Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri The Coordinator 2016 Part 17-82-The Deep Battle against the West

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A video purportedly made by an Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) follower threatens London with a terror attack, and claims British transport and political hubs Heathrow, Gatwick and Downing Street “are next.”The video shows a man in a balaclava addressing the camera with a British accent. "Belgium, Brussels airport... Big boom went off, innit! “The difference is that in 2014, some of these IS fighters were only being given a couple weeks of training,” he said. “Now the strategy has changed. Special units have been set up. The training is longer. And the objective appears to no longer be killing as many people as possible but rather to have as many terror operations as possible, so the enemy is forced to spend more money or more in manpower.”

Flynn: Exactly. In Osama bin Laden's writings, he elaborated about being disperse, becoming more diffuse and operating in small elements, because it's harder to detect and it's easier to act. In Paris, there were eight guys. In Mali, there were 10. Next time, maybe one or two guys will be enough.

Mar 24, 2016 Brussels Bombings: The Shape of Things to Come

Tweet“This [IS] is an expeditionary warfare organization,” he said. “They understand to

punish your enemies, you can’t do just one operation.” Nance and other former officials also say there is a high likelihood that the cells are not operating on their own, with instructions ultimately coming from IS leaders in Iraq and Syria.

European, Iraqi intelligence officials: ISIS has over 400 fighters in Europe

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According to various European officials, ISIS has snuck in anywhere between 400-600 fighters into the continent; these fighters operate in autonomous

cells, are highly trained, and have the ability to strike anywhere and at any time. The officials, including European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker who follows the jihadi networks, described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to target the West. Before being killed in a police raid, the ringleader of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks claimed he had entered Europe in a multinational group of 90 fighters, who scattered "more or less everywhere."

The video, called "The Exile Of Islam And The Brussels Attacks", is being circulated on social media with images of Donald Trump and links to the Brussels attacks. A video purportedly made by an Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) follower threatens London with a terror attack, and claims British transport and political hubs Heathrow, Gatwick and Downing Street “are next.”The video shows a man in a balaclava addressing the camera with a British accent. "Belgium, Brussels airport... Big boom went off, innit!"Heathrow, Gatwick, Downing Street... You're next,” he says. The unverified video comes just days after an Islamic State suicide bomb attack on Brussels killed 34 people and injured more than 200. "Islamic fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station in the center of the Belgian capital Brussels, a country participating in the international coalition against the Islamic State. "Islamic State fighters opened fire inside Zaventem Airport, before several of them detonated their explosive belts, as a martydom bomber detonated his explosive belt in the Maalbeek Metro station. "The attacks resulted in more than 230 dead and wounded.” The video, called "The Exile Of Islam And The Brussels Attacks", is being circulated on social media with images of Donald Trump and links to the Brussels attacks. In English subtitles, placed over jihadis firing automatic weapons and the sound of signing, the depraved terrorists translate the Arabic lyrics of the song “Brothers rise up! Claim your victory! Haha! [Let’s go] Let’s go for Jihad!”

Investigators in Brussels have said they are looking for two more people in connection with Tuesday’s bombings in the Belgian capital.





TEHRAN (FNA)- At least 34 people were killed on Tuesday, March 22, and well over 200 others wounded in a series of bomb attacks in the Belgian

