Previously on this site I covered the first statement of the Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Squadron: a new claimed entity that is focusing its rhetoric and efforts against the Turkish military presence in northwest Syria (Idlib and its environs). A new statement has now been issued in the name of the group claiming another operation against the Turkish army, which is seen as an apostate army that must be expelled from the region. Below is my translation of it.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The Raid of Revenge for the Honourable Woman of 'al-Mastuma'
Praise be to God who gives might to Islam by His granting of victory, and lowers idolatry by His vanquishing, and disposes with matters by His command, and increases the bounties by gratitude to Him. We bear witness that there is no deity but God alone, Who has made true His promise, and given might to His soldiers, and defeated the parties alone. There is nothing before him or after him. And we bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, who was sent by God with the guidance and religion of truth, to make it supreme over all religion, even if the disbelievers dislike it, and the criminals dislike it, and the falsifiers dislike it.
Then as for what follows:
God (Almighty and Exalted is He) has says: 'So let those who exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the path of God and whoso fights in the path of God and is killed or overcomes, We will bring to him great reward. And what is the matter with you that you do nit fight in the path of God and the oppressed from the men, women and children who say: oh our Lord, get us out from this town whose people are oppressive and place for us from Yourself a trustee and place for us from Yourself a helper'- al-Nisa' 74-75.
And setting out from the command of God (Almighty and Exalted is He), and in order to support the religion of God and the Muslims, and in order to deter the aggression of the disbelievers and the apostates, your brothers in the 'Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Squadron' undertook a blessed raid on the third anniversary of the entry of the first convoy of the Turkish 'NATO' army. And that was through targeting the 'NATO' convoy on the main reinforcement route for the convoys of the Turkish army that connects between the two towns of 'Idlib' and 'Sarmada' (Bab al-Hawa highway), with explosive devices after midnight on Saturday 22 Safr 1442 AH, in revenge for the religion of God, then the honourable Muslim woman who was killed by the bullets of the 'NATO' army in front of the 'al-Mastuma camp' and whose honour was violated after they spilled her blood. We reckon her of the martyrs and God is her reckoner.
This is so and your brothers in the 'Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Squadron' have taken upon themselves to avenge the honourable Muslim woman in profession to God (Almighty and Exalted is He), so God blessed them that He granted them success for this operation whose toll was the destruction of an armoured vehicle loaded with weapons, ammunition and soldiers.
And we urge our mujahideen brothers who work for the religion of God, to support their religion and the Muslims so there should be fulfilment of the command of God to rout the disbelievers and the apostates, and implement the rule of this religion.
And finally we affirm to the idolaters and the apostates and the enemies of the religion of the Lord of the Worlds that this operation is not the first of our operations and will not be the last of them- by the permission of God- and we have pledged to God (Exalted and Lofty is He) to unsheathe our swords upon you and the tips of our spears, and we will set every trap for you, until God rules between us and you, and we expel you from al-Sham as lowly and subdued people, by the permission of God the Mighty and Wise.
For we do not fear a people by God's power, even if they are many and the columns have been brought together.
When they have assembled a group against us, a benevolent Lord has sufficed for us to stop them.
We ascended on the Day of Badr in the lofty heights, as soon as death should take us.
So you did not see a group in the people more harmful to those who were hostile when the ranks met.
But we put our reliance [in God] and said: our exploits and our fortification are the swords.
We met them with them when we ascended, and we are a guerrilla group while they are thousands. [1]
And praise be to God the Lord of the Worlds.
Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Squadron
Published on Sunday 23 Safr 1442 AH.
[1]- Al-Abiyat of Hassan bin Thabit (may God be pleased with him): 'Sirat Ibn Hisham' (Ta- al-Saqa): (2/22-23).