Intercepts of al-Qaeda email traffic (provided by the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence Agency)
From:
Tariq Anwar
Date:
21 October
To:
Essad
Folder:
Outgoing mail to Yemen
I send you my greetings and messages from our brother Abu
Abdullah.
We hear the goatherd failed to get his goat. We hear some hasty or ignorant people gave him the tribal robes to wear that were not the tribal robes that should be worn in those regions of Scotland. And so he was seen, and he was taken, and now he is back in your country, talking to the authorities, we do not doubt, as fast as his cursed tongue can shape the words.
Abu Abdullah is aware that you will be very concerned to make amends for this failure, or worse than failure, and asks you to do three things for him.
First, find the goatherd. You know the building in Sana’a where they will be keeping him. Gain access. You know which of the guards in that building are enlightened and which are not. Seek out the enlightened guards. Pay them whatever is necessary to further their enlightenment. Gain access to the goatherd and take him to join his goats. Take him out from the place where he is and remove his head, and bury him on the same hillside as his foul diseased animals.
Then, find his family. You know who they are. You know how to find them. Find them, and remove their heads also.
Lay them down and bury them beside their son, their husband, their brother. Then together they will be a testament to the anger of Abu Abdullah, the righteous anger he feels against those who fail him, my brother Essad.
Then, find the sheikh. We learn that tomorrow he comes to the Yemen. Now he is in his own country and yours. There need be no more mistakes concerning Scottish tribal dress.
You know his tribe. There are brothers who live amongst them who know us and love us and are faithful to Abu
Abdullah. Find the sheikh, and do what was instructed, and do it soon.
We ask God to lead you to the good of this life. We ask God to lead you, and we hope it may not be sooner than was first ordained, to the good of the afterlife.
Peace be upon you and God’s mercy and blessings.
Tariq Anwar
From:
Essad
Date:
28 October
To:
Tariq Anwar
Folder:
Incoming mail from Yemen
Dear Brother,
Peace be upon you and the blessings of God be with you. We have searched for the goatherd. He is gone and so is his family. We think the sheikh has hidden them in the jebel. We have started our operation against the sheikh. And we have a man close to his household who loves us, and who loves and respects Abu Abdullah. He will find the goatherd for us, and he will help us to do what is necessary to the sheikh.
Ask Abu Abdullah to be patient. We must move without haste and yet without delay. We must make our move with great care. The sheikh is a dangerous foe, but not as dangerous, nor as powerful, nor as cunning, nor as merciful as Abu Abdullah.
We pray for your understanding and patience in this matter.
Essad
From:
Tariq Anwar
Date:
28 October
To:
Essad
Folder:
Outgoing mail to Yemen
Essad,
Describe your plan.
Tariq Anwar
From:
Essad
Date:
28 October
To:
Tariq Anwar
Folder:
Incoming mail from Yemen
I send you my respectful greetings.
One of the sheikh’s bodyguards was sent to Scotland to be taught how to fish for salmon. This he does not regard as suitable to his rank and family, having always believed that fishing was done by peasants who live in huts by the sea, and moreover he believes that fishing is not an occupation worthy of a family descended from the warriors who rode with Muhammad to Mecca nearly one and one half thousand years ago.
Furthermore he considers he has been deeply insulted by the Scottish bodyservant of the sheikh, the chief fishing teacher who is called Colin. Colin has told this man that we know of that he holds his fishing rod ‘like a big girl’. This is an insult which may or may not be a killing matter in Scotland but it is certainly a killing matter here. So this man will kill the sheikh for us. Now we are discussing with him the diyah we must pay his family when he is dead. Please indicate what operational funds are available for the diyah. More we will reveal in due course as the plan is developed.
Peace be upon you, and the blessings of God.
Essad