Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri The Coordinator 2014 Part 19-78-Caliphate-Manuals-3

 By Capt (Ret) C de Waart, feel free to share: in Confidence. In The "War of the Cross, we need a Strategy."

“For jihadis, it is the road to Jerusalem at last.” // Bin Laden's strategic goal of ensuring "the pious Caliphate will start from Afghanistan."

Remember Winston Churchill: “the longer you can look back, the further you can look forward”.

With a view on current developments and events; first let’s recall history: The Caliphate Conference. Cairo. May 1926. The World Muslim Congress Makkah June-July 1926. Internet Edition - http://imranhosein.org. Capt (Ret) C de Waart; The resolution affirmed that the Caliphate was capable of being realized. Another Congress should be convened in which all the Islamic peoples would be adequately represented and that Congress would take the measures necessary for establishing the Caliphate fulfilling all the conditions prescribed in the Shari'ah. In short, such a Congress would elect a new Caliph.

Shaikh Muhammad al-Ahmadi al-Zawahiri, head of the Egyptian delegation: The grandfather of Ayman al-Zawahri the current leader of Al Qaida. "In the examination of theological questions which were submitted to us, we did not wish to resort to ijtihad and to establish

a new doctrine. We confined ourselves to examining the principles admitted by the recognized doctrines of Islam. As for the applicability of these principles, it is for you to declare that that is beyond our competence." "I am advocating neither a new doctrine nor ijtihad. What I seek is your opinion. If you affirm principles which are not susceptible of application in our epoch, what will be the circumstances?"

Shaikh al-Zawahiri: "It is dangerous for Islam to raise the question of the applicability, at one epoch rather than another, of the dispositions of the Shariah. We feel that the application of

Although American and European intelligence communities are aware of the jihadi texts, the work of these ideologues often reads like a playbook that U.S. policymakers have been slavishly, if inadvertently, following. “The data don’t get to the top, because the decision-makers are not looking for that kind of information,” a policy analyst who works closely with the American intelligence community told me. “They think they know better.” As the writings of Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Bakr Naji, Fouad Hussein, and others make clear, the tradition of Salafi jihad existed before bin Laden and Al Qaeda and will likely survive them; yet, from the beginning of the war on terror, the strategy of the Administration has been to decapitate Al Qaeda’s leadership. Bruce Hoffman, who is the author of “Inside Terrorism” and a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, 2006

the general principles of religion ought to be subject to no exceptions, and we consider that there is no condition to establish new conditions in deference to the exigencies of the age." Shaikh al-Zawahiri was, of course, perfectly justified in insisting that the Shari'ah, or divinely revealed sacred law of Islam, admitted of no revisions to suit differing situations and ages. The Shari'ah had to be retained in its revealed form regardless of whether or not the Muslims found themselves competent or not to apply it in a particular age. And so, for Shaikh Zawahiri, the restoration of the Caliphate was a religious obligation. He was quite correct! In respect of the third question (How is the Caliphate achieved or constituted? And Late June 2014, after ninety years The militant Sunni group Isis has said it is establishing a caliphate, or Islamic state, in the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria. It also proclaimed the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph and "leader for Muslims everywhere".) (Think about point 2 and 3 and look at Mullah Omar) the Committee answered as follows: 1. "By appointment by the preceding Caliph. 2. "By appointment by the classes of influential Muslims, i.e., men whom the public must obey such as ulama, amirs, notables, men of opinion and administration. 3. "By conquest by a Muslim even if he does not fulfill the other conditions."

