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| New Jihadi manual rejects militant violence in Arab-Islamic world | ||
| 2007-11-14 | ||
| (AKI) - Jailed Egyptian terrorist leader, Sayd Imam, ideologue of the Islamist group, Jamaa al-Islamiya, is to release a new manual expected to call for an end to militant operations in Arab-Islamic countries and the killing of civilians. Sayd Imam, a surgeon still known by his underground name of "Dr Fadel", is expected to stress his distance from the al-Qaeda terror network in the book and strong criticism of the organisation's strategy. The controversial new manual written by Sayd Imam and a group of Egyptian Islamic Ulema or scholars, will be released in Egypt on Sunday and is expected to shake up al-Qaeda. The new manual will call for an end to all Jihadi operations inside Arab-Islamic countries as well as an end to the killings of civilians in general and tourists, in particular, of all nationalities. Sayd Imam is currently imprisoned in a Cairo jail. He was the founder and first commander of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organisation, whose supporters assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and later worked with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the war against the Soviet Occupation. He worked with al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian doctor and now Bin Laden's deputy, before being kidnapped in Yemen after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Imam was interrogated by the CIA and extradited to Egypt where he has been serving a life sentence since 2004.
Reports say that Jamaa al-Islamiya was once the largest Jihadist organisation in the Arab world which mounted countless armed attacks starting in the 1980s until it called a ceasefire after the massacre of 62 foreign tourists at Luxor in 1997. According to the Saudi newspaper al-Watan, Sayd Imam was forced by the Egyptian authorities to write this document while in prison. The 80-page book appears to have been written in exchange for money. Despite this, al-Watan, believes that its criticism of al-Qaeda is likely to have a direct influence on the organisation and in particular on Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Zawahiri was a good friend of Dr. Fadel, who is well-known throughout the Jihadi world for having written some of the most important books on Jihadi ideology. Sayd Imam's manual is expected to generate a crisis within al-Qaeda. Imam's lawyer, Montaser al-Zayyat, told the Egyptian newspaper al-Misriun, that Osama Bin Laden has begun a series of consultations within the terror organisation to prevent new divisions. There is concern that Sayd Imam's manual may provoke discontent and defections within al-Qaeda.
It's this concern that led Osama bin Laden to release his an audio message in October in which he admitted mistakes made in Iraq and said that they should be corrected. It also also led to a message by al-Zawahiri in November announcing that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group have joined al-Qaeda - a move believed to have been taken to calm tensions in view of the expected publication of Sayd Imam's book. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 call for an end to militant operations in Arab-Islamic countries gotta read the fine print from the Butchers Union. This translates into: blow up people in non-Arab-Islamic countries |
| Posted by: Zebulon Grort2835 2007-11-14 07:01 |
| #1 Purely tactical. For Muslims, peace is war by other means. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-11-14 04:11 |