the dhamra port ( odia : ଧାମରା ବନ ଦର ) is a newly developed port in bhadrak district , odisha , india , on the shore of the bay of bengal about seven kilometers from the old port of dhamra .

the agreement to develop the port was signed in april 1998 .

the dhamra port company limited ( dpcl ) was formed as a result of a 50:50 joint venture between larsen & toubro and tata steel to run the port .

the port received its first vessel on 8 february 2010 and the first commercial vessel on 10 april 2011 .

the port has an initial capacity of 25 million tonnes annually , eventually growing to 80 million tonnes annually .

greenpeace has opposed the project , claiming it threatens nearby protected areas and endangered species such as the olive ridley turtle

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dhamra port is owned by gautam adani - led adani port and sez ltd .
dhamra port , which became commercially operational in may , received the . . .
dhamra port officials did not respond to phone calls when efforts were made to contact them .
petroleum minister dharmendra pradhan inagurates the dhamra - paradip lng terminal ground breaking ceremony at dhamra in odisha . | photo credit : biswaranjan rout
adani ports is country ' s largest port operator with its flagship mundra port in gujarat being the largest commercial port in india .
“local people ransacked the port offices , damaged furniture and computers and torched vehicles , ” subhasis mishra , a spokesman for dhamra port co . ltd , told
to build and operate the port on dhamra river in bhadrak district for 34 years , including four years for construction .
situated between haldia and paradeep , dhamra port is well sheltered between the mainland and kanika sands island on the mouth of the river dhamra . the location of dhamra is in close proximity to the mineral belt of orissa , jharkhand and west bengal and its dedicated connectivity will help serve this hinterland with the greatest efficiency
a senior odisha government official said , the port has achieved break even with a profit of rs 180 crore in 2016 - 17 . dhamra port’s total earnings crossed rs 900 crore in the last financial year with the port paying rs 75 crore as revenue share to the state government . a concession agreement signed with dhamra port company ltd ( dpcl ) , the special purpose vehicle ( spv ) . . .
dhamra , a deep - draught port off the coast of north odisha owned by adani ports & special economic zone ( apsez ) has turned profitable after nearly six years . the port had kicked off commercial operations in may 2011 .
that’s not why things don’t appear rosy for dhamra port . it was envisioned as early as the 1980s but concrete proposals trickled in only during the early 1990s . a concession agreement was signed between the government of orissa and international seaports private limited ( ispl ) on april 2 , 1998 to expand and develop the minor port of dhamra .
dhamra port handles coal , iron ore and other minerals , bhattacharya said , adding that it would handle different types of cargo in the coming days . the company expects 15 - 20 per cent increase in cargo at the port in this financial year .
the port handles imports of coking coal and limestone . it is owned by the adani group conglomerate’s adani port and special economic zone ltd . reuters
at least four labourers were killed and three injured when a heap of coal collapsed on them at adani group managed dhamra port in odisha ' s bhadrak district on tuesday , witnesses said .
apsez has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent stake in the dhamra port company limited from l & tidpl ; and tata steel ,
it said in a filing to the bse .
the olive ridley is one of the world’s seven remaining sea turtle species , and is vulnerable to extinction at a global level . committed to understanding if a port could be built in the area without harming the turtles , dhamra port company limited ( dpcl ) requested the advice of iucn to mitigate the impact of the port’s development on the turtles .
the port handled 14 . 3 million tonnes of cargo in 2013 - 14 .
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4 , 013 acres for port on mainland and 3 , 000 acres for railroad . ancillary industries — shipbuilding yard , steel plant and port - based fertilizer plant
the dhamra port acquisition now gives us an opportunity to replicate the development and phenomenal growth of the mundra port on the eastern coast of india , and thereby continue to execute on our pan - india strategy ,
gautam adani , chairman of the adani group has said last month .
when he went to see the injured at the hospital situated in the port premises .
they also barged into the port premises and torched the main gate and ransacked the office .
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an equal joint venture between l & t idpl and tata steel , dhamra port company ltd ( dpcl ) was commissioned in may 2011 with an 18 - km approach channel and a dedicated 62 . 7 km rail link to bhadrak .
new delhi : adani ports and special economic zone ( apsez ) said that it has completed the acquisition of dhamra port in odisha from tata steel and l & t ; infrastructure development projects ( l & t ; idpl ) on monday .
an equal joint venture between l & t ; idpl and tata steel , dhamra port company ltd ( dpcl ) was commissioned in may 2011 with an 18 - km approach channel and a dedicated 62 . 7 km rail link to bhadrak .
the construction of dhamra port project , promoted jointly by tata steel and l & t ; in orissa , will start soon after monsoon , tata steel chairman , b muthuraman told fe on the sidelines of tata steel agm on wednesday in mumbai .
the eastern part of india is one of the least developed areas of the country , despite being one of the most resource rich . in early 2000 , expanding links between the indian and global economies brought opportunities for the development of the area , but a deep port was needed to support this growth . the government of odisha identified dhamra to be the most suitable location , and the development of the port was taken up by the dhamra port company ltd ( dpcl ) , a 50 : 50 joint venture of tata steel and construction giant larsen & toubro ( l & t ) .
apsez represents a large network of ports with india’s largest sez at mundra . apsez port business is integral to its logistics business and is india’s largest private port operator with presence across 10 locations .
sanjiv gopal , greenpeace india ' s oceans & climate campaign manager , told greenport magazine that there are a number of problems associated with the port developments . “firstly , along orissa’s short coastline of 480km , there are a total of over 10 ports proposed , in addition to the two existing and operational ports at paradip and gopalpur , and the dhamra port , which is currently under construction . this means roughly one port development every 40km . ”
work is continuing on the port that , when ready , will handle ships that are classified as super capesize , that is , those ships that displace about 180 , 000 dead - weight tonnes ( dwt ) . at 18 metres , dhamra port is laying claims to being the deepest port channel in india . though currently , berthing facilities for only two ships are being constructed , the port master plan envisages “13 berths , capable of handling more than 83 million metric tonnes per annum of dry bulk , liquid bulk , break bulk and containerised cargo” .
also , only those lines which are 20 km or more in length excluding siding , shall be considered under the policy . the dhamra port is located 62 km away from the mainline network of the indian railways but the total track length will be about 120 km because of loops and sidings and various additional facilities . the port has acquired a 125 - metre wide corridor from dhamra to bhadrak which can accommodate two rail tracks and a four lane road along with service lines viz . transmission line and pipe lines . trains will run up to dhamra terminal yard ( dty ) wherein handing over and taking over of rakes will take place between indian railways and dpcl .
india : the first line built under the government ' s railways infrastructure for industry initiative to attract private finance for rail projects opened on may 8 , when a train of australian coal left the new port of dhamra for tata steel ' s jamshedpur plant .
dhamra is one of the deep draft ports of india with a draft of 18 meters , which can accommodate super cape - size vessels up to 180 , 000 dwt . it is an all - weather , multi - user , multi - cargo port with a potential to handle more than 100 mmtpa of dry bulk , liquid bulk , break bulk , containerised and general cargo . the dhamra port company limited ( dpcl ) is a 100 % subsidiary of adani ports and sez . dpcl has been awarded a concession by government of odisha to build and operate a port north of the mouth of river dhamra in bhadrak district on boost ( build , own , operate , share and transfer ) basis for a total period of 34 years including a period of 4 years for construction . it is poised to become the largest and most efficient port in the east coast of india .
the expansion will allow the dhamra port to exceed 100 million tonnes of cargo capacity by the year 2020 and therefore allow adani ports to fulfil its stated vision of becoming a 200 million tonne ports business well before the year 2020 ,
it has said .
the rail connectivity to orissa ' s dhamra port , a joint venture between tata steel and larsen & toubro , will be first such connectivity project in the country under the indian railways ' new r3i policy ( railways ' infrastructure for industry initiative ) , it is learnt .
the dhamra port company limited ( dpcl ) is a 50 : 50 joint venture of l & t ; and tata steel . dpcl has been awarded a concession by government of orissa to build and operate a port north of the mouth of river dhamra in bhadrak district on boost ( build , own , operate , share and transfer ) basis for a total period of 34 years including a period of 4 years for construction . the lease period may be renewed or extended for two additional periods of 10 years each on mutually agreed terms and conditions . situated between haldia and paradeep , the port at dhamra will be the deepest port of india with a draught of 18 meters , which can accommodate super cape - size vessels up to 180 , 000 dwt . the master plan provides for 13 berths , capable of handling more than 83 million mt per annum of dry bulk , liquid bulk , break bulk and containerized cargo .
a tata steel and l & t ; joint venture was formed in october 2004 for a greenfield port at dhamra in orissas bhadrak district on the eastern coast . on the issue of environment clearances , he said the company will get all the clearances required to start the project .
