Washington: Osama bin Laden warned al-Qaeda affiliates against prematurely declaring an Islamic caliphate and cautioned his fighters against excessive display of brutality, according to newly declassified files seized from his Abbottabad hideout.
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In letters to subordinates, Osama denounced almost every aspect of the Islamic State playbook but the admonishments were issued several years before al-Qaeda&rsquo;s affiliate in Iraq severed ties and re-branded itself as the Islamic State.
In one undated letter to Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who led the al-Qaeda branch in Yemen before he was killed in a US drone strike, Osama warned against taking over the capital city to quickly establish a new Islamic state. &ldquo;We want Sana&rsquo;a to establish an Islamic State, but first, we want to make sure that we have the capability to gain control of it,&rdquo; Osama wrote.
In the letter, Osama instructed al-Wuhayshi to remind, &ldquo;the new generation&rdquo; not to pursue &ldquo;separate operations rather than concentrating on the main objective.&rdquo;
Osama, in the letters, warned against seizing more territory than would be possible to hold, against prematurely declaring the restoration of the Islamic &ldquo;caliphate&rdquo; and even against &ldquo;publishing pictures of prisoners after they were beheaded&rdquo;.
Ideological dispute The documents, released on Tuesday, show the extent to which the ideological dispute behind that rupture was becoming intractable even before the slain al-Qaeda leader&rsquo;s demise. The documents were the second set of materials from the 2011 raid made public. They first came out last May.
&ldquo;The enemy continues to possess the ability to topple any state we establish. We have to remember that the enemy toppled the Taliban and Saddam&rsquo;s regime,&rdquo; he said.
Defeating the US was Osama's first priority, and he consistently pushed back against al-Qaeda members who called for hitting local targets instead.

In his letters, Osama had warned against prematurely declaring the restoration of the Islamic &ldquo;caliphate&rdquo; and even against &ldquo;publishing pictures of prisoners after they were beheaded&rdquo;

Don't declare a caliphate too soon, Osama had warned

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In his letters, Osama had warned against prematurely declaring the restoration of the Islamic &ldquo;caliphate&rdquo; and even against &ldquo;publishing pictures of prisoners after they were beheaded&rdquo;

Don't declare a caliphate too soon, Osama had warned

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