Time for mass internment and or deportation by the fedgov.
Or we can just wait for a few more 9-11 level events, (or worse), and then it will be "visas subject to review under Rule 308".
AP/PTI • Islamabad • October 2 • 2:15 PM IST
The Encyclopaedia of Jihad, or holy war, running into 11 volumes and produced by the Al-Qaeda network of Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, makes for a chilling how-to read on what the group calls the "basic rules of sabotage and terror." The volumes were acquired by The Associated Press from a disgruntled Libyan fighter, who said he stole them from the headquarters of bin Laden's fighters in Kandahar, also the home base of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers.
Most of the information is available on the Internet, experts say. But the compilation, and the commentary accompanying it, provides a glimpse of the inner workings of the organisation accused of carrying out the world's worst terror attack, the coordinated strikes of September 11 in the United States.
The preface explains that the training manuals were compiled in preparation for the battle against "the enemies of our movement, the enemies of Allah, for any Islamic group."
Groups plotting terror attacks, it admonishes, "have to think of a new security environment so they are able to face our enemies in all fields." Each volume begins with the same set of dedications: To Osama bin Laden, who "took part in jihad with his life and money in Afghanistan. He is the one who is still inducing the young mujahideen for jihad."
Other dedications are to Abdullah Azzam, an Egyptian who was killed during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and to the leaders of the Islamic jihad in Afghanistan, to those who produced and translated the training manuals; and finally, to the people and government of Pakistan.
Pakistan, which has allied itself with the United States in the confrontation over bin Laden, is described as having given permission to "use their territory despite immense pressure from our enemies." The dedication adds, "We pray God to save Pakistan from any unforeseen danger."
The 11 volumes - written in Arabic, with the occasional index in English, and translated for the AP - each have a specific area of expertise. For example, one is devoted to explosives: making them, and setting them off.
Religious exhortations are scattered throughout the texts - "This research is for all mujahideen in the world who are struggling to establish Islamic law wherever they are," says one passage.
"According to the Quran, you should fully prepare yourselves to fight with your enemies. So wherever the mujahideen are fighting, their training in explosives is necessary."
"What's your desire?" the text asks - then takes the reader through steps to acquire types of explosive materials and how to mix them. In a volume on hand-to-hand combat, there is a chapter on "how to threaten with a knife, piercing with a knife."
In the attacks, the hijackers are believed to have used knives to attack the flight crews and take control of the aircraft.
In the chapter on security and intelligence, the authors say that "in preparedness for war, security and gathering intelligence of the enemy's power and strategy has been emphasised."
Recruits studying the encyclopaedia are told of a variety of ways to carry out assassinations, including what was translated as "poison-making, poisonous gases and poisonous drugs."
In a chapter on "basic sabotage and terror," readers are instructed on how to make poisonous gas, and what quantity to use. They are told that a room full of a particular odourless gas will kill someone in 30 seconds.
Analysts from two Western countries who read some of the volumes said although much of information is widely available elsewhere the detailed volumes represent a new level of sophistication in Al-Qaeda's training apparatus.
The books were to be delivered to bin Laden camps called Al Badr I and Al Badr II, which were targeted with 70 US Tomahawk cruise missiles in 1998 in retaliation for bin Laden's suspected role in the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, that killed 224 people.
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."
Other volumes offer instruction on first aid and light weaponry. Another is devoted to tanks - their history, use and maintenance.
In its report on global terrorism produced earlier this year, the US State department called Afghanistan a hub of terrorism.
Western observers say there are an estimated 10,000 fighters for terrorist groups in Afghanistan - an estimated 4,000 of them from Arab countries, the rest Pakistanis, Uzbeks and Chechens.
Uh, what is that, martial law code or something.
This is the option it appears the Liberals will insist upon.
Stay well - stay safe - stay armed - yorktown