Either, then, the Caliphate was not a necessity in Islam, or it was a necessity and could not be realized. In which case failure to re-establish the Caliphate would be a collective sin for which the believers would be punished. The fundamental verse of the Qur'an concerning the dynamics of leadership in the model of Islam stated that Muslims must conduct their affairs on the basis of mutual consultation: "And their affairs are (conducted) on the basis of mutual consultation (amongst themselves)." (Qur'an, a-Shura, 42:58)

In their conclusion: The World of Islam is today without power. Our conclusion is that the institution of the Caliphate, which forms part of Dar al-Islam, is indispensable for the restoration of power. Without power there will be many more Bosnias, Kashmirs, Algerias, Chechnyas, Palestines etc. The only way this deplorable state of affairs can be changed is through the restoration of the supremacy of Islam in the public life of Muslims and in the international relations of the Muslim world. That requires the restoration of Dor al-Islam and the Caliphate. We need, therefore, to articulate anew the provisions of the Islamic Public Order (Dar al-Islam) and Islam's Conception of an International Order, and to demonstrate their clear superiority over the secular rival which has emerged from western civilization.

(And on To the House of Saud) As the members of the conference call it; in CHAPTER FOUR; THE FRAUDULENT SAUDI-WAHHABI ALTERNATIVE TO THE CALIPHATE. We also need to recognize, as this booklet has made clear, that it is impossible, and will remain impossible, to restore the Caliphate so long as the Hejaz remains under the control of the Saudi -Wahhabi alliance. Power cannot be restored without the liberation of the Haramain and the Hajj from the control of those who participated in the destruction of the Caliphate. The liberation of the Haramain and the Hajj will be possible when the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance breaks down. There are indications that alliance is under great pressure and can fall apart. There are many Saudi Ulama who now imprisoned or under house arrest. The issue which is most likely to tear the alliance apart would be Saudi recognition' of the Jewish State of Israel, - hence the importance of our recent work entitled: "The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel', in which we analyze, from a purely Islamic religious perspective, the implications for Muslims of the "recognition' of the Jewish State of Israel. // In fact the Third Committee should have pointed out that the cities of Makkah and Madina were under Saudi-Wahhabi control and, as a consequence, any Caliph who was appointed would suffer from the incalculable liability of not having the capacity to exercise control over the Haramain.

Hizb-ut-Tahrir, an international political party whose stated goal is reviving the caliphate – or khilafah: Since that day the Islamic ummah [nation, community] has lived a life full of calamities; she was broken up into small mini states controlled by the enemies of Islam in every aspect. The Muslims were oppressed and became the object of the kuffar’s [that is, unbelievers’] derision in Kashmir, Philippines, Thailand, Chechnya, Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Palestine and other lands belonging to the Muslims [...]“Without the Khilafah, the Islamic lands will remain torn up and the Islamic peoples will remain divided. Without the Khilafah the kafir, crusader and colonial states will continue to control us, plunder our resources and create divisions amongst us. Without the Khilafah, the Jews will continue to occupy our sacred places and kill and humiliate our brothers in Palestine. Without the Khilafah, the Islamic peoples in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Uzbekistan and so on will continue to be killed….Without the Khilafah, those Muslims who do not work seriously for its implementation will be sinful and incur the anger of Allâh, even if they fast, pray, make Hajj [pilgrimage] and pay Zakah [alms]. This is because the work to establish the Khilafah Rashidah is a fard [obligation] on every Muslim, and it should be conducted with the most extreme effort and utmost speed.[...]

 If we pay a close attention to the following sayings of our Prophet we will see that this situation of the Muslim world was predicted and is not really matter of surprise.

1. "Allah will take away Caliphate, only to bring it back later."2. "A time will come, when Islam will appear to be something new."3. "...My Ummah will be divided into 73 groups, and only one among them will be successful. The group that would strictly follow the Qur'an and Sunnah."4. "Arabs will face a threat of war from the Christians. The war would last for about 7 years. On the 2nd year of the war, the world would face drought, which would intensify in the 3rd year resulting into worldwide famine."5. "Mehdi will fight Dajjal, and Dajjal will fight Mehdi..."6. “..Muslims will die like ants..”

