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Terror Networks
Secret al-Qaeda memo: We must recruit and manipulate ‘ignorant’ Muslims
2018-02-28
It has been a perennial complaint that the jihadi recruits are as ignorant as pigs in mud.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In the series of Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
files, discovered in the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones...
's house which was raided by the US military in Abbottabad, northern Pakistain in 2011, one document has exposed particularly sensitive information.

It reveals that al-Qaeda targeted "common" and "ignorant" recruits worldwide, as stated by the group’s Libyan military commander Abu Yahya al-Libi.

Abu Yahya was al-Qaeda’s second-in-command after Ayman al-Zawahri and was killed in a dronezap in the North Wazoo region of Pakistain.

The document dated Monday, 29 March, 2010 was an internal bulletin sent to al-Qaeda members. It read: "Warning: To be published among the media, but not for public publication, a special message to the brothers of the jihadist media."

Recruiting and inciting ’common people’
Terms of the group’s recruitment were defined by Abu Yahya, who wrote: "Concentrate on your speeches and publications on the Moslem common people, do not to indulge in discussions with the so-called ’elites,’ they are the most beneficial to the jihad, because they are mostly pure and full of goodness, even they have failed in some sins. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
their thoughts are not contaminated with corruption and do not have the complex ignorance [of common Moslems]."

Abu Yahya added: "As you know, most of the common people do not realize the truth of the scientific discussions and political analysis, but they are incited by emotions."

Previously released documents show the strains of managing al-Qaeda’s external networks, including identifying capable leaders and finding resources to fund operations abroad.

Posted by:Fred

#6  Thanx for your efforts. I don't know why the email was blocked. It worked on my aging computer. Really the last few lines was the money quote. I've always been astounded by the arrogance, audacity and malice as reflected by this quote by these people enemies within our country.

And as I've mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking — and not Just poll driven,
demographically-inspired messaging.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-02-28 14:19  

#5  A major problem in both the East and West is living one's life for the main purpose of seeking entertainment, while hypocritically pretending (to oneself, first and foremost) that one is "really" pursuing other, more high-minded goals.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-28 13:23  

#4  Here is the text from that questionable link from #2
From: biglobalculturalstrategies . corn
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2016—03—13 17:06
Subject: From Bill Ivey
Dear John:
well, we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was Citizens
United/Koch Brothers big money in politics. Silly us; turns out that money
isn't all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the
electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and repeats
and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his hairbrained ideas,
free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming strongman and were off and
running. JFK, Jr would be delighted by all this as his 'George' magazine saw
celebrity politics coming. The magazine struggled as it was ahead of its
time but now looks prescient. George, of course, played the development
pretty lightly, basically for charm and gossip, like People, but what we are
dealing with now is dead serious. How does this get handled in the general?
Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump,
Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I’m certain the
poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the
conventions are over, but I think not. And as I've mentioned, we’ve all
been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire
to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains
strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands
some serious, serious thinking — and not Just poll driven,
demographically-inspired messaging.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-28 13:19  

#3  #2 -- Link provided only worked when my browser tried to "open link in new tab" Hot-linking - opening the link from the current tab - was expressing forbidden by the source.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-28 13:15  

#2  I’m not sure why your image link failed, JohnQC, but here it is:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/email.jpg
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-02-28 12:48  

#1  Secret AQ memo to manipulate "Ignorant Muslims? Recall the Democrat 2016 email between Bill Ivey and John Podesta. How is what AQ doing different?

Posted by: JohnQC   2018-02-28 10:49  

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