Perfect for Football Sunday in AmeriKa!
"What Al Qaeda learned from Mao; The surprisingly secular guerrilla strategy behind the would-be Islamist revolution" by Michael W.S. Ryan | Globe Correspondent, September 22, 2013
I imagine it is the same thing governments learned: power grows out of the barrel of a gun
Al Qaeda’s strategic foundations are laid out in a variety of documents written by its ideologues and trainers.
Related:
[The following was allegedly found in an abandoned temple in Timbuktu, where “al-CIA-da” forces allegedly left it behind. It predicts international intervention in late January, the rebel defeat and subsequent dispersal among the civilian population. The alleged “al-Qaeda” acolytes are admonished to establish civilian protest groups as cover for their activities and to encourage locals to assume the fight.] -- MALI-AL-QAIDA’S SAHARA PLAYBOOK
AP (pffft) "found" Al-CIA-Duh's plans?!
What an absolute load of merde!
The rest of this thing reads like a CIA manual for covert destablization!
Originally produced secretly for training recruits and as a legacy for future generations of jihadi guerrillas, the documents began to emerge in the early 2000s—published on jihadist forums, stored on commercial websites, or confiscated from terrorist safe houses and training camps by local police or military.
What this body of work reveals might strike even informed readers as surprising. When it comes to strategy, close readings of the documents suggest that Al Qaeda draws its ideas less from classical Islam than from a broad array of sources in 20th-century guerrilla warfare, as well as older European and Chinese military strategists. Its books and articles refer to the ideas of Mao, Che Guevara, Regis Debray, the Vietnamese strategist General Giap, Fidel Castro, and even the somewhat obscure Brazilian urban guerrilla Carlos Marighella. They are secular and analytic, and do not rely on religious arguments as a detailed guide to action.
To study Al Qaeda’s strategic literature is to realize that we should understand it primarily as a new type of revolutionary group—one that is, in fact, less classically “Islamic” than Maoist. It is a modern ideology built on Al Qaeda’s distorted version of Islam, one that is rejected by mainstream Islamic scholars. And this deeper understanding may give us new tools in what is shaping up to be a long fight against Al Qaeda’s influence.
And who benefits from that myth?
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The first unclassified evidence of Al Qaeda’s thinking about guerrilla warfare surfaced in December 2001 after the American journalist Alan Cullison, assigned to cover events in Kabul, had an accident in the wilds of the Hindu Kush that destroyed his laptop. When he bought a used computer in Kabul, he came into possession of a hard drive previously owned by Ayman al-Zawahiri, then bin Laden’s deputy. Cullison bought it from a man who claimed he had stolen it the day before Al Qaeda’s leadership fled Kabul after the collapse of the Taliban government.
Pffft!
This hard drive contained a book written by al-Zawahiri about jihadist insurgencies in Egypt, titled “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner.” It also included many other professional-grade documents about espionage and security. A section titled “The Future of the Jihadist Movement” outlined some of Al Qaeda’s long-range strategies and would later be the basis for further writings by the leadership’s advisers and lieutenants.
Thousands of pages of documents have emerged since then, laying out Al Qaeda’s ideology, military doctrine, and tactics. In 2004, the Norwegian scholars Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer coined the term now used to describe this body of writings: “jihadi strategic studies,” the collective efforts of a radical group to adapt the lessons of the past into a modern guide to action. Since 2008, I have been among the growing number of scholars and experts trying to unlock what they tell us about Al Qaeda.
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Al Qaeda’s fundamental approach, as multiple authors explain in various texts, mirrors classic Maoist three-stage strategy. First, small groups weaken a government’s hold on a remote area; then they establish themselves in villages or communities to consolidate their power and expand. Finally, they join with similar groups until a large area is under their control, as the government withdraws and ultimately falls. Such an effort is underway in North Africa, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq, and South Asia. The goal may be couched in Islamic terms, but the methods are profoundly secular. Violence for Al Qaeda, as in classic guerrilla strategy, always has a political objective.
The Project For the New AmeriKan Century.
Al Qaeda’s books and articles on strategy in Arabic and occasionally in translation can now be easily found on the Internet, if one knows where to look....
