This is an inter­view with the leader of the Al-Rashidenn Aramy “Adil Al-Zahawi” [first time the name of the leader revealed], pub­lished yes­ter­day on Haq Agency.

Tell us about the beginning

Al-Rashdenn Army estab­lished at the first days of the occu­pa­tion and began to col­lect weapons that were left in Rus­tamiya [Iraqi reg­u­lar Army mil­i­tary camp] and the rest of the out­skirts of Bagh­dad, and declared itself mil­i­tar­ily, when fight­ers car­ried out an attack on the occu­pa­tion army patrol after nine days of the occu­pa­tion of Bagh­dad, and clashed with mil­i­tants patrol police in the tun­nel Karkh side of Bagh­dad after Fri­day after­noon prayers on (18/4/2003), we didn’t not doc­u­ment these attacks with videos or images, because we didn’t adopt this tac­tic at that time.

Al-Rashideen Army located in dif­fer­ent parts of Iraq, if you fol­low our attacks videos you will notice that, includ­ing the North and South provinces.

What about the polit­i­cal agenda and objectives?

These are some of the main fea­tures of our polit­i­cal pro­gram and who­ever wants to learn more , then he can check the pro­gram issued by the Jihad and Reform front which we are part of.

1– Armed resis­tance and coop­er­at­ing with the enti­ties that are unsup­port­ive to the occu­pa­tion and rec­og­nize that the resis­tances as the legit­i­mate rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Iraq have the right to self-determination.

2– Work­ing to rebuild the polit­i­cal soc­ity and the Iraqi state based on jus­tice, and work to cre­ate insti­tu­tions that serve the com­mu­nity and pro­vide a decent life for all Iraqis.

3– Work on the lib­er­a­tion of Iraq from for­eign occu­pa­tion and achieve full inde­pen­dence, and ensure people’s free­dom, the full polit­i­cal and eco­nomic inde­pen­dence and rejected influ­ence and guardian­ship from any exter­nal force on the country’s inter­ests and to bind the occu­piers com­pen­sate the Iraqi peo­ple for all the mate­r­ial and moral dam­age due to the inva­sion and its consequences.

4– work to free all pris­on­ers from the occu­pa­tion forces and the gov­ern­ment pris­ons and hon­or­ing the mar­tyrs who paid the high­est price for freedom.

5– To iden­tity of Iraq as an Arab, Islamic state and its nat­ural wealth belongs to all Iraqis, regard­less their affiliation.

6– The ille­gal­ity of the con­sti­tu­tion, treaties and laws which were drawn up after the occu­pa­tion, which harm the sov­er­eignty and the inter­ests of Iraq.

7– Reject any population-geographical changes made under occu­pa­tion, and work to resolve dis­putes aris­ing prior to the occu­pa­tion, when cir­cum­stances are favor­able after the depar­ture of the occu­pa­tion, tak­ing into account the speci­ficity of Kur­dish issue can be dis­cussed with our broth­ers the Kurds under the pro­vi­sions of Jus­tice, under the frame­work of free and inde­pen­dent State of Iraq

Are you are cer­tain of the with­drawal of the occu­pa­tion forces? What do you have in mind after the withdrawal?

Yes, we are cer­tain, because our land never yielded to an occu­pier in any day, you can browse his­tory to know that the brute forces always looked at Iraq, but all attempts failed, these sons of this blessed earth have ded­i­cated them­selves to stay free.

As for the ques­tion of our prepa­ra­tion in the with­drawal of enemy forces, we believe that the expul­sion of the occu­pa­tion will pro­vide a suit­able ground for the Iraqis, and Iraqis expe­ri­enced and learned impor­tant harsh lessons about the forms of eth­nic and sec­tar­ian par­ties who came with the occu­pa­tion, it can be ben­e­fi­cial to the Iraqis to choose the form of the State, which serve their reli­gion and their coun­try and the future gen­er­a­tions, the Iraqis are capa­ble to make the right choice.

The jihadist fac­tions are to blame for leav­ing Bagh­dad City for the mili­tias and the occu­pa­tion forces, what do you say about that?

Resis­tance fac­tions never aban­doned Bagh­dad, but the nature of the war is to use dif­fer­ent tac­tics, Jihadist fac­tions are using var­i­ous plans based on the hit-and-run where they can­not hold Ground or a par­tic­u­lar place because they will be an easy tar­get, espe­cially after many peo­ple who came with the occu­pa­tion are still work­ing for the occu­piers as spies.

What do you say about the recent fights among resis­tances factions?

