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"Posted: (Worldnet) September 4, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah Copyright 2002 WorldNetDaily.com 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 targeted on golf courses, WorldNetDaily has learned. The videotape was produced, U.S. analysis believe, for al-Qaida's internal use and did not appear to be an external propaganda device. U.S. 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. Analysists 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 John Holschen of Insights Training Center, who produced a report on the tape for military and law enforcement officials. The training video shows al-Qaida operatives practicing the following kinds of assaults: *Using pickup trucks with shooters concealed in the bed of the trucks; *using motorcycles as a shooting platform for drive-bys and assassinations; *execution of prisoners; *ambushes of law-enforcement officers; *residential assassinations; *assassination on a golf course using a RPG and rifle fire; *drive-up kidnapping of target walking on a street; *use of tunnels, storm drains and sewers for infiltration during urban raids; *rapelling from rooftops of buildings to make entry on upper floors; Analysists 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" wrote Holschen. 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 Holschen. "The major take-home leson 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 Holschen.. When asked if these techniques are intended for use in the U.S., one military intelligence operative said without hesitation, "yes".