Report: Investigators have CD-ROM copies of six-volume terrorism manual

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20000918-924-terroristcd.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 18, 2000

ARLINGTON, Va. -- U.S. intelligence agencies have obtained CD-ROM
copies of a six-volume manual they believe is used by Saudi dissident
Osama bin Laden to train recruits at his terrorism camps in
Afghanistan, USA Monday reported.

The 1,000-page manual contains information on how to recruit
followers, shoot weapons, carry out assassinations and other terrorist
operations and assemble bombs similar to those that destroyed U.S.
embassies in East Africa in 1998, the paper reports in Monday's
editions, citing unnamed U.S. intelligence officials.

Bin Laden, who is believed to be in Afghanistan, has been indicted in
the United States in connection with the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania
that killed more than 200 people.

He has denied involvement.

USA Today said the CIA and FBI declined to comment on the manual, but
that other intelligence officials called it a "gold mine" of
information they hope to use to help slow or disrupt terrorist
operations.

White House spokesman Joe Lockhart declined comment specifically about
the manual, but said bin Laden's organization has become more
sophisticated in its training techniques, "which requires the kind of
response that I think you've seen from this government over the past
few years."

USA Today said the manual, in CD-ROM form, recently was given to the
CIA and the FBI by intelligence officials from Jordan, who seized it
from one of 16 men arrested in Jordan in December for allegedly
planning New Year's attacks in Israel and Jordan.

The paper quoted U.S. officials as saying they have "positively
confirmed" copies of the manual were distributed by bin Laden.


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