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the dhamra port — joint venture between larsen & toubro and tata steel — has been commissioned after many years of environmental protests over allegations that the port was situated on protected forest land . situated at the mouth of the river dhamra in bhadrak district , the rs . 3500 crore project will have 13 berths after the final phase of construction is completed in 2014 . the port has already handled 2 . 07 mt of imported cargo , mostly coking coal and limestone . iron ore exports will start in a couple of weeks . at full capacity , the port will be able to handle 100 mt of cargo . wildlife groups have protested against the port since the 1990s , on account of its proximity to the bhitarkanika ( 5 km away ) , the second largest mangrove forest and the last stronghold of the salt water crocodile , and gahirmatha protected areas , one of the world’s largest olive ridley sea turtle nesting grounds ( 15 km away ) . activists have alleged that the bright lights from the port will disorient turtles congregating near gahirmatha .
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bhubaneshwar : a port in odisha stopped operations on tuesday after violence erupted inside the complex following the death of three workers who were killed when a heap of coal collapsed on top of them , a spokesman for the port operator said .
a hundred and fifty kilometres from bhubaneswar , and seven kilometres north of the tiny fishing town of dhamra , a rough , unpaved road ends in a beehive of construction . on the horizon , lights blink through the night as dredgers clear the way for a shipping channel . close by at the sprawling site , engineers are working on giant conveyor belts that will become active when the dhamra port company limited ( dpcl ) , a 50 : 50 joint - venture between tata steel and larsen & toubro , becomes operational next year .
in may , apsez had executed a pact with both the companies to acquire the port for about rs 5 , 500 crore .
it is not just marine wildlife that is being threatened by the vast number of indian port projects . photo : greenpeace / sumer verma
angry labourers burnt the port’s main gate , three offices , an oil tanker and vehicles , police at the spot in bhadrak in odisha .
the 62 km single track line serving the east coast port has been developed on a revenue sharing basis between ir and chamra port co , a 50 : 50 joint venture of larsen & toubro and tata steel which holds a 34 year concession to build and operate the deepwater facility .
the mundra port handles timber logs of different kinds for different customers . it has earmarked a storage area capable of 350 , 000mt timber storage .
firstly , the orissa government has submitted a revised proposal for a port at barunei muhan in kendrapara district to the ministry of environment & forests ( moef ) . the ministry had previously asked the state government to redraw the limits of the proposed port , as the site came within the gahirmatha marine wildlife sanctuary .
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the dhamra port authorities say they are not insensitive to environmental concerns . “we have followed all requirements laid out in the eia and we are implementing all the measures suggested by the iucn . we acknowledge that a few turtles might be found in the waters . we are taking extreme precautions while dredging . we will install permanent shielding for our lights in the final phase of construction , ” says santosh k mohapatra , ceo of the port project . dpcl has appointed an official to monitor the environmental parameters of the project and to share information with the relevant authorities .
this time it is environmentalists who are leading the noisy protest . they allege the dhamra port will endanger the gahirmatha beach , just 15 kilometres due south . this is one of the world’s largest nesting sites for the endangered olive ridley turtle . it is part of the bhitarkanika national park , the second - largest protected mangrove swamp in the country and home to another endangered species — the salt water crocodile .
“we do not want to disturb the surrounding morphology . we want a stable shoreline . it is a simple analogy — if our vehicle pollutes less , i get more mileage . the port is completely natural with the channel being flushed naturally by the outflow from the dhamra river , and the kanika sands ( a large sandbar about two km offshore ) is a natural breaker . even our piers are the dolphin type , that is pillars , to avoid littoral disturbance , ” insists mohapatra . on the issue of port lighting , while dpcl says it will implement all recommendations to ensure that the turtles are not affected , it has no responsibility to regulate any allied infrastructure , industry and development that comes up due to the port .
if the plan comes to fruition , dhamra might become the biggest port in india . currently the ports handling the highest annual tonnage , according to the indian ports association , are kolkata , visakhapatnam , chennai , mumbai and kandla . visakhapatnam maxed in 2007 - 08 at 64 . 5 million metric tonnes . it can handle six ships of up to 150 , 000 dwt , while boasting a channel whose depth is 17 metres .
“the premise for port expansion on this scale also needs to be questioned given that many existing major ports are currently under - utilised and operating below capacity” mr gopal concludes .
moreover , the private line model will be applicable to it . there are three other models prescribed under new r3i policy and these are cost - sharing freight rebate model , full contribution - apportioned model and the spv model . under the private line model , the railways will share a portion of the revenue ( after deducting various charges ) with the dhamra port company ltd . the ratio for sharing , however , is still to be firmed up .
but the port is already in the eye of a storm . the settlement at the mouth of the dhamra river dates back centuries , intermittently making news when the hush - hush activities on its neighbouring wheeler island missile testing facility , offshore , are made public by the defence ministry . today , the buzz isn’t just of dump trucks and cranes as they plough the site that will soon be on the world’s maritime map as one of the largest ports in india .
“the operation is likely to be resumed soon after the local authority provides adequate security , ” he said , adding that the port is set to reopen later on tuesday or on wednesday .
mundra , the largest port in the country , recently crossed the 100 million tonne mark in annual cargo handling . the adani group owns five ports and is developing ports in kandla and ennore .
moreover , mr gopal explains , “the issue of the carrying capacity of the coastline with reference to developmental projects is completely missing . the proliferation of megaports near vulnerable areas has been a matter of controversy for some time now , from dhamra on the eastern coast , to mundra and tadri on the west . ” there are currently over 300 ports proposed along the coast of mainland india , of which over 200 are in the notification stage . this would translate to roughly a port every 20 - 25 km , he adds .
there are a number of port proposals being turned over in orissa at the moment , mostly related to mining shipments , an ongoing issue for india – but some are running into delays linked with environmental concerns .
tata steel has entered into a long - term cargo handling pact with dpcl to secure long - term requirement and access to a deep - water port for its operations in jamshedpur and odisha , it has said .
what we need to study is the concentration of turtles off dhamra and how they utilise the waters , ” says b c chowdhury from the endangered species management department , wildlife institute of india ( wii ) . “we don’t say the port should not be built , but we need to do this assessment before possibly irreversible damage is done . ” wii is a government institution under the ministry of environment and forests . chowdhury is accepted as an expert on wetland habitats and amphibians and has been sought out for his opinion duringdiscussions between dpcl and the activists .
