On the road from Raqqa to Palmyra. Cristian Iohan Ştefănescu/Flickr. Some rights reserved.Raqqa, 17 March 2017
Thank you for your letter, and I am very glad that your family were not caught up in the bombings in Baghdad. Thank you also for asking after my brother. I am happy to share more news about him.
He has been working with our people in Libya. One of his roles is to help consolidate the affiliated groups there into a loosely coordinated organisation, but with enough of a cell structure to isolate individuals who might be captured and tortured by any of the apostate factions. Another is to organise the logistics for this summer’s Mediterranean crossings for our fighters. This has been planned for more than a year and is part of the leadership’s strategy for taking the war to the far enemy, not least by sending expertly trained nationals back to their own countries.
