Nice work if you can get it: New Jihad terror manual being written

Terror for dummies? The manual will be released tomorrow and is expected to "shake up Al Qaeda. But I'm not really so sure about that. The author, jailed terror leader Sayd Imam, is being forced to write it by Egyptian authorities and get this HE'S BEING PAID!!!

The new manual will call for an end to all Jihadi operations inside Arab-Islamic countries as well as an end to the killings of civilians in general and tourists, in particular, of all nationalities.

No word on what will happen to us infidels. What do you think?


Sayd Imam is currently imprisoned in a Cairo jail. He was the founder and first commander of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organisation, whose supporters assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and later worked with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the war against the Soviet Occupation. He worked with al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian doctor and now Bin Laden's deputy, before being kidnapped in Yemen after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Imam was interrogated by the CIA and extradited to Egypt where he has been serving a life sentence since 2004.

According to a representative of Jamaa-al-Islamiya, Najih Ibrahim, the book is "a very important document because it is the most important initiative by the Jamaa al-Islamiyah directly to its members in Egypt and around the world."

Reports say that Jamaa al-Islamiya was once the largest Jihadist organisation in the Arab world which mounted countless armed attacks starting in the 1980s until it called a ceasefire after the massacre of 62 foreign tourists at Luxor in 1997.

According to the Saudi newspaper al-Watan, Sayd Imam was forced by the Egyptian authorities to write this document while in prison. The 80-page book appears to have been written in exchange for money. Despite this, al-Watan, believes that its criticism of al-Qaeda is likely to have a direct influence on the organisation and in particular on Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command. Al-Zawahiri was a good friend of Dr. Fadel, who is well-known throughout the Jihadi world for having written some of the most important books on Jihadi ideology.

Sayd Imam's manual is expected to generate a crisis within al-Qaeda. Imam's lawyer, Montaser al-Zayyat, told the Egyptian newspaper al-Misriun, that Osama Bin Laden has begun a series of consultations within the terror organisation to prevent new divisions. There is concern that Sayd Imam's manual may provoke discontent and defections within al-Qaeda.

Sayd Imam has a strong influence within the Jihadi world and can influence the militants in various al-Qaeda cells. "For this reason, Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are aware of what this can do and recently had a summit in which they expressed their concern," said Zayyat. It's this concern that led Osama bin Laden to release his an audio message in October in which he admitted mistakes made in Iraq and said that they should be corrected.

It also also led to a message by al-Zawahiri in November announcing that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group have joined al-Qaeda - a move believed to have been taken to calm tensions in view of the expected publication of Sayd Imam's book.