Al-Qaeda killing manual found

The six-centimetre-thick manual on killing, found in an abandoned bomb laboratory here early this month, offers instruction in al-Qaeda's array of lethal demolition skills.

With a text in Arabic complemented by diagrams from United States military manuals, the document offers lessons for rigging explosives, setting and concealing booby traps, and wiring an alarm clock to detonate a bomb.

The book is a photocopy of one volume of the Jihad Encyclopedia, the technical manual that US officials have said is used by al-Qaeda in its war against the West.

The copy was found in this valley in the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq. It was recovered by Kurdish security officials accompanied by a reporter in a training centre operated by Ansar al-Islam, a local armed party.

US military officials say the materials are significant because they show that al-Qaeda can now export its training lessons.

Interviews with prisoners and translations of documents and computer disks show Ansar possessed manuals from al-Qaeda in printed and digital form, ran two training bases with curriculums strikingly similar to those taught in Afghan camps, and managed its affairs much as al-Qaeda did.

Moreover, al-Qaeda seeded it with seasoned fighters who helped organise its training and administration, US and Kurdish officials said. They also said Ansar ran a factory that made the poison ricin and a cyanide poison, and kept up links with Saddam Hussein.

Western intelligence officials are playing down the significance of documents appearing to show that Saddam's regime met an al-Qaeda envoy in Baghdad in March 1998 and sought to arrange a meeting with Osama bin Laden.

"We are aware of fleeting contacts [between Baghdad and al-Qaeda] in the past, but there were no long-term official contacts," a source told The Guardian. "The documents do not take things further forward."

Chapter 9:

Assuming Saddam hasn't provided you with WMD and Syria hasn't provided you with a safe haven what should a Jihadi do?

Step 1. Go to Canada. Those feckless idiots will admit any Achmed, Mohammad or Bin Wahhabi.

Step 2. Find anything that is harmful to humans. Even Monkey poop will do.

Step 3. Travel through the porous border to the United States of America.

Step 4. Travel to the heart of the Infidels. New York City.

Step 5. Drive a cab for a few weeks since the infidels have stifled the cash flow to the heroic Jihadis.

Step 6. Buy a squirt gun that best resembles a real weapon. Fill it with Urine. (Drinking beer will provide alot of this).

Step 7. Find an infidel New York cop, shoot urine at him, Yell JIHAD!!!!! and watch as the infidels recoil in horror at your Jihadic actions. Make sure to brandish your weapon often and frequently. Strike at the heart of the infidel nation.

Notes on step 6, wash thoroughly beforehand and make sure your next of kin are aware of your last known position. Be sure to have $10,000 US on you so the Infidels assume you well connected to Al Qaeda. (Note, this cash will be used to bury you, this part is important).

Step 8. Meet your virgins in paradise and defile them for all time! Jihad my brother! Jihad.

Step 9. When you are sucking on the leathern teats of golgamath, the whore of betrayal, understand that your sacrifice has put the infidels on notice.

Step 10. As you languish in hell for all time, be assured of Allah Akbar. God is great.

Step 11. As satin defiles you for eternity, take solace in your sacrifice! Allah Akbar!

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