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“at present , about 23 % of shoreline along the indian mainland is affected by erosion , and in orissa , the coast north of gopalpur port has already been badly affected – much of this erosion is actually down to artificial structures . ”
secondly , a lack of sufficient depth to the impact assessment has been cited as the reason for holding back the agreement to a captive port at jatadhari , near paradip , part of south korean giant posco’s plan to build a us $ 12 - billion steel plant at nearby jagathsinghpur .
activists have raised three principal concerns : the impact of construction , and later shipping , on the mating activity of the turtles ; the impact of erosion , as a result of the dredging work on the shipping channel , on gahirmatha beach ; and the impact of the port lighting on the turtle hatchlings .
talks , which began in the hope of a solution , quickly turned sour . dpcl says it volunteered for an independent assessment of the port area but agencies such as the bombay natural history society and the worldwide fund for nature ( wwf ) refused , citing the commencement of the project as their reason .
he says permission for the relocation trawling to determine the density of turtles in the waters off dhamra is still pending . dpcl insists it has asked for permission to do the trawling as it would “settle the case” but claims government permission has not been forthcoming . sources in the forest department , who did not want to named , say the issue has been left to “hang in limbo” because it is feared “all hell” would break loose if the turtle density is found to be high .
the rs 1500 - crore project faced stiff opposition from green bodies like operation kachhapa , greenpeace to kalpavriskha , as they claimed that the port was located close to the waters used by the olive ridleys for nesting . the construction work and shipping traffic could cause severe damage to offshore turtle congregations , claimed the environmentalists .
while the 1997 eia takes note of the turtle habitat , the missing link is a lack of research on the turtles , their deep water mating habits and their habitat to the north of gahirmatha beach . “we have studied the nesting areas and the turtle activity offshore at gahirmatha but not off dhamra . though there is no nesting activity on the shores north of gahirmatha due to the muddy nature of the beaches , turtles ( many species ) are found in varying concentrations along every mile of india’s coastline .
the devil , as always , is in the fine print . mohapatra claims that any suspension of work now to study the turtles will cause a loss of time and money . but he also reveals that the “official date of commencement” of the project has not been reached . this date is reached when the land acquisition process is complete , but the orissa government is still at the task . the project needs 4 , 013 acres for the port and 3 , 000 acres for a new rail link . thus , though the port concession is for 34 years , if the dpcl saves time on construction due to the commencement date being pushed back , it can technically enjoy a longer concession and claim construction finished “ahead of schedule” .
the agreement between iucn and dpcl , a joint venture of tata steel and larsen & toubro , was an encouraging step forward in promoting corporate environmental responsibility . given the tata group’s commitment to environmental preservation , iucn believed that engaging with dpcl , in an effort to integrate the highest of environmental standards into the port development and operations , was an exemplary model of contemporary conservation action .
the period of concession from the official date of commencement is 34 years , after which the port reverts back to government ownership . in 1998 , the east asian economic crisis put paid to those plans . tata steel then entered into a partnership with l & t on may 5 , 1999 to implement the project . the already delayed project finally got underway in 2005 , but trouble lay across the horizon .
thus , the international union for conservation of nature ( iucn ) was roped in for its expertise in managing marine conflict . but this has also failed to convince the activists as they found the iucn report focused on conflict mitigation during the construction and operation of the port but bypassed a revised preliminary study . their demand is a fresh eia . talks finally broke down on february 20 , 2009 with the protesters deciding on public action due to construction continuing at a rapid pace .
according to the green activists , the environment impact assessment ( eia ) of 1997 did not address these concerns , and the current version of the port is vastly different from that specified in the eia . they demand that construction be stopped , and have filed petitions in the orissa high court . at the same time , talks began between dpcl and the gaggle of protesting ngos — greenpeace india , wildlife protection society of india , wildlife society of orissa , conservation action trust , prahlad kakkar’s reef watch and bittu sahgal’s sanctuary asia .
the appraisal committee of the coastal regulation zone panel has asked posco to give additional information on the captive port , but the project is may also be running into trouble with it’s forest clearance programme and this may also mean delays in approval by the environment ministry . further , the panel is now taking on the need to make a ‘cumulative assessment of projects . while mr gopal say that this is a positive step , as the developments present problems on a number of fronts - including to marine wildlife and the fishing industry - shoreline erosion is a “major problem” .
the project had run into troubled waters when the central empowered committee , appointed by the supreme court , claimed the port would impact gahirmatha ' s ( a national park near the proposed site ) nesting turtles and lead to the beach being abandoned by them . the olive ridley is protected in india under schedule i of the wildlife protection act , 1972 and is protected under the convention on international trade in endangered species of flora and fauna . the project will be executed in two phases . it will initially have a capacity of 12 to 15 mtpa for bulk cargo .
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while households in various cities would get piped gas , motor vehicles and industries would get cheaper and clean fuel .
petroleum minister dharmendra pradhan performed the bhumi pujan in the absence of odisha chief minister naveen patnaik .
the 5 mmtpa capacity lng terminal will play a major role in accelerating the process of development and economic growth in eastern india , mr . pradhan said .
construction of the lng import terminal would involve an investment of ₹ 6 , 000 crore , while a 2539 km long network of pipeline to transport gas would be laid at a cost of rs 13 , 000 crore , the petroleum minister said .
the network would connect 13 districts of odisha and states like jharkhand and uttar pradesh , he added .
stating that the country now has only one gas terminal in gujarat , mr . pradhan said that natural gas would now be brought to bhadrak from countries like america , canada and qatar .
the natural gas from the terminal would also be supplied to various city gas distribution networks in the eastern india .
while households in various cities would get piped gas , motor vehicles and industries would get cheaper and clean fuel , the petroleum minister said adding it would create vast employment opportunities for the the youth of odisha .
odisha chief minister naveen patnaik , who was supposed to perform “bhumi pujan” , skipped the programme . bjd mp and mlas also did not attend the function .
mr . pradhan said the chief minister had been invited to the function but it was learnt last night that he would not be attending it .
he said since the gas infrastructure project is set to boost economic growth in odisha and the entire eastern region , the chief minister’s presence would have been been more appropriate .
bjd spokesperson and mp pratap keshari deb said the chief minister had given consent to attend the function as it was a government programme . however , he decided to stay away when it was understood that it would become a political event .
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from a development perspective , the site was perfect . but from a conservation perspective there were questions about its location due to its close proximity to a mass nesting site for the olive ridley turtle at gahirmatha , about 15 kilometres to the south , and to the nearby bitarkhanika wildlife refuge .
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the policy has several objectives such as attracting private sector participation in rail connectivity projects to create additional rail transport capacity , increasing rail share in freight traffic and making rail option more competitive for customers by sharing the cost of construction and allowing them to get a share in freight revenues to be generated on the new line . however , the policy shall not be applicable to connectivity to coal or iron ore mines , directly or indirectly .
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the concession period may be extended by two additional terms of 10 years each . the first phase construction , at an investment of rs 3 , 200 crore , started in march 2007 .
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in its first submission to a wine contest , al este was awarded a silver medal in the white wine category in the 2009 decanter world wine awards , the world 's largest wine contest , celebrated in london .

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[ 28 ] ayman al - zawahiri , “letter to abu bakr al - baghdadi al - husayni and abu muhammad al - jawlani , ” al - fajr media center , may 23 , 2013 .
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[ b ] husayn’s book was serialized in al - quds al - arabi in 2005 . for a translation of this series of articles including al - ` adl’s account of his interactions with al - zarqawi , see urltoken
38° 48′ s , 62° 41′ o al este bodega y viñedos est un domaine viticole de 42 ha situé dans la région de médanos , buenos aires en argentine proche de l ' océan atlantique . le projet a été développé sous la direction personnelle de l ' œnologue italien alberto antonini . dans sa première présentation à un concours de vins , al este a gagné une médaille d ' argent dans la catégorie vin blanc dans le decanter world wine awards de 2009 , un grand concours de vin de londres . le vin d ' al este a été classé en sixième position parmi les meilleurs chardonnays de 2009 .
but both al - ` adl and bin ladin neglected to mention the counterintelligence challenge that probably most influenced al - qa ` ida’s initial engagement with al - zarqawi .
regardless , al - qa ` ida’s victory was limited . al - zarqawi remained his own man . al - ` adl implied that al - qa ` ida had leverage over al - zarqawi because it intervened with the taliban to ensure al - zarqawi would not “face obstacles . ” but al - zarqawi was independently named as one of six arab interlocutors to the taliban’s “arab liaison committee” ( abd al - hadi and abu musab al - suri were as well ) , which indicates he was not bound to work through al - qa ` ida . 31 al - qa ` ida might have helped set al - zarqawi up , but he established his own political network in afghanistan .
[ 26 ] new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 000006 , “ahmed abd ‘al - ‘aziz ( abu hafs al - masri ) letter to abd al - hadi al - iraq , ” april 12 - 13 , 1999 .
