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Seen from the Tip of the Camel's Hump
Al Qaeda's New Monthly Concludes: Destroying the Iraqi Baath Was a
Gift for Islam
Al Qaeda has taken pains to buttress its actions with an ideological
base and keep its adherents abreast of the official political-
religious take on current affairs. The terrorist organization runs
the Western equivalent of a think tank which publishes updated
ideological-operational materials.
This week, al Qaeda issued a new monthly in print and Internet
called The Tip of the Camel's Hump. The 45-page edition is of the
highest quality of any of its publications in recent years. Showing
the hand of a professional editor, its columns come closest of any
published word to representing the tactical views entertained by Abu
Musab al Zarqawi, head of the organization's Iraq, an indicator of
his high place in its hierarchy.
The publication brings out four principal arguments:
A. Its writers explain at length why it is important at this time
for al Qaeda to strike out with all its might on all fronts.
B. They maintain that a historic opportunity is presenting itself to
defeat America in Iraq in the same way as the mujaheddin defeated
the Russians in Afghanistan.
C. Islam has stepped into the place of Arab nationalism (the Iraqi
Baath) which the Americans destroyed.
D. Al Qaeda's Achilles heel at a time of great military victories is
the image the West has built up of a terrorist organization. This
perception must be corrected.
Arab nationalism will be distilled as jihad in the Iraq crucible
The anonymous author of one article dwells on what he calls
America's biggest mistake in Iraq - and biggest favor to al Qaeda -
destroying the Baath movement. Arab nationalism was ever the
greatest foe of Islam and it is now gone for good. "We are now able
to demonstrate by day and by night on Iraqi soil that it is the
jihadists who are fighting the Americans rather than Iraqi freedom
fighters."
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Iraq experts, the writer is
indirectly casting aspersions on the Iraqi Sunni and Baath
representatives who have joined the Americans in peace negotiations
(which we have reported on at length in recent issues) and hinting
at the broadening Zarqawi-led offensive.
"Iraq," the writer goes on to say, "is the crucible in which
nationalism melts away and is reborn as jihad, in which conflict is
distilled into a war to drive the Americans out of Iraq, and in
which Islam confronts its foes in open combat."
He then asserts that America can be beaten in Iraq and argues, "We
have managed to wound America on the Iraqi battlefield. George Bush
is faltering like a boxer after a mighty blow. The whole world sees
their losses. But above all, we have deprived them of the grounds
for claiming they represent an advanced, humane and tolerant
culture. The whole world has seen how they left Falluja and Samarra
in ruins."
At the same time, the writer in the new al Qaeda publication
admits "along our path we have lost very many Muslims, those who
abdicated to join forces with the Americans and the Zionists {Ed: He
is talking about the Palestinian Authority which negotiates with
Israel, and Egypt and Jordan which signed peace treaties with the
Jewish state]. But these are side issues of little importance
compared with the principal campaign fought by the allies of Allah
against the allies of Satan."
Al Qaeda's "terrible mistakes" in Afghanistan and Bosnia
Turning to another conflict, the writer admits to "terrible
mistakes" the movement made in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
After vanquishing the Russians, he writes, we began to fight each
other for control of the country [Ed. The Afghan civil war joined by
the mujaheddin which brought the Taliban to power].
" In Bosnia, just when we were certain we had triumphed in our
objective to bring Islam into Europe, we allowed NATO to steal our
victory. These mistakes must be avoided in Iraq."
DEBKA-Net-Weekly notes that this is the first time al Qaeda has ever
owned up to plotting to use the Balkan conflict in the first half of
the 1990s to capture a part of Europe for Islam.
Another part of the Camel's Hump is set aside to eulogize Sheikh
Omar Hadid, the late commander of Zarqawi's force in Falluja who
died in action against the Americans during the April 2004 capture
of the Iraqi city. Hadid is held up as a brave and brilliant fighter
who fought Saddam Hussein as an active member of the Muslim
underground.
According to our Iraq sources, most members of Zarqawi's command
have a similar history of warfare against the Saddam regime. This
distinction is important because it is the key to the difference
between the two guerrilla forces fighting together in Iraq today ,
the Baathists and al Qaeda.
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