Part 9 1) Meet with senior leaders from al Nusrah Front face to face and introducing himself to them. 2) Not meeting any younger or unknown leaders but meeting instead with ten senior leaders. Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s plan was also to try to convince them that his main goal there was unity and defeating enemies. Al Jawlani was mainly quiet throughout this phase and he didn’t attend any meetings and didn’t show any indifference or dislike towards Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. However, there still was worry among senior leaders about Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi’s real intentions. Al Jawlani then found out that Al Baghdadi was angry with him and there was possibility that he was going to be assassinated. This is when al Jawlani decided not to attend any of the meetings and there was continuous protection around him. Al Baghdadi sent a message to Al Jawlani informing him that al Nusrah Front would soon be dissolved and it would be better if Al Jawlani made the public announcement himself. However, Al Jawlani didn’t respond as expected and sent back a letter saying that the decision to unite the State and al Nusrah was a huge mistake that would destroy the popularity al Nusrah built . Also, he explained that there is no way that the Syrian public would agree and that the best thing to do is for the State to back Iraq and letting al Nusrah Front handle things in Syria. This is when Haji Bakr advised him to cancel the announcement and wait until a fighting group was created. Haji Bakr met with several members from al Nusrah Front who weren’t satisfied with Al Jawlani and asked to prepare fighters. Within three days, about 100,000 fighters were prepared and they were told of everything related to the announcement and when it was going to be made. During the time the announcement was being written al Jawlani was informed that he had to accept what was going to happen sooner and later. Also during this time Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi met with senior leaders from al Nusrah Front as was planned in the beginning. Three days after the announcement was made, there were three main divisions and that included members joining Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, members staying neutral, and the remaining members staying loyal to Al Jawlani. Al Baghdadi then sent a message to Al Jawlani and everyone that remained loyal to him that they could either change their loyalty or they were going to be killed. This is the same time where Bandar Al Shaalan’s name started appearing. Bandar has had a great relationship with Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi even before all of this took place. He was also the one to introduce Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi to Al Qahtani, who was in Al Jawlani’s prisons previously.
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