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[Petronas]

Palestinians swear allegiance to Bin Laden
03.15.07, 18:28

A group of Palestinians have sworn allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, according to statement posted on a major internet jihad forum last month.

The message appeared on the al-Firdaws forum – a meeting point of jihadis from around the world – and declared: "We believe that God will walk on the path of Sheikh Osama, may God preserve him, and the path of the martyr Abu Musab al-Zarqawi…. We in the jihad in the land of Rabat (Islamic term for Israel – Y.L.) do not belong to any faction, and we declare loyalty to Sheikh Osama, may God preserve him. We pledge to go down the path of the martyrs and fighters in Mesopotamia (Iraq), Chechnya, Afghanistan, and all parts of the world." ...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377114,00.html

[Casey]

Tigers sold Norwegian passports to al-Qaeda
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 06:34 PM
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Walter Jayawardhana

TORONTO: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have stolen Norwegian passports and sold them to the al-Qaeda organisation to earn money, Norwegians Against Terrorism Organisation chief spokesman Falk Rovik said.

Addressing as the main guest speaker at the Sri Lanka United National Association's special general meeting at the North York Civic Centre Auditorium in Toronto recently, he said an LTTE member called Mike Daniel Jeya is already in prison for this passport racket.

"The LTTE has sold these passports to the highest bidders including an Algerian al-Qaeda group," Rovik said. He said the LTTE in Norway has made use of weak members of the society to carry out their illegal rackets.

"In this case it was a police officer who was made use of. Police officer Herman Olav Nyhusmoen was a habitual gambler and was always wanting money to pay his debts. So, LTTE cadre Mike Daniel Jeya was easily able to steal the passports using him," Rovik said.

He said both the Norwegian and the LTTE cadre are in jail for the crimes. Rovik said the passport fraud was detected when a LTTEer was caught with 700 passports in Thailand.

He said according to Interpol figures 130,000 Norwegian passports have been stolen. Rovik pointed out that the LTTE has used some of the stolen passports and the balance had been sold to the highest bidders including the al-Qaeda group in Algeria.

A large gathering including representatives from Amnesty International, Mackenzie Institute, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, CSIS, Toronto Police, several GTA Riding Association officials, Sri Lanka's High Commissioner, Deputy High Commissioner, Consul General and other Sri Lankan community leaders were present at the lecture.

Rovik who is also a member of the board of Oslo Chapter of the Amnesty International, said almost 90 per cent of LTTE revenues are raised from criminal activities outside Sri Lanka, including the smuggling of narcotics and humans, extortion of Diaspora members, credit card fraud etc.

He charged that the Norwegian Government had funded the LTTE through two ways, by giving money to the bogus humanitarian front organisation called the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) and sending money to secret bank accounts.

He said the TRO is directly controlled by the LTTE and is being used to funnel money into the LTTE's arms procurements. Rovik said the money supplied by Norway to the TRO ran into millions of dollars. He said his organisation extracted these lists from public records and published.

"As a cover up, the government is grouping those figures to hide certain names the monies received," Rovik said. Norway is also using secret accounts to fund the LTTE, he said.

Rovik further charged that ex-Norwegian Special Forces have trained the LTTE Sea Tigers in under water demolition methods in Thailand. He said ex-Norwegian Special forces never train foreigners without the Norwegian Government's consent.

He said the Sea Tigers were especially trained in attacking ports and Navy ships. He revealed that certain Norwegian military personnel serving in the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) under the peace process have taken LTTE personnel to study at the Special Forces Military base in Rena, Norway.

He said the Norway managed SLMM monitors are not true monitors but a bias lot and said it was amply demonstrated when a Chinese fishing trawler was destroyed by the Sea Tigers. Rovik said what the SLMM said was that the sinking of the Chinese vessel was done by an unknown third party.

He said there is innumerable pieces of evidence to prove that the Norwegian Government has contributed to terrorism in Sri Lanka.

"Due to that victims of terrorism in Sri Lanka who have lost their limbs, loved ones and property and suffered mutilations are able to file class actions against the Norwegian government asking for compensation, under the country's laws," Rovik said.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/03/20/sec01.asp

[al-Canine]

Khalid Sheikh Muhammad: Waging Jihad from Prison

03/20/2007 - By Michael Scheuer (from Terrorism Focus, March 20)

Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri have long made clear to their lieutenants that the road to paradise can be found in the enemies' prisons as well as on the battlefield. From prison, they argue, a captured al-Qaeda leader can mislead his interrogators, provide accurate but dated material that leads the enemy nowhere, or speak to the Muslim nation if the opportunity arises. Until last week, the most successful from-jail operation was run by captured senior al-Qaeda leader Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who described non-existent WMD cooperation between Iraq and al-Qaeda, a claim Washington used to support its case for war with Iraq. Al-Libi later recanted his claims, and he may still be smiling at the effects of his statement. Al-Libi's laurels have now passed to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM) on the basis of his presentation to a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay on March 10. Al-Qaeda's former operations chief, who was captured in Pakistan in March 2003, made the most of his testimony before the tribunal in at least six areas, each of which benefits al-Qaeda and causes problems for the U.S. government. Clearly, KSM's remarks were addressed to both Western and Muslim audiences [1].

Claimed Responsibility for Attacks: Without remorse or excuses, KSM admitted to having been involved in 31 operations and said he was ready for "what is coming to me." In broken English, KSM continued, saying, "For this [the oath to tell the tribunal the truth] is not necessary, as I responsible, responsible." Much of the Western media failed to read the statement closely, and as a result have defaulted to two incorrect conclusions, claiming either that no single person could have done what KSM claimed—and so he is egotistical—or that he was such an important and potent figure that now al-Qaeda is much less threatening without him. KSM, however, simply said that as al-Qaeda's operations chief he was involved in one way or another in the group's operations; surely there is no surprise there, and 31 events over an 11 year period can hardly be called excessive. KSM also made clear that some of the planned operations he described occurred "before I join al-Qaeda." KSM was proud of what he and al-Qaeda have attempted and achieved in their "war" against the United States and its allies; for the millions of Muslims who support al-Qaeda, he will be seen as an able, active and effective military leader.

Victory is Possible: KSM's testimony was a timely, if obviously uncoordinated, complement to Ayman al-Zawahiri's March 11 criticism of Hamas for adopting a "defeatist" attitude in agreeing to join a unity government in Palestine [2]. KSM's description of al-Qaeda's dozens of operations over five continents depicts the group's unique geographical reach and its determination and ability to hurt Islam's perceived enemies. Indeed, KSM kept his well-known egotism in check and tried to keep the focus on al-Qaeda as a powerful group, saying al-Qaeda conducted the attacks and "what I wrote here, is not I'm making myself a hero, when I said I was responsible for this or that." Convincing Muslims that they have a chance to defeat the vastly more powerful West has always been one of the most difficult tasks undertaken by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. KSM's words will serve as an example of that ability that will stand alongside what the mujahideen believe are Islam's coming victories in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Eroding the CIA's Anti-al-Qaeda Capabilities: Al-Qaeda leaders have claimed that their organization has been hurt most since 9/11 by the Pakistani army's operations in the Pashtun tribal region and by the CIA's rendition program. KSM smartly framed his presentation to further undercut the latter by claiming that he had been tortured by the CIA, adding that some of the information he previously provided was false and given under duress (al-Jazeera, March 15). Almost before he was done talking, the president of the military tribunal assured him that his allegations would "be reported for any investigation that might be appropriate" and prominent U.S. senators from both parties publicly called for KSM's charges to be investigated and, if true, for the perpetrators to be punished (Washington Post, March 17). As an added bonus for al-Qaeda, KSM's claims of providing false information will raise questions in the U.S. intelligence community and those allied with it about how much of KSM's pre-March 10 information can be trusted as the basis for either operations or analysis.

