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Click here ---> http://88.80.13.160/wiki/US_Boomerang_weapon_system_users_manualNo, I'm sorry, help me out here, please... How do they get away with this crap? Am I missing something? Sheesh!

A teenager has been jailed after an Old Bailey jury found him guilty of having a terrorism-related explosives manual. Abdul Patel, 18, of east London, was said in court to be "ready, willing and able" to help terrorists. Judge Peter Rook sentenced him to six months in a Young Offenders Institution after rejecting mitigation for a suspended sentence. The judge said Patel was guilty of possessing the document - but was not a "radicalised or politicised Islamist". In September, a jury at the Old Bailey found Patel guilty of one charge of possessing a document likely to be useful for...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2007 – The Defense Department today presented to Congress its manual outlining rules for military commissions as they will be conducted under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The manual includes some major departures from past military commissions proceedings, such as affording detainees the right to self representation and directing that no classified information be presented in court without the detainees’ presence. “The overriding considerations reflected in the Manual for Military Commissions are fairness and fidelity to the Military Commissions Act of 2006,” Daniel J. Dell'Orto, principal deputy general counsel for DoD, said at a Pentagon...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2006 – “Learn” and “adapt” are the key messages of the new Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which just hit the streets. The Counterinsurgency Field Manual, FM 3-24 and Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5, is a unique joint effort between the Army and Marines to put in place doctrine to help operators as they face the challenges of asymmetric warfare. The manual codifies an important lesson of insurgencies: it takes more than the military to win. “There are more than just lethal operations involved in a counterinsurgency campaign,” said Conrad Crane, director of the...

THE Pentagon has released a new manual defining the acceptable treatment of US military prisoners, revising an earlier edition from 1992. The new manual is titled "Human Intelligence Collector Operations" and applies to all US armed services but not the CIA, reported news agency AP. Its release comes more than two years after the scandal surrounding prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, when photographs of US soldiers degrading Iraqi detainees were made public. The photographs showed US soldiers smiling besides various prisoners who were naked, chained to leashes and covered in faeces. The manual prohibits eight of these 'interrogation...

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.

Abu Hamza, the Muslim preacher, had a 10-volume terrorism manual at his home which was dedicated to Osama bin Laden and featured a list of targets including Big Ben, skyscrapers, airports and football stadiums, a court heard yesterday. The Encyclopaedia of Afghani Jihad was written in Arabic between 1989 and 1999 with the help of Mujahadeen fighters in Afghanistan. Abu Hamza supporters Supporters of Abu Hamza outside court yesterday It featured sections on explosives, sabotage and assassination, the Old Bailey was told. The first volume talks of a holy war against English, French and Communist "imperialists" who protect Israel. It...

SHAWNEE, Kan. - A would-be carjacker got away with nothing more than the keys Monday after he apparently was thwarted by the vehicle's manual transmission. The thief was armed with a shotgun when he ordered a 26-year-old man out of his Chevrolet Camaro in a suburban Kansas City parking lot. The driver complied, but when the robber got into the car he was unable to manage the stick shift. The robber fled the scene in a four-door car that someone else was driving. Police are investigating whether the attempted theft is linked to four similar robberies in Johnson County during...

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2005 – If you're a Muslim extremist captured while fighting your holy war against "infidels," avoid revealing information at all costs, don't give your real name and claim that you were mistreated or tortured during your detention. This instruction comes straight from the pages of an official al Qaeda training manual, and officials at the detention facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say they see clear evidence that detainees are well-versed in its contents. Police in Manchester, England, discovered the manual, which has come to be known as the "Manchester document," in 2000 while searching computer...

180 page volume of OBL's Terrorism Manual.

Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga, Moazzam Begg and Richard Belmar finally arrived back in Britain last week after their three-year imprisonment in Guantanamo, to near-universal acclaim and sympathy. Their lawyers insist that they are totally innocent of any involvement in terrorism. The men themselves say that they have been tortured, and that the admissions made by three of them — that they had been recruited by al-Qa'eda , and undergone training in terrorist camps in Afghanistan — are completely false. The horrors of what undoubtedly took place in Abu Ghraib, the prison in Iraq, have convinced many people that the Americans...

