Al Qaeda Training Manual

Friday, March 28th, 2003

Sometimes I wonder how fascinating information sneaks past me (and the public at large). The US Department of Justice has published excerpts from an Al Qaeda Training Manual on the net:

The attached manual was located by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaeda member’s home. The manual was found in a computer file described as “the military series” related to the “Declaration of Jihad.” The manual was translated into English and was introduced earlier this year at the embassy bombing trial in New York. The Department is only providing the following selected text from the manual because it does not want to aid in educating terrorists or encourage further acts of terrorism.

It’s an eerie mix of Islamist rhetoric, fascinating espionage anecdotes from throughout history, and no-nonsense rules of thumb for waging Jihad.

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