Fanning Trans-Atlantic Flames: By claiming that he was tortured at the CIA's hands, KSM has thrown more gas on the raging debate between the United States on the one side, and European governments, European Union institutions and the assortment of human rights groups over the issue of what to do with al-Qaeda and other Islamist prisoners. Furthermore, because the CIA is an easy and already much-used target by Europeans and the U.S. Congress, KSM was careful to broaden the target deck for U.S. critics by devoting much of his testimony to describing the "many, many people" who are innocent and being held in Guantanamo Bay: "So, I think God knows that many who been arrested, they been unjustly arrested." KSM pleaded with the military tribunal's president "to be fair with [the] other people" who are being held, adding, "I hope you will take care of other detainees with what I said. It's up to you."

Keeping Focused on U.S. Foreign Policy: KSM uttered not a word about his, al-Qaeda's, or Muslim hatred for the way Americans live, vote, or think, nothing about U.S. elections, liberty, or gender equality. Apparently sharing the belief of bin Laden and al-Zawahiri that few Muslims are or can be motivated by hatred for American liberty and society, KSM concentrated on the laser-like focus of his superiors: U.S. foreign policy. "For sure, I'm Americans' enemies," KSM said. Quoting bin Laden, KSM cited as reasons for this status as "American military presence in Arabian peninsula and aiding Israel and many things." Because of U.S. policy in the Muslim world, KSM explained that he asked himself "What will I do?" His answer was, "This is the language [of war, creating victims]. Sometime I want to make great awakening between American to stop foreign policy in our [Muslim] land. I know American people torturing us from the seventies." In his testimony, KSM hewed to the letter of al-Qaeda's decade-old justification for the jihad it is waging: U.S. foreign policy is an attack on Islam and its followers, and al-Qaeda's response is a "religious thing" to protect the faith.

Straight Talk about War: If any part of KSM's testimony might be called refreshing, it was his constant lecturing of the military tribunal about the nature of war: "This is why the language of any war in the world is killing. I mean the language of war is victims." KSM engaged in none of the charlatanism of Western discussions of war; he did not speak of surgical strikes, limited collateral damage, precision weapons, or casualty-free wars. Knowing history better than his interlocutors, KSM told the tribunal: "But your [sic] are military men. I did it [the list of attacks] but this is the language of any war…Military [men] throughout history know very well. They don't war will never stop. War start from Adam when Cain he killed Abel until now. It's never gonna stop killing people. This [killing and victims] is the way of the language [of war]…You know never stopping war. This is life." Since Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, said that, "War means fighting and fighting means killing," the unchanging reality of war has seldom been better described than it was by KSM in his broken English.

[i]Michael Scheuer served as the Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the CIA's Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. He is now a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation.

Notes

1. All quotes from KSM are drawn from the U.S. military's transcript of his testimony at Guantanamo Bay on March 10, 2007.
2. "Ayman al-Zawahiri Statement on Hamas, Afghanistan, and Egypt," http://muslim.net/vb, March 12, 2007.

http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=227

[The 801]

Ah, a little internecine fighting is not always a bad thing.......

Waziristan jihadis wage war on each other
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

The present bloody infighting between al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal areas is likely to end in reconciliation between the two groups that will mark the beginning of the Taliban's major Afghan offensive.

Well-placed sources maintain that the chief commander of the Taliban in South Wazirstan, Baitullah Mehsud, was in Afghanistan's Helmand province when the fighting, in which scores have died this week, erupted. He immediately rushed to South Waziristan on the orders of Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah.

He put his foot down, and the fighting has now eased. A new protocol is imminent, under which all parties will agree to fight in Afghanistan and not inside Pakistan.

How did this internecine strife in South Waziristan evolve? Is it just a battle between foreign militants and Pakistani Taliban - a clash of interests - or is it a blessing in disguise for the Taliban and a serious problem for the US-led forces in Afghanistan?

Moving the fault lines
There has long been debate within the Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants over strategy in the fight against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and US-led-coalition forces in Afghanistan: Should war be waged against all opponents - including US ally Pakistan - without discrimination, or should political issues be considered, so as to allow for strategic repositioning in future?

The Uzbek al-Qaeda-linked militants in South and North Waziristan believe in a global war against NATO and all its allies, such as the Pakistani government. This strategy is now in conflict with that of the Taliban leadership.

The tension between the two sides broke out into open warfare on Wednesday in South Waziristan, with thousands of Pakistani Taliban dug in against the Uzbek militants and their supporters, believe to number 20,000. So far, at least 110 people have been killed, mostly Uzbeks.

The fight has isolated the chief of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yaldeshiv. Tahir is the main preacher of the idea that fighting the Pakistan Army is the first priority, and he is violently opposed to any rapprochement between Pakistani Taliban and the army.

"The implementation of the sharia [Islamic law] and the appointment of the emir of the sharia emirate are supposed to be the first priority of mujahideen in Pakistan," Yaldeshiv said in a speech now widely available on disc.

Part of the solution
Should the Taliban be part of a solution for their sympathizers in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or a constant problem? That was the debate initiated by Mullah Dadullah when he tried to mediate a ceasefire between Pakistani Taliban and the Pakistani military early last year. Dadullah has constantly argued that Pakistani Taliban going into Afghanistan and fighting against NATO forces was a greater service to Afghanistan's cause of freedom than staying in the two Waziristans and fighting Pakistani soldiers.

The dialogue convinced the leading anti-army commanders in North Waziristan, Sadiq Noor and Abdul Khaliq, and they agreed that jihad was only relevant in Afghanistan and that fighting against the Pakistan Army had no relevance to the Afghan resistance.

Al-Qaeda elements in North Waziristan, including Uzbeks settled in the town of Mir Ali, were converted to this point of view and broke with Yaldeshiv, who was living in South Waziristan and still demanding the establishment of the Islamic Emirates in Pakistan by waging jihad against "the crusaders' ally".

At present, information coming from South Waziristan suggests that Uzbeks settled in three main points, Shin Warsak, Azam Warsak and Kaloosha, have now in effect been surrounded by local Taliban. The Uzbeks are tenacious fighters, but the most likely outcome will be their surrender and agreement that from now on all fighting will be done in Afghanistan. Such unity of purpose would be a boon for the Taliban's looming offensive against NATO.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IC23Df02.html

[Vancouver]

"The LTTE has sold these [Norwegian] passports to the highest bidders including an Algerian al-Qaeda group," Rovik said.That sounds realistic, in that the "Algerian al-Qaeda group" (GSPC, or at least the part of it which is under Abu Musab Abdul-Wadoud) lost its source of vital bogus travel documents when Italy rolled up the Milan cell and the Sami Essid network.
BTW Sami Essid was sentenced to five years in Feb. 2002, so he should be at large now. He's facing another 20 years in Tunisia, and if he can escape Italy, I think the UK will be his destination of choice. GSPC fundraising and recruiting has long been based in England. Essid's own "Tunisian Combat Group" was founded in London, in 2000.

[Casey]

In video, al-Qaida urges unification
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3/22/2007, 10:03 p.m. ET
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF
The Associated Press

CAIRO, EGYPT (AP) — In a new video posted Thursday on the Internet, an al-Qaida militant who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan urged Sunni militants in Iraq to join the terror group and claimed the U.S. military's security plan for Baghdad has failed.

Abu Yahia al-Libi, who broke out of the U.S. prison at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul in 2005, said it was the sacred duty of all mujahedeen, or holy warriors, to "stand steadfast together."

