us terrorism professor posts letter to Sheikh al-Zawahiri in almedad

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here is post:
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AS‐SARAB MEDIA ESTABLISHMENT
PRESENTS
AN OPEN LETTER TO DR. AYMAN AL‐ZAWAHIRI

Dr. Ayman al‐Zawahiri,

In your fifth as‐Sahab interview entitled, Al‐Azhar: The Lion’s Den, you reflected (for the fourth time) on several reports that I had a hand in either writing or coordinating. Although no one had solicited your opinion, something compelled you to meticulously read and publically critique these reports. Since you have yet to learn that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, I have decided to respond in order to clarify your mistakes. I am not going to offer you my Mobahala about the facts, however, because you continue to ignore Sayyid Imam’s Mobahala, instead letting Abu Yahya al‐Libi speak on your behalf.

Let me begin by making one point clear. The following thoughts are mine alone. They do not represent the views of the “Crusaders” whose secret global strategy, you suggest, can be ascertained from reading academic reports that are publically available on the Internet. As an aside, your paranoid delusions about global conspiracies, which I find to be ironically Trotskyesque, seem to be increasingly blinding your sense of reality.

I want to take you back to May 2007, when you opened your assault on an article that I co‐authored entitled, Stealing al‐Qaida’s Playbook. The novelty of the Playbook article, as you know, was to turn your own writings against you. The thinking was that you are leading expert on your own weaknesses (or at least you had been until Abu Yahya al‐Libi began publishing new essays). The Playbook simply shined light on the pages of your own books, particularly those pages where you diagnose your strategic vulnerabilities.
You actually commended the Playbook’s use of this innovative approach on page 202 of your recent book, Exoneration: A Treatise on the Exoneration of the Nation of the Pen and Sword of the Denigrating Charge of Being Irresolute and Weak. In fact, you said that the Playbook employed a, “more honest” methodology than that used by Sayyid Imam Sharif and your other detractors. Do you remember applauding how we innovatively copied verbatim, “the wording from [your] book?”

Your September 2007 release, The Power of Truth, demonstrated just how much you were impressed with the Playbook’s methodology. By splicing a series of video excerpts from interviews of American journalists, pundits and policymakers, you tried to show how operationally effective al‐Qaida was on 9/11 and how strategically ٧incompetent the United States was in Iraq. As‐Sahab’s application of this media technique was premised, ingeniously, on the notion that your adversary is best positioned to indict themselves.

In my opinion, your late colleague, Muhammad Khalil al‐Hakaymah best summarized this methodology in the introduction to his dreadful book, The Myth of Delusion, when he quoted the Arab proverb, “From the words of your own mouth I condemn you.” By the way, I suggest that you task your research minion (and no‐talent, sycophantic clone), “Azzam al‐Khaliforni,” to download the report entitled, “The Power of Truth: Questions for Ayman al‐Zawahiri,” which offers you another example about how to indict yourself in your own words.

Back to your May 2007 video, the “Third Interview” where, as you may recall, you focused on two specific paragraphs from the Playbook article. The first paragraph that you profiled was a recommendation for Western governments to discretely fund Salafist shaikhs who share the same mainstream Salafi approach as Shaikh Rabee al‐Hadee al‐Madkhali in order to erect a bulwark against your influence in the Middle East. Although the name, al‐Madkhali, is relatively unfamiliar in the West, Abu Qatada’s insights about the damage that al‐Madkhali caused the Jihadis really seemed to rattle your cage.

Are you so angry because you still remember the headaches that he caused your Jihadi brothers in Saudi Arabia? Or was it because al‐Madkhali helped the Saudi government decrease the popularity of men you so revere like, Shaikh Hamoud bin Uqla as‐Shuaybi? As an aside, how can you call yourself Salafi when you despise Shaikh Bin Baz and Shaikh al‐Albani and Shaikh Ibn Uthaymin and Shaikh Suroor, and Shaikh Muhammad Qutb?

You’ll recall that you began rebranding al‐Qaida in this direction after al‐Zarqawi had visibly castrated you in the global jihadi media. Turning instead to softer issues like the French hijab situation (2004) and calls earthquake relief donations (2005), you tried to position yourself as the elder jihadi statesmen (you should have borrowed Usama’s golden robes). I cannot imagine how frustrated you must have been, marginalized and irrelevant, as you watched al‐Zarqawi repeating all the mistakes of the Algerian al‐Jama'ah al‐Islamiyah al‐Musallaha, your own al‐Jihad group and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

Your hatred toward Al‐Ikhwan Al‐Muslimun is also well‐known by now. It has not served you well, though. Look at how impatient your followers have grown with your impotence in Palestine and Egypt, places you have vowed to commit resources. Maybe you should stop promising things that you can’t deliver. And perhaps this is why you have been so schizophrenic on HAMAS. I noticed your latest trick of dividing HAMAS in two: its followers (whom you pander to in order to recruit), and its leadership (whom you detest for their willingness to participate in politics). Clever, yes. Effective, I’m dubious.
But at least you now realize how difficult it is to call Muslims into your global Jihadist movement while you’re killing them!

By the way, I see that you are increasingly relying on these rhetorical gimmicks in your speeches. Your failed marketing campaign toward African‐Americans in the U.S. is a great example. Let me refresh your memory. In your third interview with as‐Sahab, you initiated a new media campaign targeting minority populations in the United States who you said would be better off converting to Islam, which is your codeword for supporting al‐Qaida. Your reasoning was that they had been historically oppressed and persecuted by the ‘White Man.’ You supported the argument by implying that if Malcolm X, or al‐Hajj Malik al‐Shabaaz, were alive today, he would support al‐Qaida. First, this is so nonsensical that I don’t know where to start. Don’t you remember that Jihadis despise the Nation of Islam’s theological vagaries? Your support for Malcolm X is so against your doctrine that it can only be viewed as a media stunt.

