On the road from Raqqa to Palmyra. Cristian Iohan Ştefănescu/Flickr. Some rights reserved.Raqqa, 11 May 2017
Thank you for your letter and for asking after my brother once more. He remains in Egypt after leaving Libya earlier this year. There, he is part of the small central group that is coordinating the rapid growth of our movement. As one of our most experienced fighters he is in much demand, especially in Sinai, and has been instrumental in some of the recent successful attacks on Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s forces.
These operations have been having exactly the effect our strategists intended. In short, they ensure that al-Sisi becomes even more determined to suppress dissent, especially that coming from our true believers. What is so good for us is that our actions also stimulate wider repression, not least of anyone even loosely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The result is that anger against the regime is growing by the day. Indeed our strategists now think that we should put much less effort into Libya and a lot more into Egypt.
