Sang for Sang (Blood for Blood)
You grant yourselves the right to massacre us
In the name of your so-called precious freedoms
Your goods, your lives, to us none of it is sacred
Your blood will flow for your heinous crimes
While your fighter jets bomb and destroy
Your intellectuals look on without shame
Your media conceals all the atrocities
Our dead are not worth being mentioned
You are murderers, manipulators,
Lying is the hallmark of your speakers.
Beware, we have what we need to defend ourselves
Well armed soldiers are ready to kill you
You grant yourselves the right to massacre us
In the name of your so-called precious freedoms
Your goods, your lives, to us none of it is sacred
Your blood will flow for your heinous crimes
Your laws allow collateral damage
Your soldiers kill our children and you call them heroes
You weep bitterly for a few dead
As for the thousands you killed you show no remorse
You fool the world with your eloquence
While legalizing your delinquency
Beware, we are ready to fight back
Our swords are sharpened to slice necks
You grant yourselves the right to massacre us
In the name of your so-called precious freedoms
Your goods, your lives,to us none of it is sacred
Your blood will flow for your heinous crimes
Beware, men are ready to blow themselves up
Ready to respond to the evil you have brought
Beware, your roads will soon be rigged with mines
By well-trained and determined brothers
Beware, your end is already planned
Our warriors are everywhere, ready to sacrifice themselves
Beware, our orphans are growing
They feed their thirst for revenge in rage
In other ISIS news, a new issue (number 9) of ISIS's french magazine, Dar al Islam, was released this week. You can read it here (in French). As teased in the last issue of Dabiq, it features an extensive account of how Jihadi John (Mohammed Emwazi) got from London to Syria, written by whoever traveled with him. (See pages 25 to 36). It took a lot of time to paste it into google translate but I slogged through it, waiting for something exciting to happen, or for it to reveal something interesting about him, but it didn't. He went through Belgium, Albania, Greece and Turkey, but it reads mostly like "over the hills and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go." If I come across the English version, I'll update this post with the link.
One thing the Emwazi account makes clear is that he crossed from Turkey to Syria at the Bab al-Hawa crossing.
We arrived at Bab al-Hawa where we entered the Sham smoothly and all praise is due to Allah. Abu Usamah happened by car we recovered side Syrian border and congratulated us. Prostrated ourselves we thank for Allah and jumped into the car. The rest is history. A much bloody history for United States and the United Kingdom.
This is interesting because this is the crossing controlled by Amr al-Absi, and before him his brother of Firas al-Absi. Amr al-Absi was killed in airstrike in March, 2016 in Aleppo.
I've written so many times that all roads to the U.S. and British hostages seem to begin with the al-Absi brothers. The British, Belgian, French and Moroccan torturing prison guards all are linked to Amr al-Absi. Amr al-Absi hooked up with Chechen Omar al-Shishani, who brought his group of foreign fighters to ISIS. Emwazi was directly connected to al-Absi and al-Shishani. Just as significantly, many of the Paris and Belgium attackers were recruited by al-Absi.
Yesterday, Raconteur published an excellent new article, Masterminds of Terror, by journalist Emma Beals on the al Absi brothers. She remarks on how curious it is that the U.S. (and the U.S. media) trumpeted the drone killing of Mohammed Emwazi but glossed over the airstrike that killed mastermind Amr al Absi.
The battle with the so-called Islamic State is as much one of symbols and words as it is one of airstrikes and boots on the ground — on both sides. The death of Emwazi in November 2015 was celebrated at the highest levels of government in the US and the UK; when Amr al-Absi was killed in March 2016, it passed without comment. This rhetorical war has fuelled a narrative of a “clash of civilisations” and increased the divisions within European society, creating a feedback loop