We Al-Rashideen Army always medi­ated between the resis­tance fac­tions, all fight­ers are broth­ers and their rifles are always directed to the enemy.

We believe that the fighter who sac­ri­ficed him­self for his reli­gion and home­land is more care­ful to pre­serve the blood of other factions.

There were many sit­u­a­tions we had to post­pone our oper­a­tions against the enemy because we knew that it will hurt civil­ians, soon we will pub­lish videos to con­firm this.

What about the nego­ti­a­tions between some fac­tions and the occu­pa­tion forces spon­sored peo­ple within the polit­i­cal process, are part of part of this issue?

We do not rush to sit and nego­ti­ate with the occu­pier, and we will not hold any con­tacts with the occu­pier unless it pre­ceded by paper agree­ment of prin­ci­ples and guar­an­tees, and the deci­sion is agreed by the major­ity fac­tions in the bat­tle of Jihad, and with God will it started to emerge in recent days signs of unity among fac­tions which makes nego­ti­a­tions eas­ier when the time approaching.

Last year you released your very pop­u­lar Eng­lish video called “The code of silence”, how do you see the per­for­mance of jihadist media in gen­eral? Do you have any­thing new?

There is gen­er­ally no par­al­lel between Mujahdeen media and their mil­i­tary oper­a­tions, due to three reasons:

First, the strength and dom­i­na­tion of the enemy infor­ma­tion machine and its dis­tin­guishes great exper­tise, capa­bil­i­ties and range.

Sec­ond, lim­ited expe­ri­ence of the peo­ple in this field, who need a long period of prac­tice to gain the nec­es­sary expe­ri­ence media jihadist,

Third, the black­out prac­ticed by many media and unfor­tu­nately this applies even to some media with pro­fes­sional objectivity.

In the (code of silence) released to explain some aspects of our work, espe­cially with regard to the abil­ity to access our goals, and issued in two ver­sions, one in Ara­bic and the sec­ond in Eng­lish, we addressed the Amer­i­can Pres­i­dent, and our mes­sage was clear, that we have to defeat them, and vic­tory for us.

I like to tell the read­ers through your site that the Infor­ma­tion Office of the Al-Rashideen Army are now issu­ing a new video­tape Like (code of silence) will be directed to the Amer­i­can public.

Recently announced the for­ma­tion of the Jihad and Reform Front, are these fronts in the inter­est of the resistance?

Any effort to unite the resis­tance against the occu­pa­tion would inevitably be in favor of the resis­tance not to men­tion that this is a legit­i­mate duty and a n national necessity.

Are there changes and devel­op­ments fol­lowed the emer­gence of these fronts?

We do not want to antic­i­pate events in the first stages, but cur­rently we will not reveal our plans, to keep the enemy in a state of wait and warned with stressed nerves.

What is your vision of a form of gov­ern­ment in Iraq after the occupation?

We said pre­vi­ously that we believe that the with­drawal of the occu­pa­tion will pro­vide the suit­able ground for the Iraqis, and we believe that the Iraqis will agree among them­selves on the form of gov­ern­ment based on their Islamic Arab her­itage, which rep­re­sents the major­ity in Iraq, tak­ing into account the rights of minorities.

What about the con­flict between the Shi­ite par­ties and resis­tance recently, Will it be in the inter­est of the Iraqi resistance?

We gen­er­ally reject these sub­di­vi­sions, and the cir­cu­la­tion of such sec­tar­ian ter­mi­nol­ogy , because it came with the occu­pa­tion, they tried to take advan­tage of them.

We gen­er­ally divide Iraqi soci­ety into two cat­e­gories, one against the occu­pa­tion, all col­ors and spec­trums of the Iraqi peo­ple, and one coop­er­ated with the occu­pa­tion, and this cat­e­gory includes all Iraqis, Arabs, Kurds and Turk­men, Mus­lims and Chris­tians, Sunni, Shi­ite, and here we do not look at the this con­flict as a con­flict with com­mu­nity, whether Shi­ite or non-Shiite, but because these forces agreed to coop­er­ate with the occupation.

Final word … .. to the fac­tions …… the Iraqi peo­ple .. the Amer­i­can people?

We say to our broth­ers and com­rades of Jihad: be proud and unified.

We say to the Iraqi peo­ple you are sup­port and extend, be patient, we will not aban­don you or the country.

To the Amer­i­can peo­ple we say: How long do you want to walk behind the mirage? Tell your lead­ers to return to their senses and seek to pre­serve what is left of our blood and your sol­diers blood, we will not go back from our duty of fight­ing your sol­diers, we will keep fight­ing till the last man falls.