Interview with Wanted Fugitive Saleh al-Qarawi, Commander of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades

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Last Updated (Friday, 23 April 2010 10:54) Written by Laith Alkhouri Friday, 23 April 2010 09:38

On April 3, 2010, the al‐Fajr Media Center released an interview it conducted with Saleh bin Abdullah bin Saleh al‐Qarawi, a member of Saudi Arabia’s 85 most wanted list and field commander of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an Al‐Qaida‐affiliated offshoot operating in Lebanon. Al‐Qarawi has links to Abu Musab al‐Zarqawi—the late leader of Al‐Qaida in Iraq—as al‐Qarawi asserted that “Allah rewarded me to participate with my brothers in al‐Falluja, and I came to know the Sheikh Abu Musaab al‐Zarqawi—may Allah have mercy on him—closely, and he assigned me to a job outside of Iraq.” According to al‐Qarawi, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades “are not confined to Lebanon but there are targets that our fires will reach Allah‐willing in the near future…the Brigades are formed of a number of groups that are spread in numerous places…and the groups of ‘Ziad al‐Jarrah’ in Lebanon are only some of our groups, and we rushed to create these groups and announced them because of the urgency of the battle with the Jews and the priority of the initiative at the time and the place, but the rest of the groups are outside Lebanon.” For al‐Qarawi, “Undoubtedly, when America interferes in any country it corrupts it and sucks out its resources and the blood of its children. And the primary struggle today is between us and America and the Jews. And we stand strongly against any interference in Lebanon, whether from America or others, and also in any of the Muslim countries.” He proclaimed that “the American interests are our most important aims, and they are spread around the world, and they are easy to attack.”

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