He called on militant groups known as Ansar al-Sunnah, the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Army of the Mujahedeen to "hurry up and respond to the call of the Quran to become one and ... join the Islamic State in Iraq," an al-Qaida affiliate in the country.

"This is the legitimate duty and urgent need imposed by the circumstances of this stage of the jihad in Iraq," the black-turbaned al-Libi said, referring to militants' holy war.

The 28-minute video, posted on a Web site commonly used by Islamist militants, shows al-Libi, whose nom de guerre means 'the Libyan' in Arabic, with a beard and wearing a camouflage uniform seated next to a Kalashnikov rifle.

The videotape's authenticity could not be independently verified. It carried the logo of al-Qaida's media production wing, al-Sahab. The video was also released by IntelCenter, a U.S. government contractor that monitors al-Qaida messaging.

IntelCenter said the earliest the video could have been made is Feb. 20, based on comments al-Libi makes on the decision by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw a portion of Britain's troops from Iraq. Blair's decision was first reported on Feb. 20.

In the video, al-Libi claims the monthlong Baghdad security crackdown by U.S. military and Iraqi troops, meant to curb sectarian violence that has shaken the Iraqi capital and its residents, has failed. "The break and defeat of your enemy is seen in the military arena, especially after the Security Plan failed and its defeat, with God's will, is very near," he says.

"The enemy knows he is losing in this battle," al-Libi said, adding the proof of this was in the planned withdrawal of the British troops from Iraq.

In addressing the militants, al-Libi said they were the "tip of the spear" in the holy war against the West and that they "must be more strong and more serious, and leave all trivia behind, resist any temptation."

Al-Libi also urged them not to "fall into the trap of enemies reaching out to Sunnis in Iraq" and claimed Saudi Arabia's calls for the support of Iraq's beleaguered Sunni minority were a sham.

"Your enemies are adding poison to exterminate you and sabotage your jihad. So don't be drawn in by flashy advertisements of Satan and his followers," he said.

Al-Libi has recorded several tapes since he escaped from Bagram. Afghan police said at the time that his real name is Abulbakar Mohammed Hassan and that he is a Libyan.


http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-37/1174612200288900.xml&storylist=international


see: as-sahab
http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1015709#post1015709

[Vancouver]

Transcripts of the unclassified portions of two more CSRT hearings:

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10012.pdf
About the embassy bombings in 1998. Ghailani is acting dumb, says he didn't know it was TNT, says another Ahmed was involved and the two are mixed up, said he went to the Farouq camp without knowing it was Qaida and without ever having heard of al-Qaida.

Muhammad Farik Zubayr of JI, accused in the Marriott bombing in Jakarta:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ISN10021.pdf

[Vancouver]

Three more CSRT transcripts:

Bin Lep:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10022.pdf

al-Nashiri (36 pages):
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10015.pdf

al-Hawsawi:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/transcript_ISN10011.pdf

[Petronas]

TERRORISM: BIN LADEN'S SON IN IRAN, EXPERTS SAY
Mar-30-07 18:02

Osama bin Laden's son, Saad bin Laden, and a number of leaders of the al-Qaeda terrorist network are in Iran, according to a group of terrorism experts featured in a programme on the Arabic satellite television channel Al Arabiya. The programme, entitled "The Death Factory", is expected to air on Friday evening. The programme is part of a weekly series that examines Islamic terrorism and armed groups active in Iraq and other warzones. According to these experts, the leader of al-Qaeda's old guard have either been arrested or are free but under the surveillance of Iranian authorities.

Among these al-Qaeda members is Saad bin Laden, as well as Sayf al-Adel, the former spokesperson of the group, as well as Suleyman Abu al-Ghaith, Muhammad Shouki al-Islambuli and other Arab terrorists. According to a researcher at the Centre for Arab-Iranian Studies in London, Nuri Zadah, all these al-Qaeda members are believed to be in Iran since the fall of the hardline Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001.

This opinion was shared by the Egyptian researcher, Abdel Rahim Ali, who also noted that the former al-Qaeda spokesman, Kuwaiti, Suleyman Abu al-Ghaith, is in Iran because his government refused the offer by the Iranian authorities to send him to Kuwait City.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.400669194&par

[The 801]

New Leadership Is Seen on Rise Within Al Qaeda
By MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON, April 1 — As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network’s operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

The new leaders rose from within the organization after the death or capture of the operatives that built Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leading to surprise and dismay within United States intelligence agencies about the group’s ability to rebound from an American-led offensive.

It has been known that American officials were focusing on a band of Al Qaeda training camps in Pakistan’s remote mountains, but a clearer picture is emerging about those who are running the camps and thought to be involved in plotting attacks.

American, European and Pakistani authorities have for months been piecing together a picture of the new leadership, based in part on evidence-gathering during terrorism investigations in the past two years. Particularly important have been interrogations of suspects and material evidence connected to a plot British and American investigators said they averted last summer to destroy multiple commercial airlines after takeoff from London.

Intelligence officials also have learned new information about Al Qaeda’s structure through intercepted communications between operatives in Pakistan’s tribal areas, although officials said the group has a complex network of human couriers to evade electronic eavesdropping.

The investigation into the airline plot has led officials to conclude that an Egyptian paramilitary commander called Abu Ubaidah al-Masri was the Qaeda operative in Pakistan orchestrating the attack, officials said.

Mr. Masri, a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan, is believed to travel frequently over the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was long thought to be in charge of militia operations in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan, but he emerged as one of Al Qaeda’s senior operatives after the death of Abu Hamza Rabia, another Egyptian who was killed by a missile strike in Pakistan in 2005.

The evidence officials said was accumulating about Mr. Masri and a handful of other Qaeda figures has led to a reassessment within the American intelligence community about the strength of the group’s core in Pakistan’s tribal areas, and its role in some of the most significant terrorism plots of the past two years, including the airline plot and the suicide attacks in London in July 2005 that killed 56.

Although the core leadership was weakened in the counterterrorism campaign begun after the Sept. 11 attacks, intelligence officials now believe it was not as crippling as once thought.

That reassessment has brought new urgency to joint Pakistani and American intelligence operations in Pakistan and strengthened officials’ belief that dismantling Al Qaeda’s infrastructure there could disrupt nascent large-scale terrorist plots that may already be under way.

In February, the deputy C.I.A. director, Stephen R. Kappes, accompanied Vice President Dick Cheney to Islamabad to present Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s president, with intelligence on Al Qaeda’s growing abilities and to develop a strategy to strike at training camps.

Officials from several American intelligence agencies interviewed for this article agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity because the Qaeda assessments are classified.

Many American officials have said in recent years that the roles of Mr. bin Laden and his lieutenants in Pakistan’s remote mountains have diminished with the growing prominence of the organization’s branch in Iraq, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and with the emergence of regional terrorism networks and so-called home-grown cells.

That view, in part, led the C.I.A. in late 2005 to disband Alec Station, the unit that for a decade was devoted to hunting Mr. bin Laden and his closest advisers, and to reassign analysts within the agency’s Counterterrorist Center to focus on Al Qaeda’s expanding reach.

Officials say they believe that, in contrast with the somewhat hierarchical structure of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan before Sept. 11, the group’s leadership is now more diffuse, with several planning hubs working autonomously and not reliant on constant contact with Mr. bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, his deputy.

Much is still not known about the backgrounds of the new Qaeda leaders; some have adopted noms de guerre. Officials and outside analysts said they tend to be in their mid-30s and have years of battlefield experience fighting in places like Afghanistan and Chechnya. They are more diverse than the earlier group of leaders, which was made up largely of battle-hardened Egyptian operatives. American officials said the new cadre includes several Pakistani and North African operatives.

