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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1859
March 4, 2008 No. 1859
“Release of New Book by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, in Response to Sayyed Imam: A Treatise Exonerating the Nation of the Pen and the Sword from the Blemish of the Accusation of Weakness and Fatigue”
SNIPPET: “On March 2, 2008, jihadist websites posted a new 188-page book by Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The book, titled A Treatise Exonerating the Nation of the Pen and the Sword from the Blemish of the Accusation of Weakness and Fatigue, is a polemical defense of Al-Qaeda against its most prominent Islamist critic, the imprisoned jihadist Sheikh Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif. (For previous MEMRI reports on Sayyed Imam, see: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP178507, December 14, 2007, and http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP182608 , January 25, 2008.)
Sayyed Imam is one of Al-Zawahiri’s oldest associates in the jihad movement and is considered one of jihadism’s most influential scholars. He is the author of a shari’a guide to jihad that was used in training camps in Afghanistan. The central argument of his recently published Document of Right Guidance for Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World is that jihad should only be undertaken when there is ability to do so, and that Islamist groups today cannot be considered to be in a state of ability. It is to this argument that the title of Al-Zawahiri’s book refers.
The Treatise Exonerating the Nation is of great importance for two reasons. First, it is, in effect, an official statement of Al-Qaeda’s positions and of the Islamic legal justifications it provides for its activities.
Second, Al-Qaeda’s decision to publish such a work is strong evidence that it is deeply worried that radical Islamists could be influenced by Sayyed Imam and abandon the jihad. [1] Al-Zawahiri’s Treatise is actually a sharp about-face for Al-Qaeda; up until this point, it had studiously ignored the substantive arguments put forward by Sayyed Imam, and had simply asserted that the Egyptian security services had tortured Imam into writing the book, and that it thus did not merit serious discussion. [2] Hence, the Treatise is a tacit admission that Al-Qaeda is facing an unprecedented ideological challenge.
Following is a full translation of the table of contents of Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s new book. (Al-Zawahiri’s Treatise Exonerating the Nation is abridged in the table of contents to Treatise, and Sayyed Imam’s Document of Right Guidance is abridged to Document; “the author” always refers to the author of the Document of Right Guidance.) Further coverage is forthcoming.”
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP182608
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1826
January 25, 2008 No. 1826
“Major Jihadi Cleric and Author of Al-Qaeda’s Shari’a Guide to Jihad Sayyed Imam vs. Al-Qaeda (2): Al-Zawahiri Was Sudanese Agent – Sudan’s VP Ali Othman Taha Hired Him to Attack Egypt; Ban on Jihad against Egyptian Regime in Egypt; Summary of Imam’s New Right Guidance for Jihad Book”
SNIPPET: “Following are more documents from imprisoned jihadi cleric Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, one of the chief ideologues of the global jihad movement. Sayyed Imam has recently come out against Al-Qaeda, and published a new book, The Document of Right Guidance for Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World, that forbids waging jihad against the rulers of Muslim countries and in the West. (For MEMRI’s first report on Sayyed Imam, released Dec. 14, 2007, see http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP178507 )
Presented here are further excerpts from Sayyed Imam’s interview with the London daily Al-Hayat, followed by an excerpt from The Document of Right Guidance. In the first excerpt from the interview, Sayyed Imam, who was formerly shari’a authority for the Egyptian Jihad organization and a longtime associate of Al-Qaeda deputy commander Ayman Al-Zawahiri, says that Al-Zawahiri was commissioned by the Sudanese government to carry out terror attacks in Egypt in the 1990s. The second excerpt is Sayyed Imam’s own detailed summary of the contents of his new book, The Document of Right Guidance for Jihad Activity in Egypt and the World. The third part of this report is a chapter of The Document of Right Guidance, titled “On the Shari’a Reasons and the Practical Reasons that Call for Not Clashing with the Egyptian Authorities”:”
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Colombia says FARC wanted to make radioactive bomb
Published: 03.04.08, 13:52 / Israel News
Colombia’s FARC guerrilla movement was trying to get hold of radioactive material to make a “dirty bomb,” Colombian Vice-President Francisco Santos said on Tuesday.
Santos told the United Nations Conference on Disarmament that materials found on computers of Raul Reyes, the deputy commander of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), showed the group was in negotiations to get hold of radioactive matter for a bomb. (Reuters)