Jihadists see Syria insurgency as just the beginning of a Middle East revolution

14 October 2013. Shortly before its operatives killed 14 Iraqi Shia children in a school bombing this month, the group once known as al-Qa’ida in Iraq sent guerrillas into northern Syrian villages with orders to reopen local Sunni classrooms. In a series of early-autumn visits, the militants handed out religious textbooks and backpacks bearing the group’s new name: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The formal titles adopted by both al-Qa’ida groups include the Arabic term for greater Syria — al-Sham — that radical Islamists use to link their movement to the ancient Islamic caliphate that ruled a vast swath of the Middle East, with Damascus as its capital. Its use, the jihadists say, evokes an image of a future Middle East with a single Islamic state, encompassing the territories of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Israel. It is the groups’ appeal to a greater jihad that explains why foreign volunteers continue streaming into Syria in numbers that surpass those seen during earlier conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia or Iraq, said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and a Middle East adviser to four US administrations. “Syria has become the most important destination for aspiring jihadists ever, because it is the heart of the Muslim world on the border of Palestine,” says Mr Riedel, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “For jihadis, it is the road to

Jerusalem at last.” “They operate in parallel to one another,” said Aaron Zelin, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “They have different command structures, and Isis uses more foreign fighters. But they swim in the same ideological waters.”

Al-Qaida leader urges Egypt's Islamists to unite.

October 11, 2013, In a 17-minute video posted on the Internet, Ayman al-Zawahri blasted the Egyptian military, calling its leader "the Americanized butcher of the military coup." He said the "secular military" has colluded with the United States, Israel, secular movements and Christians against Islam. Al-Zawahri also accused Egypt's secularists of cooperating with the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and taking money from Gulf countries in a "dirty conspiracy" to crush Islamic movements and plans to restore a broad Islamic Caliphate. Al-Zawahri urged Islamists to unite and wage a "popular" religious uprising "to rid Egypt of this criminal gang that jumped over power with fire and iron." "Here is the tragedy in Egypt unfolding before your eyes, showing the extent the hatred of the seculars, the U.S. agents, have for Muslims and Islamist groups," al-Zawahri said. "The secular military and its allies, the enemies of Islam, what to eradicate anyone who raises the banner of Islam."

October 18, 2013 Ayman al-Zawahiri urges jihadist forces in Syria to create Caliphate Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri, who became the top leader of Al-Qaeda following the killing of Osama bin Laden, released a new audio-taped message to several Islamist websites and gave his opinion on a number events occurring in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Egypt, according to a report on Wednesday from the Meir Amit Information Center in Israel. He said, among other things, the following: * "I urge the brothers, the jihad fighters in blessed Syria [Al-Sham], to unite and come together and agree that soon, in Greater Syria [Al-Sham], if Allah so wishes, an Islamic state will arise that will be governed by the Sharia [Islamic religious law]."* "Lions of Al-Sham [Syria], unite for the sake of this noble cause, rise above the divisions between the various organizations and splintered groups and with mutual agreement, good will and desire in your souls, establish a strong Islamic state."* "Our brothers in Syria of the jihad and the ribat [frontier], keep yourselves from entering into an agreement with those [factions which] are secular, with those who want to be like the Americans and atheists at the expense of the sovereignty of the Sharia and the laws of Islam."

Oct 12th 2013 THE civil war in Syria, a nightmare for most Syrians, is a dream come true for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the latter name being variously translated as “Greater Syria” or “the Levant”. The extremist group, formed in Iraq in 2006 as a broad jihadist front that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq, has had its best year to date for expansion. In Syria it runs a clutch of towns, taking it a step closer to its goal of creating a limitless Islamic caliphate. ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi, have grand ambitions, as heralded by the use of “state” in the group’s name. ISIS’s foray into Syria has led it openly to defy al-Qaeda’s overall leadership, to which it supposedly defers. After creating Jabhat al-Nusra in 2012, Mr Baghdadi claimed this year to have merged it with ISIS. But Muhammad al-Golani, Jabhat al-Nusra’s leader, disagreed—and was backed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s overall chief. ISIS and Mr Baghdadi rejected his ruling.Al-Qaeda’s central leadership has long found the brutality of ISIS counter-productive, in Iraq as in Syria.