Experts say they still see Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia as largely independent of Al Qaeda’s hub in Pakistan but that they believe the fighting in Iraq will produce future Qaeda leaders.

“The jihadis returning from Iraq are far more capable than the mujahedeen who fought the Soviets ever were,” said Robert Richer, who was associate director of operations in 2004 and 2005 for the C.I.A. “They have been fighting the best military in the world, with the best technology and tactics.”

Officials said other operatives believed to be plotting internationally are Khalid Habib, a Moroccan, and Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi. Mr. Iraqi, a Kurd who served in Saddam Hussein’s army, moved to Afghanistan to fight Soviet occupiers. Officials believe that he was dispatched to Iraq by Mr. bin Laden to deal with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose terrorist group allied with Mr. bin Laden. It took the name Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia before Mr. Zarqawi was killed in an American bombing in June of last year. American officials say they believe that Mr. Iraqi is now back operating inside of Pakistan.

American officials say they still know little about how operatives communicate with Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri.

“There has to be some kind of communication up the line, we just don’t see it,” one senior intelligence official said.

American counterterrorism officials said they did not believe that any one figure had taken over the role once held by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the operations chief who was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and is being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

During a recent legal hearing, Mr. Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning dozens of attacks over more than a decade.

One reason that Mr. Mohammed proved so valuable to Al Qaeda was his experience as a college student in the United States, which allowed him to train several Sept. 11 hijackers to assimilate into American society.

American officials said the seeming elevation of a California-born operative named Adam Gadahn to a more prominent role might be an effort to replicate Mr. Mohammed’s experience.

Mr. Gadahn has appeared on several Qaeda videos in recent years. The United States offers a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture. But American officials are divided about how important a role he plays, or whether top Qaeda leaders are merely using him for propaganda.

Officials are also divided and somewhat puzzled about Iran’s role in pursuing Qaeda figures.

Intelligence officials say they believe that the Iranian government has in some cases been quite active in the hunt and has put under house arrest a number of top operatives who fled from Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, including the Egyptian operations chief Saif al-Adel and Saad bin Laden, one of the Qaeda leader’s sons.

But officials say they believe that several other important Qaeda figures may be operating in Iran, including an Egyptian known as Abu Jihad al-Masri and a Libyan explosives expert named Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, who is thought to travel between Iran and Pakistan’s tribal areas.

Top American officials said that, despite the damage to the structure of Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11 attacks, concern is still high that the group is determined to attack globally.

“We have been very concerned that over time the leaders of Al Qaeda would try to rebuild a chain of command and an organizational structure,” said Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I, in a statement provided for this article.

Mr. Mueller said Al Qaeda was clearly committed to carrying out “major complex operations.” Some experts who have studied the group since its inception said American officials had in the past too readily assumed that Al Qaeda’s decision to wait long periods of time between attacks was a sign of weakness.

“To say that Al Qaeda was out of business simply because they have not attacked in the U.S. is whistling past the graveyard,” said Michael Scheuer, a former head of the bin Laden tracking unit at the C.I.A. “Al Qaeda is still humming along, and with a new generation of leaders.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/world/middleeast/02qaeda.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

[Vancouver]

A lawyer in Egypt who has represented various EIJ suspects, and formerly worked alongside Hani al-Sibai and Muntassir al-Zayat, has been charged with working for Ayman al-Zawahiri on some new anti-Egypt campaign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamdouh_Ismail
The prompt denial from al-Sibai is no surprise, but this bigshot has also spoken up:
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=abu_jihad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Hasan_Khalil_al-Hakim
which IMO is pretty remarkable. I've long known that the country al-Zawahiri really wants to hurt is his own country: Egypt. The other three people named so far in this case are also Egyptians.
A number of EIJ personnel (including al-Sibai) are currently free in the UK. I'm pretty sure that al-Sabai is in touch with al-Hukaymah, and it looks like one or the other is in touch somehow with al-Zawahiri.

[Vancouver]

I dunno, but according to a reasonably sane Arab newspaper the one in the middle is Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah .

[The 801]

Al-Qaeda‘planning big British attack’
Dipesh Gadher

AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.

Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne”, a reference to the West.

Another plot could be timed to coincide with Tony Blair stepping down as prime minister, an event described by Al-Qaeda planners as a “change in the head of the company”.

The report, produced earlier this month and seen by The Sunday Times, appears to provide evidence that Al-Qaeda is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq.

There is no evidence of a formal relationship between Al-Qaeda, a Sunni group, and the Shi’ite regime of President Mah-moud Ahmadinejad, but experts suggest that Iran’s leaders may be turning a blind eye to the terrorist organisation’s activities.

The intelligence report also makes it clear that senior Al-Qaeda figures in the region have been in recent contact with operatives in Britain.

It follows revelations last year that up to 150 Britons had travelled to Iraq to fight as part of Al-Qaeda’s “foreign legion”. A number are thought to have returned to the UK, after receiving terrorist training, to form sleeper cells.

The report was compiled by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) - based at MI5’s London headquarters - and provides a quarterly review of the international terror threat to Britain. It draws a distinction between Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda’s core leadership, who are thought to be hiding on the Afghan-Pakistan border, and affiliated organisations elsewhere.

The document states: “While networks linked to AQ [Al-Qaeda] Core pose the greatest threat to the UK, the intelligence during this quarter has highlighted the potential threat from other areas, particularly AQI [Al-Qaeda in Iraq].”

The report continues: “Recent reporting has described AQI’s Kurdish network in Iran planning what we believe may be a large-scale attack against a western target.

“A member of this network is reportedly involved in an operation which he believes requires AQ Core authorisation. He claims the operation will be on ‘a par with Hiroshima and Naga-saki’ and will ‘shake the Roman throne’. We assess that this operation is most likely to be a large-scale, mass casualty attack against the West.”

The report says there is “no indication” this attack would specifically target Britain, “although we are aware that AQI . . . networks are active in the UK”.

Analysts believe the reference to Hiroshima and Naga-saki, where more than 200,000 people died in nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of the second world war, is unlikely to be a literal boast.

“It could be just a reference to a huge explosion,” said a counter-terrorist source. “They [Al-Qaeda] have got to do something soon that is radical otherwise they start losing credibility.”

Despite aspiring to a nuclear capability, Al-Qaeda is not thought to have acquired weapons grade material. However, several plots involving “dirty bombs” - conventional explosive devices surrounded by radioactive material - have been foiled.

Last year Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq called on nuclear scientists to apply their knowledge of biological and radiological weapons to “the field of jihad”.

Details of a separate plot to attack Britain, “ideally” before Blair steps down this summer, were contained in a letter written by Abdul al-Hadi al-Iraqi, an Iraqi Kurd and senior Al-Qaeda commander.

According to the JTAC document, Hadi “stressed the need to take care to ensure that the attack was successful and on a large scale”. The plan was to be relayed to an Iran-based Al-Qaeda facilitator.

The Home Office declined to comment.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687360.ece

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About EIJ rather than al-Qaida proper (they aren't really the same thing, despite their propaganda about unity) ...

