M. Bitar, Syriano:
The accused Abu Musab al-Suri left behind numerous books and writings promoting extremism, which appeared under the names Omar Abdel Hakim or Mustafa Abdel Qader. Among the most prominent of these books was “The Call to Global Islamic Resistance,” a 1600-page work, and others, In 2003, Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón presented a 695-page indictment against 35 terrorists, including Abu Musab al-Suri, The judge also issued an arrest warrant for bin Laden on charges of membership in a terrorist group and carrying out acts of sabotage, In short, we do not know precisely the true name of the author of the terrifying booklet “The Management of Savagery,” which includes tactics such as drawing the United States into a war of attrition that might force America to surrender, similar to the policy that Iran is currently pursuing.
The jihadists thought that brutal, extreme violence would weaken the West, and they also thought that moving from fighting the “near” enemy, represented by the ruling regimes and the apostates from the religion among the general public, to fighting the “far” enemy would be of great benefit, For your information, the book is available under about 15,000 links on the internet and has been translated into English by the Pentagon, The book is banned in many Arab countries.
“Savagery,” as explained in the book, is a state of chaos that is exploited to eliminate the ruling authorities after weakening them,The chaos must be savage, and the suffering of the local population is of little importance, What is important is the establishment of the Islamic state, Chaos also means drawing America into wars outside its borders, such as creating savage chaos in countries like Saudi Arabia in 2003, Indonesia, Europe, and other regions.
It cannot be confirmed that the author is Abu Bakr Naji, as the name Abu Bakr Naji is a pseudonym. What is noteworthy is the book or statement of Abu Musab al-Suri, consisting of 1600 pages, entitled “The Call to Global Islamic Resistance,” which includes explanations very close to what was stated in the “Management of Savagery” booklet, such as moving away from the central model of the movement, since centralization exposes the movement to discovery, Therefore, it is necessary to move towards decentralization, i.e., forming mobile jihadist brigades, The task of the center was coordination, and we do not know much about this coordination, whether it took place or not.
Some groups confirmed that the author of the booklet “Managing Savagery” was indeed Mohammed Khalil Al-Hakaima during his time in Iran, It was also confirmed that the Iranian authorities made an agreement with Al-Hakaima before he moved to Britain as a refugee, in which the Iranians promised to protect ISIS members and then establish a radio station directed from Tehran to be a mouthpiece for Al-Qaeda and others wanted for trial on terrorism charges.
The booklet “Managing Savagery” has become something of a constitution for jihadist fighters, who have already managed to spread chaos in many countries around the world, and even instill fear and terror in most countries of the world regarding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s organization, especially after al-Baghdadi seized control of more than half of the combined area of Syria and Iraq, In half of the area of Syria and Iraq, black flags fluttered, heralding the revival of the “neglected duty,” that is, the reproduction of jihad, as if jihad had been suspended! By the way, the idea of the “neglected duty” was born before the publication of the booklet “Managing Savagery.” Jihad was and still is present in the culture of the nation even in this era, Jihad represents the combative aspect of religion, as the believer must be a member of combat formations that spread the religion and defend it!
We want to introduce the available information about Muhammad Khalil al-Hakayma from Dr. Hani al-Siba’i, director of the al-Maqrizi Center for Studies in London, who confirmed that the author of the booklet “The Management of Savagery” was Muhammad Khalil al-Hakayma, a leader in the Aswan Brotherhood movement, known as Abu Jihad, who defected from the Brotherhood in protest against the initiative to accept the jurisprudential and intellectual revisions, on the basis of which the members of this group were released in Egypt, It is also known that the book “The Management of Savagery” was not the only book of its kind. Before the book “The Management of Savagery,” there was the book “The Illusion of Power” by the same author, and the book was also written during al-Hakayma’s stay in Iran.
Abu Jihad al-Hakayma moved to Ayman al-Zawahiri in the nineties, as did others. He was born in 1960, After a stay of unknown length in London, al-Hakayma returned to Iran with Osama Hassan, al-Zawahiri’s brother-in-law. From Iran, he moved to Waziristan, Pakistan. British Home Secretary Jack Straw issued an order for his arrest because of al-Hakayma’s relationship with Rifai Taha, the military leader of the Islamic Group and the mastermind behind the assassination attempt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa in 1995, Following the failure of the attempt, Abu Jihad al-Hakayma fled to Iran and from there to the border region of Waziristan.
Al-Saba’i claimed that he received from Al-Hakaima before his death in 2008 a statement entitled “Those Steadfast on the Covenant” to be distributed to Arab and foreign media, Al-Saba’i confirmed that Al-Hakaima defended himself in the statement and claimed that he was not afraid of prosecutions because he had been exposed to death several times, Despite the announcement by the United States of a reward for information leading to the arrest of three people, namely Muhammad Khalil Al-Hakaima, then the Libyan Atiyah Abdul Rahman, the explosives expert, and Abdul Hadi Al-Iraqi, Bin Laden’s man in Iraq.
Al-Hakaima considered that securing the area of savagery from the enemies who live in the area of savagery is one of the first and most important tasks, along with establishing Sharia law among the people, then training the youth of the area of savagery to fight and building an intelligence apparatus,Al-Saba’i lived in London and received Al-Hakaima several times in his home, Al-Hakaima stressed in his visits to Al-Saba’i the targeting of oil and tourism interests and everything that would drain these countries, then kidnapping hostages, There is no objection here to using the most extreme forms of cruelty and violence against the hostages, as happened on a Libyan beach, to instill terror in the hearts of the enemies from the Jews and Crusaders.
In short, it can be said that the books “The Management of Savagery” and “The Neglected Duty” by Abd al-Salam Faraj Kanu are the foundational texts of al-Qaeda, which led to the bombing of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1988, the enslavement of thousands of Yazidi women, the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, and the theft and sale of Syrian and Iraqi antiquities and oil on the global market, This is in addition to the destruction and devastation perpetrated by all participants in the Syrian civil war, to an extent that cannot be precisely determined.