This is a followup to this thread. Pierce County (Tacoma) is the latest to report, and the results are not pretty.Pierce reported a net +232 for Gregoire and +201 for Rossi. With two counties left to report, the net change is +553 Gregoire, +554 Rossi. At the moment, Rossi has gained a total of 1 vote from the recount, for a net lead of +43.The problem is that in the remaining two counties (Spokane and King), there are a total of 595,303 uncounted Gregoire votes and only 455,588 uncounted Rossi votes. What's worse is that Pierce's results and yesterday's results...

This is a followup to yesterday's thread.8 more counties reported today, bringing the total to 32 of 39. Gregoire's picked up 148 votes while Rossi's picked up 248, a net gain of +60.The bad news is that the margin of remaining Gregoire votes over remaining Rossi votes has increased. 1,006,586 Gregoire votes remain to be counted, while only 878,072 Rossi votes remain.But there's good news, too. Rossi did quite well today, and closed the "achievement gap" in the number of extra votes per tabulated vote by a good amount. Yesterday, Gregoire was getting an 0.0621% rate of added votes while...

Folks, I gotta say, ain't looking too good.As of today, 20% of the ballots have been counted, comprising 24 of Washington's 39 counties. Gregoire has picked up a net 144 votes while Rossi has picked up 190, giving Rossi a current lead of 88 votes.Sound good? Read on. Initial Counted Gain Remaining to count Gregoire 1,372,442 232,019 144 1,140,279 Rossi 1,372,484 318,100 190 1,054,194 As we can see, there are nearly 90,000 more Gregoire votes to count than Rossi votes. Delving deeper, we find: Counted Gain Gain % Expected gain Gregoire 232,019 144 0.0621% 708 Rossi 318,100 190 0.0598% 630...

With 12% of the vote counted: Gregoire +108 Rossi +136 Net Rossi +28 Total Rossi +70 Much too close for comfort, especially with King not expected to report for at least another week. It's good that Rossi is gaining, but I'd be much happier if his lead were in the triple digits.In the counties that have reported so far, the biggest net swings by far were both in Rossi's favor, Kitsap +10, Walla Walla +11. Kitsap also accounted for more than half of the new votes, with 154 out of the net 244 for the two main candidates. I realize...

I just found this book in a box of old stuff my dad sent me. It's in mint condition, printed in 1952, and startling in its blunt ambition: to teach you how to kill with your hands or a knife. Pictures throughout. Silver letters on a deep blue cover: COLD STEEL This is a keeper. Here's the preface: "Brutality makes apology impossible. But as brutality begets cruelty, so apology begets explanation. And, since America is not a brutal nation, the words between these covers are vulnerable to condemnation. But an honest purpose cannot be damned. As long as other nations...

Official Democrat Field Guide For Voter Fraud As the election nears polls are showing that this will be a close election. We need everyone, and I mean everyone, living or dead, resident or non-resident, felon or non-felon to vote for Kerry this November 2nd. In order to help you help us win the election the following points have been developed : DEAD VOTERS : + NOTE: It is not necessary to actually bring the dead person to the polls to vote. As long as they are a registered voter you can simply show up youself, or have someone else show...

Bet a lot of you would like to read this. I found it posted on Instapundit. Enjoy.

Al-Qaeda : The 39 principles of Holy War By Joel Leyden - Israel News Agency 4 September 2003 No media vehicle has proven more potent for the spread of radical teachings of "Islamic Holy War" than the Internet. And Al-Qaeda knows it. In fact, one of the 39 principles of Al-Qaeda's Jihad, which has recently been exposed in a private study by Israeli researcher Col. Jonathan D. Halevi, explicitly illustrates a how-to chapter on Performing Electronic Jihad . These people are not riding donkeys, rather these 21st century Jihadists have their fingers dancing on computer keyboards across the globe. From...

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...