capital of Brussels.As always, the terrorist group of ISIL claimed credit for the strikes and bragged about more coming. However, US government officials say there is no credible evidence that any specific threat exists against any particular target in the US. This is wishful thinking:* There will be more terror attacks against civilian targets everywhere in the globe, including in the United States. This is because Syria is still burning in the flames of foreign-backed sectarian warfare and terrorism; European jihadists keep traveling to Syria via Turkey and other routes; the War Party in Washington and its regional minions refuse to let go of their regime-change fantasy in Damascus; and peace talks are going nowhere as some parties are still in bed with “moderate” terrorists.* In the wake of the Brussels bombings, President Barack Obama insists that the US and coalition airstrikes against ISIL targets around the world will continue unchanged. This is while the War Party and its partners admit that their airstrikes have failed to stop ISIL and other terror outfits from carrying out further attacks in both Iraq and Syria – let alone around the world.* By “going to continue pounding ISIL and going to go after them,” the regime changers cannot stop future terror attacks from happening again in Europe – admittedly - by home-grown jihadists. To stop this nightmare they have to end the proxy war on Syria.* Just like the November attacks in Paris, the Brussels attacks is being used as a pretext for further escalation of the ISIL war, which is silly at best. New emergency powers, deployments of more warplanes to the volatile region of Middle East, and staying the course will only worsen the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe.* Despite the corporate media claims, there is no relationship between the influx of refugees to Europe and the Brussels bombings. Those who carried out the near-simultaneous attacks in Brussels held Belgian passports. Brussels shouldn’t take draconian measures against its Muslim citizens either. It is wrong to make despicable connections between the terrorists and the Muslim communities in Europe.* Western governments cannot take the Brussels tragedy for granted and besiege Syria. As Damascus holds, it is Europe and its “wrong policies and a tolerance for terrorism” that paved the way for such attacks. Indeed, the attacks were the consequence of some countries "describing terrorist groups as moderate”.Despite the US government claims, no one is prepared to stop terror attacks from happening again in the West, even though anti-terror measures are at their highest level since Tuesday. The simple reason is that instead of facing ISIL and its medieval caliphate, the regime changers are facing the Syrian government and people. Meaning, it is ISIL, its patrons, as well as Saudi Arabia and its deadly ideology of Wahhabism that the European Union in particular and the world community in general should go after. It's a waste of time and resources to go after the elected government of Syria, which is at the forefront of the Global War on Terror. When European Islamists started streaming into Syria and Iraq a few years ago, some European counterterrorism officials viewed it as a blessing in disguise. Better to have them pulverized on a Middle Eastern battlefield, they argued, than dispersed and plotting mischief at home. Today, that battlefield has become more dangerous than ever for Islamic State, which is reeling under U.S.-backed military campaigns in both Syria and Iraq. One consequence of this progress is that trained and battle-hardened foreign fighters from Europe are more likely to head back to home ground. That is the alarming paradox of the U.S.-led campaign against the radical group: In the months and even years ahead, an Islamic State defeated in a conventional war may pose a





far greater danger to the West than when it was focused on conquering villages in the Euphrates river valley or the hill country of Aleppo…

IS Seen ‘Deeply Rooted’ in Europe in Wake of Brussels AttackJeff Seldin, Voice of America. U.S. and European intelligence officials are beginning to grudgingly accept that the deadly terror attacks in Brussels by the Islamic State group will not be the last on Western soil. Officials have long been concerned that IS might find ways to take advantage of weak spots in Europe’s security system. But especially worrisome is that Tuesday’s attacks on Brussels’ Zaventem airport and Maalbeek subway station that killed at least 30 people and injured more than 200 followed an intensive crackdown by Belgium and France.“I think it’s becoming more and more clear that they are deeply rooted,” a U.S. official told VOA on condition of anonymity when asked about the IS threat in Europe. "They’re hitting either countries that are their homes or hitting countries that are fighting ISIL.”European officials are equally grim. “We have to get used to it,” a diplomatic official told VOA. “We’ve been though this two times last year.”Similar Strategy. Counterterrorism officials said the Brussels attacks seem to have been modeled on the same blueprint as the Paris attacks last November, seeking out so-called soft targets with little or no security to strike fear throughout the general population.Salah Abdeslam would recognize the tactic. A key suspect in the Paris attacks, Abdeslam was taken into custody during last week’s counterterror operations in Brussels by Belgium and France. “It could be a sign that groups are saying the arrest of Abdeslam isn't the end — which it isn't — and there are enough unconnected cells or small groups for the threat to persist,” said Patrick Skinner, a former intelligence officer now with the Soufan Group, a provider of strategic security intelligence services to governments and multinational organizations.But even if the IS cells felt pressured to act now, he said he thought there was reason for concern. “It's a proven certainty they have high-functioning cells in place,” he said.'Constellation' of Cells. Western officials estimate there may be more than 3,000 people involved in varying degrees with terror networks across Europe. And there is ample concern IS has had plenty of time to mold many of them, often using the expertise of returning foreign fighters, into what some have described as a vast network of operational cells, actively collecting intelligence and looking for opportunities to strike.“These are not very small cells that have been sent in for just one pinprick special mission. This appears to be that there is a constellation of cells rooted throughout Europe,” cautioned Malcolm Nance, a former counterterrorism and intelligence officer who now heads the Terror Asymmetrics Project.“This [IS] is an expeditionary warfare organization,” he said. “They understand to punish your enemies, you can’t do just one operation.” Nance and other former officials also say there is a high likelihood that the cells are not operating on their own, with instructions ultimately coming from IS leaders in Iraq and Syria.“This is a war where they are throwing punches and we are striking back,” Nance said.Any Country at Risk. Current and former officials also worry that while IS may be taking advantage of countries like Belgium, which have struggled with counterterrorism, the networks are strong enough that almost any country taking part in the fight against IS could be at risk. But even with additional coordination between European counties and the U.S., taking down the network and its cells will take time.The nature of these groups, operating like close circles of family and friends, "makes them difficult to get insight into but not impossible,” said the Soufan Group’s Skinner. During a