Montasser al-Zayat claims that Muhammad al-Zawahiri (still alive despite a 1999 death sentence) and another EIJ bigshot are steering for a renunciation of violence, which would get them and a lot of others out of the slammer in Egypt (says al-Zayat):
http://www.foxnews.com:80/story/0,2933,267422,00.html

Zayat talks to the press a lot and IMO that means he should be taken with salt. (When I read "according to a lawyer familiar with the process", I figured immediately it was Zayat. :) ) But the timing of this story is interesting. Mamdouh Ismail was picked up just a couple of weeks ago, and another guy with EIJ friends was charged around the same time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamdouh_Ismail
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2007/April/07_nsd_240%20.html

Zayat info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntasir_al-Zayyat

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تحدث عن وجود "مفرخة" كبيرة لأجيال جديدة
Talked about a "breeding ground" for great new generations

خبير يستعرض خارطة "القاعدة" مغاربيا ويتوقع"طالبان"جديدة
Expert reviews map "Al Qaeda" and 7% expect "Taliban" new تنبيه: هذا حوار أجرته العربية نت عبر الهاتف مع الدكتور هاني السباعي تكلم فيه عن تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي وعن الأحداث الأخيرة في الجزائر والدار البيضاء باختصار واختزال غير مخل مع التنبيه على أن فضيلة الدكتور السباعي لا يذكر الأسماء مجردة مثل كلمة (شيخ أو دكتور) كما أنه لا يذكر كلمة (عنف) ولا (انتحاري) وكل هذا متروك لفطنة القارئ..
Alert : such an interview Al-Arabiya on the phone with Dr. Hani al-Sibai spoke about the Al-Qaeda organization in the country of Morocco and the Islamic recent events in Algeria, Casablanca and reducing the short - breach with the caveat that the Q-Sibai does not mention names such as word abstract (sheikh or Doctor), nor does it word (violence) or (suicide) All of this is left to the discerning reader .. (مراسل مركز المقريزي)
(Correspondent Makrisi Center)

الخميس 12 أبريل 2007م، 24 ربيع الأول 1428 هـ
Thursday, April 12, 2007, the first 24 spring 1428 e


تحدث عن وجود "مفرخة" كبيرة لأجيال جديدة
Talked about a "breeding ground" for great new generations

خبير يستعرض خارطة "القاعدة" مغاربيا ويتوقع"طالبان"جديدة
Expert reviews map "Al Qaeda" and 7% expect "Taliban" new




دبي - فراج اسماعيل
Dubai-Farrag Ismail


قلل خبير في التنظيمات الاسلامية مقيم في لندن من حجم التنظيمات المسلحة المغربية المندمجة بتنظيم "القاعدة في المغرب الاسلامي" مشيرا إلى أن الجماعة السلفية للدعوة والقتال الجزائرية هي ذارع الرعب الحقيقي، وبمثابة "مفرخة" كبيرة لأجيال شابة وصل وجودها وتأثيرها إلى حوض النيجر، متوقعا ظهور حركة "طالبان" جديدة في المنطقة.
Reduced expert in Islamic organizations based in London, the size of the Moroccan armed groups merged with the "Al Qaeda in Islamic Morocco," adding that the Salafist Group for Call and Combat Algerian Mara is the real terror, as a "breeding ground" for large young generations arrived existence and impact of the Niger Basin, expected emergence of the "Taliban" in a new region.


وأكد أن الافتراضات الاعلامية بأن "الجماعة الاسلامية المقاتلة" في المغرب و"الجماعة الليبية المسلحة" هما الضلعان الآخران لمثلث "القاعدة" في الدول المغاربية، افتراضات غير واقعية، لأن قادة الجماعتين موجودون في السجون، وأعضاؤهما من قدامى "المجاهدين" في أفغانستان" الذين اعتزلوا العمل المسلح، معبرا عن اعتقاده بأن تنظيم القاعدة الرئيسي في أفغانستان استطاع تصدير تنظيمات فكرية إلى العالم الاسلامي، دخلت فيها أجيال جديدة لا تربطها وحدة عضوية، وهو ما سيصعب عملية مواجهة الجهات الأمنية لهم.
He stressed that the assumptions briefing that the "militant Islamic group" in Morocco, "the Libyan armed group" are two of Aldan triangle "Al Qaeda" in the Maghreb countries, unrealistic assumptions, because the two leaders are in prison, and members of the old "mujahideen" in Afghanistan "who retired people armed action, expressing his belief that the main Al Qaeda in Afghanistan could intellectual export regulations to the Islamic world, has entered the new generations do not have a membership, which will be difficult to meet the security for them.


جاء ذلك في حوار لـ"العربية.نت" تحدث فيه د.هاني السباعي رئيس مركز ا لمقريزي للدراسات التاريخية في لندن، (والذي تتهمه بعض الجهات بالتعاطف مع الجماعات الأصولية)، عن مفاصل تنظيم القاعدة في المغرب الاسلامي وعلاقته بالتفجيرات الاخيرة في الجزائر والدار البيضاء.
This came in a dialogue of the "Arab. Net "d occur. Hani al-Sibai, head of the Center for a Portizi for Historical Studies in London, (and whom some quarters sympathize with the fundamentalist groups), on the joints of Al-Qaida in Morocco and its relationship to the Islamic recent explosions in Algeria and Casablanca.


وقال: أنا اعتبر الجماعة السلفية للدعوة والقتال بالجزائر، أم التنظيمات المسلحة كلها المنتشرة في منطقة المغرب، لأنها أكثرها عددا وعتادا، وتحتمي بجغرافية شديدة الصعوبة، تمارس فيها حربين في وقت واحد، فهي تتفنن في حرب المدن وتتقنها جيدا، وتتقن أيضا حرب الجبال والغابات.
He said : "I consider the Salafist Group for Call and Combat in Algeria, or armed groups are widespread in the North, they were the most numerous and hardware, disguised geography very difficult, exercising two at one time, it is a war they are in cities and fluent, well, and also mastered the war mountains and forests.





عصارة جماعات سابقة
Exile groups precedent


وأضاف أنها تستخدم في ذلك "تمويه الصحراء" بدلالة عملياتها الصحراوية وضرب أنابيب النفظ والغاز، وهي عبارة عن عصارة جماعات العنف المتغيرة بالجزائر مثل الجماعة الاسلامية المسلحة، وغيرها من التنظيمات التي تناحرت فيما بينها، ولديها عدد كبير من الاتباع لا يوجدون في المغرب أو تونس أو ليبيا.
He added that it is using a "desert camouflage" in terms of its desert and striking oil and gas pipelines, which is about exile groups in Algeria violence such as changing the Armed Islamic Group, and other organizations that belligerents among them, and has a large number of followers are not in Morocco or Tunisia or Libya.


وأشار إلى أن هذه الجماعة التي أعلنت انضمامها إلى القاعدة في يناير الماضي وتسمت باسم "تنظيم القاعدة في المغرب الاسلامي" لها أتباع داخل الدول المجاورة مثل المغرب، خاصة أنها تنشط في الصحراء وتستغل المشاكل الحدودية الموجودة بين دول هذه المنطقة مثل مشكلة الصحراء بين المغرب والجزائر، ويتلونون بلون سكان هذه المنطقة بحيث يمكنهم التسلل كرعاة أو كجنود حدود عاديين، أي أنهم يتحركون بمساعدة البيئة الجغرافية والاجتماعية.
He pointed out that this group, which announced its accession to the rule last January and Tsemet name of "Al-Qaeda in the Muslim Morocco has" the followers inside neighboring countries such as Morocco, particularly as it is active in the desert and exploit existing border problems between the countries of this region such as the problem of the Sahara between Morocco and Algeria, and the residents of these color Ilunon the region so that they can infiltrate shepherds or limits to ordinary soldiers, they move with any geographic environment and social development.





