The excerpts below are from a confidential letter from the emir of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Abdelmalek Droukdel, to his fighters in Mali, that the AP found on the floor of a building they occupied in Timbuktu.

"This project, vital and very important to us and to our jihad, is in this very sensitive and dangerous phase, which requires us all to give it particular care and to prepare the ground for success..."

"The aim of building these bridges is to make it so that our Mujahedeen are no longer isolated in society....And if we can achieve this positive thing in even a limited amount, then even if the project fails later, it will be just enough that we will have planted the first, good seed in this fertile soil and put pesticides and fertilizer on it, so that the tree will grow more quickly. We look forward to seeing this tree as it will be: Stable and magnificent."

"One of the wrong policies that we think you carried out is the extreme speed with which you applied Shariah, not taking into consideration the gradual evolution that should be applied in an environment that is ignorant of religion, and a people which hasn't applied Shariah in centuries. And our previous experience proved that applying Shariah this way, without taking the environment into consideration will lead to people rejecting the religion, and engender hatred toward the Mujahedeen, and will consequently lead to the failure of our experiment."

"It is very important that we view our Islamic project in Azawad as a small newborn, with many phases ahead of it that it must pass through to grow and mature. The current baby is in its first days, crawling on its knees, and has not yet stood on its two legs. So is it wise that we start now to lay burdens on it that will inevitably prevent it from standing on its own two feet and perhaps even smother it?!! If we really want it to stand on its own two feet in this world full of enemies waiting to pounce, we must ease its burden, take it by the hand, help it and support it until it stands."

Full excerpts at:
http://africanquarters.com/index.php/component/k2/item/6145-excerpts-from-al-qaeda-manifesto-left-in-timbuktu-any-lesson-for-nigeria.html

We have already learn all the necessary lessons. There is nothing new to learn from jihadist, mujahideen, suicide bombers and terrorists.

1oracle: We have already learn all the necessary lessons. There is nothing new to learn from jihadist, mujahideen, suicide bombers and terrorists.

How can you be that sure?

Arabs colonization of Africa in 21st Century should be viewed as an act of war.

Africa will rise again and will resist all forms of neocolonialism but why we still plan for total freedom, I will gladly choose Europeans than end up in the hand of these Ancient Arabs