Why does Al Qaeda seem in a hurry!
17-07-2008
Whoever is closely watching the issue of jihad in Palestine must have
noticed the decisive and simultaneous release of statements and releases in its
direction which is still continuing, making one wonder, just like myself right
now at the aftermath of the last releases of the signposts of Jihad, and I mean
particularly the following 6 releases.
- The address of Sheikh Osama Bin laden (Way to undo the conspiracies)
- The first article of Asad Al Jihad 2 (The timing of the entrance of Al Qaeda
in Palestine)
- The address of Sheikh Abu Omar Al Baghdadi (The religion is instruction)
- The address of Sheikh Osama Bin laden (Way to relief Palestine)
- The address of Sheikh Dr. Aiman Az Zawahiri (March forth to help our people in
Gaza)
- The second article of Asad Al Jihad 2 (The acquittal of the lofty leaders of
Jihad from the stammering leaders of Hamas)
So there are a total of 3 months in total when these releases have been made,
all of which are centered on Palestine pointing out too, that the first stressed
on Iraq and at the same time pointed strongly on what concerns Palestine. There
is no doubt that everyone stopped at the very limited duration, not exceeding a
few minutes especially in the last 3 messages (two of bin laden and one of
Zawahiri) leave alone their being characterized with decisive stands from the
mentioned issues, as if Al Qaeda in this manner is giving a clear message that
the period of instructing and explaining and directing by her has ended. So does
this hurry explain some of the incredulity that these messages have left? Lets
continue the analysis..
What is clear that the message “Way to frustrate the conspiracies” was based
mainly on condemning of the political leadership of Hamas, but the new thing
about it concerning Palestine is the renewal of Bin Laden’s mention about
helping Palestine and its people, and because many of the enemies and rivals
criticized and wondered why Al Qaeda is not directing some of its activities in
Palestine, Bin Laden pointed out in this speech the indulgence of Al Qaeda in
combating the Americans and its allies in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it might be
that this extract was enough to calm the minds, “I calm our people in Palestine
especially, that we will expand our jihad by the will of Allah ,and will not
recognize the boundaries of Sais Beaco nor the rulers who have implemented
colonialism”.
After one month exactly, the first article of Asad Al jihad
appeared carrying a bunch of directions and instructions and wants that he hoped
the Palestinians to take guidance from in preparation to welcome the migrant
Mujahideen. The article was met with a lot of appreciation and welcome both at
the level of Palestinians and Ansars (helpers) especially, and it came as if it
had brought forth a glad tiding for them. In the midst of the heat of the
article, and after 2 weeks exactly, the severe speech of Baghdadi was released
in which he rebuked the political leadership of Hamas and called the “sincere
from Kataib AL Qassam” to become independent from the movement.
These three sources represent the second phase in the direction of the jihad
towards Palestine after the end of the first phase that was set on instructing,
and admonition and anger without showing any results concerning the actions of
political Hamas. And if we try to summarize the most important things that were
mentioned in the speeches of the second phase, we can say the following
- Adhering to the Palestinian issue
- The declaration of Al Qaeda to spread its Jihad
- Beginning of the fight with Israel
- Beginning of the directing campaigns for the Palestinians to help the entrance
of Al Qaeda
Its clear that Palestine was the pivot of the first two phases (instructing and
rebuking) and the second (direction and guiding) as for the third phase (joining
the Jihad fronts) then they can be noticed in the last three sources, and that
cuts down every hope from the Arab political system that has actually declared
the end of its war phase with Israel, beginning from its agreement on the Arab
initiative of peace in the Beirut summit, passing on to the coverage on the
Israeli aggression on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and with the end of the
Annapolis conference at the end of the year 2007 and the aggression taking place
in Gaza leave alone the statement of Prince Turkey Faisal about the struggle of
the Arabs to accommodate Israel in the Arab geography along with the formal
statement of Palestine in which it acquitted itself from everything that deals
with the resistance and fighting with Israel.
That’s why, when he (bin Laden)
calls to wash hands off the wagering on the Arab political system we see him
calling the Islamic Ummah, at the same time to get rid of the “shackles of the
scholars of the rulers, and also from the shackles of the Islamic groups whose
methodology has become to accept the rulers… or other groups that have made
carefulness near themselves enlarged to the point of fear that they prefer
taking the chairs, on standing for Jihad”
This is the political scenario in which the address of Bin Laden “The Road to
the freedom of Palestine” appeared and it is a message that talks about fighting
“Iron can not be combated except with Iron” but the strangest thing in the
message is the mechanisms that he suggests for helping the Palestinian cause,
for in the second stage the focus was on Palestine and preparing for a march for
which the preparation is being made on the inside, as in the third stage the
matter is very complicated and arise wonder! For he is talking clearly about
Iraq “the closest of the grounds today to help the Palestinians” and he calls
“the people of Syria, all of Syria is a blessed land, to… do what they can to
help their Mujahideen brothers in Iraq”.