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there is no dispute about the arrangement that al - zarqawi eventually reached with al - qa ` ida , but the details as we know them were generally provided by al - ` adl . al - zarqawi and his allies would undergo specialized training with al - qa ` ida ; in return , al - qa ` ida would provide financing , training , and support for al - zarqawi’s training camp near herat .
per his history , al - ` adl thought a productive relationship with al - zarqawi would allow al - qa ` ida to strengthen the jihadist networks in the levant . but if that was the only goal , abu musab al - suri would have been the most natural and experienced ally . according to mustafa hamid , however , al - ` adl was “very much against abu mus’ab al - suri . ” 29 al - zarqawi’s arrival offered al - ` adl a mechanism for empowering the levantine jihadist diaspora while simultaneously sidelining abu musab al - suri . the levantine jihadis might not join al - qa ` ida when they joined al - zarqawi , but at least they would not join abu musab al - suri .
[ 24 ] new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 000006 - 0003 , “ahmed abd ‘al - ‘aziz ( abu hafs al - masri ) letter to abd al - hadi al - iraqi , ” march 24 - 25 , 1999 .
the basic facts of bin ladin’s critique are accurate . al - zawahiri was not a member of al - qa ` ida when al - zarqawi arrived in 1999 ; egyptian islamic jihad did not unify with al - qa ` ida until june 7 , 2001 , when bin ladin and al - zawahiri formally signed a merger agreement . 4 bin ladin argued that abu hafs al - masri , al - qa ` ida’s military commander in 1999 , not al - zawahiri , would have joined him in any negotiation with al - zarqawi . indeed , as explained below , abu hafs al - masri did manage al - qa ` ida’s difficult engagements with other jihadist groups in afghanistan . but by the time al - ` adl’s history was written and published , abu hafs al - masri was dead and al - zawahiri had become bin ladin’s deputy .
[ 27 ] abu mosab al - suri and abu khalid al - suri letter to usama bin ladin via ayman al - zawahiri , july 19 , 1999 , excerpted in cullison .
[ 32 ] abu musab al - zarqawi , “clarification on the issues raised by sheikh al - maqdisi in the interview with al jazeera , ” jihadist websites , july 12 , 2005 .
[ 2 ] see , for example , saif al - ` adl “a jihadist biography of abu mus’ab al - zarqawi . ”
[ 14 ] new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 003644 - 0003—afgp - 2002 - 003644 - 0004 , “memo from abd al - hadi al - iraqi ( al - ansari ) to saif al - ` adl , ” november 17 , 1998 .
al - qa ` ida’s leaders thought abu musab al - suri was poaching recruits . years later , al - ` adl’s father - in - law , the legendary jihadist journalist mustafa hamid ( better known as abu walid al - masri ) would recall that :
al este bodega y viñedos es un productor de vinos de alta gama en médanos , buenos aires , argentina . consiste en viñedos y una bodega contigua , ubicada 640 km al sur de la ciudad de buenos aires en el extremo sur de la provincia de buenos aires próximo al océano atlántico . el proyecto se ha desarrollado bajo la dirección personal del enólogo italiano alberto antonini .
“abu musab al - suri and al - qaeda were … in heavy competition . abu musab was trying to recruit people to his brigade on the kabul front , which al - qaeda did not like . to reduce his influence al - qaeda put up flyers for its brigade in all of its guesthouses , and also banned abu musab al - suri from entering them . abu musab had earlier gone into al - qaeda’s guesthouses and recruited some youth who were working on its front under abdul hadi al - iraq . abu musab al - suri convinced them to join him instead . this made al - qaeda crazy . ” 23
al este bodega y viñedos es un productor de vinos de alta gama en médanos , buenos aires , argentina . consiste en viñedos y una bodega contigua , ubicada 640 km al sur de la ciudad de buenos aires en el extremo sur de la provincia de buenos aires próximo al océano atlántico . el proyecto se ha desarrollado bajo la dirección personal del enólogo italiano alberto antonini . en su primera participación en un concurso internacional , al este bodega y viñedos de médanos ganó una medalla de plata en el decanter world wine awards del año 2009 celebrado en londres y su vino está situado en sexto lugar en la lista de recomendaciones de decanter para el año 2009 .
abu hafs al - masri probably overestimated both abu musab al - suri’s alignment with al - qa ` ida and his own success undermining abu khaled’s allegiance to abu musab al - suri . in july 1999 , the two syrians co - signed a letter to bin ladin urging him to respect mullah omar’s leadership in afghanistan . 27 instead of routing the note through abu hafs al - masri and the al - qa ` ida chain of command , however , they sent it via ayman al - zawahiri , who was not yet a member of al - qa ` ida . was this the moment , six months before al - zarqawi arrived in afghanistan , when al - zawahiri supplanted abu hafs al - masri as bin ladin’s chief advisor toward other jihadis ? the answer remains unclear .
this explanation helps explain why al - qa ` ida would agree to sponsor al - zarqawi so extensively without requiring that he swear allegiance . it suggests that an otherwise lopsided agreement with al - zarqawi actually met al - qa ` ida’s proximate political needs . the primary sources from inside al - qa ` ida at the time do not explicitly confirm this rationale , but they emphasize the depth of the conflict between al - qa ` ida and abu musab al - suri that lends it significant credibility .
indeed , abd al - hadi al - iraqi was irate at the apparent effort to recruit under his nose , and he pushed his chain of command to respond . abu hafs al - masri , al - qa ` ida’s military commander , managed al - qa ` ida’s relationship with abu musab al - suri and aimed first to deescalate the situation in kabul . a public confrontation might compel direct taliban intervention , which was dangerous because abu musab al - suri had strong relations with some taliban factions . so , abu hafs al - masri first ordered abd al - hadi to “take things in stride , do not get too upset , ” and instructed him to “completely avoid [ abu musab al - suri ] . ” worried that abd al - hadi might attempt to debate the intellectual syrian , abu hafs al - masri ordered him to “avoid back and forth dialogue . ” 24
bin ladin pointed to an inconsistency in al - ` adl’s story to prove it was fraudulent . al - ` adl claimed that al - zarqawi met with bin ladin and al - zawahiri in 1999 to broker a deal with al - qa ` ida . bin ladin rejected that claim because “unity was not achieved between [ al - qa ` ida ] and [ zawahiri’s ] jihad group” at the time he negotiated with al - zarqawi . 3 essentially , bin ladin argued that if al - ` adl’s history got such a basic fact wrong , it could not have been written by him .
the accepted history of this period largely comes from an account attributed to al - qa ` ida’s security chief saif al - ` adl . in a letter to the jordanian journalist fuad husayn , al - ` adl explained that al - zarqawi and bin ladin clashed initially , but that he ( al - ` adl ) negotiated an agreement between the two factions . a according to this version , al - zarqawi came to appreciate ( but not accept ) al - qa ` ida’s more nuanced ideological outlook , while bin ladin and his eventual successor ayman al - zawahiri overlooked al - zarqawi’s extremism because they wanted the jordanian’s help in rebuilding jihadist networks in the levant .
bin ladin’s case against al - ` adl’s history is not open and shut , however . researchers have long noted that al - zawahiri played a major role in al - qa ` ida long before joining the organization , to the chagrin of some members of the group . but it is odd that bin ladin would turn to al - zawahiri rather than abu hafs al - masri , who was widely respected and central to al - qai ` da’s relations with other jihadis in afghanistan . indeed , al - zawahiri was not fully trusted until he joined al - qa ` ida—bin ladin did not inform him about the plans for 9 / 11 until the two groups merged . 5 moreover , if al - zawahiri was part of the negotiation with al - zarqawi , it is strange that bin ladin would remain committed to covering it up a decade later in private correspondence with a trusted aide—and after al - zawahiri had actually become al - qa ` ida’s second - in - command . either bin ladin’s calculation was quite complex—perhaps he did not trust al - rahman or was committed to undermining al - ` adl’s influence in 2010—or al - ` adl’s history gets a fundamental fact wrong .
al - ` adl’s version of this history was originally published in husayn’s seminal 2005 book zarqawi : the second generation of al - qaeda , b and this very jordan - centric storyline has informed most histories of al - zarqawi’s initial engagement with al - qa ` ida . much of the story holds up . but it is also deeply incomplete . al - ` adl’s history forms the basis of public understanding of al - zarqawi’s initial engagement with al - qa ` ida , but it omits key issues , exaggerates other details , and gets key facts wrong .
regardless , al - qa ` ida’s support for abu khaled did pay off eventually . fifteen years later , when abu hafs al - masri was long dead and al - zawahiri had both joined al - qa ` ida and become its emir , he named abu khaled his personal representative in the syrian civil war . 28
[ 35 ] “al - zarqawi bay’ah to usama bin ladin , ” october 17 , 2004 , reprinted in mu’askar al - battar issue 21 , december 2004 . available in “zarqawi’s pledge of allegiance to al - qaeda : from mu’asker al - battar , issue 21 , ” jamestown terrorism monitor ( 2 : 24 ) .
after al - zarqawi’s escape from herat , al - ` adl’s basic storyline is confirmed by other jihadist sources , including the story of a u . s . attack on a jihadist meeting in kandahar where al - zarqawi was almost killed . 9 al - zarqawi eventually fled afghanistan where he reconnected with al - ` adl in iran before moving on to iraq . al - ` adl’s account of this period is vague and obscures discussion both of al - zarqawi’s route to iran and of the jihadis’ interaction with iranian security services . that is a major omission—and one that is consistent with bin ladin’s suggestion that al - ` adl’s story was influenced by intelligence sources .
