Every Year is Worse Than the Previous Year: Internal Al-Qaeda paper on their Failure in Iraq

Bill Bennett's Morning in America ^ | Found April 16 | Al-Qaeda

[Tolik]

"Every Year is Worse Than the Previous Year":

Captured Internal Al-Qaeda Documentation of Failure from Iraq, Found April 16
A glance at the reality of Baghdad in light of the latest events (sectarian turmoil)

1. It has been proven that the Shiites have a power and influence in Baghdad that cannot be taken lightly, particularly when the power of the Ministries of Interior and Defense is given to them, compared with the power of the mujahidin in Baghdad. During a military confrontation, they will be in a better position because they represent the power of the state along with the power of the popular militias. Most of the mujahidin power lies in surprise attacks (hit and run) or setting up explosive charges and booby traps. This is a different matter than a battle with organized forces that possess machinery and suitable communications networks. Thus, what is fixed in the minds of the Shiite and Sunni population is that the Shiites are stronger in Baghdad and closer to controlling it while the mujahidin (who represent the backbone of the Sunni people) are not considered more than a daily annoyance to the Shiite government. The only power the mujahidin have is what they have already demonstrated in hunting down drifted patrols and taking sniper shots at those patrol members who stray far from their patrols, or planting booby traps among the citizens and hiding among them in the hope that the explosions will injure an American or members of the government. In other words, these activities could be understood as hitting the scared and the hiding ones, which is an image that requires a concerted effort to change, as well as Allah's wisdom.

2. The strength of the brothers in Baghdad is built mainly on booby trapped cars, and most of the mujahidin groups in Baghdad are generally groups of assassin without any organized military capabilities.

3.There is a clear absence of organization among the groups of the brothers in Baghdad, whether at the leadership level in Baghdad, the brigade leaders, or their groups therein. Coordination among them is very difficult, which appears clearly when the group undertake a join operations.

4. The policy followed by the brothers in Baghdad is a media oriented policy without a clear comprehensive plan to capture an area or an enemy center. Other word, the significance of the strategy of their work is to show in the media that the American and the government do not control the situation and there is resistance against them. This policy dragged us to the type of operations that are attracted to the media, and we go to the streets from time to time for more possible noisy operations which follow the same direction. This direction has large positive effects; however, being preoccupied with it alone delays more important operations such as taking control of some areas, preserving it and assuming power in Baghdad (for example, taking control of a university, a hospital, or a Sunni religious site).

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At the same time, the Americans and the Government were able to absorb our painful blows, sustain them, compensate their losses with new replacements, and follow strategic plans which allowed them in the past few years to take control of Baghdad as well as other areas one after the other. That is why every year is worse than the previous year as far as the Mujahidin's control and influence over Baghdad.

5. The role that the Islamic party and the Islamic Scholars Committee play in numbing the Sunni people through the media is a dangerous role. It has been proven from the course of the events that the American investment in the Party and the Committee were not in vain. In spite of the gravity of the events, they were able to calm down the Sunni people, justify the enemy deeds, and give the enemy the opportunity to do more work without any recourse and supervision. This situation stemmed from two matters:

First, their media power is presented by their special radio and TV stations as the sole Sunni information source, coupled with our weak media which is confined mainly to the Internet, without a flyer or newspaper to present these events.

Second, in the course of their control of the majority of the speakers at mosques who convert right into wrong and wrong into right, and present Islam in a sinful manner and sins in a Muslim manner. At the same time we did not have any positive impact or benefits from our operations.

6. The mujahidin do not have any stored weapons and ammunition in their possession in Baghdad, particularly rockets, such as C5K Katyosha or bomber or mortars which we realized their importance and shortage in Baghdad. That was due to lack of check and balance, and proper follow-ups.

7. The National Guard status is frequently raised and whether they belong to the Sunnis or Shiites. Too much talk is around whether we belong to them or not, or should we strike and kill their men or not?

It is believed that this matter serves the Americans very well. I believe that the Committee and the Party are pushing this issue because they want to have an influence, similar to the Mujahidin's. When and if a Sunni units from the National Guard are formed, and begin to compete with the mujahidin and squeeze them, we will have a problem; we either let them go beyond the limits or fight them and risk inciting the Sunnis against us through the Party's and the Committee's channels.

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I believe that we should not allow this situation to exist at all, and we should bury it before it surfaces and reject any suggestion to that effect.

8. (Salah), the military commander of Baghdad (he used to be the commander of the Rassafah County and still is) is a courageous young man with a good determination but he has little and simple experience in the military field and does not have a clear vision about the current stage and how to deal with it Most of his work at al-Rassafah County is to take cars to the Jubur Arab Tribes, convert them into booby traps and take them back inside Baghdad for explosion. And the more booby trap cars he makes, the more success he has. This alone is not a work plan and we do not benefit from it in the medium range let alone the long range.

