Al Qaeda: Westerners using hunchbacks, children as spies
Published: July 14, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
A senior al Qaeda military leader says that Western spies are using a panoply of disguises in their efforts to undermine militant extremist groups — and being extremely successful at it.
In a new book, published online and translated by the National Intelligence Directorate as well as the intelligence blog Secrecy News, an al Qaeda field commander in Afghanistan alleges that Western countries are employing every possible cover to infiltrate extremist groups and target their leadership.
Likening the spies to “locusts,” al Qaeda’s Abu Yahya al-Libi says the clandestine operatives use every manner of disguise.
“They have among them old hunchbacked men who cannot even walk, strong young men, weak women inside their house, young girls, and even children who did not reach puberty yet,” al-Libi asserts. “The spy might be a doctor, nurse, engineer, student, preacher, scholar, runner, or a taxi driver. The spy can be anyone.”
The operatives, he says, “were sent to penetrate the ranks of the Muslims generally, and the mujahidin specifically, and spread all over the lands like locusts.” His remarks were published by veteran American analyst Steven Aftergood from his organization’s translation of “Guidance on the Ruling of the Muslim Spy.”
Al-Libi paints a picture of a remarkably effective adversary. His depiction seems in contrast to the presentation of American intelligence services in the US press, particularly in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“The spies are busy day and night carrying out their duties in an organized and secret manner,” al-Libi writes, according to Secrecy News’ translation. “How many heroic leaders have been kidnapped at their hands? How many major mujahidin were surprised to be imprisoned or traced? Even the military and financial supply roads of the mujahidin, which are far from the enemy’s surveillance, were found by the spies.”
“As soon as the mujahidin get secretly into an area on a dark night, they are confronted by the Cross forces and their helpers,” he adds. “Many are killed or captured…“The occupation armies completely rely on recruiting spies and informants from the Muslim lands they usurped and conquered… The spy lives among Muslims, being one of them: living their life, wearing their dress, eating what they eat… Therefore, he can access what the armed soldiers of the occupation cannot put hands on.”
In particular, the al-Qaeda field commander posits that the West’s intelligence agents allow such countries to achieve a “force-multiplier” effect against the militant network.
“Everyone who lives in the jihad battlegrounds… knows well that the occupation forces could not do one-tenth of what they do now if they did not recruit spies and informants,” he says. “Most of the mujahidin and their soldiers were killed or captured because of the intelligence information that the infidel forces have obtained from the secret soldiers whom they recruit, like swarms of locusts, from the native citizens who talk our language and pretend they are Muslims.”
The book was published in Arabic on jihadist websites June 30, according to Secrecy News.
“The book cited the use of electronic homing devices to guide air-launched missiles to their targets and images of several such devices were included in the original Arabic version of the book (at page 146),” Aftergood writes.
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Hunchbacks? Are there no limits to the perfidy of these Western infidels?
No such thing as “al queda”. So this phantasy fits with the general narrative quite well. “Al Queda operatives said to occupy Mordor and are not in league with Solamon Numse”
Al Qaeda has their own version of Cheney.
Al Qaeda, I didn’t know that translates into “Republican”. I always thought it meant “teacher”.
Even if Al Qaeda is real, there numbers are estimated to be around 10,000. I’m sure plenty of them are simply self proclaimed Al Qaeda anyway, or simply deemed such by some fucking moron soldier. 10,000 vs. hundreds of thousands of coalition troops spending trillions of dollars in one of the longest wars in American history is just straight up fucking retarded.
I think it is way past time to stop using the term Al Qaeda. This is a name made up by the US propaganda machine. Alternative media should have stopped using that term long ago. Maybe you should use the term Mujahideen, as in the Arab mercenaries that the US CIA employed to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. I do think there are people in the middle east that don’t like America, but it isn’t because they hate our freedom. It is because we get our freedom by fucking over third world countries, taking their resources and killing their citizens in the process.
Many of the Mujahideen are likely still working for the CIA.
Don’t forget that the Bin Laden family are very close friends of the Bush family. They hold hands and kiss and go for walks together. Did they support Osama when he fought Russian troops trying to take over Afghanistan? Now Unocal has their pipeline. Big Oil gets their way, always.
I don’t believe Osama Bin Laden had anything to do with the attack on 911. Neither does the FBI.
I think Dick Cheney is who needs to be interrogated about his role in the 911 false flag psyop. He is guilty of so many crimes, why is he not in jail? Fuck you Dick Cheney!
And if you suspect a “blind man” is a spy, drop a coin behind him to see if he turns his head…to look!
If I had a bunch of displaced Republicans after me, I’d probably be paranoid and delusion too. You find them where you least expect them.
The man who wrote this crap, Abu Yahya al-Libi is one of the ‘high ranking’ members of Al Qaeda that escaped the Americans Bagram Air base in 2005. He was held in the makeshift cells that were formerly Soviet hangars. They say he’s the heir apparant to Bin Laden.