When the prospect of a “President” Obama became real, you seemed paralyzed for several months trying to figure out how to respond. Finally, in November 2008, you released, Bush's Departure and Obama's Arrival. Predictably returning to your al‐Wala wal‐Bara roots, you dismissed Obama, like you did Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, as nothing more than a ‘house slave.’ I found your artificial categorization of the entire African‐American community into ‘field slaves’ and ‘house slaves’ incredibly racist and counterproductive to your goals. I would tell Abd al‐Rahman al‐Faqir to stop giving you such bad advice.

I am also compelled to scold you for a stunt that was so heinously disingenuous to the Jihadist tradition that even I was offended. Whether out of desperation or ignorance, you offered viewers of your Power of Truth video a list of preeminent Jihadist figures. You said, and I quote:

“My Muslim nation, Abd‐al‐Rashid Ghazi, Mullah Dadollah, Abdallah Azzam, Abu‐Umar al‐Sayf, Hammudah al‐Uqlah, Abdallah al‐Rashud, and those like them of the ujahid and steadfast ulema are the ones who deserve to be followed by you.”

I am shocked that you could elevate Abd al‐Rashid Ghazi to the level of Abdallah Azzam or Hammoud bin Uqla as‐Shuaybi with a straight face. What has he written? What has he contributed? Abdallah al‐Rashud is a stretch in my opinion, but Ghazi? Why not Abu Muhammad al‐Maqdisi? Or Nasr al‐Fahd? Or al‐Uyayri? Dr. al‐Zawahiri, such transparent pandering to the Pakistani Islamist community is beneath you, isn’t it?

If you think that donning an, “I Love Ghazi” t‐shirt will convince Pakistanis to embrace you, even as you are blowing them up in Peshawar and Islamabad, then you must be living in a very dark cave.

First, you triumphantly declare that you found thirteen errors in the 1 ½ page biography of you that was published in a report that I was involved with called, Militant Ideology Atlas. Does it surprise you that your knowledge about your life is better than ours? One of the two errors that you were generous enough to disclose was an assertion that you had joined the Muslim Brotherhood at the age of fourteen. You adamantly deny ever having joined the Brotherhood. This is the second time that you have made this point publicly, the first time being in Part II of your Open Interview released in April 2008 by as‐Sahab. Given the intensity with which you deny this assertion, I can only assume that you are telling the truth.

But, honestly Dr. al‐Zawahiri, aren’t you splitting hairs here? Was your father not actively involved in the Brotherhood? Was your grandfather not also an early contributor to the Brotherhood’s rise? Even if you had never formally joined the organization, was the Brotherhood not in the air at the time? Was it not in your blood?

With regard to the other eleven mistakes that you say are lurking in this 1 ½ page biography, I cannot comment because you refuse to identify them. To do so, you sarcastically noted, would be to provide your fact checking services for free. Given how adept you are with rewriting history and how preoccupied you have become with preserving your own legacy, I am surprised that you passed up the opportunity. Perhaps Adam Gadahn would charge less for his services.

Ok, so technically, you’re right. But as you openly admit, and as the front‐cover declares, you oversaw the writing and publication of the book. It had to have been your ultimate decision to publish an entire chapter verbatim from Sayyid Imam’s book, Al‐Umdah E’dad Al‐Uddah in your three chapter book. Curiously, the two chapters not penned by Sayyid Imam are meager in substance and length – did you have nothing original to contribute yourself Dr. al‐Zawahiri?

In Afghanistan, your relationship with the Taliban is strained and the world will never allow you to seize control of that country. In Pakistan, you have failed to fulfill Khalid Shaikh Muhammad’s hope of integrating the Pakistani grid with al‐Qaida. In fact, you have driven a wedge between the two constituencies. Gruesome attacks in India meant to redirect the Pakistani focus on Hindus, or attacks against Pakistani Shi`a are just viewed as stunts. In sum, Dr. al‐Zawahiri, you have wasted decades of your life building a fundamentally unstable structure.

Here are the inherent contradictions I see with al‐Qaida that, I believe, will be the death of you and everything for which you stand:

• You are a rabid elitist who is trying to build a populist movement. Putting you in charge was like making the fox guard the henhouse. You cannot help but to devour Islam.
• You alienate and kill the very people who you are trying inspire and mobilize by using terrorism. Were you sleeping during your conversations with Abdallah Azzam? Terrorism is a failed strategy over the long term.
• Your anachronistic, exclusivist doctrine has no place in the lives of Muslims. People just want to have families, live good lives, treat others with dignity and respect. People want to go to work and pray to their God. They want to be happy and live without fear. You provide none of this and the world has recognized it.
• Your goals are unrealizable. Be as Marxist as you want by justifying your historic failure as just another step on the road to success. The world knows better.

A long line of frauds have been exposed before you in history. You are today’s Eichmann, Molotov and Nuon Chea. You will never be more than al‐Qaida’s “Brother Two” – nothing more than Bin Laden’s sidekick. Dr. Ayman al‐Zawahiri, there will be neither syrup nor sugar for you in Hell, only Satan’s gratitude. I implore you to make what amends you can in this life before a Hellfire missile sends you to the next.

Dr. Jarret Brachman
Director, As‐Sarab Media Establishment

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