RT has the story:
A still from a video shows armed Islamists patrolling in the
streets of Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali (AFP Photo)Fleeing advancing French and Malian forces, al-Qaeda militants left a strategic blueprint outlining their general plan for Mali and the region. The nine-page document unlocks a door to the world’s most feared terrorist network.
The letter was discovered by the Associated Press in Timbuktu in a pile of papers and trash inside a building occupied by the Islamists for almost a year. It is signed by Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, the nom de guerre of Abdelmalek Droukdel, the senior commander appointed by Osama bin Laden to run al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa.
The document is comprised of six chapters, only three of which were recovered. The pages are not dated, but a reference to June 2012 events in Mali indicates that the message was sent as recently eight months ago.
In his address to the fighters, Droukdel, the emir in the Islamic Maghreb, predicts that Western intervention would occur sometime in January. He writes, “It is very probable, perhaps certain, that a military intervention will occur… which in the end will either force us to retreat to our rear bases or will provoke the people against us because of starvation or the cutting of supplies and salaries….”
The document also debates how to apply Sharia, or Islamic law, “one of the wrong policies that we think you carried out is the extreme speed with which you applied Shariah, not taking into consideration the gradual evolution that should be applied in an environment that is ignorant of religion, and a people which hasn’t applied Shariah in centuries,” the letter reads.
If the law is applied too rigorously in such circumstances, the document says, “it will lead to people rejecting the religion, and engender hatred toward the Mujahedeen, and will consequently lead to the failure of our experiment.”
The treatment of women and the destruction of Timbuktu’s temples are also discussed as Droukdel argues that his militia are too brutal in applying the Islamic law to northern Mali.
Despite the possibility of defeat, the letter also notes that al-Qaeda is to stay in the region through infiltration into the local tribal society.
“It is an important golden opportunity to extend bridges to the various sectors and parts of Azawad …to end the situation of political and social and intellectual separation (or isolation) between the Mujahedeen and these sectors, particularly the big tribes, and the main rebel movements with their various ideologies…”
Once trust is established, Droukdel argues, it is better to use local movements to promote the group’s agenda. “We should also take into consideration not to monopolize the political and military stage. We should not be at the forefront,” he says. “Better for you to be silent and pretend to be a ‘domestic’ movement that has its own causes and concerns. There is no reason for you to show that we have an expansionary, jihadi, al-Qaeda or any other sort of project.”
AP claims that Droukdel’s writing is one of only a few internal documents of al-Qaeda’s African wing that has been found, and probably the first one made public.
According to Islamic scholar Mathieu Guidere, who helped authenticate the letter, the document is numbered 33/234, a system reserved for al-Qaeda’s internal communications.
“It confirms something very important, which is the divisions about the strategic conception of the organization. There was a debate on how to establish an Islamic state in North Mali and how to apply Shariah,” Guidere says.
AP’s finding emerges as US Secretary of State John Kerry, on Thursday, praised the “successful” intervention by France in January to push Islamist rebels, who took over part of the country last year and applied strict Sharia law, from northern Mali.
France began its military mission on January 11, after Mali’s interim government asked for help combating the insurgency there.
they are operating not unlike a virus.
coldwarrior wrote:
There is only ONE WAY to exterminate a virus…it involves Light and Heat.
ISLAM DELENDA EST.
Macker wrote:
starve them to death…but to do that we’d need an energy/security policy that allows us to break away from ME supplies…very doable using calories as leverage…that’s why AQ is moving into subSaharan Africa…for the fertile lands…duh?
RE: The document also debates how to apply Sharia, or Islamic law, “one of the wrong policies that we think you carried out is the extreme speed with which you applied Shariah, not taking into consideration the gradual evolution that should be applied in an environment that is ignorant of religion, and a people which hasn’t applied Shariah in centuries,” the letter reads.
If the law is applied too rigorously in such circumstances, the document says, “it will lead to people rejecting the religion, and engender hatred toward the Mujahedeen, and will consequently lead to the failure of our experiment.”
Consider this part carefully…
heysoos wrote:
its going to come down to water and calories.
coldwarrior wrote:
Stock pile beer it has plenty of both.
@ brookly red:
creeping sharia. just like we have observed elsewhere. of course if you point it out you are a right wing zionist &/or christian fool. more evil than satan himself.
brookly red wrote:
i’m wayyyyy ahead of ya
The Military Chanel is running their “Black Ops” series today. If you have nothing better to do, it is a good watch.
http://military.discovery.com/tv-shows/black-ops
http://military.discovery.com/tv-shows/black-ops/tv-schedule.htm
coldwarrior wrote:
right wing zionist &/or christian fool? as opposed to raaacist?
I am moving up in the world
OT
I did not even realize my paean to Nancy Pelosi was up at the Tatler: “Doo-Wah-Dignity-Dumb-Diddy-Do.”