ثمن كبير ومشاكل
The price of large problems


وأكد أن نتائج كثيرة ستترتب على انضمامهم لتنظيم القاعدة، فقد كانوا جماعة مطاردة محليا فقط، الآن بات عليهم أن يواجهوا مطاردة دولية بزعامة الولايات المتحدة، وهذا يعني أن القرار الذي اتخذوه في يناير الماضي بالانضمام للتنظيم وحمل اسمه، لم يكن قرارا عابرا بل تم دراسته باستفاضة لأنهم يعرفون الثمن الكبير الذي سيدفعونه في المقابل، وعبء ومشاكل التنظيم الأم المفترض أنه في جبال أفغانستان.
He stressed that the results of many of the consequences of joining Al Qaeda, the group they chase only locally, now has to face up to the international chase led by the United States, and this means that the decision taken last January to join the organization and carrying his name, was not a passing has been studied extensively, but because they know the great price they will pay in return, and the burden of regulatory problems and the mother assumed that in the mountains of Afghanistan.


ويرى أنه حدثت اتصالات معينة لهم بقيادات القاعدة، ومن الطبيعي ألا تكون اتصالات هاتفية لاستحالة ذلك.
My contacts have been given to them leaderships Qaida, "It is natural for the phone to impossible. مؤكدا أن العمليات الأخيرة كانت متوقعة لأي محلل في شؤون التنظيمات الاسلامية، فبعد اعلانهم عن اسمهم الجديد كتنظيم "القاعدة في المغرب الاسلامي" أصبح عليهم أن يقدموا ما يثبت قدراتهم وامكانياتهم، فجاءت عملية قتل الخبراء الروس، ثم الكمائن التي استهدفت الجيش، وتفجيرات العاصمة الأخيرة، وتزامن ذلك مع تفجيرات المغرب.
Affirming that the recent operations had been expected of any analyst in the affairs of Islamic organizations, after announcement of the new name as an organization "Al Qaeda in Islamic Morocco," now they must submit proof of their abilities and potential, however, were killed, Russian experts and ambushes against the army, DC recent bombings, explosions coincided with Morocco.


ويوضح أن الدليل على عدم وجود تنظيم مسلح قوي في المغرب كذراع ثان للقاعدة، أن العمليات جاءت بطابع فردي ولم تكن ذات تأثير، بداية من عملية تفجير مقهى الانترنت، وحتى العمليات "الانتحارية" الأخيرة التي كانت عبارة عن مطاردة لأشخاص لالقاء القبض عليهم ففجروا أنفسهم دون أن يكون هناك هدف واضح أمامهم، مع أن استراتيجية العمليات "الانتحارية" للقاعدة تقوم على ايقاع أكبر عدد من الخسائر.
He explained that the evidence of the lack of regulation in the armed forces of Morocco arm second base, that the operation was an individual did not influence, the beginning of the bombing of the Internet café, and even operations "suicidal" recent was a chase for persons to arrest They bombed themselves without a clear goal to them, with the strategy of operations "suicide" of the rule based on the rhythm of the largest number of casualties.


وقال هاني السباعي: هذا يعني انهم قبل الاعلان عن تنظيم القاعدة كانت لديهم خطة يثبتوا للعالم من خلالها مقدرتهم على القيام بأعمال مؤثرة في المنطقة، وأن السلطات الأمنية لن تستطيع الحد من عملياتهم.
Hani Sibai : This means said that they are before the announcement of the Al Qaeda they have a plan to demonstrate to the world through their ability to carry out effective in the region, and the security authorities will not be able to reduce their operations.





مفرخة غير مرصودة
Breeding ground unearmarked


ويطلق السباعي على ذلك "المفرخة" لتنظيم القاعدة لأنها انتجت أجيالا جديدة لم تكن مندمجة في التيارات المسلحة الجزائرية خلال السنوات الماضية ومن ثم فهي غير مرصودة أمنيا، ولذلك فانه ليس معروفا سوى امير التنظيم " أبومصعب عبد الودود" والذي تسميه المصادر الأمنية هو عبد الملك دروغدال.
Sibai called it "hatched" for Al Qaeda because they produced new generations were engrossed in the Algerian armed groups during the past years and therefore they are not earmarked security, and therefore it is not known only Amir organization "Abu Musab Abdalwadoud", which calls security sources is Drogdal Malik.


وقال إن بيان القاعدة الأخير يبين أن العمليات التي وقعت في الجزائر والمغرب متناظمة ومتناسقة فيما بينها، بما يعني أنها شبكة كبيرة، لكنها ليست في المملكة الغربية بالثقل والقوة الموجودة في الجزائر.
He said that last statement shows that Al Qaeda operations that took place in Algeria and Morocco Matnazation and coordinated with each other, including a large network means that, but not in the Kingdom of Western weight and power in Algeria.


ويتحدث عن الجماعة الاسلامية المقاتلة في ليبيا التي اختارها الاعلام كضلع ثالث للقاعدة في المغرب الاسلامي، قائلا "ليس لها وجود فعلي بعد اعتقال أميرها عبدالله صادق في تايلاند عام 2004 ونائبه أبو المنذر الساعدي الذي اعتقل في نفس العام في هونج كونج وسلما إلى ليبيا، بالاضافة إلى "أبو حازم" الذي كان معتقلا لدى الأمريكيين في قاعدة "بجرام" بأفغانستان وسلموه لليبيا".
And talking about the Islamic militant group in Libya chosen by the media Kile third base in Islamic Morocco, saying "no physical presence after the arrest Amir Abdullah Sadiq in Thailand in 2004 and his deputy Abu Mondher Sa'idi who was arrested in the same year in Hong Kong and handed over to Libya, in addition to" Abu Hazim ", the prisoner of the Americans in a "Bajram" in Afghanistan and handed him over to Libya. "





ليبيا خارج "القاعدة"
Libya outside "Al Qaeda"


وتابع هاني السباعي: إذن القادة الرئيسيون لهذه الجماعة موجودون في سجون ليبيا، كما أنها في حد ذاتها انهكت كثيرا بعد محاولتها اغتيال العقيد القذافي، وكان رد الفعل حصارهم في احدى المناطق بجبال ليبيا وتوجيه ضربات عنيفة وموجعة لهم، وبالتالي لم تعد بنفس القوة التي كانت عليها في أول ظهورهم، ولم يتبق منها الآن سوى اسماء قليلة متشرذمة في مناطق متباعدة وليست لديهم امكانيات القيام بعمليات.
He continued Hani Sibai : then the leaders of this group are in the prisons of Libya, as well as in itself took a lot after trying to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi, the reaction was still trapped in one of the Mountains Libya and violent strikes and painful to them, and therefore no longer as strong as it was in the first backs, leaving them now only a few names fragmented in areas as distant and not have the potential to carry out.


وكشف بأن قادة وأعضاء الجماعة الاسلامية الليبية المقاتلة يجرون حاليا في السجون "مراجعات فكرية" على نسق المراجعات التي قام بها قادة الجماعة الاسلامية في مصر، أي أنهم يقلدون النموذج المصري، وتم الوصول إلى ذلك بعد مفاوضات بين مؤسسة القذافي وبين قادة الجماعة في السجو وعلى رأسهم عبدالله الصادق والمنذر الساعدي، وبعض منظريها مثل الشيخ مفتاح الذوّادي والشيخ عبدالوهاب قايد.
He disclosed that the leaders and members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting conducting currently in prison "ideological audits" modeled on audits conducted by the leaders of the Islamic Group in Egypt, they are emulating the Egyptian model, and access to after negotiations between the Qaddafi Foundation and the leaders of the group in Sajo, headed Abdullah Sadiq, Mondher Sa'idi Some of the key advocates such as Sheikh Al-Thawadi, Sheikh Abdel Wahab Kaid.


