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To: Scoobah who wrote (2810)	10/26/2003 6:31:01 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

AL QAIDA MURDER MANUAL SEIZED IN BRITAIN AN Al-Qaida training manual giving sickening tips on how to kill, maim and torture victims has been seized in BRITAIN. people.co.uk The horrifying 100-page document - which The People has seen - was found on a computer after anti-terror police raided a suspect's home. It gives graphic advice on bomb making, poisoning, killing with a knife or gun, and assassination methods. And, in chilling testimony to Al-Qaida's brutality, it details how to extract maximum pain when torturing captives. A Whitehall security source said last night: "This shows what we're up against. Al-Qaida are totally ruthless and their sole aim is to destroy the West." The manual tells Osama bin Laden's fanatical followers: "Islamic governments will never be established through peaceful solutions." Its front cover shows a globe emphasising the Middle East and Africa with a sword through it. Inside, the authors urge holy war against Westerners and encourage followers to become suicide bombers. It advises that killers using a knife should stab their vicim in both eyes or above the genitals. Bomb makers are told how to make fuses and turn TVs and alarm clocks into lethal booby traps. There are also instructions on how to extract the deadly poison Ricin from castor beans. But the most chilling chapter explains how Al-Qaida agents should torture their victims. The ghastly methods include "hanging by the feet upside down, putting out lighted cigarettes on the skin and attacking with vicious dogs." Psychological torture includes threatening to rape the victims' female relatives. We cannot identify the computer suspect for legal reasons. But the document appeared on a US intelligence website after it was used in a New York trial. THE Foreign Office warned Brits not to travel to Saudi Arabia because of a feared Al-Qaida outrage. A statement said: " We believe that terrorists may be in the final phases of planning attacks."

To: Scoobah who wrote (2810)	11/30/2003 2:12:23 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 3959

Iraqi Police May Have Coordinated Attacks By JIM KRANE The Associated Press Saturday, November 29, 2003; 12:02 PM BAGHDAD, Iraq - There is no evidence that al-Qaida terrorists have taken part in the long string of attacks on U.S. or Iraqi targets, but some U.S.-trained Iraqi police appear to have coordinated some of those assaults, the top U.S. military official in Iraq said Saturday. U.S. military officials are concerned that some attacks on Americans have been coordinated by a few of the numerous Iraqi civilians hired by the U.S. military, who may glean intelligence on troop movements and travels of high-ranking officers, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told reporters at the Baghdad Convention Center. "Clearly those are concerns we have. We try to do the vetting (of Iraqi employees) as close as we can," he said. "There have been instances when police were coordinating attacks against the coalition and against the people." He said the insurgency was becoming particularly bloody for Iraqi civilians. Guerrillas launched more than 150 attacks on Iraqi civilian and police targets, killing scores during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended last week. Sanchez also said the United States is boosting the number of infantrymen in Iraq and moving from a force based on tanks and heavy armored vehicles to one specializing in urban raids. A new phase in the Iraq war, known as Iraqi Freedom II, would begin as current forces are rotated out of Iraq and replaced by new units, including several thousand U.S. Marines, Sanchez said. "We are going to change the composition of our forces," Sanchez said. "We'll have more infantry. We're moving to a more mobile force, one that has the right blend of light and heavy." Sanchez said he saw no need for an overall increase in U.S. forces in Iraq, and the number of troops would decrease as transportation, logistics and communications personnel are sent home. The general said some support troops are being replaced by civilian contractors, in the case of transportation and logistics. The military also is starting to use commercial sources for communications, he said, thus allowing more soldiers to depart. Washington currently has 130,000 troops in Iraq. The Department of Defense had announced this month that the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq would drop to about 105,000 after troop rotations that start in January are completed in May. But the additional marines appear to bump up that total to 110,000. "There's no way we're going to put this mission at risk in terms of combat power," Sanchez said, explaining the need for the marines, whose normal tasks tend toward invasions, not occupation duties. "What we're in search of is a very mobile, very flexible, lethal force that can accomplish its mission. Those terms are dictated by the enemy." washingtonpost.com