Abu Malik a Jabhat al-Nusra leader in the Levant. October 20, 2013 "The day will come when everyone goes back to the true Islam. This will happen when the caliphate returns."  According to Abu Malik, Salafist jihadist ideology is based not on the idea of governance

advocated by Sayyid Qutb and Abu Ala Mawdudi. [According to this ideology], a Muslim's goal is to strive to liberate Muslim lands from colonizers and establish God's law. God Almighty said: "Judgement is only through God," so any legislation [other than Sharia] is invalid. In Abu Malik's opinion, the way to establish God's law on earth is through jihad and fighting. This group was called Salafist jihadist because it adopts jihad as a means of achieving change, "so everyone who believes this idea becomes our brother in religion." Abu Malik said, "The main objective is to establish God's law on earth. But priorities vary from one place to another before reaching this goal. The [secondary] goal could be to expel the colonizers, as happened in the 1980s in Afghanistan with Arab fighters. Or it could be to target foreign interests, as happened in Yemen beginning in the 1990s, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, the bombing of a French tanker in 2002 and the targeting of British and Australian tourists in Abyan in 1998. Or the goal could be to control some areas — to find a base for launching [operations] and places for training and recruitment, as was the case in Afghanistan with the Taliban and Arab [fighters] from al-Qaeda." In Abu Malik's opinion, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, leftists, secularists and nationalists are all infidels.

Is Libi’s Al-Qaeda Manual a Blueprint for Arab Spring?AuthorJohn RosenthalPosted October 20, 2013 In May 2000, British police raided the Manchester home of reputed al-Qaeda operative Nazih Abdul Hamed al-Raghie, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Anas al-Libi. On Oct. 15, arrested by US forces. The author was presumably a leading member of either Ayman al-Zawahri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad or of the Islamic Group of the “blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahmen. In keeping with the manual’s roots, the target of the operations and techniques outlined in it is not the United States but rather what the opening chapter describes as the “godless and apostate” Arab rulers and regimes. This was the original target of the modern jihadist movement, before the focus gradually shifted to the “distant” US enemy in the aftermath of the first Iraq War. The document does not fail to name names. Thus, the author writes: "Unbelief is still the same. It pushed Abou Jahl — may Allah curse him — and Kureish’s valiant infidels to battle the prophet — God bless and keep him — and to torture his companions — may Allah’s grace be on them. It is the same unbelief that drove [former Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat, [former Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak, Gadhafi, [former Syrian President] Hafez Assad, [deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah] Saleh, [late Saudi King] Fahd — Allah's curse be upon the non-believing leaders — and all the apostate Arab rulers to torture, kill, imprison and torment Muslims."If we leave aside the somewhat anomalous inclusion of Fahd and abstract from Sadat — who had already been succeeded by Mubarak at the time of the document’s composition — then we need only substitute Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his father Hafez to obtain a list consisting of none other than four of the most prominent Arab leaders to come under attack in the contemporary Arab uprisings: Mubarak, Gadhafi, Assad and Saleh. Seen in this perspective, the so-called “Al-Qaeda Manual” starts to look suspiciously like a blueprint for the Arab Spring. The document calls for the overthrow of the “apostate” Arab regimes and the restoration of an Islamic caliphate. This program is in fact already contained in the document’s actual title, "I'alan al-Jihad 'ala al-Tawaghit al-Bilad," which has been translated as “Declaration of Jihad against the Country’s Tyrants.” But the term that has been translated as “tyrants” — tawaghit — in fact has a religious connotation. It refers to (false) “idols” that are worshipped in the place of Allah. The idea is that the “apostate” leaders are idols or tawaghit inasmuch as their rule substitutes human sources of legislation for sacred text. It should be noted that per this definition, democratic regimes would be every bit as much tawaghit as autocratic ones. The author insists that “Islam does not coincide or make a truce with unbelief.” Or, as he puts it in the epigraph to the document:

"The confrontation that we are calling for with the apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates … Platonic ideals … nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing and destruction and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine gun."