I'd rather not, and never do. Too busy reading Boston Globes, which are pretty much the same thing.
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In the long term, understanding its strategy is crucial. Perhaps Al Qaeda’s greatest strength has been its ability to rise out of the ashes of miserable defeat, recruit more young men, and continue its long war against the established order. Understanding the strategy, ideology, and “heroic” history its strategists write about is key to winning the deeper battle to prevent Al Qaeda from refilling its ranks when our operations decimate them.
This kind of analysis has helped the United States before. During the Cold War, the country invested a great deal of effort in understanding the enemy’s ideology. But that battle of ideas was perhaps simpler. Our communist adversaries had a worldview that we understood and that had its origins in Western thinking; we were confident that our own system offered a more attractive model to the world. In the fight against Al Qaeda, the United States has largely stayed away from the ideological battle because of concerns that any information campaign would involve counterproductive arguments about Islam.
What crap when it is the CIA writing the CIA-Duh propaganda!
Related:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?
Focusing on the secular origins of Al Qaeda’s violent strategies, however, gives the United States a new kind of leverage—an opening to publicize the worst aspects of Al Qaeda’s ideology, which are just as alien to our Muslim allies and American Muslims as they are to other Americans. Al Qaeda’s military doctrines have resulted in the deaths of many more Muslims than non-Muslims; their call for eternal jihadism is a recipe for endless urban and rural warfare. They have no theory of stable government beyond the clichés in their propaganda.
What is clear, based on the intolerance and dedication to violence enshrined in its strategic literature, is that the communities most immediately at threat are the surrounding Muslim ones. That is not a sentiment likely to show up in the group’s public propaganda. But it’s a fact that the United States has a very good incentive to recognize and to communicate to the passive and sometimes sympathetic public that Al Qaeda depends on for its very existence. Once we have fully absorbed Al Qaeda’s strategic literature, it will give us ample material to use against them, in their own words.
That is why I keep reading this s***.
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Doesn't that scare you, readers?
Maybe this play from the playbook will:
[The story pieced together so far, reveals 10 Somalis took over the new Jewish owned mall, while they killed anyone who could not pass as either Arabic or Somali, determined by victim's ability to read Arabic writing. Kenya is being punished for serving as Imperial proxies in Somalia against the "Islamist" fighters. There are still many hostages being held within the mall, waiting for the next round of slaughter.]-- Somalian Terrorists Stage Punitive Anti-Israeli Raid—39+ Killed So Far At Jewish Mall In Kenya
UPDATE:
Nairobi Mall Assault Has To Be Connected To Ongoing Trial of Kenyan Officials At ICC In Hague
See: Kenya Elected War Criminal
I guess that pissed off some people.
"Terror attack kills at least 39 in Kenya; Gunmen open fire at upscale mall; Al Qaeda-linked group suspected" by Jeffrey Gettleman and Nicholas Kulish | New York Times, September 22, 2013
NAIROBI — Masked gunmen with scarves twisted over their faces stormed into an upscale, crowded mall in Nairobi on Saturday and fatally shot at least 39 people and wounded more than 150 in one of the most chilling terrorist attacks in East Africa since Al Qaeda blew up two US embassies in 1998.
That Globe Idea came just in time!
Parents hurled their bodies over their children, people jumped into ventilation shafts to save themselves, and shoppers huddled behind the plastic mannequins of designer clothing stores as two squads of gunmen believed to be linked to a Somali terrorist group moved through the mall, shooting shoppers in the head.
Hours later, the mall’s gleaming floors were smeared with blood as police officers dashed through the corpse-strewn corridors, trying to find the assailants.
The mall, called Westgate, is a symbol of Kenya’s rising prosperity, an impressive five-story building where Kenyans can buy expensive cups of frozen yogurt and plates of sushi. On Saturdays, it is especially crowded, with loose security. US officials have long warned that Nairobi’s malls were ripe targets for Islamist terrorists, especially Westgate, because a cafe on the ground floor, right off the street, is owned by Israelis....
Oh, wow, I just caught a whiff of FALSE FLAG STENCH! Real bad!
