Fifty-year-old Samir Abd Mohammed al-Khalifa was known under the false name of Haji Bakr. That man, considered a refugee, was actually a former colonel of the intelligence services of the air defense force of Saddam Hussein, who has been active in ISIS for years. He told of his own existence. The former members of the Caliphate, spoke of a subject in his fifties, a fundamental member of the organization. The real role of man emerged shortly after his death, checking the documents kept in his home.
Samir Abd Mohammed al-Khalifa was not just any man, but the architect of the Islamic State. In his house found organizational charts, lists and programs that meticulously describe how to gradually subjugate a country and its people. The thirty-one pages were published by the German newspaper Spiegel. The documents show a multilayered governmental composition, with the use of experimental techniques or techniques already tested during Saddam's regime to keep the population at bay. In a sense, the documents are the source code of the most successful terrorist army in recent history.
To date, much of the information on the Islamic State came from "repentant" militants, but the documents of Samir Abd Mohammed al-Khalifa are something exceptional for that movement that appeared unstoppable until the late summer of the 2014, when the aerial bombardments began that they ended the triumphant march of the ISIS.
The story of Haji Bakr begins at the end of the 2012, when he moves to Syria. Until then the words "Islamic State" are not in the public domain. The man's plan was already well defined: to conquer as much territory as possible in Syria, the future bridgehead for the invasion of Iraq. Bakr buys a small house in Tal Rifaat, a town north of Aleppo. The choice of the city is not accidental. Since the 80 years, the city has provided labor for the Gulf countries, particularly for Saudi Arabia. Once they returned home, in many of them the radical conviction was already strong. Those were the men who served to found the Islamic State.
In the 2013, Tal Rifaat becomes an Isis stronghold with hundreds of fighters. It was there that the "Lord of Shadows", as some called him, outlined the structure of the Islamic State: from the local level to the progressive infiltration into the villages. Using a ballpoint pen, he drew the future Caliphate chain of command on a piece of paper. Coincidentally, those sheets used bore the heading of the Syrian Defense Ministry and the department responsible for supplying civilians.
The one outlined by Bakr was nothing more than a project for a "change of management". Not a manifesto of faith, but a technically elaborated plan for an "Islamic Intelligence State" a caliphate managed by an organization that resembled the infamous Stasi, the East German internal intelligence agency. This project was carried out with surprising precision.
The plan always begins in the same way: the group recruits adepts under the pretext of opening a Dawah office, an Islamic mission center. Among those who listen to the lessons, a couple are selected for specific training. Their task will be to spy on the villages and get all kinds of information. Among the documents, the information that the agents had to collect was also found: a list of powerful families and their sources of income, rebel members in the villages, their leaders and political orientation. It is also essential to find out about their illegal activities (according to Sharia law) which would then be used for blackmail. Spies should also have discovered homosexuals. Everything could be used for future blackmail.
Bakr writes: "The most intelligent will be appointed Sharia sheikhs. We will train them and then send them to various villages. These brothers will be selected to marry the daughters of the most influential families, in order to ensure their support without their knowledge ". The spies should have captured the discomforts of the population, seized all the information that would then be used to divide it and subdue it. The informants were former spies of the Saddam regime, but also opponents of the regime. Most of the spies on Bakr's list were in their early twenties, but many were also sixteen.
Control had to be total: from finance to schools, from nurseries to the means of communication and transportation. In each conquest project, there is always a constant, meticulously addressed in organization charts and lists of skills and relationships: surveillance, espionage, murder and kidnapping.
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The emir or the commander of the provincial council - writes Bakr - is responsible for murders, kidnappings, communication and cryptography, as well as the supervision of lower-level emirs. This model would have been the demonic clock of a capillary command structure designed to spread fear. Even the word Bakr uses for the conversion of true Muslims, "takwin", is not of a religious nature, but a technical term that means "implementation." Bakr simply changed what he had learned in the past in that ubiquitous security apparatus of Saddam Hussein, in which no one could really be certain of being spied on.
In Bakr's texts there is no reference to God. The reason is simple: he believed that the fanatical religious beliefs alone are not enough to achieve victory, but faith could be exploited. In American prisons, Bakr and a small group of former Iraqi intelligence officers knew Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Emir who later became the "Caliph", the official leader of the Islamic State. The choice of Baghdadi was not made at random: he is an educated religious, "he would have been the religious face of the group".
In May of 2003, Paul Bremer, then head of the US employment authority in Baghdad, disbanded the Iraqi army. Thousands of well trained Sunni officers found themselves out of work and robbed of their lives with a stroke of the pen. At that moment, America created its most bitter enemies. Perhaps at that time the Islamic State was born.
Franco Iacch
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