A possible game changer: 11 Oct 2013, House of Saud And Notoriously, the House of Saud's "policy" on Syria is regime change, period. This is non-negotiable in terms of dealing a blow to those "apostates" in Tehran and imprinting Saudi will on Syria, Iraq, in fact the whole, mostly Sunni Levant. // In late September, the Jaish al-Islam ("Army of Islam") entered the picture. This is a "rebel" combo of up to 50 brigades, from supposedly "moderates" to hardcore Salafis, controlled by Liwa al-Islam, which used to be part of the FSA. The warlord in charge of Jaish al-Islam is Zahran Alloush - whose father, Abdullah, is a hardcore Salafi cleric in Saudi Arabia. And the petrodollars to support him are Saudi - via Bandar Bush and his brother Prince Salman, the Saudi deputy defense minister. If this looks like a revamp of the David Petraeus-concocted "Sunni Awakening" in Iraq in 2007 that's because it is; the difference is this Saudi-financed "awakening" is geared not to fight al-Qaeda but towards regime change. This (in Arabic) is what Alloush wants; a resurrection of the Umayyad Caliphate (whose capital was Damascus), and to "cleanse" Damascus of Iranians, Shi'ites and Alawites. These are all considered kafir ("unbelievers"); either they submit to Salafist Islam or they must die. Anybody who interprets this stance as "moderate" has got to be a lunatic. Incredibly as it may seem, even Ayman al-Zawahiri - as in al-Qaeda central - has issued a proclamation banning the killing of Shi'ites.

Remember: "The Pious Caliphate Will Start From Afghanistan" (Does Mallah Omar fits into 1926 credentials; 2. "By appointment by the classes of influential Muslims, i.e., men whom the public must obey such as ulama, amirs, notables, men of opinion and administration. 3. "By conquest by a Muslim even if he does not fulfil the other conditions." J U N E 2 4 , 2 0 0 5 Is al-Qaeda's Long-Held Afghan Strategy Now Unfolding? Bin Laden's strategic goal of ensuring "the pious Caliphate will start from Afghanistan." [9] In 1998, bin Laden pledged personal loyalty to Mullah Omar, describing him as "our chief" and "the legitimate ruler of the state of Afghanistan … [the] embodiment of Islamic respect." [10] These facts are downplayed by Western leaders who say bin Laden was paying lip service to Omar and that al-Qaeda is now solely focused on the jihad in Iraq. No one, however, should doubt bin Laden's resolve to help retake Afghanistan for Mullah Omar. In June 2000, Bin Laden stressed Afghanistan's central place in al-Qaeda's strategy" "Any aggression by the United States today against Afghanistan would not be against Afghanistan itself, but against the Afghanistan that hoists the banner of Islam in the world, the true, mujahid Islam, which fights for the sake of God… Allah has blessed Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan… They were able to unify the country under the Taliban and under the leadership of Amir ul-Mu'mineen [Commander of the Faithful] Mulanna [our Mullah] Omar. So today, Afghanistan is the only country in the world that has the Shari'ah. Therefore, it is compulsory upon Muslims all over the world to help Afghanistan. And to make hijra to this land, because it is from this land that we will dispatch our armies to smash all kuffar all over the world." [11]9. Mufti Jamal Khan, "Bin Ladin: Expel Jews, Christians from Holy Places," Jang [Pakistan], 18 November 1998. 10. "Hero of Modern Times," The Nation, Lahore Edition (Internet version), 21 August 1998.11. "Usama Speaks on Hijrah and the Islamic State," Al-Jihaad Newsletter, Issue No. 4, 22 June 2000.

