An interesting new publication to hit the web gives insight into the thinking of an al-Qaeda strategist on the next stages of the struggle. Posted on the al-Ikhlas jihadi forum [http://ekhlas.com/forum] the work is entitled Idarat al-Tawahhush, "The Management of Barbarism," further defined as "the phase of transition to the Islamic state." Due to the strategic importance of the document, Terrorism Focus has undertaken an in-depth examination of the Arabic text.
Published by the Center of Islamic Studies and Research (an al-Qaeda affiliate), the 113-page work ‘Management of Barbarism' aims to map out the progressive stages of establishing an Islamic state, from early beginnings in defined areas in the Arabian Peninsula, or Nigeria, Jordan, the Maghreb, Pakistan or Yemen, and its subsequent global expansion. The author is Abu Bakr Naji, a name familiar from his contributions to the Sawt al-Jihad online magazine (which are republished at the end of this book).
By "Management of Barbarism" the author refers to the period just after the collapse of a superpower, the period of "savage chaos". It appears pointedly to be a method of not repeating the experience of Afghanistan prior to the rule of the Taliban, and of improving controls over the periods experienced, for instance, in Somalia after the fall of Siad Barre.
After ample prolegomena on Middle East history and the causes of the rise and fall of superpowers, the book substantially falls into five broad themes:
1) Definition of ‘Management of Barbarism'
2) The Path of Empowerment
3) The Most Important Principles and Policies
4) The Most Pressing Difficulties and Obstacles
5) Conclusion – demonstrating jihad as the ideal solution
The ‘Path of Empowerment' theme constitutes the strategy of the mujahideen. In this the author further sub-divides into three distinct phases:
1) The Disruption and Exhaustion phase
2) The Management of Barbarism phase
3) The Empowerment phase
In the first "Disruption and Exhaustion" phase, the mujahideen are to a) exhaust the enemy's forces by stretching them through dispersal of targets and b) "attract the youth through exemplary targeting such as occurred at Bali, Al-Muhayya and Djerba."
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(Stephen Ulph in The Jamestown Foundation, March 18, 2005)
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Yeah, yeah, sure, I'm sure they did that on purpose. It was their plan all along, I'm telling you!
Nukes. Nukes will solve it all. ISLAM will take the whole world into Hell with themselves.
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Yep. It was the plan all along to lure US into their region and fight. Like the boxer whose plan it was to hurl his face, eyeball first , into a flying fist.
1 Thanks for posting this.
2 "Al-Qaeda's Strategy Until 2020"
Aren't they making a big assumtion?
Al Qaeda who?
Besides, the Mayan Calendar says the world ends in 2012, so plan accordingly. ;)
This is like the Nazi strategy for world domination. You see, losing WW2 was all part of the grand master plan so that the U.S. and Britain could let their guard down. Hitler faked his death. He had himself cryogenically frozen and stored in some underground freezer under some museum in Paris. Yeah, that's the ticket. With precise instructions to be unfrozen at some pre-determined future date. I'd tell you more but I'm sworn to secrecy. Yeah, that's the ticket! And if you don't believe me, just ask my wife, Morgan Fairchild.
"In 2003, Iran at one point offered to extradite Sayf al-Adel, whom it claimed to have under arrest, in exchange for Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization leaders, but Washington rejected the offer."
The only real reason the story ran is that sentence, which is just Bush-bashing.
The plans didn't allow for organized and systematic resistance...
The plans didn't allow for losing the control of the backwater in Central Asia from which to coordinate the global attacks, including Kashmir, Pakistan, western China, Chechnya...
The plans didn't allow for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and had to create an ad hoc strategy for dealing with this eventuality...
The plans didn't allow for the loss of Lebanon as a base of operations, which is exactly what is going to happen...
The plans didn't allow for the overthrow of the mullahcracy of Iran and the despotate in Syria, which is exactly what is going to happen...
The plans didn't allow for the gradual starvation of terrorist efforts due to the squeeze on financial support...
The plans didn't consider what is going to happen when bin Laden, Zarqawi, and the other criminals hang by their necks 'til they're dead dead dead.
It's 2005 and they're talking about 2020? meh... Power of positive thinking, I guess.
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Well I guess so after you get you ASSES handd to you in Afghnstan and then/currently in Iraq....idiots
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"but that this would play into their hands by provoking another giant — the Islamic Nation — and forcing it to wake up from its slumbers. In what appears a parallel with Abu Bakr Naji's theory in "The Management of Barbarism," al-Baddarin sees in al-Qaeda's writings on the web a fore-knowledge of the course of events, that in a pre-prepared program "
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Hmm.. and where is that "Islamic Nation" now? Voting in Iraq, disarming in Libya, stopping AQ Khan's proliferation, amending Constitutions in Egypt, discussing the women's vote in SA, and overthrowing Syria in Lebanon. Yup, all according to the master plan.
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"it sacrificed the Taleban Movement and transferred a large number of its fighting strength outside Afghanistan, to Iran and Iraq."
Doesn't that go with where do you want to fight Islamic terror, in US or in Iraq? Thanks Osama.
"Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale."
These were not really worthy of the title "strategists," they were muddled bullies with more weapons and money than was good for them who assumed that because nobody had hit them back so far that nobody ever would. They're terrorists who emerged from the shadows and got their butts handed to them. Now they're shrieking threats from the shadows again but they're not convincing as mighty warriors anymore, they're obvious losers who can do nothing more than threaten from the shadows and murder the weak and unwary.
They wanted a war. They got one. Now they're whimpering for a do-over. Sorry, chums, the world has changed and it's a lot less friendly now.