Al ADL Letter (translation of captured Al Qaeda Communication)

U.S. Military ^ | 3/15/2006 | U.S. Arabic Translator

[Southack]

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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MOST MERCIFUL, MOST GRACIOUS
-TO MY BELOVED BROTHER MUKHTAR -MAY ALLAH PRESERVE HIM.
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MOST MERCIFUL, MOST GRACIOUS. MAY ALLAH I S
PEACE AND MERCY BE UPON YOU.

 

I ASK ALLAH THAT YOU AND ALL THE BRETHREN BE IN THE BEST OF
CONDITIONS, WITH PEACE OF MIND AND IN A STATE OF GRACE, AND I ASK
ALLAH TO PROTECT YOU FROM EVIL.

 

FOR A START, I LOVE YOU IN GOD, AND ALLAH KNOWS THAT I CARE FOR YOU.
I AM ALSO VERY HAPPY WITH OUR FRIENDSHIP, WHICH HAS LASTED MORE THAN
SEVEN YEARS. SO I HOPE THIS WILL BE THE BASIS FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING,
AND TO CONFIRM MY LOVE FOR YOU AND MY CARE FOR OUR FRIENDSHIP, I SENT
YOU THE PREVIOUS LETTER, WHICH WAS TO RESOLVE SEVERAL MATTERS,
PRIMARILY:

 

--STOPPING COURTESIES THAT CAN END ACTIONS AND THAT CAN HURT OTHERS.
--A FIRM ATTEMPT TO PROTECT YOU AND THE GROUP OF CADRES WITH WHICH
ALLAH HAS BLESSED US.
--END THE UNSUCCESSFUL CONDITION WITH WHICH THE ACTION HAS BEEN
PLAGUED FOR A WHILE NOW.

--WE ASK ALLAH TO FORGIVE US AND OUR MISTAKES, WHICH RESULTED IN THE
CAPTURE OF A LARGE NUMBER OF BROTHERS, AND REGRETTABLY, RECENTLY
RESULTED IN THE ORDEAL OF THREE FAMILIES OF OUR PAKISTANI ALLIES WHO
HAVE SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR US, AND WE NEGLECTED THEIR SECURITY.

MY BELOVED BROTHER, FOR YOU AND ME, SACRIFICE IS A DUTY, AND I HOPE
IT WILL NOT BE HEAVY, AND ALLAH KNOWS, WE WILL KEEP ON COMMITTING THE
SAME MISTAKES, AND WE WILL BECOME LAUGHINGSTOCK OF THE WORLD, AT
WHICH THEY WILL LAUGH WHENEVER THEY WISH. AND WE WILL BECOME A STORY
AND AN EXAMPLE OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LEARN. YOU YOURSELF HAVE NOTICED
THIS (TN: FAILURE) AND HAVE MENTIONED IT TO ME AND TO OTHERS ON MORE
THAN ONE OCCASION. STOP RUSHING INTO ACTION AND TAKE TIME OUT TO
CONSIDER ALL THE FATAL AND SUCCESSIVE DISASTERS THAT HAVE AFFLICTED
US DURING A PERIOD OF NO MORE THAN SIX MONTHS.

 

THOSE OBSERVING OUR AFFAIRS WONDER WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US. PREVIOUSLY, THEIR ERRORS
WERE NOT DISCOVERED UNTIL SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS HAD BEEN COMPLETED.
BUT TODAY WE ARE EXPERIENCING ONE SETBACK AFTER ANOTHER AND HAVE GONE
FROM MISFORTUNE TO DISASTER.

 

DURING (TN: THE PAST) SIX MONTHS, IT
HAS BECOME APPARENT TO THE OBSERVER THAT THERE IS A NEW HAND THAT IS
MANAGING AFFAIRS AND THAT IS DRIVING FORCEFULLY; EVERY TIME IT
FALTERS, IT GETS UP AND RUSHES AGAIN, WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING OR
AWARENESS. IT RUSHES TO MOVE WITHOUT VISION, AND IT IS IN A HURRY TO
ACCOMPLISH ACTIONS THAT NOW REQUIRE PATIENCE BECAUSE OF THE SECURITY
ACTIVITY THROUGHOUTHE WHOLE WORLD. THIS HAND DOES NOT PAY
ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING, AS IF WE WILL NOT BE SUMMONED TO
ACCOUNT BEFORE ALLAH FOR ALL THESE SOULS, THIS BLOOD AND THIS MONEY
(TN: THAT HAS BEEN EXPENDED)

 

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I COULD SEE THAT YOU HAD A DESIRE TO PAUSE AND CONSIDER MATTERS, AND
.IT APPEARED TO ME THAT YOU WERE GOING TO COME TODAY OR TOMORROW ONLY
TO DISCOVER THAT YOU HAVE RUSHED AGAIN AND AGAIN. LET US STOP AND
THINK.

