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of Afghan Jihad The Associated Press acquired an 11-volume Encyclopedia of Jihad, or holy war, reputedly stolen from the headquarters of bin Laden's fighters in Kandahar, also the home base of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. Here is an overview of the index to that encyclopedia.  |
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The book includes |
| Book 1 | Eight chapters with diagrams and formulas to handle, manufacture and detonate explosives. | How to disarm explosives; scientific theories; industrial terror; the use of liquid explosives. | ||
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| Book 2 | Methods of first aid including the handling of psychological shock, the treatment of burns and electrical shocks. | Describes the handling of several medical needs including delivering a child. | ||
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| Book 3 | Illustrated guide to the care and use of pistols, revolvers and specialized hand-guns. | Where to keep guns in the house and how to use silencers. | ||
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| Book 4 | Illustrated manual on grenades, bombs mines, mine fields and mine war. | Recipes for mines made of raw materials; how to pass through a mine field. | ||
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| Book 5 | How to spy; kinds of security; military intelligence; sabotage; communications; security within Jihad; secret observation; assassination; brainwashing; protection of leaders; laws of sabotage; arms use. | Punishment of spies, Muslim and non-Muslim; interrogation; analyzing information; psychological war; poison use; opening locks; U.S. military training; assassination by riding a motorcycle. | ||
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| Book 6 | Principals of war including battle organization, reconnaissance, infiltration, ambush; elaboration on incursion. | Muslims are urged to follow the Jihad, established in Afghanistan against un-Islamic states and states where true Islam is not practiced. | ||
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| Book 7 | The book consists mostly of diagrams of machinery for the manufacture of arms. | On the manufacture of bullets and silencers; metal casting; the use of a steel files. | ||
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| Book 8 | The anatomy and history of tanks, their effectiveness and descriptions of different types. | Cost of maintenance of tanks; how to drive a tank. | ||
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| Book 9 | Physical fitness; aikido and other forms of self defense; how to overcome a rival. | How to attack with knives, chairs; methods of releasing oneself from a grip. | ||
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| Book 10 | Natural directions; using a compass; topography; following directions on maps; military area survey; area survey apparatus. | This book looks at the estimation and measurement of distance, height and speed for military use. | ||
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| Book 11 | Use of small arms including antiaircraft arms, machine guns, rifles, antitank arms and artillery. | Reviews mostly Russian weapons; offers practical details on the assembly, cleaning and use of weapons. | ||
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