Instead he goes farther than that and
asks the Palestinians who have migrated from Palestine at the time of the
occupation, most of who live in the neighboring countries, “who have been barred
from participating in the Jihad on the land of Quds… to hasten to take their
positions in the ranks of the Mujahideen in the Land of the Two Rivers”
Perhaps Bin Laden seems compatible in his messages especially as he has not
declared in his previous messages about the extension of Jihad of Al Qaeda in
the direction of Palestine specifically against the hopes of the Ansar.
The help can be from the side of Iraq and could be through Palestinian hands. And instead of sitting back especially for those Palestinians who are not getting a way fro Jihad in Palestine they can move towards Iraq, and there is no doubt that Zawahiri is of the same opinion too, for in his last address he refuted openly the traditional thesis, “There is no place for those who say that we should fight the Jews in Palestine only” but it is exciting for he is asking the Palestinians to target Jews outside Palestine which blends with the suggestions of Bin Laden in “expanding the Jihad” to encompass “all the lands of Syria” especially because the plan has been “set up around Gaza… and the forces of the borders and security forces of Egypt…, that would stop aids from them and constrict upon them in food supply and medical treatment, and stop the marching (for Jihad) to them, and stop their wounded from leaving, or give refuge to their families, and to constrict the siege from the south and west…”.
The most important thing in the address of Zawahiri was that he called the Muslims to accept the equation whose stature is “To attack their interests every where as they have gathered against us from everywhere”. So what is the harvest in our hands?
The harvest is that the article of Asad Al Jihad, is still directed to Palestine
and Palestinians as against the directions of the leadership of Al Qaeda, so is
what’s happening a division of roles in inciting? Or are the articles of Asad Al
Jihad merely personal discretion, and have no connection with Al Qaeda.
There were two important pointers that Baghdadi made in this context in his
statement, one of which talks about the preparation of the Islamic State of Iraq
to host the Palestinians and train them and help them “We are prepared to train
your cadres, beginning from making road side bombs to setting up rockets” and
this is a direction that can be understood in the call of bin Laden to the
migrant Palestinians to go to Iraq.
The second pointer is the expulsion of the
Mujahideen by the American forces and the tribal awakening groups from Anbar, as
it is closer to Palestine especially and because some of the rockets can
trespass it, and that is why expelling the Mujahideen from it was a strategic
way to protect Israel, but in the second article of Asad Al Jihad, the talk is
about “an exhaustive attack on Israel” and about “vexing attacks between us and
between the Jews inside Palestine and outside it” and with the tone of a man
“confident of himself” he thinks that what Baghdadi has mentioned about Anbar is
“a pointer and sign of the time of the exhaustive attack on Israel from inside
and outside, and that will be after regaining Anbar”
But why does Baghdadi give implications to this meaning now and Anbar was
formerly in the hands of the Mujahideen before Abu Risha’s forces took over it?
And has Al Qaeda really talked about an expected exhaustive attack on Israel?
And will such a matter, if it’s correct, being talked about through the media
with such ease? And then how is it possible for Al Qaeda to prepare to enter
Palestine while it calls the migrant Palestinians to join the front in Iraq? And
target the American Israeli interests outside Palestine?
And had not GIMF published the two articles of Asad Al Jihad 2 we wouldn’t have
stopped much at them, for the man has no identity as a leader of Al Qaeda nor
his placement in the organization, and this might try the truthfulness of Al
Qaeda, and divide the effort, as how can Palestine be the focus of the media
effort of Al Qaeda whereas the Ansar are receiving contrasting statements some
of it calling to prepare in Palestine and another calling them to join the front
in Iraq and a third inciting them to attack the American and Israeli interests
and a fourth giving them glad tidings of severe attacks on Israel?
There is no
doubt that these are strange paradox but what if Asad Al Jihad was a shadow of
one of the greatest leaders of Al Qaeda, or at least someone who knows the
concealed things? Does not this then point to the fact that the current
tantamount in understanding the statements of Al Qaeda is being met with a lot
of blindness and its difficult to follow its core?
Before two days I traced a third article for the writer Dr. John Butrus and some
of the Jihadi websites published it with a bright banner, but I did not find a
trace for it on the media outlets as its formers, in which the writer eventuates
on the statement of Bin Laden to Europe, and in spite of the fact that the
article brought out a lot of emotions, except that what attracted my attention
was the consideration of the writer that Al Qaeda has finished its preparations
for the attack, otherwise it would not have used the statement “The Answer is
what you see not what you hear” and that is an analysis that received a large
amount of response with the article.
And if the expectations of the writer are
correct then Al Qaeda is really tampering behind what seems contradictions in
the series of what has been formerly mentioned and it is the first time we
notice it in this way, as for if I am wrong then there has been an extremism in
the understanding of the addresses and putting it in a context which is not
supposed to be, has occurred. However, in every case Al Qaeda seems to be in a
hurry, and in such a situation there is no way to ascertain better than to wait
for the coming events and the release of more statements
By Dr. Akram Hijazi
Translated by Umm Saad of Dar Al Murabiteen publications
Submitted by a Mujahid