01 Nov 2013, The Taliban’s top leader, Hakeemullah Mehsud—the man behind the failed 2011 bomb attack in Times Square—has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. Why the victory may be tactical at best. “TTP [ Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan] and al-Qaeda have a

symbiotic relationship; TTP draws ideological guidance from al-Qaeda, while al-Qaeda relies on TTP for safe haven in the Pashtun areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border,” State said. Despite the death of Hakeemullah, the group is unlikely to sever its ties to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups anytime soon. Other senior leaders of the group, such as Omar Khalid al Khorasani, the emir of the Mohmand branch, have openly praised al-Qaeda. In March 2012, Omar Khalid said the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan seeks to overthrow the Pakistani government, impose sharia, or Islamic law, seize the country’s nuclear weapons, and wage jihad until “the Caliphate is established across the world.”

19 Oct 2013 Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud (killed Nov 2013,) and Afghan taliban leader Mullah Omar have said they would continue their "struggle" till "the Western inspired systems" of governance in both countries are overthrown. Hakimullah Mehsud, head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan,said that his organisation was just part of the now worldwide Islamic movement against the West that had been inspired by Mullah Umar's resistance to the US demands for handing over Osama bin Ladin after 9/11.  He said the goal of the movement was establishment of an Islamic caliphate from the Caucus region of Central Asia to the deserts of Africa.

And than there is: Mix of radical ideas and idealism drives Europeans to join global jihad

RT News time: November 06, 2013

Gilles de Kerchove: (coordinator of counter-terrorism efforts among EU member states) Radicalization in Europe – it is not much different from the past. We are in the process of trying to understand better the reason why so many Europeans are going to Syria. We start with the idea that they are not all radicals when leaving because some maybe just driven by idealistic ideas and they just want to be helpful. Some are just joining refugee camps and rarely

may join the most radical groups. But where we start being concerned is when, and that is what we understand, many of them are mainly joining the groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda and groups which not only want to withdraw Assad but have the global jihad rhetoric and share fully the project of Al-Qaeda. And therefore we think, I think we’ll see that in the future but that many of them will get back in Europe much more radical. They may inspire others, recruit others, or they may, some, even direct attacks in Europe and that’s why all member states are very mobilized by this subject. In fact the terrorist threat has evolved a lot since 9/11 in recent years. It is no longer one, single organization, very well structured like Al-Qaeda was on 9/11. It is something that is much more diversified, much more diverse. We still have the Al-Qaeda, but of course the core of Al-Qaeda has been very much degraded. But we have different other manifestations. // At the European Security conference in Munich, last February, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told European nations that they were under direct threat from Islamist extremists and that this phenomenon would not go away. His warning followed Western intelligence services which already established operational links between al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) whose goals include striking at the heart of Europe. "I am concerned that many people on this continent may not comprehend the magnitude of the direct threat to European security" the secretary lamented. Gates warned: "The threat posed by violent Islamic extremism is real - and it is not going away. Europeans knew "all too well" about the Madrid bombings that killed 191 people

in March 2004 and the attacks in London that left 56 dead in July 2005, but further from the spotlight there had been "multiple smaller attacks" in cities from Glasgow to Istanbul", Secretary Gates said.

New al Qaeda document sheds light on Europe, U.S. attack plansMarch 20, 2013 (CNN) -- A previously secret document found at Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan sets out a detailed al Qaeda strategy for attacking targets in Europe and the United States.The document -- a letter written to bin Laden in March 2010 by a senior operational figure in the terror group -- reveals that tunnels, bridges, dams, undersea pipelines and internet cables were among the targets. It was written by Younis al-Mauretani, a

