** Middle East Timeline**(last update 28 March 2008)

Stephen Coughlin

28 March 2011

The Timeline

July 2010Al – Qaeda announces new strategy – tells MB to get with the program

January 2011Al-Azhar publishes “offensive jihad” fatwa - published by IslamOnline

October 2010

New Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide changes direction for MB to be more directly confrontational

February 2011Fall of Mubarak Government- similar destabilization across M.E.

18 February 2011MB “Victory Parade” in Cairo

21 February 2011Qaradawi Calls for Killing of Kadhafi

7 March 2011National Security Advisor & the MB

25 MarchMuslim Brotherhood in Libya

28 MarchAl-Qaeda in Libya – w Iraqi combatexperience

18 February 2011

“Shocking”!

AN IN YOUR FACE

Muslim Brotherhood Victory Parade!

Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi

• Muslim Brotherhood icon and spiritual leader Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi castigated Egyptian, Arab leaders for lack of support to Hamas (Jan 09)

• Founder IslamOnline• Protégé of Hasan al-Banna• Attended al-Azhar• Serves on numerous shari’a

compliant finance consulting boards

• Denied a travel visa to the United States since 1999

born 1926

AN IN YOUR FACE

Muslim Brotherhood Victory Parade!

Sheikh Qaradawi

• All of the Americans in Iraq are combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq is an obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq immediately.

Sheikh Qaradhawi at the Egyptian Journalist Union in CairoMuslim Brotherhood Spiritual Leader

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), September 2, 2004

• We do not disassociate Islam from war. On the contrary, disassociating Islam from war is the reason for our defeat. We are fighting in the name of Islam. Religion must lead to war. This is the only way we can win.

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradhawi, February 2006

OBTW!

http://www.arabist.net/login/?returnUrl=%2Fblog%2F2010%2F2%2F19%2Fthe-campaign-for-elbaradei.html

OBTW!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110221/wl_mideast_afp/libyapoliticsunrestfatwa_20110221212046

“Killing without Right”An MB

Entity!

Al Qaeda Announces Strategic Shift in July 2010

A Change

in Scope

Al-Qaeda’s New Magazine

Wahhab not

mentioned!

A Change

in Strategy

Forms of

Jihad

By the Way --“Lone Wolf” Terrorism

Actually “Individual Jihad”Recognized in as a Doctrinal form of Jihad

With Roots to Muhammad

Muslim Brotherhood at the Time of the AQ Shift

Al Qaeda’s Magazine

Is AQ Chiding the “weak-kneed”Muslim Brotherhood for staying the “Meccan” stage?

JULY 2010

Al-Qaeda tells groups like the Muslim

Brotherhood to “get with the program”!

To understand the “Makkah” comment, on must understand

Islamic law of Abrogation!

– and do NOT get ahead of the strategy!

But for MB, itslike the Mensheviks -

“Slow Subversion Over Time”

… and staying with the strategy can sometimes require a temporarily stepping back, even “liberalizing”, if the “Milestones” demand!

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/top-muslim-cleric-urges-western-muslims-to-‘liberalize’/?singlepage=true

Recalibrating the “Milestones”

kind-of like a “correlation of forces”

analysis by Marxists after an

unsuccessfully executed plan

NOTE: this the Muslim Brotherhood narrative at the Inspire published article (Meccan) – then note the

upcoming change in narrative with new Muslim Brotherhood Supreme

Guide (Medinan)

JULY 2010

… and there are serious disagreements on questions of strategy

Medinan

While al-Qaeda wants to go here ...

Meccan

… the Muslim Brotherhood

wants to take a step back

here!

↑ A Widening Gap? ↓

Abrogation defines the terms of the debate among disconnected & disparate Salafi

groups

October 2010 – Badi Replaces Akef as Supreme Guide of the Muslim BrotherhoodAnnounces Shift in Muslim Brotherhood Posture

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=26639&ref=search.php

Even in the watered down English …

the universal message today is ????

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=26639&ref=search.php

For Muslims, especially

Shari’a compliant Muslims

with an affinity for the MB, to

what is the “ultimate

sacrifice” referring?

http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=26639&ref=search.php

http://w

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ri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4650.htm

The Verse in Context, A Real Change in Strategy &

Direction

January 2011 – al-Azhar Releases Offensive Posture Statement on Muslim Brotherhood Web-Service

http://www.islamonline.net/ar/IOLCounsel_C/1278407253854/1278406720653/-- -.. - المشروعية- المسلمين غير قتالوالحكم

Scholarly Consensus!

Note the timing!

Badi took over the MB in early 2010 and immediately

stepped up the message.

Now, the MB is publishing an Al-Azhar fatwa!

Serious convergence!

Islam Online is the Muslim Brotherhood!

http://www.islamonline.net/ar/IOLCounsel_C/1278407253854/1278406720653/-- -.. - المشروعية- المسلمين غير قتالوالحكم

Secretary of State Clinton

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/03/07/deputy-national-security-advisor-denis-mcdonough-speaks-adamscent?v=accessibility&category=all

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/29/fbi-asks-how-subway-bomb-defendant-was-radicalized/

think

Isn’t this how the “ground zero” mosque

is described?

Mosques in the first generation were used

to stage jihads

Prepare and supply battalions?

YES! Ops Centers!

On “Islamic Centers”

Islamic Centers - achieve the “process of settlement” which is “Civilization Jihad”Islamic Centers - are to be the “axis” of the “Islamic Movement”

-- which is lead by the Muslim Brotherhood in America

Islamic Centers - that become “Houses of Dawa’” are staging areas for “Jihad”

“Dawa’” lays the groundwork “Jihad”

More on “Dawa’”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/03/07/deputy-national-security-advisor-denis-mcdonough-speaks-adamscent?v=accessibility&category=all

JUST Who is advising our

senior leaders on events in the Middle East?

… and, minimally, does it raise a

possible conflicts of interest?

Because the current situational

awareness is shockingly non-

existent

Hamas

As it turns out, we do know who is teaching our senior

leaders and they are committed to victory!

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/25/libya.islamists/index.html

i.e., Implement Shari’a Law

Still Does! The same policy objectives as

al-Qaeda, always positioned as the “acceptable” alternative

Because the current situational

awareness is shockingly non-

existent

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html