[ 12 ] new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 003629 - 0002—afgp - 2002 - 003629 - 0001 , “memo from abd al - hadi al - iraqi ( al - ansari ) to saif al - ` adl , ” november 8 , 1998 ; jane mayer “the manipulator , ” new yorker , june 7 , 2004 .
the trouble with al - ` adl’s history bin ladin thought the document that has informed virtually every history of al - qa ` ida’s initial engagement with al - zarqawi was fraudulent . “after reviewing [ the history ] , ” bin ladin wrote , “it became clear to me it was falsely attributed to our brother sayf al - ‘adl as it included an offense to our brother abu mus’ab al - zarqawi . ” 1
abu khaled and most likely al - zarqawi had been part of al - qa ` ida’s strategy to undermine abu musab al - suri in 1999 , but there was no love lost between their movements . in 2013 al - zawahiri named abu khaled his representative in syria , charged with mediating a dispute between the zarqawiists in the islamic state in iraq and the levant ( isil ) and al - qa ` ida - affiliated fighters in jabhat al - nusrah . a year later , isil assassinated him .
al este bodega y viñedos é um produtor de vinhos premium no médanos , buenos aires , argentina . é constituída de vinhas contíguas e uma adega , localizada 640 quilômetros ao sul da cidade de buenos aires , no extremo sul da província de buenos aires ao lado do oceano atlântico . o projeto foi desenvolvido sob a direção pessoal do enólogo italiano alberto antonini . em sua primeira participação em uma competição internacional , al este bodega y viñedos ganhou uma medalha de prata no decanter world wine awards , em 2009 , realizada em londres e do vinho é classificado em sexto lugar
na lista de recomendações para decanter o ano de 2009
sixth , al - ` adl is not superman . in 2015 , al - ` adl was reportedly released from confinement in iran , raising questions about whether he could reconcile al - zarqawi’s descendants in the islamic state and al - qa ` ida , just as he had between bin ladin and al - zarqawi . 39 but that original agreement , and the accommodation it represented between distinct ideological positions , is best understood as the product of a particular strategic moment . al - ` adl is unlikely to recreate that magic .
abstract : in 2005 , al - qa ` ida’s one - time security chief saif al - ` adl chronicled a key period in the islamic state’s origin story—the initial engagement between abu musab al - zarqawi and usama bin ladin in 1999 . his history , which describes al - qa ` ida agreeing to help al - zarqawi establish a training camp near herat without demanding al - zarqawi swear allegiance to bin ladin , is a seminal text in our understanding of the islamic state’s history . but how reliable is the story ? even though most analysts believe the account was genuinely written by al - ` adl , bin ladin was so unhappy with its contents he called it a fraud . and newly available jihadist documents suggest al - qa ` ida’s rationale for supporting al - zarqawi was more complex and more machiavellian than al - ` adl , or bin ladin , ever admitted .
abu musab al - suri did not want a direct confrontation with al - qa ` ida either , but he deemed himself a peer of bin ladin’s and demanded a meeting with al - qa ` ida’s emir directly to smooth things over . abu hafs al - masri took the meeting instead—and reported hopefully to abd al - hadi afterward that “the brother requests coordination and cooperation , what is important is that he is in agreement with us . ” 26
the appeal to abu khaled was not al - qa ` ida’s only effort to undermine abu musab al - suri , who was a powerful persona but did not command a strong organization of his own . al - ` adl wanted to make sure things stayed that way—and that is where abu musab al - zarqawi , the young jihadi from jordan , came in .
the legacy of an ill - fated alliance the dispute between al - ` adl and bin ladin over al - qa ` ida’s initial engagement with al - zarqawi—and the full history of that engagement—suggests several lessons . first , al - ` adl’s history and bin ladin’s critique of it are both self - serving . writing in 2004 or 2005 , al - ` adl emphasized his own diplomatic skills ; writing in 2010 , bin ladin downplayed reports of conflict with al - zarqawi after the jordanian had emerged as a legendary figure in his own right .
this article contextualizes al - qa ` ida’s first engagement with al - zarqawi and thereby reframes the islamic state’s origin story . first , it explains and analyzes bin ladin’s objections to al - ` adl’s version of history . second , using internal al - qa ` ida correspondence described and cited here for the first time , it contextualizes al - qa ` ida’s initial wariness and ultimate embrace of al - zarqawi by describing the counterintelligence challenges the group faced at the time . c those investigations reveal the depth of al - qa ` ida’s rivalry with the independent syrian jihadist strategist abu musab al - suri in 1998 and 1999 and suggest that this intra - jihadist squabble was a primary motivation driving al - qa ` ida’s initial support for al - zarqawi . finally , the article argues that this fuller story offers new perspective on the more contemporary development of both the islamic state and its enemies in syria and iraq .
but even al - zarqawi’s radicalism and independent streak held a silver lining for al - qa ` ida . the young jordanian would not swear allegiance to bin ladin , but he also would not align with abu musab al - suri . at the time , that was good enough .
al este bodega y viñedos é um produtor de vinhos premium no médanos , buenos aires , argentina . é constituída de vinhas contíguas e uma adega , localizada 640 quilômetros ao sul da cidade de buenos aires , no extremo sul da província de buenos aires ao lado do oceano atlântico . o projeto foi desenvolvido sob a direção pessoal do enólogo italiano alberto antonini .
[ 10 ] new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0124—afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0137 , “letter to hatim , ” undated - 1 ; new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0319 , “testimony of ‘abd - al - rahim ‘abd - al - razzaq al - janku , ” undated - 1 ; new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0335—afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 0345 , “testimony of ‘abd - al - rahim ‘abd - al - razzaq al - janku , ” undated - 2 .
abu musab al - suri had fought with the real hadid , but the young syrian testified he had never heard of the jihadist theorist until he stumbled on some of abu musab al - suri’s writings at al - qa ` ida’s guesthouse in kabul . he eventually met the elder jihadi during a training session at al - faruq , which focused on military training and supported numerous arab jihadis , not just those in al - qa ` ida . “abu mus ` ab - al - suri , who was in charge of organizing the security at the camp , was sitting next to me , ” explained hadid .
behind the scenes , however , abu hafs al - masri was actively working to undermine abu musab al - suri with the syrian’s most trusted ally : abu khaled al - suri . in the months prior to march 1999 , abu khaled asked al - qa ` ida for help leaving afghanistan so that he could tend to his wife , who had grown sick . “we helped him , ” abu hafs al - masri explained to abd al - hadi in march 1999 , and “as far as i know brother abu - khalid ( sic ) has abandoned [ abu musab al - suri ] . ” 25 it was a startling statement : the two syrians had been brothers - in - arms for 25 years .
indeed , al - ` adl’s most important credential for today’s strategic environment is not that he is a statesman , which is what he emphasized in his history of al - qa ` ida’s original engagement with al - zarqawi . rather , it is that al - ` adl understands how to fight dirty against other jihadis , which is what a fuller account of those events highlights . that is important for thinking about al - ` adl’s potential contemporary influence . if he is again driving al - qa ` ida strategy , he is battling an enemy in the islamic state far more powerful than abu musab al - suri ever was—and one that he empowered , for reasons more machiavellian than he acknowledged , long ago .