 

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH RUSHING TO REACT TO REQUESTS COMING FROM
THE INTERIOR WITHOUT REALIZING WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE EXTERIOR.
PERHAPS, BROTHER ABU MATTAR HAS WARNED YOU THAT HIS OPINION HAS
CHANGED A LOT SINCE HE GOT OUT OF HIS PREVIOUS SITUATION. HE HELD ME
RESPONSIBLE BY SAYING TO ME: FEAR ALLAH BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE
AMONG THE BRETHREN WHO IS NOW IN THE EXTERIOR AND THE WHOLE MATTER IS
ON YOUR SHOULDERS.

 

I HAD THIS MATTER ON MY MIND, BUT I AVOIDED IT
BECAUSE THE TEACHER (TN: BIN-LADIN) CORRESPONDS DIRECTLY WITH YOU
(AND THAT, UNFORTUNATELY, IS HIS ABSOLUTE HABIT THAT HE WILL NOT
ABANDON.

 

IF SOMEONE OPPOSES HIM, HE IMMEDIATELY PUTS FORWARD ANOTHER
PERSON TO RENDER AN OPINION IN HIS SUPPORT, CLINGING TO HIS OPINION
AND TOTALLY DISREGARDING THOSE AROUND HIM, SO THERE IS NO ADVICE NOR
NOTHING) .

 

THE CONSEQUENCES THAT YOU SEE ARE NOTHING, BUT AN OUTCOME OF THIS
ONRUSH. VERY REGRETTABLY, HAD I TALKED BEFORE THE DISASTERS OCCURRED
-AND I DID TALK -I WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED A COVETOUS PERSON,
BUT NOW THAT THE MATTER HAS BECOME A REALITY, I HAVE ABSOLVED MY
CONSCIENCE.

 

HE (TN: THE TEACHER) PUSHES YOU RELENTLESSLY AND WITHOUT
CONSIDERATION AS IF HE HAS NOT HEARD THE NEWS AND AS IF HE DOES NOT
COMPREHEND THE EVENTS.

TO ABSOLVE MY CONSCIENCE BEFORE ALLAH, AND TO
ANNOUNCE MY INNOCENCE IN FRONT OF ALLAH, I SAY TODAY WE MUST
COMPLETELY HALT ALL EXTERNAL ACTIONS UNTIL WE SIT DOWN AND CONSIDER
THE DISASTER WE CAUSED.

IF YOU DO, THEN GOOD FOR ISLAM, AND IF YOU
PERSIST, THEN THERE IS NO MIGHT AND NO POWER EXCEPT IN ALLAH. THE
EAST ASIA, EUROPE, AMERICA, HORN OF AFRICA, YEMEN, GULF, AND MOROCCO
GROUPS HAVE FALLEN, AND PAKISTAN HAS ALMOST BEEN DROWNED IN ONE PUSH.

 

I, NOT TO MENTION THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ALSO MOVED AND
FALLEN, HAVE OFTEN ADVISED ON THIS MATTER. REGRETTABLY, MY BROTHER,
IF YOU LOOK BACK, YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU ARE THE PERSON SOLELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS BECAUSE YOU UNDERTOOK THE MISSION, AND
DURING SIX MONTHS, WE ONLY LOST WHAT WE BUILT IN YEARS.

 

 DOES NOT
THAT MERIT THAT WE PAUSE AND SIT DOWN, NOT TO SEEK JUDGMENT, BUT TO ~
REVIEW AND IDENTIFY THE ERRORS THAT HAVE BEEN BEHIND THESE DISASTERS
AND NOT TO BLINDLY IGNORE THEM AND CONTINUE WHAT WE ARE DOING AND
BECOME A JOKE FOR ALL THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES IN THE WORLD.

 

MY BELOVED BROTHER, STOP ALL FOREIGN ACTIONS, STOP SENDING PEOPLE TO
CAPTIVITY, STOP DEVISING NEW OPERATIONS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ORDERS
COME OR DO NOT COME FROM ABU-ABDALLA (TN: BIN-LADEN).