visit to Washington this month, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve warned of the difficulty of uncovering terror cells, saying his country has

been monitoring “several thousand individuals.” “Not all of them are necessarily terrorists,” he said. “Some, we are certain that they are in connection, in communications, with terrorist groups or radicalized groups, but it doesn’t mean that they themselves are radicalized.“But at some point they may be.”

Arab Press Reactions To The Brussels Attacks: Blaming The West, Enemies In The Region For The Spread Of Global TerrorismThe March 22, 2016 terror attacks in Brussels triggered a wave of condemnation from all Arab and Islamic countries, which stressed their opposition to terrorism. However, the condemnations and articles in the Arab press also highlighted the attempts, on the part of every country and every regional bloc, to place the blame for the attacks on their respective opponents in the region, while accusing the West of supporting this particular opponent.Thus, for example, the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, and Hizbullah, both stated that the terrorism afflicting Europe was the same terrorism that is targeting Syria. They said that the responsibility for the spread of global terrorism lies with Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, as well as with the U.S. and the other Western countries that support them. On the other hand, the Saudi press and opponents of the Assad regime accused Iran and the Assad regime – in addition to the West, for turning a blind eye to their actions.Meanwhile, articles in the official Egyptian press blamed the main opponent of the Al-Sisi regime there – the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) – as well as European countries that they say have supported the MB in recent years despite Egypt's warnings. The Palestinian press, for its part, blamed the West for encouraging global terrorism by supporting Israeli policy and by failing to implement international resolutions on the Palestinian issue.

"Europe" and "Middle East" attempt to unload the "ISIS" bomb (Al-Watan, Qatar, March 23, 2016)Following is a review of these reactions:Syrian Regime And Hizbullah: Europe, U.S. Responsible For Brussels Attacks – Because Of Their Support For Turkey, Qatar, And Saudi Arabia, Which Sponsor TerrorismThe Syrian regime, which regularly accuses the U.S., Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar of supporting the rebel groups fighting it, held the same parties responsible for the Brussels attacks. Syrian regime spokesmen and mouthpieces claimed that the attacks in Brussels and worldwide were the result of the "misguided policy" of the U.S. and European





countries that support the terrorism that is fostered by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Israel.

