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Hamas has been disseminating to its followers in the Gaza Strip a detailed terrorism training manual that teaches would-be bombers how to make explosives and conceal them in household items such as televisions, according to documents seized by the Israeli military during recent raids. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers discovered the handbook on the ground in the Gaza Strip as they conducted raids of homes and other facilities used by Hamas to plan its terror activities. Hamas’ terrorism manuals instruct readers on how to build homemade explosive devices and how to set them to explode in unlikely places.

A 2004 al-Qaeda Strategy Manual can now be downloaded at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center website here. The translation of this manual by al-Qaeda strategist, Abu Bakr Naji, was completed in May by the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.

INDONESIAN authorities have released the 'terror handbook' followed by the Bali bombers to kill almost 200 people. The chilling blueprint for the blasts – detailing step by step how to assemble and detonate the explosive devices – was revealed yesterday. Indonesian police said the manual, which was found at a house in Java during the arrest of massacre mastermind Mukhlas earlier this month, was followed to the letter by the bombers. "What is stated in the document, and the materials detailed in it, is exactly what was found [at the bomb site], so what has been done by this terrorist...