Al-Qaeda launches online terrorist manual

[Emillereid]

Jason Burke, chief reporter
Sunday January 18, 2004
The Observer

Al-Qaeda has issued a chilling new call to arms to recruits who remain undetected by security agencies. In a terrorist manual published on the internet, Osama bin Laden says: 'After Iraq and Afghanistan will come the Crusader invasion of Saudi Arabia. All fighters all over the world must be ready.'

The manual has been masterminded by Saif al-Adel, the organisation's third most senior man and the only terrorist other than bin Laden and his partner Ayman al-Zawahiri to have a $25 million reward on his head.

It is directed at new volunteers who are 'below the radar' of counter-terrorist authorities and who cannot break cover to undergo formal training in terrorist techniques. Like bin Laden, Zawahiri is quoted in the publication, called 'The Base of the Vanguard'. Other writers encourage the use of weapons of mass destruction.

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The appearance of the manual - the January issue of what promises to be a monthly publication - is a major boost to al-Qaeda's propaganda effort. Articles include the testimony of a 'martyred' suicide bomber and pages of technical advice on physical training, security counter-measures for operational terrorist cells and the use of light weapons. 'All that is needed to open the ideas of the zealous youthful Muslims to the techniques of our fighters,' a preface explains....



http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1125879,00.html

I heard a speech by Ray McGovern yesterday wherein he said how counter - productive it is to try to stop terrorism by going to war with terrorists. All you end up doing is helping their recruitment. He likened our war on terrorism to fighting malaria by shooting flies at a swamp. The only effective course is the drain the swamp.

[Cannikin]

1. Boy, Al Qaeda's really starting to move with the times...

Before, you had to go to a training camp in Afghanistan, now you can take an online course! Wonder who hosts there website?

[PaDUer]

2. Has anyone found the link

to this manual? Isn't there a way to trace the IP address? Does anyone know how to do this?

[DUreader]

4. Why trace it when we already know it goes right to Dick Cheney?

[0007]

8. You'd think they would keep quiet with this information

while milking it at the same time. Wouldn't this kind of be like tipping off the terrorist?

[bluestateguy]

9. I wouldn't visit that website if I were you

Somehow, I get the feeling that John Ashcroft is going to get a list of everybody who visited that site.

[JohnyCanuck]

6. Maybe they'll offer the course on CD

For those terrarists that don't have internet access.

[Roon]

7. they host their websites by proxy

I don't the details of this technique, but that is what they use.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. Is this the same one with the paste from that "make your own nuke" site

that the regime tried to float in 01 till some people pointed out that it was this joke site that had been around forever?

[shamanstar]

5. undercover

"It is directed at new volunteers who are 'below the radar' of counter-terrorist authorities and who cannot break cover to undergo formal training in terrorist techniques."

good thing their cover wont be blown by looking at the link on the internet!

[Stanchetalarooni]

10. Are you sure that manual wasn't authored in DC?

Or possibly in Texas on an old pig farm.
Fraternity pranks, marketing strategy, political conquest.

[creativelcro]

11. Are you sure you wanna download it ?

I wouldn't, if I were you...

[leesa]

12. Right. What a bunch of garbage. How many people will be stupid

enough to fall for this one? Do they have cable hook-ups in the caves?