9. (Salah): The current commander of Northern al-Karkh (Abu-Huda) is very concerned because of his deteriorating security situation caused by being pursued by the Americans, since they have his picture and voice print. Therefore, his movement is very restricted and he is unable to do anything here. We should remove him from Baghdad to a location where he can work easier; otherwise he is closer to become totally ineffective. I know nothing about his past military experience or organizational skills.

10. (Salah): Northern al-Karkh groups are estimated at 40 mujahid, so is the Southern Karkh. They could double that number if necessary. Al-Rassafah groups in general is estimated at 30 mujahidin as I was informed by the commander of al-Rassafah. These are very small numbers compared to the tens of thousands of the enemy troops. How can we increase these numbers?

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End of Document/Translation
 

[Tolik]

Great Thanks to Bill Bennett and his crew for airing and posting this revealing document.

[Tolik]

Very Interesting!

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[BenLurkin]

B - U - M - P !!!

[Tolik]

...4. The policy followed by the brothers in Baghdad is a media oriented policy without a clear comprehensive plan to capture an area or an enemy center. Other word, the significance of the strategy of their work is to show in the media that the American and the government do not control the situation and there is resistance against them. This policy dragged us to the type of operations that are attracted to the media, and we go to the streets from time to time for more possible noisy operations which follow the same direction. This direction has large positive effects; however, being preoccupied with it alone delays more important operations such as taking control of some areas, preserving it and assuming power in Baghdad (for example, taking control of a university, a hospital, or a Sunni religious site).

At the same time, the Americans and the Government were able to absorb our painful blows, sustain them, compensate their losses with new replacements, and follow strategic plans which allowed them in the past few years to take control of Baghdad as well as other areas one after the other. That is why every year is worse than the previous year as far as the Mujahidin's control and influence over Baghdad.

 

[eureka!]

FYI

[jazusamo]

Thanks for posting this very good news. We probably won't be seeing it in the MSM.

[fhlh]

Where's the MSM? why aren't they trumpeting these 'internal' papers?

hell... where's fauxNOOZE?

[piasa]

4. The policy followed by the brothers in Baghdad is a media oriented policy without a clear comprehensive plan to capture an area or an enemy center. Other word, the significance of the strategy of their work is to show in the media that the American and the government do not control the situation and there is resistance against them. This policy dragged us to the type of operations that are attracted to the media, and we go to the streets from time to time for more possible noisy operations which follow the same direction.

Al Qaeda could call this "OPERATION DRIVE-BY MEDIA" after their brothers-in-arms in the MSM.

[wideawake]

Precisely the right emphases. Al-Qaeda considers the media, including the US media, to be an ally of theirs in this war and they are correct.

The amount of soul-searching this information will inspire in the US media: none.

[Molly Pitcher]

....And Harry Reid is very sad depressed...

[knews_hound]

I have been saying for awhile that their days are numbered.

I am going to have to blog this for wider distribution, naturally the MSM will NEVER willingly cover this story.

For once we have the sheets pulled back and can see that contrary to the spin of the MSM, we are not facing a wide spread revolution or a significant force, but rather a rag tag assembly of a few dozen dead enders who play the Media like a fiddle.

As their tactics of random death continue to take their toll, they will become even more marginalized than they currently are and will continue to lose the propaganda war.  Killing civilians is not a winning formula for gaining support be it Americans OR Jihadis.

Thanks for the ping to this fascinating piece Tolik.

Cheers,

knewshound

Brew Your Own

[Cindy_Cin]

Is it me, or has Fox become just as cookie cutter and tabloid as the rest? When Fox News was hungry, they catered to the conservative viewer, taking advantage of the void. Sadly, as Fox gets more and more so called moderate viewers they seem to be drifting into same old Snooze News.

[Paradox]

Its not just you, I have seen this coming for a long while now. Fox is still editorially conservative, but their news service is liberal. I find Fox unwatchable, even many of the "conservatives" they air, are more like caracitures. This is probably to be expected, I am old enough to remember when CNN was "conservative". That didn't last too long..

[fhlh]

it's not just you...
fauxNEWS has been heading down this MSM/Liberal Spin path for awhile... besides Hume (and sometimes Gibson) I find nothing else on that channel watchable.

Don't believe me?... Rupert hangs with Hillary now
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629815/posts?page=9#9

[OXENinFLA]

Don't miss this PING!

[tiredoflaundry]

BTTT

[JerseyDvl]

Bad news for the 'Rats BTTT

[hsalaw]

This translation is absolutely fascinating - and we'll never, ever see it in the drive-by media. I just had to respond to your comment about FOX: this morning, FOX had on that "Wonkette" person (can't recall her name), and was encouraging her to speculate and gossip about the Porter Goss resignation, and at one point, she said the resignation was so unexpected it was "almost Soviet." She was just a raving idiot, and the FOX announcer encouraged the stupid bimbo to keep on raving. It was a complete waste of time, and FOX was encouraging it!

[JesusBmyGod]

Thanks for the post. I wish there was one major TV media outlet that would broadcast this...

[EBH]

Gee...sounds like they are not winning and are in a quagmire of their own making.