وقال: الهدف من ذلك اعلان الجماعة لمبادرة "وقف العنف" على غرار ما حدث في مصر، ولكن الحقيقة أنه لا يوجد في الأصل أي نشاط مسلح لها منذ أكثر من عشر سنوات.
He said : aim of the Community for the "cessation of violence" along the lines of what happened in Egypt, but the fact that there was originally any armed activity since more than ten years. أما في تونس فأوضح أن فيها تنظيمات قليلة جدا وغير فاعلة وتحت السيطرة الأمنية، ونشاطها غالبا على الحدود المتاخمة للجزائر، حيث تقوم بعمليات سريعة لا يعرف عنها الاعلام شيئا بسبب تكتم السلطات الأمنية، ولأنه لا يوجد اعلام أصلا في هذه المناطق.
In Tunisia, explained that the regulations are very few, are ineffective, the security is under control, and often operate on the border adjacent to Algeria, where the mount is not known to media anything because Kojak security authorities, but there is no information already in these areas.





خارطة القاعدة بالمغرب
Road base in Morocco


وينتقل إلى خارطة تنظيم القاعدة في المملكة المغربية فيشير إلى أن تيار السلفية الجهادية يختلف عن المصطلحات السلفية المنتشرة في العالم مثل السلفية العملية والسلفية النظرية والسلفية الجامية والسلفية المدخلية، لذلك أطلق التيار السلفي في المغرب على نفسه مصطلح "الجهادي" ليميز نفسه ويقول إنه ليس سلفية نظرية فقط، أي تلك التي تنحصر في الأحاديث النبوية والمتون.
The road travels to Al Qaeda in the Kingdom of Morocco pointed out that the Jihad Salafi trend differs from the terminology cult spread around the world, such as Salafia process and cult theory and the Salafi Alejammeh and Salafi Gateway, so called Salafist movement in Morocco for the same term "jihad" to distinguish himself, and says that fundamentalism is not only theoretical, ie, those confined in the Hadiths of the Prophet and narratives.


وأضاف: هؤلاء يقرنون سلفيتهم بالجهاد لمجرد تمييزهم عن السلفيات الأخرى في العالم العربي، لكنه لم يعلن عن نفسه كتنظيم مسلح، أو أن هدفه تنفيذ عمليات عنف.
He added : They equated Silvitham jihad simply indistinguishable from other advances in the Arab world, but he did not declare himself a group of armed, or that its implementation of violence. التنظيم الوحيد الذي أعلن ذلك هو "الجماعة المغربية الاسلامية المقاتلة" وهذا التنظيم قيل إنه عبارة عن قدامى "المقاتلين" في أفغانستان الذين حاولوا تشكيل تنظيم جماعة مسلحة على غرار الجماعة الليبية والجماعة السلفية للدعوة والقتال في الجزائر.
The only organization that announced it is the "Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group" and this organization was that the words on Veterans "fighters" in Afghanistan who tried to organize an armed group formed along the lines of the Jamahiriya and the Salafist Group for Call and Combat in Algeria.


ويرى السباعي أن هذا التنظيم ليس له دور فعال في الواقع، فلم يقم بعمليات تذكر، ولم يصدر منه بيان حول علاقته بحادث الدار البيضاء 2003 ولا بيانات لاحقة تتبنى العمليات الأخرى مثل حادث مقهى الانترنت في الشهر الماضي.
The organization added that this did not have an active role, in fact, did not conduct recalls, it did not issue a statement about his relationship accident Casablanca 2003 and subsequent statements adopts other operations such as Internet cafe incident last month.


ومضى قائلا: مع هذا فانه لابد أن تكون هناك جماعة ما مرتبطة بتنظيم "القاعدة في المغرب الاسلامي" بدليل البيان الذي صدر عن عمليات المغرب، ولكن ليس بقوة وحجم التنظيم في فهو الأم والمحرك، فأي من الهاربين من المطاردات في الدول المغاربية المجاورة سيلجأ إلى جبال الجزائر حيث مركز التنظيم وتواجد محترفيه في اختراق الصحراء والمناطق الوعرة.
His : with this, it must be a group linked to the "Al Qaeda in Morocco Islamic" The evidence is the statement that was issued on the operations of Morocco, but not with force and volume regulation is in the engine and mother, Faye fugitives from the Chases in the Maghreb countries to resort to the mountains of neighboring Algeria, where the organization and in the presence Mahtrfait penetrate the desert and rugged areas.


ويعتقد هاني السباعي رئيس مركز المقريزي أن الامدادات اللوجستية بين جماعات قاعدة المغرب تتم عبر سلاسل جبال الجزائر ومناطقها الوعرة، ويتجاوز وجودها مناطق المغرب العربي إلى حوض النيجر.
It is believed Hani Al-Siba'i, head of the Center for the logistics base of Morocco between groups across mountain ranges Algeria and their rugged, and its presence beyond the Maghreb to the Niger Basin.





المرجعية من الانترنت
Bookmarks from Internet


لكن من أين تأخذ هذه "المفرخة" الجديدة للقاعدة في المغرب العربي مرجعيتها في ظل غياب الاتصال بالتنظيم الأم في أفغانستان أو تفتته؟..
But where to take these "hatched" new base in the Maghreb its authority in the absence of contact parent organization in Afghanistan or breakdown? .. يقول السباعي: هناك مرجعية جديدة اسمها مرجعية الانترنت والفتاوى التي تبث عبرها، والأشرطة التي تبث عبر بعض وسائل الاعلام لأسامة بن لادن وايمن الظواهري..
Sibai says : There checklist new name reference site and fatwas, which broadcast through, and tapes broadcast over some of the media for Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri .. كل هذه تعتبر حوافز حققت وحدة فكرية في البداية ونتج عنها وحدة عضوية.
All these incentives are achieved and unity of thought at the outset, resulting in a membership.


وفسر ذلك بقوله: ما يحدث حاليا هو نشر أفكار تعتنقها أجيال جديدة بدون اتصال مع صاحب هذه الأفكار، ثم يسعون من تلقاء أنفسهم لتحقيقها بحيث لو قبض على عدد منهم مثلا لا يسقط التنظيم.
He explained by saying : What is happening now is the dissemination of ideas espoused new generations without contact with the owner of these ideas, and then seek their own to achieve so if arrested for example, a number of them do not fall regulation. ومن نتاج هذه الوحدة الفكرية اعلان الجماعة السلفية للدعوة والقتال في الجزائر انضمامها للقاعدة، أي أنهم تحولوا إلى الوحدة العضوية.
It is the product of this unit intellectual Declaration of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat in Algeria accession to the base, they are converted to organic unity.





ظهور طالبان "جزائرية"
The emergence of the Taliban "Algerian"


وأضاف: من الناحية العملية اصبح لخارطة تنظيم القاعدة الآن كتلتان، الأولى في مناطق خراسان وأفغانستان وجنوب شرق آسيا، والثانية في المغرب العربي والأخيرة تعتبر حاليا كتلة ناشئة ربما تصل إلى قوة الموجودة في أفغانستان، ومن ثم فمن غير المستبعد أن يخرج طالبان جدد أو تنظيم بنفس القوة المسلحة لاسيما أن هناك خصائص موجودة في الجزائر، تتشابه كثيرا مع الخصائص الموجود في جنوب شرق آسيا وأفغانستان مثل المنطقة الجبلية ومناطق القبائل، وهي مناطق وعرة تصلح لحرب عصابات طويلة المدى، وأصبحت لهذه الحرب طريقة جزائرية اكتسبت خبرتها عبر سنوات طويلة، تضاف لطرق أخرى في نوعيات هذه الحروب مثل الطريقة الكولومبية والفتينامية وغيرهما.
He added : in practical terms of the road became Al Qaeda Ctltan now, the first in the areas of Khorasan, Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, and second in the Maghreb and the last is currently emerging bloc may reach Force in Afghanistan, and hence it is unlikely to emerge renewed Taliban or Al same armed force, especially that there the characteristics exist in Algeria, often with similar characteristics found in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan, such as the mountainous area and the tribal regions, which inhospitable areas suitable for long-term guerrilla war, and this war has become a way Algerian experience gained over many years, add to other ways in these kinds of wars, such as the way the Colombian and Fattinameh and others.