as hamid put it , abu musab al - suri had effectively challenged al - qa ` ida , saying , “you are not alone in afghanistan , you are not the only option here . i am here . ” in return , hamid explained , al - qa ` ida , “went to [ the levant ] with abu mus’ab al - zarqawi , and said to abu mus’ab al - suri , ‘we are here [ with a levantine support base in afghanistan ] , it is not only you . ’” 30
al - qa ` ida had never been particularly successful recruiting in the levant , which created a potential opening for a syrian like abu musab al - suri . in late 1999 and early 2000 , just as al - zarqawi arrived in kandahar , there was an influx of levantine fighters to afghanistan . bassam al - kanj , an old acquaintance of al - zarqawi’s , had led a short - lived uprising in syrian - occupied lebanon . the movement was quickly crushed and many young syrian and lebanese fighters fled to afghanistan .
the lopsided deal favored al - zarqawi ; he received critical assistance but maintained his independence , all while embracing radical jihadis that complicated al - qa ` ida’s political position in afghanistan . al - ` adl suggests that he convinced bin ladin to accept al - zarqawi’s extremism in order to foster jihad in the levant . the broader historical record does not refute that logic , but it suggests there was more to it than that .
indeed , if not for mullah jihadwal’s quick decision - making after 9 / 11 , al - zarqawi might have been killed in herat . after 9 / 11 , shi ` a tribesmen besieged some of al - zarqawi’s followers . al - ` adl credited al - zarqawi with leading a courageous counterattack and escape , but other jihadis , and the official taliban biography of mullah jihadwal , say it was mullah jihadwal’s quick decision to send his nephew , gul mohamed , into battle that facilitated the escape . 8 bin ladin critiqued al - ` adl for being disrespectful of al - zarqawi , but in this case he favored the young jordanian .
fifth , the pre - 9 / 11 jihadist political arrangements were not permanent . al - zarqawi eventually swore allegiance to bin ladin in 2004 but continued to define his own strategic path , much to the frustration of his would - be superiors in al - qa ` ida . 35 meanwhile , the rivalry between abu musab al - suri and al - qa ` ida softened . after the taliban were overthrown , jihadist rivals rallied together and al - qa ` ida even embraced elements of abu musab al - suri’s vision for a decentralized jihadist movement . in 2002 , al - ` adl directed 9 / 11 mastermind khalid sheikh muhammad to “leave the managerial matters to brother abu - mus’ab” so that they could be further transferred to the al - qa ` ida cadre in iran . if that “abu mus’ab” was abu musab al - suri ( and it seems likely ) , then the rapprochement appears to have been extensive . 36 in 2005 , abu musab al - suri and abu khaled were arrested in pakistan and eventually transferred to syrian custody . 37 according to one account , the syrian regime agreed to release one of the men in 2011 and abu musab al - suri insisted it be abu khaled . if abu hafs al - masri was correct that abu khaled “abandoned” his old friend in 1999 , such magnanimity is awfully ironic . 38
eventually , however , al - qa ` ida was forced to confront the demon it helped create in afghanistan .
[ 4 ] “merger agreement between qaidat ansar allah and al - jihad group , ” june 7 , 2001 .
al este bodega y viñedos is a winery in médanos , buenos aires , argentina . it consists of vineyards ( in owned lands that exceed 300 hectares ( 740 acres ) ) and an adjacent winery , located 640 km ( 400 mi ) south of the city of buenos aires on the southern tip of the buenos aires province . the project has been developed under the direction of the italian wine maker alberto antonini .
al - ` adl’s history was initially published in 2005 , but bin ladin seems to have ignored it—or not learned of it—until much later . ( it began to recirculate on jihadist web forums in 2009 . ) 2 the document annoyed bin ladin so much that on september 26 , 2010 , he fired off a letter to libyan al - qa ` ida operative atiyah abd al - rahman , a key aide , with instructions for repudiating al - ` adl’s history .
abu musab al - suri is one of the most fascinating jihadis of the past 40 years . a syrian veteran of the muslim brotherhood uprising against hafez al - assad in the late 1970s and early 1980s , abu musab al - suri strongly supported the taliban and collaborated off and on with various arab jihadist groups , including al - qa ` ida . 18 in 1997 , he arranged bin ladin’s interview with cnn , but the two men’s relationship soured after al - qa ` ida’s attack on two u . s . embassies in east africa in 1998 . 19 abu musab al - suri worried that by striking the united states , al - qa ` ida might provoke a counterattack that would threaten the taliban regime . in 1999 , he and a long - time friend and collaborator , abu khaled al - suri , complained to bin ladin that he “had caught the disease of screens , flashes , fans and applause . ” 20
the case of one syrian jihadist volunteer exemplified the growing rivalry between abu musab al - suri and al - qa ` ida . basim umar al - suri was raised in latakia by an alawite family , but became a salafi in high school . inspired by radio broadcasts from jihadis in northern lebanon , the 23 - year - old syrian left for afghanistan in early 1999 . e in kabul , he moved into an al - qa ` ida guesthouse while attending classes at the al - faruq training camp . f the young syrian took the kunya “marwan hadid , ” presumably to honor a man of the same name who led a militant muslim brotherhood uprising against hafez al - assad 25 years earlier .
counterintelligence and intra - jihadist conflict al - ` adl was al - qa ` ida’s security chief , which means he investigated reports of subterfuge by foreign governments and other militants trying to undermine al - qa ` ida . in 1998 and 1999 , al - ` adl investigated potential espionage cases involving jordan , the united states , the united arab emirates , and iraq . 10 the veracity and viability of these threats varied , but they reinforced al - qa ` ida’s sense of siege , which al - ` adl embodied . as one jordanian jihadi investigated by al - qa ` ida for being a spy lamented , “sayf , may allah avenge against him , he is capable of doing many things . he knows kabul’s director of intelligence , knows kandahar’s director of intelligence , and he is very close to the sheikh [ bin ladin ] because he is loyal to him … [ sayf’s ] word is it as far as the sheikh is concerned . ” 11 al - ` adl also used alliances to mitigate the threats he perceived to bin ladin and al - qa ` ida .
perhaps most importantly , the veracity of al - ` adl’s story was explicitly rejected by none other than bin ladin himself .
around the same time , abu musab al - suri started to reposition himself as a potential alternative to al - qa ` ida . 21 he wanted to lead the “ansar battalion”—the jihadist contingent fighting with the taliban north of kabul , and he wanted recognition as the leader of new jihadist arrivals from the levant . neither was acceptable to al - qa ` ida , but abu musab al - suri had strong ties to certain elements in the taliban . so the threat was not easily dismissed .
[ e ] it is possible these broadcasts were made by bassam al - kanj , an acquaintance of al - zarqawi from his first trip to afghanistan in 1989 . new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0071 - afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0079 , “testimony of marwan hadid ( basim umar al - sury ) , ” undated .
third , ideological and strategic agreement is insufficient to understand jihadist political alignments . abu musab al - suri and bin ladin had different ideas about provoking the united states and how jihadis should organize , but they had far more in common with each other ideologically than either did with al - zarqawi . al - zarqawi considered both ideologically lax and embraced jihadist preachers the taliban evicted from other training camps . 32 abu musab al - suri and bin ladin competed for influence with the taliban ; al - zarqawi opposed arabs fighting directly with the rulers of afghanistan . 33 the politics of this jihadist triangle cannot be understood solely as a function of ideology , strategy , or nationality . both abu musab al - suri and al - ` adl opposed the 9 / 11 attack , 34 for example , but one was in al - qa ` ida and the other was not . despite agreement on the most important strategic question facing jihadis in afghanistan , they were not allies . it illustrates that even among jihadis , personality—and personal ambition—matters .