Several witnesses said the attackers shouted for Muslims to run away while they methodically picked off other shoppers, executing them one by one. The mall, one of Nairobi’s most luxurious, with glass elevators and some of the most expensive shops in town, is also popular with expatriates. It has served as the place for a power lunch, to catch a movie, to bring children for ice cream.
Owned by none other than Frank Lowy of 9/11 WTC fame, huh?
Four Americans were believed to have been injured in the attack, US officials said. No Americans were reported killed, but Secretary of State John Kerry, who called the attack “a heartbreaking reminder that there exists unspeakable evil in our world,” said that the wife of a local employee of the US government was among the dead. Two Canadians, one of them a diplomat based in Nairobi, and two French citizens were killed in the assault, their governments said.
Oh, stink.
A confidential UN report Saturday described the attack as “a complex, two-pronged assault” with two squads of gunmen dashing into the mall from different floors at the same time and opening fire.
Wow, they SURE GOT THAT "REPORT" OUT FAST!
Al Shabab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia, took responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Kenya’s military operations in Somalia, which began nearly two years ago.
It was Al-CIA-BOB, huh?
“Kenya will not get peace unless they pull their military out of Somalia,” Ali Mohamoud Rage, Al Shabab’s spokesman, said in a radio address. Al Shabab also sent out a barrage of buoyant Twitter messages, bragging about the prowess of their fighters — “the Mujahideen are still strong inside” one message said — before Twitter abruptly suspended the account late Saturday.
With each paragraph they confirm a false flag in their newsspeak code. That terrorist Twitter account(?) has been on and off more than a light switch.
Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, branded the terrorists cowards and said Kenya would remain “as brave and invincible as the lions on our Coat of Arms.” He also sounded a somber note, pleading with Kenyans to give blood and provide sympathy, and said that he himself had lost “very close family members in this attack,” though he did not specify further. In addition to the 39 people killed, which included women and children, Kenyatta said, more than 150 people were wounded. Government officials said the wounded ranged in age from 2 to 78.
As of Saturday night, Kenyan commandos had cornered several of the assailants on the third floor of the mall, witnesses said. Western officials said they expected that the assailants would fight to the death, though the Kenyan news media reported that one wounded gunman had been captured, and later died in a hospital.
Dead men tell not tales of truth.
Witnesses who escaped the mall said there were still hostages trapped inside, but it was not clear whether those were shoppers hiding in crawl spaces and barricaded stores or captives being held at gunpoint. Several witness also said one of the assailants was a woman.
UPDATE:
"Soldiers said a white woman was shouting orders to the terrorist gunmen."
Then it must have been Al-CIA-Bob.
Before its Twitter account was shut down, Al Shabab sent out a message, saying the fighters in the mall would never give up.
“There will be no negotiations whatsoever at #Westgate,’’ the message said.
Kenya serves as the economic engine of East Africa, and while it has been mostly spared the violence and turmoil of many of its neighbors, it has had other terrorist attacks.
Yeah, strange how this comes as they are getting closer to China.
In 1998, Al Qaeda killed more than 200 people in a huge truck blast that nearly leveled the US Embassy in Nairobi, while simultaneously attacking the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Islamist terrorists also struck an Israeli-owned hotel on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast in 2002 and fired missiles at an Israeli airliner.
That was "Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
More recently, Al Shabab has put Kenya in its cross hairs, especially after Kenya sent thousands of troops into Somalia in 2011 to chase Al Shabab away from its borders and then kept those troops there as part of a larger African Union mission to pacify Somalia.
Related: Kenya Comes to Somalia's Rescue
Yeah, right, they didn't tell the U.S.
Al Shabab has attacked churches in eastern Kenya, mosques in Nairobi, and government outposts along the Kenya-Somalia border.
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So when will the "terrorists" pull of a Bain-like Batman, 'eh?
Or something even worse?
UPDATES:
MI6 INVOLVED IN MALL SHOOTING?
Former colonial empires always leave behind a security apparatus.
World Wide Gladio
Analysis: Nairobi attack may trigger tighter security at malls worldwide
Cui bono?
"Kenya says most hostages in mall are free; A battle to wrest control in Nairobi" by Sudarsan Raghavan | Washington Post, September 23, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan security forces swept into an upscale shopping mall late Sunday to try to end a two-day standoff with heavily armed Islamist militants after a gruesome attack that reflected the surprising resiliency of one of Africa’s most brutal insurgent groups.
