Posted on 09/03/2002 10:11:07 PM PDT by scripter
An al-Qaida training videotape, captured in Afghanistan, shows Osama bin Laden's terrorists are not only planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction but are preparing to kill Americans with drive-by shootings and home break-ins, through ambushes of law-enforcement officers and targeted assassinations on golf courses, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The videotape was produced, U.S. analysts believe, for al-Qaida's internal use and did not appear to be an external propaganda device.
U.S. military intelligence considers the tape much more significant in what it reveals about al-Qaida's modus operandi than the highly publicized video purchased and broadcast last month by CNN. U.S. forces found a cache of 64 al-Qaida tapes while combing caves and hideouts in Afghanistan. Analysts were surprised by some of what they saw in the latest video and believe they employ terrorist tactics and techniques meant for export to America and other nations.
"None of these training scenarios depicts the type of fighting that al-Qaida engages in within Afghanistan," noted one intelligence expert who saw the tape.
The training video shows al-Qaida operatives practicing the following kinds of assaults:
Analysts point out that all scenarios involving prisoners and hostages ended in execution. None included plans for negotiated settlements for escape by terrorists.
"They plan to kill the prisoners and die in place," explained one analyst.
The "perfect day" as seen by al-Qaida would combine attacks designed to produce a maximum number of casualties with attacks that would give them the opportunity to get "face time" on the news channels to deliver their rhetoric, explained one expert who viewed the video.
"The major take-home lesson here is that although the enemy is known to be seeking the ability and opportunity to use weapons of mass destruction and of an unconventional nature, such as hijacked airliners, they are also spending a lot of time training to carry out attacks the old-fashioned way – attacks executed by small groups of dedicated personnel equipped with little more than small arms," explained one analyst.
Hostages, prisoners and anyone else identified as a target or problem by al-Qaida terrorist operatives will be killed, say those who viewed the tape. There is no point in complying with orders, they say. Those who do not resist ultimately will be rewarded with ritual execution in front of television cameras, according to the tactics and techniques captured on this video.
In one scenario on the video, terrorists pretend to be stranded on a six-lane highway, their vehicle disabled. When a police officer stops to assist, the driver blows his horn. Another occupant of the vehicle opens fire on the police officer with a rifle. In other scenarios, shooters were concealed in the trunk of the car. When the terrorists were picked up by accomplices in a getaway car, the original vehicle was blown up, apparently to destroy evidence.
In another scenario, an innocuous-looking terrorist knocks on the door of a residence, standing in view of the resident and answering questions through a closed door. When the resident opens the door, the terrorist immediately draws his weapon and fires, emptying his weapon into the victim.
In the golf course assassination, the target was on the green, near the hole. A rocket-propelled grenade is fired at a vehicle adjacent to the green, perhaps a security detail. Then the target of the assassination is killed with rifle fire.
When asked if these techniques are intended for use in the U.S., one military intelligence operative said without hesitation, "Yes."
Knock Knock ......Candy Gram !
Stay Safe MAP !
Question is, "how do ya know there shootin' at ya!? Is it a hiss or a zing?".
Still, I'll keep my 'Homeland Defense Rifle' handy in case they do show up at my doorstep.
Stay Safe !...........good hunting !
God, I had had a similar thought: There are so many quiet, peaceful neighborhoods in our cities, where a team of 4 or 6 could quietly drive up in the wee hours of the morning, and spread out and quietly break into the houses and kill. Then move on to the next house that looks like an easy mark. Eventually they would meet armed homeowners who were awakened and ready to respond, and then the terrorists would meet Allah. But by the time everyone in the city woke up that morning there would be terrible news, with the magnitude of the terror slowly unfolding as a couple dozen victims were eventually discovered.
Or they could go around torching several dozen houses in a neighborhood with incendiaries on timers. Etc.
A free, prosperous country like America is very vulnerable in the immediate sense, and we really do rely on the government's ability to respond to an atrocity after the fact with overwhelming force, in hopes that it will deter crime from happening in the first place. In the case of terrorists on a suicide mission that's just part of the script & not a deterrent, but in that case it's essential to destroy that which they value: Their countries, their religious talismans, their relatives, etc.
If it came to that, that is. (Yes I know, it already did last September.)
It is another area, in addition to the larger attacks, that I try and graphically point out in the Dragon's Fury Series
Particularly if and when any larger "nation-states" ally with them ... as I believe several already have.
Keep your powder dry and mind your knot.
I will come up with an Idaho version this evening after work!
mrs meadsjn
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