senior al Qaeda planner thought to have been behind an ambitious plan to hit "soft" targets in Europe in the fall of 2010. CNN has obtained details of the document from sources briefed on its contents. The 17-page letter is in Arabic. Al-Mauretani proposed that al Qaeda recruits take jobs with companies transporting gasoline and other sensitive companies in the West, and await the right moment to strike. He said targets should include tunnels, airports and even "Love Parades" -- gay and lesbian events held every summer in Germany. He said recruits should infiltrate university courses in the West in key subjects useful to the group including physics and chemistry, so that they could later be re-activated and help the group, according to Die Zeit. He also suggested attaching mines to undersea pipelines using mini-submarines -- and appears to have researched ways to circumvent safety valves on such pipelines. Al Mauretani also proposed that al Qaeda attack financial centers and think-tanks -- specifically mentioning the RAND Corporation, whose headquarters are in California. Yassin Musharbash, an investigative reporter with Die Zeit in Berlin, says the document seems "to support information gleaned from other terror trials that Al Qaeda in 2010 was trying to plan a comprehensive plot against the West," and al-Mauretani appears to have been bent on "hitting Europe and the U.S. by targeting critical infrastructure and economic targets." Some of al-Mauretani's ideas may seem far-fetched, but they underline al Qaeda's continuing fascination with bringing down airliners. He proposed that men recruited into the Yemeni al Qaeda affiliate AQAP become pilots with airlines, and then drug their co-pilots before flying the plane into a target. One target he identified was the massive petrochemical facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia. Al Mauretani suggested that Osama bin Laden signal the go-ahead for attacks in Europe with a public message that al Qaeda's patience with Europe had run out. And he had a clear sense of how to finance attacks, saying that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had "millions" and its leaders trusted him, according to Die Zeit. Mauretani himself was originally from Mauritania in north-west Africa. Sources briefed on the contents of the letter told CNN that al-Mauretani wrote that al Qaeda Central in Pakistan could only cover the starting costs of the operation against Europe and additional costs would have to be covered by AQIM and others. Analysts tell CNN al-Mauretani's call for the various nodes of al Qaeda to work together was emblemmatic of a shift within the terrorist network towards greater coordination and pooling of resources. Al-Mauretani added that AQIM had a "great deal of trust" in him, according to the sources. According to analysts the North African operative paved the way for direct cooperation between AQIM and al Qaeda's senior leadership in the late 2000s after he travelled to Pakistan. In late 2011 Moktar Belmoktar, then a senior figure in AQIM, told a Mauritanian journalist that al-Mauretani was the "first direct contact between us and our brothers in Al-Qaeda."Bin Laden appears to have liked the ideas in al-Mauretani's letter, and assigned them high priority. Other documents found at his Pakistani compound in Abbottabad suggest he

forwarded it to at least one other senior figure in al Qaeda. In around June 2010, bin Laden wrote to senior Libyan operative Atiyah abd al Rahman, then al Qaeda's head of operations in Waziristan, instructing him to tell the leaders of the al Qaeda affiliates AQIM in North Africa and AQAP in Yemen to "put forward their best in cooperating" with al-Mauretani "in whatever he asks of them." "Hint to the brothers in the Islamic Maghreb that they provide him with the financial support that he might need in the next six months, to the tune of approximately 200,000 euros," bin Laden wrote. // As for al-Mauretani, he is unlikely to have any role in bringing his terror plans to fruition. He was picked up by Pakistani police in Quetta in August 2011 and remains in detention. Pakistani authorities appear to have uncovered some of his terror plans. In announcing his arrest a month later, they stated: al-Mauretani "was tasked personally by Osama bin Laden to focus on hitting targets of economical importance in United States of America, Europe and Australia, including gas pipelines, power generating dams and oil tankers." Several of al-Mauretani's western recruits -- trained in the tribal territories of Pakistan -- have been arrested on their return home. // In 2010, al-Mauretani was seen as the mastermind of planned attacks in Europe. Fears that such attacks would materialize led the U.S. State Department to issue a travel alert in October 2010. Sources briefed on the letter told CNN that al-Mauretani requested bin Laden issue a statement saying al Qaeda's patience with Europe had run out following the al Qaeda leader's previous offering of a conditional truce, and that his statement needed to be choreographed with an attack shortly afterwards. "We ask you undertake certain steps in order to threaten Europe before the attacks happen. And these steps should be in synch with the preparations of those attacks. Inform Europe that patience has come to an end, as has our hope that they end their campaign against us. Also [make clear] that they have not understood our message thus far. One or two weeks after that we will strike ... and then we will threaten them again. After we hit Europe we will hit America, so we isolate the Americans," the sources said al-Mauretani wrote in the letter. Die Zeit's Musharbash says al-Mauretani's blueprint "has very likely little operational value now. But certain ideas may have trickled down and may still be alive elsewhere in the network."