Comments, of course, welcomed.
brookly red wrote:
ht- PJM
Something tells me it’s not going to be widely called “civil disobedience” when it occurs…
Bumr50 wrote:
yet they can’t even round up the guns in Chicago…
@ Bumr50:
The American Revolution gradually arose over a number of issues; discreditation or ignoring local legislatures, taxation without representation, transportation for trial or punishment, etc. But let’s remember what actually caused the shooting to start -- gun confiscation. Lexington and Concord, anyone?
brookly red wrote:
“Can’t?” No, won’t—not just because the guns in Chicago are mostly illegal and therefore not pre-tracked, but because they are in the hands of de facto political allies. The violence in Chicago are a tacit admission that the gangs, not the law and certainly not the police, control the black areas of the city, and that whether the gangs pay protection to the Machine or are, in fact, the Machine in their own areas (the two are not, of course, mutually exclusive), permitting this localized lawlessness in the unproductive areas of the city allows the Machine to retain its control over the productive areas.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
very true, I do however question the tacit admission</em part… the sheer volume suggests cooperation if not actual enablement.
@ brookly red:
Yours is far more politic and a better phrasing—over and above the lousy verb agreement that I used.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
you are far too kind… let’s just say the fuckers are in on it
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Chicago Police Chief Gary McCarthy went to Father Pflagers
St. Sabina church & blamed the Tea Party for violence.
He was at Ground Zero for South Side gang violence & blames
the Tea Party?
I heard a rumor, just a rumor no, links no evidence, that guns used in crimes in places like Newark and Philadelphia that are supposed to be destroyed are actually showing up in Chicago…
Blood in the water…
@ brookly red:
Wouldn’t that be a story?
lobo91 wrote:
hey Buzz… remember Deep Purple/Smoke on the Water? you could do this one in less than 15 minutes… it is now 12:08
Bumr50 wrote:
well yes… it’s odd how the mayor of Chicago never does like the mayor’s of other big blue cities and grandstands about the source of these guns… every time someone gets shot in NYC Bloomy gets all crazy about out of state gun sales. Rahm? not a peep.
that traitor to western civ john mccains friends in action:
@ coldwarrior:
next time print the books out of country and ship them in…
brookly red wrote:
or stay home and mind your own business
heysoos wrote:
that too..
wonder how long it will be until the libyan muzz murders the copts who have been in libya since 200ad
coldwarrior wrote:
they will probably wait till after our midterm elections…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
If dem gangz be da Machine, dey be callin demselfs da Sheen….
/winning!
Hey! now here is a promising idea… maybe be the English will start realizing being armed is not such a bad thing…
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Defence/article1189106.ece
@ lobo91:
@ brookly red:
Obama nominated Kerry
To be Secretary of State
Everybody shuddered to see who else
He’d decide to nominate
Chuck Hagel and John Brennan
He asked the Senate to confirm
But Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham
Made that nominee Hagel squirm
Blood in the water, Obama’s second try
Blood in the water, Obama’s second try
He couldn’t answer the questions
That the committee put to him
His view of our Israeli allies
Can be described at best as grim
Hagel’s nomination
Met with approval from Iran
And that has to outweigh
His past service in Vietnam
Blood in the water, Obama’s second try
Blood in the water, Obama’s second try
When asked about past statements
Hagel “could not seem to recall”
And when asked about who had paid him money
He’d say nothing at all
The Senate went to recess
And Hagel didn’t have the votes
But you know for sure that Obama
Will try to cram him down our throats
Blood in the water, Obama’s second try
Blood in the water, Obama’s second try
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
nice… not your best, but helluva job anyway
brookly red wrote:
Hey, they can’t all be the best…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
exactly! but you stood up to the task so well done.
Bumr50 wrote:
“Peacefully deny the corrupt system’s authority over your life by supplying your own needs and your own security, rather than lashing out blindly. Force them to show their true colors. Expose their dishonor and maliciousness. Make them come after you like the predators they are, and then, once they can no longer play the role of the “defending hero” in the eyes of the public, use your right to self defense to send them a message they won’t forget.”
Anaughtymouse
RIX wrote:
If that ain’t proof that it’s all political; I don’t know what it will take to wake people up.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
IMHO, the deafening silence tells you that they will wake up one morning to find themselves already boiled like lobsters.
coldwarrior wrote:
Or exajoules of thermal energy, released all at once.
brookly red wrote:
Yes. And start printing korans spiked with Ebola virus.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
well you have to understand that when libs say “T-party” it doesn’t actually refer to The Tea Party, it a code word for “all the other white people” but not us… we are your friend…
I mean look who the audience is when they makes those statements
brookly red wrote:
Well said. It’s part of the White People’s Opt-Out program from the president’s all-racist agenda.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
well look they never say T-Party when talking about the economy or foreign policy, only when discussing social issues. Can you imagine if they tried that shit on Wall st.? they would be laughed out of the room… but gang banger shooting each other? It’s da man!
brookly red wrote:
ONLY if we can summarily imprison and/or deport every Muslim suspected of proselytizing Islam outside of Muslim countries.