 

OUR ADHERENTS HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN US AND IN OUR ABILITY TO MANAGE THE
ACTION, AND THEY WONDER, WHAT HAS BEFALLEN US (TN: QUESTION MARK)
MANY OF THE BRETHREN COULD BE DEVOUT, PURE AND CLOSER TO ALLAH THAN
OTHERS, BUT THEY ARE UNSUCCESSFUL; ALLAH DID NOT DESTINE THAT FOR
THEM, SO THEY SHOULD BE CONTENT WITH ALLAH'S WILL, AND THEY SHOULD
AID THEIR BRETHREN, WHICH WILL BE MORE PLEASING TO ALLAH. THIS
SHOULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD THAT I PROMOTE MYSELF, ALLAH FORBID. AND I
DID NOT MEAN TO BELITTLE OTHERS

 

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.(ALLAH FORBID), AND I DID NOT INTEND WHAT I WROTE TO BE ANYTHING
EXCEPT ADVICE FROM ME BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.

MY HOPE, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, IS THAT YOU STOP ALL EXTERNAL ACTIONS
AND THAT YOU MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR WHAT I TOLD YOU IN MY LAST LETTER,
WHICH PERHAPS CAN BE THE BEGINNING OF GOOD THINGS. ALSO, MY DESIRE
AND THAT OF THE BRETHREN WITH ME, IS THAT YOU LEAVE THE MANAGERIAL
MATTERS TO BROTHER ABU-MUS 'AB SO HE WOULD TRANSFER THEM OVER
HERE.

IT IS ALSO OUR WISH THAT YOU HAND OVER THE PAKISTAN AND
AFGHANISTAN, (SOUTHERN SECTOR) ACTIVITIES TO BROTHER
ABU-AL-FARAJ. AS TO NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN, IT IS UNDER (TN:
POSSIBLY INTENDING "SHOULD BE UNDER") THE CONTROL OF BROTHER
'ABD-AL-HADI AL-' IRAQI.

 

MY HOPE IS THAT YOU COME TO US SO WE CAN CONSIDER AND REORGANIZE THE
MATTER SO THAT YOU WILL NOT BE SOLELY BROUGHT TO ACCOUNT, WHETHER
BEFORE YOUR BRETHREN OR WHETHER FOR GENERAL EVALUATION BY THE UMMAH' S
(TN: OR "NATION'S") WISE MEN, WHO EXAMINE MATTERS WITH DISREGARD FOR
THE CHEERS OF THE YOUNG MEN THAT BLIND OUR EYES TO THE PATH.

WHAT IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS IS WHAT IS BEING BROUGHT TO ACCOUNT BEFORE
ALLAH, LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS, ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT WHEN THERE WILL
BE NO ERRORS AND NO INTERPRETATIONS. AS I HAVE TOLD YOU, ALLAH KNOWS
THAT THE LETTER THAT I SENT TO YOU WAS SENT OUT OF LOVE FOR YOU AND
TO ADVISE YOU, SO WE CAN SET MATTERS ARIGHT TOGETHER. ALLAH WILLING,
I WILL WRITE A LETTER TO ABU-' ABDALLAH TO ADVISE HIM MORE THAN WHAT I
ADVISED YOU SO THAT HE WILL STOP HIS ONRUSH IN EXTERNAL ACTIONS AND
WILL DISCUSS THE MATTER APPROPRIATELY AND THEN START AGAIN AGAINST
ALLAH'S ENEMIES.

 

MY BELOVED BROTHER --THIS MIGHT BE THE TRUTH. LET US PAUSE NOW SO
THAT ALLAH MAY MAKE US SUCCESSFUL AS WE WERE BEFORE. I HOPE YOU WILL
ABIDE BY THE CONTENTS OF MY PREVIOUS LETTER SO AS TO PRESERVE THE
ORGANIZATION, ITS FAMILIES, ITS CADRES, AND ITS MONEY UNTIL WE MEET.