Thus, for example, an official Saudi Foreign Ministry source said: "The attacks in Brussels, and before that in Paris and elsewhere around the world, once again illustrate that terrorism has no borders, and that such attacks are the inevitable result of the misguided policy [of the West] and of [its] solidarity with terrorism. This is aimed at actualizing specific agendas and legitimizing terrorism by defining several terrorist organizations [i.e. Syrian opposition organizations] as moderate, although they ultimately emerged from the takfiri Wahhabi ideology..."[1]'Ali Nasrallah, a columnist for the official Syrian daily Al-Thawra, attacked Europe for its tolerance vis-à-vis countries that he said support terrorism, chiefly Saudi Arabia and Turkey. He mentioned Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Naif's recent visit to France – during which French President Francois Hollande awarded him the Order of Légion d'Honneur for his regional and global efforts fighting extremism and terrorism – and called on the French people to "not allow their president to harm their homeland's legacy and sell France's honor to the Wahhabis." He added: "They must immediately prosecute him [Hollande] for shaming the French decorations of honor by pinning them to the robe of Saudi extremism... Additionally, all the parliaments in Europe must prosecute their own governments for [their] policy of tolerance towards [Turkish President] Erdogan's Muslim Brotherhood regime..."The blasts in Brussels are a ringing shout that calls to Europe to awaken from her slumber... They are a direct continuation of the terrorism that has targeted the Syrians, shed the hearts' blood of the Iraqis, and harmed many peoples in the region and the world. This terrorism would not have spread had its organizations and its supporting entities not received an American green light, and not received Western incentives that spurred and encouraged the Israelis to place their knowhow at the service of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, in order to intensify the strength of Al-Qaeda, Jabhat Al-Nusra, and ISIS..."[2]Similarly, Hizbullah issued a statement blaming the Brussels attacks on "regional and international forces" that support terrorist groups, hinting at Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and also blamed the Western countries that support them: "The responsibility for these crimes, that target city after city around the world, lies with the attacks by the takfiris, as well as with the regional and international forces that stand behind them and provide them with doctrinal, moral, and material support. These attacks reaffirm the danger of these terrorist groups, and show that the fire that has burned Europe as well as the rest of the world is the same fire that was set by certain regimes against Syria and other countries in the region. Unfortunately, the entire world knows the source of this danger and who funds it – yet, despite this, the superpowers continue to support and defend the countries that sponsor and export terrorism."[3]Saudi Press, Assad Regime Opponents: Iran, Assad Regime Are Responsible For Global TerrorismOn the other hand, the Saudi press blamed the Saudi enemies, Iran and the Assad regime, for the attacks, and blamed as well the Western countries that were allegedly turning a blind eye to Iran's support for terrorism.In its editorial the day after the attacks, the official Saudi daily Al-Riyadh accused Iran, writing: "...The war on terrorism requires not only hunting down the terrorists in Iraq and Syria, where they are located, but also looking for those who afford them safe haven on their soil, and for those who spark the fire of sectarianism and aid the terrorist militias. [These militias] ceaselessly fan the flames of hatred among sectors [of the population], and push both the Syrians and the Iraqis to behave in extremist ways, after their countries were





destroyed. This happened and is still happening, in both Iraq and Syria, which are in fact controlled by Iran's agenda. This is the same Iran whose

cooperation with Al-Qaeda was proven in recently published American documents, and which explicitly adopts the activity of the terrorist organization Hizbullah. Failure to confront [Iran] will force the region to deal in future with difficult scenarios and ongoing terrorist attacks, like the ones in recent days in Istanbul and Brussels."[4]Randa Taqi Al-Din, a columnist for the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat, accused the West of turning a blind eye in years past to reports that the Assad regime, and Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki, were collaborating with terrorist organizations, and that this is one reason that these organizations now pose a global existential threat. She wrote: "Undoubtedly the West, and particularly the U.S., have seen how, right under their noses, Nouri Al-Maliki transferred ISIS activists from Iraq to Syria, and later Bashar Al-Assad released them from his prisons and used them, to the point where ISIS is now his partner in burning and destroying Syria and threatening the world. This threat has become a true existential one."[5]Syrian regime opponents supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar also blamed the Brussels attacks on the Syrian regime, launching the Twitter hashtag in Arabic "The Brussels Attacks Are An Assad Product." Syrian Al-Jazeera anchor Faisal Al-Qassem tweeted: "Do you remember the threats by Bashar Al-Assad's mufti, Ahmad Hassoun, to send suicide bombers to Europe? Has Bashar Al-Assad finally begun carry out Ahmad Hassoun's threats?"[6]Syrian artist Hossam Al-Din Malas likewise tweeted his accusations against the Syrian regime: "Have you forgotten or ignored the source of terrorism?! Listen to the threats made by [Mufti] Al-Hassoun regarding attacks targeting European cities." In another tweet, he also blamed the West for the spread of terrorism: "It is the world that rewards Iranian terrorism and signs commercial deals with it that is responsible for the growth and spread of terrorism."

