the whole Ummah, Allah willing, is Osama bin Laden. We do
not say that as hyperbole, for you see with your own eyes and
acknowledge with your own mouths that most of the jihadi groups in the
world have come to follow his example, method and creed,” the group said
in a statement that was translated by SITE.

Masada al Mujahideen also eulogized Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a top al Qaeda leader who was killed
in a US drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan, in August 2011. “He
was truly one of the well-known people of jihad and a bright star in
the sky of knowledge,” the group said in a statement translated by SITE.
In addition, the group issued a eulogy for al Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al Libi
in September 2012. Al Libi was killed in a US drone strike in Mir Ali
in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan on June 4, 2012.

Following the deaths in October 2012 of Abu al Walid al Maqdisi and
Ashraf al Sabah, the two leaders of the Mujahideen Shura Council in the
Environs of Jerusalem, the group threatened to carry out attacks against Israel and Hamas.

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