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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Militia violence29 Jul, 16:49 BAGHDAD

Ashab al-Kahf calls fire-for-fire a covenant, not a slogan

Ashab al-Kahf (assessed Nujaba front, assessed) published on its official armed-group channel a text calling the principle of "bombing for bombing, fire for fire" a "covenant and threat", and posted an oblique logistics line minutes earlier

WHAT HAPPENED

At 13:48 on 29 July, Ashab al-Kahf's official armed-group channel published a statement opening with Qur'an 2:194 ("whoever transgresses against you, transgress likewise against him") and condemning "the brutal and repeated Saudi-American aggression on the pure land of Iraq", calling it "a naked declaration of war on Iraq's sovereignty"; the retrieved text states the aggressors "crossed all red lines". Shabab al-Islam (Ashab al-Kahf — owned/non-official media) carried the identical text eight seconds later. Thirteen minutes before the statement, the same official channel posted a two-line message reading only "Ashab al-Kahf / regarding logistics, what do we do about it" (باللوجستي شسوينه). No claim of an executed attack accompanies either post, and no other tracked actor in the window used the "covenant and threat" formulation.

WATCH

Watch: a claim of a retaliatory strike under Ashab al-Kahf or another Islamic Resistance in Iraq brand within 72 hours; a second logistics-register post from the same channel; adoption of the "covenant and threat" wording by Nujaba's own outlets; any of these moves this file.

EVIDENCE · INTERCEPTED CHANNEL MESSAGE
View the original message (Arabic)بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فَمَنِ اعْتَدَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ فَاعْتَدُوا عَلَيْهِ بِمِثْلِ مَا اعْتَدَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ ۚ صدق الله العلي العظيم إننا ندين بأشد العبارات وأقوى الكلمات العدوان السعودي الأمريكي الغاشم والمتكرر على أرض العراق الطاهرة. هذه الأعمال الإجرامية، التي تستهدف الأبرياء وتدمر البنى التحتية،…
Published as evidence, not endorsement