Thank you for your news and I am sorry for taking so long to respond since my last letter back in April. Thanks also for asking once more after my brother, especially as I had been so worried about him. The latest news is both good and bad. On the positive side he did return safely from Marawi in the southern Philippines where he completed his work of establishing a deep cell to coordinate our future operations, both there and in Indonesia. The bad news is that because of his obvious skills he has already moved to eastern Afghanistan to aid our expansion there, though, as I will explain, this will only be for a few months.
The news about your degree programme at Baghdad University is welcome but I can understand your fears about the continuing insecurity of parts of Baghdad. You may be interested to know that the Western media scarcely report anything that is happening anywhere in Iraq unless their own people are affected. It is as if they bear no responsibility at all for the death and destruction they wreaked on the country. I suppose I should not be surprised since my work over four years for our leaders has been about analysing British and US policy, but the way they have created failed states in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and have then ignored the consequences is still quite something. Their actions, of course, have been immensely valuable to our cause, and I should be thankful for that.
Talking of my work, I really must tell you about the extraordinary position I find myself in. You will probably recall that my early studies in London, before I joined the cause, enabled me to come back here and continue to provide our leaders with analysis, even while I took that postgraduate degree in international security! Even more amazing was the way I was then able to take up a post with this exceptionally well-resourced private intelligence company.
