[iwar] [fc:Jihad.'Manual'.Details.Terror.Steps]

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Jihad 'Manual' Details Terror Steps
By KATHY GANNON
.c The Associated Press
  
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Poison gas.  Explosives.  Hand-to-hand
combat.  Knives.  And religious exhortations. 

The 11-volume ``Manual of Afghan Jihad,'' or holy war, makes chilling
reading - a how-to guide to what it calls the ``basic rules of sabotage
and destruction.''

Most of the information can be gleaned from Internet Web sites, experts
say, and another manual, written for Muslim operatives abroad and not
part of the 11-volume set, was discovered last year during an
investigation of Osama bin Laden. 

But intelligence analysts from two Western countries who read part of
the ``Manual of Afghan Jihad,'' and who spoke on condition of anonymity,
said its highly technical detail, including diagrams, represents a new
level of sophistication in the training apparatus of bin Laden's
network. 

The volumes were obtained by The Associated Press from a former Afghan
guerrilla who said he got them from a Libyan fighter.  He said the
Libyan, who had fallen out with his comrades, stole them in July from
the headquarters of bin Laden's organization in Kandahar, also the home
base of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. 

The preface to Mouswada al Jihad al Afghani, the Arabic name of the
manual, says it was compiled by ``The Services Office of the Training
Camps,'' and that this ``Services Office'' was founded by bin Laden.  It
is meant for use in the battle against ``the enemies of our movement,
the enemies of Allah, for any Islamic group.''

Each volume begins with dedications to, among others, bin Laden, who
``took part in jihad with his life and money in Afghanistan ...'';
Abdullah Azzam, an Palestinian killed during the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan; Islamic leaders in Afghanistan; and the people and
government of neighboring Pakistan, which has long supported the Taliban
regime. 

The 11 volumes, ranging from 250 to 500 pages each, are written in
Arabic, with occasional indexes in English.  Excerpts were translated
for AP. 

Each has a specific area of expertise.  ``What's your desire?'' the text
asks - then takes the reader step by step through the acquiring and
mixing various explosive materials.  Other sections tell how to blow up
a plane, engage an armored vehicle, surround an airport, spy on a
military base. 

A volume on hand-to-hand combat has a chapter on ``how to threaten with
a knife, piercing with a knife.'' In the Sept.  11 terror attacks in the
United States, in which bin Laden is the suspected mastermind, hijackers
were believed to have been armed with knives or box-cutters. 

In the chapter on security and intelligence, the authors say that ``in
preparedness for war, security and intelligence-gathering of the enemy's
power and strategy have been emphasized, according to the instructions
of the Quran.''

In a chapter on ``basic sabotage and destruction,'' would-be assassins
are offered various options, including ``poison-making, poisonous gases
and poisonous drugs.''

They are instructed on specific plant life that can be used to make
poison gas, how to make the gas, and what quantity is needed to kill a
man.  They are told that a room full of a particular odorless gas will
kill someone in 30 seconds. 

The ``armaments section'' leads the reader through a virtual history of
20th century weaponry, from British Lee-Enfield rifles of 1928 vintage
to the U.S.-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles supplied to the
anti-Soviet rebels in the 1980s. 

The first aid section offers advice on dealing with everything from bee
stings and electric shocks to brain hemorrhages and typhoid. 

``This research is for all mujahedeen (holy warriors) in the world who
are struggling to establish Islamic law wherever they are,'' says one
passage in the manual.  ``According to the Quran, you should fully
prepare yourselves to fight with your enemies.  So wherever the
mujahedeen are fighting, their training in explosives in necessary.''

A volume on tactics urges the faithful ``to adopt the path of jihad
according to the teachings of Islam against the un-Islamic and satanic
states, as well as against those Muslim states where true Islam has not
been introduced.''

The former guerrilla who gave AP the manual retains close ties with some
of the estimated 4,000 Arab fighters in Afghanistan, and he requested
anonymity. 

According to the Afghan, the camps to which the manuals were supposed to
be delivered are Al Badr I and II, in eastern Afghanistan.  The two
camps were targeted with 70 U.S.  Tomahawk cruise missiles in 1998 in
retaliation for bin Laden's suspected role in the bombing of the U.S. 
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 

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