[ 34 ] see paul cruickshank and mohanad hage ali , “abu musab al suri : architect of the new al qaeda , ” studies in conflict & terrorism 30 : 1 ( 2007 ) : pp . 1 - 14 ; “‘abd al - halim ( sayf ) adl letter to mukhtar ( khalid sheikh muhammad ) , ” june 13 , 2002 , combating terrorism center at west point .
but the iraqis were only the tip of the iceberg . al - ` adl was also investigating broader allegations that jordan’s intelligence service was working with the united arab emirates and the united states to infiltrate al - qa ` ida in afghanistan . 15 the details , all unproven , were lascivious : a syrian recruit , presumably under physical threat , declared to al - qa ` ida that he had been recruited via group sex in dubai , and described alcohol , drugs , and homosexual trysts among jihadis in afghanistan . he named a series of jihadis , including abu musab al - suri , as threats to al - qa ` ida . 16 al - ` adl’s investigation was not exactly professional ; some of the claims read like a jihadist conspiracy nightmare more than a real - world threat . in the end , the accuser formally retracted his accusations , including against abu musab al - suri . 17 regardless , the investigation seems to have concluded that gay jihadis from dubai were not a major threat , but abu musab al - suri was .
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abu musab al - zarqawi , the godfather of the islamic state , arrived in afghanistan from his home country of jordan in late 1999 . he quickly struck a deal with al - qa ` ida to build an independent , levant - focused jihadist camp near the western afghan city of herat . al - zarqawi did not swear allegiance to usama bin ladin for another five years , and the two men had very different visions of jihad . but al - qa ` ida nonetheless provided critical financial , logistical , and political support for the new project . the question is why . why did al - qa ` ida provide such extensive assistance with so few strings attached ?
[ 36 ] ‘abd al - halim ( sayf ) adl letter to mukhtar ( khalid sheikh muhammad ) , june 13 , 2002 .
in 1998 , abd al - hadi al - iraqi , the director of al - qa ` ida’s guesthouse in kabul and coordinator of arabs fighting with the taliban , grew suspicious about new iraqis in town , so he reached out to al - ` adl . abd al - hadi explained that the men were affiliated with the iraqi opposition leader ahmed chalabi , who later emerged as a leading voice encouraging the united states to invade iraq . 12 but in november 1998 , abd al - hadi was worried that the chalabi men were impious ( they would not give up smoking ) and , like many iraqi opposition figures , had spent extensive time in iran . the chalabi men seemed motivated by arab nationalism rather than jihadist ideology and would not acknowledge any difference between sunni and shi ` a muslims . “they believe that there is no difference between the two sects , ” lamented abd al - hadi “and the important thing is that they are all arabs . ” 13 al - qa ` ida kept a close watch on the men and endeavored to keep them separate from other fighters . 14
of course , al - ` adl is a talented , dangerous man . he is old - guard al - qa ` ida , and in 2004 , he conceptualized a startlingly prescient—if not determinative—master plan , which called for the reestablishment of the caliphate in syria between 2013 and 2016 . 40 g
[ 37 ] aron lund , “who and what was abu khalid al - suri part one , ” carnegie middle east center , february 24 , 2014 .
fascinatingly , the acclaimed biography of bin laden by yossef bodansky , director of the us congressional task force on terrorism , hardly mentions the name al - qaida . written before september 11 , it does so only to emphasise that al - qaida is the wrong name altogether :
a lot of money is being spent on a rapidly expanding web of islamist charities and social services , including the recently maligned al - qaida . bin laden ' s first charity , al - qaida , never amounted to more than a loose umbrella framework for supporting like - minded individuals and their causes . in the aftermath of the 1998 bombings in nairobi and dar - es - salaam , al - qaida has been portrayed in the west as a cohesive terrorist organisation , but it is not .
but bin ladin did not accuse iran specifically of fabricating the story . he may have wanted to avoid a confrontation with iran , which still held many al - qa ` ida members in 2010 , but he also may have suspected other intelligence services . if so , jordan was almost certainly at the top of the list . al - qa ` ida had long parried with jordanian intelligence services , and the jordanian journalist fuad husayn first published al - ` adl’s story . d
[ 39 ] rukmini callimachi and eric schmitt , “iran released top members of al - qaeda in a trade , ” new york times , september 17 , 2015 .
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[ 20 ] see peter bergen , holy war inc . : inside the secret world of al - qaeda ( new york : free press , 2002 ) , p . 5 ; alan cullison , “inside al - qaeda’s hard drive , ” atlantic , september 2004 ; and lia , pp . 32 , 123 , 165 - 170 .
second , the islamic state has often benefited from alliances with militants—or states—that calculated a temporary alliance with the group or its predecessors would be useful against some more proximate threat . neither al - ` adl nor bin ladin mentioned the conflict with abu musab al - suri or al - qa ` ida’s more general counterintelligence worries in the late 1990s . jihadis are generally loath to air dirty laundry . but jihadist dirty laundry has been fundamental to the islamic state’s development . at its core , the zarqawiist movement that became the islamic state is a populist rebellion against what it considers the false promises and unfulfilled commitments of more compromising jihadist movements and more compromised jihadist leaders . at the same time , it has benefitted over the years from intra - jihadist competition in which one side or the other has endeavored to instrumentalize the zarqawiists’ radicalism . exhibit a is al - qa ` ida’s original engagement with al - zarqawi .
[ 40 ] brian fishman , the master plan : isis , al - qaeda and the jihadi strategy for final victory ( new haven : yale university press , 2016 forthcoming ) .
bin ladin also had a theory about how al - ` adl’s history might have been manipulated . “deny its attribution to sayf and remind them he is in jail , ” bin ladin explained to al - rahman . “there are individuals , as well as services belonging to countries in the area whose mission is to defame the mujahidin and disfigure their [ image ] . ” indeed , al - ` adl was living in an apartment confined on an iranian military base both when his history was originally published and in 2010 when he remained in iran . 6
[ g ] al - ` adl’s seven - stage master plan served as a strategic vision for the al - qa ` ida organization just as it incorporated al - zarqawi’s organization in iraq as a formal affiliate . the plan was not followed exactly , but it correctly foresaw numerous developments , including al - qa ` ida in iraq’s networks outside iraq , the time and place of the caliphate being re - declared , and that the british would reject integration into a more cohesive europe . despite this accuracy , the master plan failed to account for the power , destructiveness , and exclusivity of zarqawiism , particularly as represented in the islamic state . as such , its prediction of a jihadist “final victory” by 2020 will not come to pass .
rohan gunaratna , research fellow at the centre for the study of terrorism and political violence at the university of st andrews , takes a different view . in an important recent book on al - qaida , he argues that the name came from political theory , citing the concept of al - qaida al - sulbah ( the solid base ) formulated in an essay by abdullah azzam , bin laden ' s intellectual mentor . the solid base provided a platform , gunaratna writes , for the
sole purpose of creating societies founded on the strictest islamic principles
.
fourth , ideological extremism does not preclude compromise . despite al - zarqawi’s opposition to arabs fighting with the taliban , he accepted a relationship with al - qa ` ida ( albeit on favorable terms ) and was officially appointed to the taliban’s arab liaison committee even as he supported ideologues the taliban disavowed . al - zarqawi’s extremism has since been institutionalized in the islamic state , but that institution is also capable of pragmatism when necessary . for zarqawiists , necessity is the mother of ideological compromise ; likewise , ideological extremism is a justification to stab one - time allies in the back .
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in six years of war , president bashar al - assad of syria has overseen a campaign of carnage , turning an enormous cache of deadly weapons against the very people they were presumably stockpiled to protect .
for starters , the domestic context in afghanistan likely influenced the decision to place al - zarqawi’s camp in herat . according to al - ` adl , herat was chosen because of its proximity to the iranian border , which was useful for moving people and materiel in and out of afghanistan . true enough , but it was also politically convenient . the taliban leadership was divided over the value of arab jihadis in afghanistan—especially extremists like al - zarqawi—but the taliban governor in herat , mullah jihadwal , was a strong supporter of the arab movements . one of the very few taliban leaders to have left afghanistan for jihad , he was more aligned with radical foreign jihadis than most of the taliban leadership . 7 herat was not just close to iran ; it was governed by the perfect talib to host someone like al - zarqawi .
substantive notes [ a ] husayn showed pages of the original letter to two journalists in the wake of publishing al - ` adl’s letter . yassin musharbash , “the future of terrorism : what al - qaida really wants , ” der spiegel , august 12 , 2005 ; urs gehriger , “abu mus’ab al - zarqawi : from green man to guru , ” die weltwoche , october 6 , 2005 . in 2015 , the author found the first page of al - ` adl’s letter in a jihadist archive and confirmed its authenticity with husayn . it matches a document released with gehriger’s story in 2005 but no longer available with the story online . however , the document originally released with gehriger’s story is available via archive . org’s way back machine and is likely the source of the document found by the author in the jihadist archive .
