abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass

Likewise, one of the strategies which the enemy follows is "the strategy of concentrating"
since he intends to pacify some of the cities and regions and he uses his troops for
concentrating his forces in one or two regions in which there are the most arrests and
opposition. He does that until his troops began to feel reassured because they are much,
much larger numerically than the mujahids. Then after he stops and has gained control over
that region, he transfers his forces to other calm regions.
Roughly all of the preceding happened under the vile Egyptian regime at the time when it
confronted the mujahid movement, since it had planned in the beginning of the 90s to begin
a campaign for striking Islamic entities in general and mujahid entities in particular which
had flourished in the ten years that followed the campaign at the beginning of the 80s which
began before the killing of Sadat and ended after the end of the trials which followed his
assassination. The meaning is that when (the regime) began a campaign, it wanted the
campaign to quickly undertake that (strike). The Islamic Group undertook a strong response
by killing al-Mahgoub, the speaker of parliament, which made the regime delay its campaign
for two years. Instead of the Group exploiting the regime's hesitation, it completely gave the
regime the opportunity to arrange its cards. Thus, for two years the Group delayed the
beginning of complete opposition (to the regime). It could have taken matters firmly in
hand and began after a year, at the very most. When it (finally) began, it made it easy for the
regime to undertake the operation of concentrating its forces until it could destroy the
entities of the Group in cities and provinces where they were found, one after another. That
came to pass because of the mode of thinking of some of the Group's leaders who were
focused on negotiations from the beginning of the battle! They thought that a regime like