Egyptian Press: Europe Was Burned By Terrorism Due To Its Embrace Of The MBThe Egyptian press blamed the Brussels attack on the Egyptian regime's greatest domestic enemy – the MB movement – as well as on European countries that support it. Articles in the Egyptian press on the attacks linked ISIS terrorism to the MB and argued that the European countries that embraced the MB had ultimately been burned by it, because the MB is "the ideological hotbed for all extremist takfiri organizations."Thus, for example, the editorial of the official Egyptian daily Al-Ahram stated: "These deadly attacks confirm that the Egyptian view was correct. For a long time, [Egypt] warned that terrorism would spread to the heart of Europe, and that the West's [flagrant] disregard of the war that Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries had for years waged against terrorism does not mean that the fire of terrorism would spare it..."For many years, some European countries have maintained ties to extremist religious groups, embraced their leaders, and allowed them freedom of action and freedom of movement on their soil. These countries thought that they could use these organizations for [their own] political interests in the Middle East, and [believed] in the delusion that these organizations would defend the West from the evil of even more extremist groups."However, time has shown that the religious organizations embraced by the West, chiefly the [Muslim] Brotherhood organization, are the ideological hotbed for all extremist takfiri organizations... and that the presence of such elements on European soil has enabled them to attract young people to their radical ideology and to recruit them to carry out acts of terrorism.





"Egypt has repeatedly demanded the formulation of an international strategy to deal with terrorism, which would tackle all extremist organizations and

ideas, without exception... This is what Egypt is [also] doing now. Will anyone heed the call?"[7]Similarly, Egyptian journalist Mu'ataz Bellah 'Abd Al-Fattah penned an article titled "Brussels Pays the Price" in the Egyptian daily Al-Watan, in which he claimed that Europe was reaping the poison fruits of its leniency towards extremists: "The tree of terrorism only grows in the forests of extremism. Those who fight terrorism without fighting extremism will lose both wars... This is how Western countries operate when they allow extremism to blossom in their midst, on the pretext of freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, and the right to political asylum. Then they are burned by the fires of those who carry out extremist actions on their soil."For political terrorism, the adoption of political Islam is necessary, but not sufficient... The problem is that the West fails to realize that it is sheltering extremists, and it is then burned by the fire of terrorism, and does not hold itself accountable for that..."[8]Palestinian Editorial: Western Support For Israel Encourages Global TerrorismThe Palestinian press included articles hinting at Western responsibility for the Brussels attacks because of its support for Israel. In its editorial the day after the attacks, the East Jerusalem-based Palestinian daily Al-Quds argued that the West, with its support for Israel and its "destructive policy," was encouraging ongoing global terrorism:"The reasons for these contemptible terrorist actions are: the double standard employed by many countries that claim to champion democracy and human rights regarding certain peoples, chiefly the Palestinian issue, and the U.S.'s blind pro-Israel bias; the world's failure to take practical steps to force Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories; the failure to implement the international resolutions regarding the Palestinian issue; and the continued support of many countries for Israel's destructive policy. All these encourage global terrorism. The Western world, particularly the U.S. and Britain, should deal with the real causes [of this terrorism] rather than [merely] with its results, or else it will threaten not only Europe, but the entire world as well, and then no one will be safe from it..."[9] Endnotes:[1] SANA (Syria), March 22, 2016.[2] Al-Thawra (Syria), March 23, 2016.[3] Alahednews.com.lb, March 22, 2016.[4] Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), March 23, 2016.[5] Al-Hayat (London), March 23, 2016.[6] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 6236, Conspiracy Theories In Arab World Following Paris Attacks: Foreign Intelligence Agencies Planned The Attacks; ISIS Only Carried Them Out, December 9, 2015.[7] Al-Ahram (Egypt), March 23, 2016.[8] Al-Watan (Egypt), March 22, 2016.[9] Al-Quds (Jerusalem), March 23, 2016.





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