Authorities later said most hostages had been freed, but they provided few details. It appeared that at least some members of Somalia’s Al Shabab militia, which asserted responsibility for the attack, were still holed up early Monday in the Westgate Premier Shopping Mall, where they killed 68 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in Kenya in 15 years....
For the past two years, Al Shabab, which is linked to Al Qaeda, has been considered by many US officials and analysts to be all but defeated. The militia had lost much of the territory it once held in Somalia, including the capital, Mogadishu. It was pushed to the margins by a campaign that has involved US Special Operations troops as well as African forces mobilized largely by Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Burundi.
Oh, we have BOOTS on the GROUND in SOMALIA, huh?
But the well-organized assault on the mall that began around lunchtime Saturday upended the calculations of Kenyan and Western security officials....
The attackers, who carried grenades and clutched machine guns and AK-47 assault rifles, had chosen a target popular with Westerners and wealthy Kenyans, a move sure to hurt the nation’s critical tourism industry and spread unease among the numerous Western aid agencies based in Nairobi.
‘‘This tells me that Al Shabab remains resilient, able and willing to strike beyond Somalia’s borders to survive,’’ said Juan Zarate, who served as a senior counterterrorism adviser in the administration of President George W. Bush. ‘‘They remain a real terrorist threat to Somalia, the region, and potentially beyond.’’
The dead included numerous foreigners from Britain, France, Canada, Australia, and other countries. While no Americans were reported killed, Ruhila Adatia-Sood, the wife of Ketan Sood, a Foreign Service national working for the US Agency for International Development in Nairobi, was among the dead, USAID said in a statement. Five American citizens were wounded, officials said....
AID = CIA
UPDATE: At Least 5 American Terrorists Participating In Nairobi Mall Seige, According To Militants
At Nairobi’s Aga Khan Hospital on Sunday, survivors spoke about how they escaped death in the mall. One British man said his wife and children were hiding behind a meat counter in a store with other women and children. The gunmen sprayed bullets at them, killing a woman and a teenage girl, and wounding his wife, said the man, who asked that neither his nor his spouse’s name be used because they feared retribution.
The gunmen, the man said, released the children who were still alive and informed his injured wife that she, too, could leave if she converted to Islam, making her recite the Shahada, Islam’s profession of belief.
Then the gunmen handed chocolates to the children as they left the mall, the man said.
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The assault was the deadliest in Kenya since Al Qaeda operatives masterminded the twin bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998. Al Shabab also staged the twin bombings in Kampala, Uganda, during the World Cup in July 2010, killing more than 70 people.
Related: If It's Not One Thing It's Another in Uganda
That attack, the militia said, was in retaliation for Uganda sending its troops to Somalia.
But since mid-2011, Al Shabab has been on its heels, following an offensive by African Union forces backed by the United States and Western governments. While it controls large swaths of southern Somalia’s countryside, the militia has been riven by a struggle among its core leadership.
In Kenya, the militia has staged small attacks on local targets such as bus stations and churches, killing a handful of people, since the government sent troops to Somalia in October 2011. But Saturday’s attack suggested far greater operational planning and tactical sophistication, analysts said.
Pointing more and more towards a false flag with every paragraph.
‘‘The attack is more likely to be a first salvo of a reinvigorated Al Shabab than the last gasp of a defeated organization,’’ said Peter Pham, head of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. ‘‘While there have been divisions within and defections from Al Shabab, my sense is that the hard-core element will actually emerge more nimble and lethal as a result of shedding those elements.’’
The attack on the mall, he said, would have required a local unit to conduct reconnaissance and plan other details, suggesting that the militia has an ‘‘extensive support network’’ in Kenya. There are thousands of Somalis living in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya, as well as extremists within the local Muslim community.
Al Shabab is believed to have a strong fund-raising network here....
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UPDATE:
Apparently, ISRAELI SECURITY is ALL OVER the SCENE and has TAKEN CHARGE!
This WHOLE THING STINKS to HIGH HEAVEN of a MOSSAD FALSE FLAG!