 

I ASK ALLAH TO PRESERVE YOU FROM ALL EVIL, TO INSPIRE YOU AND ME TO
DO WHAT IS RIGHT, AND TO GRANT US THE PATH OF THE BELIEVERS. ALLAH,
J- MAY HE BE EXALTED, SAYS, "WHAT (TN: EXCLAMATION POINT) WHEN A SINGLE
DISASTER SMITES YOU, ALTHOUGH YE SMOTE (YOUR ENEMIES) WITH ONE TWICE
AS GREAT, DO YE SAY: 'WHENCE IS THIS.' SAY (TO THEM): 'IT IS FROM
YOURSELVES FOR GOD HATH POWER OVER ALL THINGS. '" (QURAN, SURAH 3,
VERSE 165)

 

REMARKS: I GAVE BROTHER 'AMMAR A PRIVATE MESSAGE TO SEND TO
SHAYKH ABU-WALID, WHICH HE DID NOT SEND, AND I WAS SURPRISED WHEN
I READ AL-NIDA' INTERNET WEB SITE TO FIND THE MESSAGE PUBLISHED UNDER
STATEMENTS WHEN IT IS NOT A STATEMENT. IT CONSISTS OF A NUMBER OF
QUESTIONS AND ENDS WITH GREETINGS AND KISSES TO MY CHILDREN BY NAME.
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PLEASE DELETE IT. IT IS TITLED "A MOBILIZATION (POLITICAL) STANCE
AND THEN A RETURN TO THE STRUGGLE." PLEASE REMOVE IT PROMPTLY. I
BELIEVE THAT THE ENTIRE UMMAH' NOW KNOWS THE NUMBER AND NAMES OF MY
CHILDREN I AND THERE IS NO MIGHT AND NO POWER EXCEPT IN ALLAH.
SIGNED BY 'ABD-AL-HALIM ADL
DATE 13 JUNE 2002

[Southack]

Synopsis: ‘Abd-al-Halim Adl vigoroulsy challenges the leadership of Osama Bin Laden and accuses him of being close-minded and oblivious to the great harm suffered by Al-Qa’ida in recent months. He writes to Mukhtar both to confront him for his complicity in these ill-conceived plans and to change Mukhtar’s thinking.

[Southack]

"THE EAST ASIA, EUROPE, AMERICA, HORN OF AFRICA, YEMEN, GULF, AND MOROCCO GROUPS HAVE FALLEN, AND PAKISTAN HAS ALMOST BEEN DROWNED IN ONE PUSH."

Not exactly something that made the front page news...

[Old Sarge]

Amazing.

[M. Thatcher]

This did make news some time ago; the President himself has referred to this letter.

[wafflehouse]

since this is dated 2002, i suppose it is safe to assume no one listened to this guy?

[Southack]

In one of the other letters, Al Qaeda charges that the Chechnyan Islamic rebels aren't "monotheists," a grave insult to Muslims.

In another of the newly released letters, Al Qaeda discusses its jihad against the Alawites (i.e. the Assad family) ruling Syria.

[Southack]

"since this is dated 2002, i suppose it is safe to assume no one listened to this guy?"

He wrote the letter admitting that he was now "external" to the jihad...which is pretty obvious when you read his suggestion in the above letter to appoint Abd Al-Iraqi to run Al Qaeda's Northern Afghanistan region.

We captured Abd Al-Iraqi way back in January of 2001...

[DannyTN]

"I BELIEVE THAT THE ENTIRE UMMAH' NOW KNOWS THE NUMBER AND NAMES OF MY CHILDREN "

OOPS!!!

[FDNYRHEROES]

We captured Abd Al-Iraqi way back in January of 2001...

Before 9/11???

[Dog]

AND PAKISTAN HAS ALMOST BEEN DROWNED IN ONE PUSH

The Damadola missile strike....hehehe.

We decapitated the leadership....whoa nellie.

[Cap Huff]

It is dated 13 June 2002.

[IrishMike]

Great read, cannot wait to see it in print in the MSM.

[james500]

This is the beginning of what should be a massive release of documents detailing information largely unknown to the public. I keep thinking about the Dan Rather memos scandal and how it was a grassroots effort to examine and analyze that uncovered the truth.

How do we get a keyword link at the top of the threads page?

[Southack]

Sorry. Typo. I should have typed January of 2002.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the ping. Though dated, probably continues to represent their true condition. I could not help but notice the comments regarding Binny boy in that those that differ with him are replaced with new ones. Much like most historical dictators, which proved their ultimate downfall.

[Southack]

"I BELIEVE THAT THE ENTIRE UMMAH' NOW KNOWS THE NUMBER AND NAMES OF MY CHILDREN"

Hints at something of the Beast, really. Heckofa letter.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well, they are working on translations, but check the editor's notes:

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