15.11.2007
Dangerous material
Just how accessible are the documents found on Samina Malik's computer? Some examples should suffice to make the point.
Just how accessible are the documents found on Samina Malik's computer? Some examples should suffice to make the point.
- The Mujahideen poisons handbook is easily obtainable online. Apart from having been devastatingly exposed as something a real terrorist would never use (see, for example, From the Poisoner's handbook to the Botox shoe of death! at www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2006/06/annals-of-terrorism-abandon-all.html), the book is modelled on a western publication anyway - Maxwell Hutchkinson's The poisoner's handbook (ISBN 0879471964), which is legally available in the UK (by post from Revaluation Books, Exeter).
- Then there is the Encyclopaedia jihad, which, under its fuller title Encyclopaedia of jihad (compiled and edited by RK Pruthi, New Delhi, 2002, ISBN 812611116X), is also currently available by post, this time from Majestic Books in London W4.
- As for How to win in hand to hand combat, this is a 1943 US semi-official manual by William E Fairbairn, which appears on a perfectly legal DVD-ROM also containing over 900 other US military books. It is openly available from the website www.scarsofheroes.com.
- Earlier this week a US marines sniper manual was being offered for £12.74 by a UK seller on eBay. And a manual for the Dragunov sniper rifle is freely available at http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/manual/english/svd/#1