Ayman al-Zawahiri, has repeatedly threatened Europe. In September 2006 he appeared in a video website on the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, urging to punish France as prime target for Islamist militants. Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, then head of the DST (domestic security service), said the threat of terrorist attack in France remained "very high and very international". // After the beginning of Arab Spring, the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization has undergone an important change in strategy. As a result of that change, Al-Qaeda has excluded the United States and other Western powers, which it previously considered as “far enemy,” from its new strategy. Instead, the group has focused on the “near enemy,” that is the Arab countries in the region Ayman Al-Zawahiri. From the viewpoint of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, as long as the dictatorial regimes, which govern various countries in the Arab world, continue to bask in the support they receive from the United States and the European countries, they will never let go of power reins. On the other hand, he argues, the mercantilist Western powers will withdraw their support for any of their regional allies when and where they reach the conclusion – according to a simple cost-benefit calculation – that the cost of supporting their allies would be way higher than its benefits. That, Al-Zawahiri believes, is exactly the time that Al-Qaeda can get active and help the opposition forces to overthrow dictatorial regimes in the Arab world.

Jul 2011, WASHINGTON—Al Qaeda is expected to shift strategy under new leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, placing a higher priority on attacking the U.S. and Western targets overseas, where plots are easier to execute than on the U.S. homeland, say U.S. officials. This

broader attack strategy advocated by Mr. Zawahiri better aligns the goals of al Qaeda's leaders in Pakistan and affiliates, particularly in Yemen, which are increasingly becoming the group's frontline operators. "I would not be surprised to see potentially 1990s-style attacks at the U.S. embassies and consulates overseas whether it's in Pakistan or Africa or possibly even Afghanistan," said Seth Jones, a political scientist at Rand Corp., who is writing a book on al Qaeda.

DON'T CARE ABOUT MALI VIOLENCE? IT'S STAGING FOR EUROPESource: Al-Qaida strategy to launch attacks on West. 01/21/2013 WASHINGTON – Recent attacks by Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in northern Mali may well represent an overall strategy by al-Qaida central – headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri – to build a stage in northern Africa to launch attacks into Western Europe, informed sources said in a report by Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Sources say that many of the splinter Islamist groups have united behind AQIM, which is asserting its influence from Libya to Algeria across North Africa and down into Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad. AQIM aims to overthrow the Algerian government and set up an Islamic Emirates. The group has vowed to attack Algerian, Spanish, French and American targets, although the most recent attack on the sprawling In Amenas gas field included Japanese and British hostages, who similarly were killed.

“In 2004, with Al Qaeda having risen and mostly fallen, the threats that US intelligence must monitor in the current decade have in a sense returned to what existed in the early 1990s; only now the threat has many more moving parts, more geographically disparate operations, and more ideological momentum.” The author of these lines, Paul R. Pillar, former deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and now at the National Intelligence Council (Washington, DC), is quite adamant about the state Osama bin Laden’s network is in today: “The disciplined, centralized organization that carried out the September 11 attacks is no more. Al Qaeda still has the capacity to inflict lethal damage, but the key challenges for current counterterrorism efforts are not as much Al Qaeda as what will follow Al Qaeda.” (1) In public perception and political discourse terrorism is still widely perceived as a more or less structured international movement – an image Osama bin Laden, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and other jihadi spokespersons themselves are eager to uphold. Using century-old symbols and myths such as al-Andalus and a Caliphate reborn, portraying themselves as warriors of the global jihad, in an epochal struggle with the West, terrorist leaders are indeed hoping for this perception of a major global threat to last forever. Coolsaet, Rik. (2005) Between al-Andalus and a failing integration Europe’s pursuit of a long-term counterterrorism strategy in the post-al-Qaeda era. Egmont Paper, no.5, April 2005. [Policy Paper]

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