ويعتقد أن الصراع مع "قاعدة المغرب" سيطول ولن يتم حسمه بسهولة، مع أن كل العالم سيقف بحسم مع الحكومات المغاربية لحصار هذا التنظيم في الجبال، لكن يظل السؤال الملح يتعلق بكيفية وصولهم إلى قلب العاصمة الجزائرية بـ700 كيلو جرام من المتفجرات.
It is believed that the conflict with a "Morocco" will take will not be resolved easily, with the whole world will decisively with the Moroccan government for the siege of this organization in the mountains, but the pressing question of how access to the heart of the Algerian capital, with 700 kilograms of explosives.


ويؤكد أن "العمليات الانتحارية التي شهدتها العاصمة الجزائرية قبل يومين ليست نمطا جديدا في عمليات الجماعات المسلحة في هذا البلد".
It stresses that "suicide operation in the Algerian capital two days ago was not a new pattern in the operations of armed groups in this country." مشيرا إلى "عمليات مشابهة قامت بها الجماعة الاسلامية المسلحة في بداياتها، وكان يتم اقتحام مديريات الأمن بسيارات مفخخة، وقد عاصرنا هذه الفترة وكنت من المتابعين لتفاصيلها عبر نشرة الأنصار".
Pointing to "similar operations carried out by the Armed Islamic Group in its infancy, and was storming the security directorates car bomb, has wanted this period, and I was pursuing details via bulletin Ansar."


وحول تعدد جنسيات أعضاء تنظيم القاعدة في المغرب يقول إن غالب الموجودين منه في الجزائر هم جزائريون يعرفون البلد جيدا، ولكن بعض الشباب من تونس وليبيا والمغرب يمكنهم الاندماج معهم لقدراتهم على اتقان اللهجة والتعامل مع السكان المحليين بدون اكتشافهم، عكس القادمين مثلا من بلاد المشرق العربي.
The multiplicity of nationalities on the Al-Qaida members in Morocco says that the majority of those in Algeria Algerians who know the country well, but some young people from Tunisia, Libya, Morocco can integrate them for their ability to master the language and deal with the local population without arresting them, for example, coming from the opposite Arab Mashreq countries.

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بعد صور عملية عسكرية لطالبان بثتها مؤسسة سحابAfter images of a military operation to the Taliban aired Foundation Sahab
باحث يؤكد خضوع مدن أفغانية لـ"أشباح" الملا عمر وبن لادنResearcher confirms Afghan cities subjected to "ghost" Mullah Omar and Bin Laden

تنبيه: هذا حوار أجرته العربية نت عبر الهاتف مع الدكتور هاني السباعي تكلم فيه عن مواضيع كثيرة حول الوضع في أفغانستان ثم اختصرته واختزلته العربية على النحو التالي: (مراسل مركز المقريزي)Alert : This is an interview with Al-Arabiya via phone with Dr. Hani al-Sibai spoke about the many subjects on the situation in Afghanistan and then Akhtserth Akhtzlth Arab as follows : (correspondent Makrisi Center)



أكد محلل وباحث معني بالشؤون الأفغانية إن الملا محمد عمر وأسامة بن لادن يقودان حرب أشباح تسيطر ليلا على مدن كاملة في جنوب أفغانستان وتضع يدها على كميات كبيرة من الأسلحة والذخيرة والمؤن الغذائية ثم تتبخر نهارا.The analyst and researcher on Afghan affairs that Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden, war ghosts controlled driving at night on the entire cities in southern Afghanistan and seize large quantities of arms, ammunition and food supplies and then evaporate night.
وقال د.هاني السباعي رئيس مركز المقريزي للدراسات في لندن إن ولاية "هلمند" في الجنوب ومنطقة غزني واقليم النمروز أصبحت تحت السيطرة الميدانية الليلية لحركة طالبان في الوقت الحالي، وتقوم بنصب كمائن للتفتيش في بعض النقاط في ساعات النهار أحيانا، كما تشاهد علنا لوحات التأييد المؤيدة للملا عمر والمحرضة على القتال ضد قوات التحالف., Said. Hani Al-Siba'i, head of the Center for Studies in London, said the mandate "of Helmand," in southern Ghazni, and the territory is under the control Alenmroz Field night of the Taliban movement at the present time, and the ambushes for inspection at some points in the daylight hours sometimes, as seen publicly plates support the pro - Mullah Omar and instigated the fighting against the coalition forces.
وأضاف أن ربيعا ساخنا ينتظر الجنوب الأفغاني الذي يخضع شكليا لقوات التحالف من خلال استخدام الطيران، إلا أن الجنود الأمريكيين والبريطانيين والكنديين لا يستطيعون الخروج من معسكراتهم خلال ساعات الليل حيث تتحكم في تلك المناطق قوات تابعة لطالبان من مواقع استراتيجية في الجبال.He added that the hot springs awaiting Afghan south, which is undergoing a formal coalition forces through the use of aviation, but that American and British soldiers and Canadians can not leave the camps during the hours of darkness as they controlled in those areas forces of the Taliban from strategic positions in the mountains.
وأشار إلى ما حدث في مدينة موسى قلعة قبل عدة شهور، حيث جرت وقائع أول مفاوضات رسمية بين القوات البريطانية المسيطرة على المنطقة وقوات من طالبان قامت بحصارهم ووضعهم في مرمى النيران، وأسفرت عن انسحاب البريطانيين وتسليم المدينة لزعماء القبائل التي تسكن المنطقة ليسيروا أمورها بأنفسهم.He referred to what happened in the town of Musa Castle several months ago, where the facts of the first formal negotiations between the British forces controlling the region and the Taliban forces had their siege and put them in the crossfire, and resulted in the withdrawal of British and surrender the city to the leaders of the tribes living in the region to follow their own affairs.
وتحدث عن تفجير مدرعة أمريكية في الجنوب بواسطة طالبان وبث شبكة سحاب – القريبة من القاعدة – لصور توضح ذلك، قائلا: هذا ليس جديدا، فطالبان في حاجة الآن بعد أن استجمعت قواتها وانضم اليها المزيد من المتطوعين، أن تعلن إعلاميا عن عملياتها لكسب المزيد من الثقة في النفس وتحريض الآخرين من الأفغان أو الشباب الباكستاني على التطوع والقتال ضمن صفوفهم.He talked about the bombing of an American armored vehicles in the south by Taliban broadcast network Sahab near-bottom-of the images illustrating this, saying : this is not new, Taliban need now that the gathered troops and joined by more volunteers, declare that the media about their operations to gain more self-confidence and inciting others from Afghan or Pakistani youth to volunteer and fighting within their ranks.
وأضاف السباعي: "سحاب" بثت منذ فترة صورا لمعسكر كامل من المقاتلين العرب في أفغانستان وهم يتكلمون ويبثون رسائل ويقومون بعمليات ليلية، مما يعني أنها تقريبا تمثل الذراع الاعلامي للقاعدة وطالبان من خلال عملية معقدة لا يستطيع الأمريكان حل شفرتها وإلا كانوا قد قبضوا عليهم، وو