[ 9 ] ibid . ; abu jihad khalil al - hakaymah , “journeys of a jihadi , ” promise keepers website . this website is now defunct , but the author archived it in full circa 2006 .
dr saad al - fagih , a saudi dissident and former afghan mujahideen , thinks the term is over - used :
well i really laugh when i hear the fbi talking about al - qaida as an organisation of bin laden .
al - qaida was just a service for relatives of jihadis , he said , speaking to the american pbs show frontline .
in 1988 he [ bin laden ] noticed that he was backward in his documentation and was not able to give answers to some families asking about their loved ones gone missing in afghanistan . he decided to make the matter much more organised and arranged for proper documentation .
[ d ] that dynamic was first hinted at in a 2006 article by mary ann weaver . see mary ann weaver , “the short violent life of abu musab al - zarqawi , ” atlantic , july / august 2006 .
[ 38 ] charles lister , the syrian jihad : al - qaeda , the islamic state and the evolution of an insurgency ( london : c . hurst and co . , 2015 ) , pp . 108 - 109 .
[ 22 ] new . harmony document afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0499—afgp - 2002 - 800078 - 001 - 0503 , “testimony of marwan hadid ( basim umar al - sury ) , ” september 19 , 1999 .
several researchers report that the bioactive compound content in fruit may be affected by the culture system with the development of defense systems against the fruits ' natural pests ( lópez et al . , 2013 ) . freitas et al . ( 2010 ) state that an increase in the concentration of the grape ' s phenolic compounds is related to the plant ' s own defense system . investigations by melo et al . ( 2011 ) on verdejo and isabel grape bagasse found phenolic compound indexes ( dry weight ) of 20 . 94 mg gallic acid g - 1 and 16 . 57 mg gallic acid g - 1 , respectively . rockenbach et al . ( 2008 ) reported 75 . 6 mg gallic acid g - 1 for ancelota grape bagasse and 69 . 0 mg gallic acid g - 1 for tannat grape bagasse . the results showed that the natural defense systems developed by plants triggered bioactive compounds with beneficial health traits associated with the prevention and control of diseases in humans .
the transformation of grape bagasse into flour may be a viable alternative for the reutilization of the byproduct ( sáyago - ayerdi et al . , 2009 ) , which may be used in the production of hamburgers and sausages ( özvural and vural , 2011 ) and inserted into yogurts ( coda et al . , 2012 ) and salad dressings ( tseng and zhao , 2013 ) . grape bagasse flour contains high amounts of flavonoids , which are excellent antioxidants that reduce free radicals and prevent degenerative diseases .
according to turan et al . ( 2007 ) , nutritional quality indexes can indicate a sample ' s potential for plaque aggregation . in other words , low ai and ti values indicate high quantities of anti - atherogenic fatty acids in oil or fat .
according to rockenbach et al . ( 2008 ) , bioactive compounds , such as anthocyanins and other flavonoids , are highly beneficial to health , especially due to their activities against free radicals , allergies , inflammations , ulcers , viruses , tumors and hepatotoxins .
al - qaida al - sulbah mixes a type of revolutionary vanguardism , borrowed from european political philosophy , with islamic martyrdom : it ' s the pioneering vanguard that must , in azzam ' s phrase , after
a long period of training and hatching
, be prepared to
jump into the fire
. and there may be another borrowing : the essay reads like nothing so much as hari seldon ' s plans for his foundation . perhaps it was azzam , after all , who read asimov .
qaida itself comes from the root verb q - ' - d : to sit down , remain , stay , abide . many people appear to think al - qaida ' s name emerged from some idea of a physical base - a command centre from where bin laden and other leaders could direct operations .
we ' ve got to get back to al - qaida on that one ,
it ' s possible to imagine a footsoldier saying . bin laden himself has spoken , post - september 11 , of being in
a very safe place
. there have also been stories that his father had a vernal estate called al - qaida in yemen or saudi arabia . could there be a sense in which the name of the organisation represents a notion of the eternal home in the consciousness of its fugitive leader ?
the values for the three indexes ( ai , ti and hh ) showed that grape bagasse flour derived from cc and oc had beneficial effects on health . the lower the atherogenicity ( ai ) and thrombogenicity ( ti ) index values , the healthier the food . this is because these indexes report the relationship between fatty acids in food and their contribution to the prevention of coronary diseases ( turan et al . , 2007 ) . further , souza bentes et al . ( 2009 ) underscored that oil or fat was nutritionally the most adequate based on the relation between hypocholesterolemic and hypercholesterolemic fatty acids .
garde - cerdán et al . ( 2007 ) found that the composition of fatty acids and free amino - acids of grape juices remained stable even after thermal treatments . it may be inferred that the thermal treatment of grape bagasse flour does not interfere significantly with the final products fatty acid and protein composition .
the expert miéville was referring to is fred halliday , who teaches international relations at the lse . trying to define al - qaida , halliday included the asimov connection as a glancing aside in the
keywords
section of two hours that shook the world , a book about september 11 :
the term has no apparent antecedents in islamic or arabic political history : explanations range from a protected region during the communist era in afghanistan , to it being an allusion to the bin laden family ' s construction company , to the title of a 1951 isaac asimov novel which was translated into arabic as al - qaida .
in october last year , an item appeared on an authoritative russian studies website that soon had the science - fiction community buzzing with speculative excitement . it asserted that isaac asimov ' s 1951 classic foundation was translated into arabic under the title
al - qaida
. and it seemed to have the evidence to back up its claims .
the lipid percentages in the cc and oc grape bagasse flour varied between 3 . 62 % and 5 . 10 % , which was a significant difference ( p≤0 . 05 ) between the cultures . these results were higher than the lipid content ( 1 . 82 % ) of flour from the oriental raisin reported by bampi et al . ( 2010 ) .
the percentage of protein in the cc grape bagasse flour was 6 . 54 % , whereas the percentage was 5 . 20 % in the oc ; these values represented a significant difference ( p≤0 . 05 ) between the cultures . likewise , bampi et al . ( 2010 ) found 5 . 73 % protein in the flour of the oriental raisin ( hovenia dulcis ) .
this peculiar coincidence would be of little interest if not for abundant parallels between the plot of asimov ' s book and the events unfolding now ,
wrote dmitri gusev , the scientist who posted the article . he was referring to apparent similarities between the plot of foundation and the pursuit of the organisation we have come to know , perhaps erroneously , as al - qaida .
as , in that very same biscuit - brown building in federal plaza , more
most wanted
pictures of bin laden were being pinned up in the wake of september 11 , the asimov / al - qaida story was spreading . there was a piece in the ottawa citizen . on ansible , one of the most popular science - fiction websites , hip sci - fi novelist china miéville was quoted :
an expert on the middle east told me about a rumour circulating about the name of bin laden ' s network . the term al - qaida seems to have no political precedent in arabic , and has therefore been something of a conundrum to the experts . . . unlikely as it sounds , this is the only theory anyone can come up with .
lutterodt et al . ( 2011 ) underscored that , similar to data from current investigation , the linoleic acid percentage ( 18 : 2n - 6 ) was higher ( 66 . 0 to 75 . 3 % ) than the other fatty acids of the oils and seed flours from various grape species . the authors reported that flour had up to 100 times more phenolic compounds than oils .
brian fishman is a fellow at the combating terrorism center at west point and formerly its director of research . he is the author of the master plan : isis , al - qaeda , and the jihadi strategy for final victory ( yale university press , 2016 ) , from which this article was adapted . follow @ brianfishman or urltoken for access to the unique sources cited in this article , visit urltoken