[iwar] [fc:Terrorist.manual.extracts]

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Friday September 21 9:52 PM ET 
Manual Advised Terrorists How to Act
<a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010921/us/attacks_terrorism_manual_3.html">http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010921/us/attacks_terrorism_manual_3.html>

By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - No beards or other
``Islamic characteristics.'' Do not speak loudly or otherwise draw
attention to yourself.  Rent apartments in areas where neighbors do not
know each other well.  The suicide hijackers in last week's attacks
apparently practiced terrorism by the book - a 180-page manual for
Muslim operatives living undercover among their enemies in ``godless
areas'' of the world. 

The manual, ``Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants,'' was
discovered last year during an investigation of Osama bin Laden, and
gives terrorists precise instructions on how to act while they await
their orders to strike.  Investigators have not said whether the 19
hijackers ever read the manual, but glimpses of their lives suggest they
conducted themselves according to its instructions during the months
they spent in the United States. 

Experts say the manual illustrates the inner workings of bin Laden's
al-Qaida organization, the prime suspect in the attacks.  It also
foreshadows the suicide hijackings themselves, in which the terrorists
used boxcutters and knives.  For example, the manual's
``Assassinations'' section gives precise instructions on how to use
weapons with blades, saying the ``enemy must be struck in one of these
lethal spots: Anywhere in the rib cage, both or one eye, the back of the
head, the end of the spinal column.'' The hijackers ``seem to have
followed (the manual) as closely as they could ...  making sure no one
knew the whole picture,'' said George Andrew, former deputy head of
anti-terrorism for the FBI's New York City office. 

The manual says anyone willing to ``undergo martyrdom'' should be ``able
to act, pretend and mask himself'' behind enemy lines.  Among its
instructions: -Do not address others with traditional Islamic greetings
in which Allah's name is invoked.  -Do not cause trouble in your
neighborhood.  Do not park in no-parking zones.  -Do not live near
police stations.  -Do not appear to be overly inquisitive.  -Burn
letters immediately after reading them and get rid of the ashes, too. 
-Rent apartments ``in newly developed areas where people don't know each
other.'' -Use codes when talking on the telephone.  -Try not to be
``chatty and talkative'' in public.  -Maintain an appearance ``that does
not indicate Islamic orientation (beard, toothpick, book, long shirt,
small Koran).'' Most television images of the men thought to have been
aboard the airliners show them without beards.  And people who met them
said they wore Western clothes. 

Neighbors of some of the men in California, Florida and Maryland said
they lived in suburbs where they did not stand out.  In Florida they
moved frequently, staying in motels and apartments around the state. 
They also joined gyms.  One made small talk with a neighbor about
sports.  Another posted a personal ad on the Internet.  People who came
into contact with them described them as quiet, friendly and sometimes
timid men who gave few, if any, hints that they harbored deep resentment
against the United States.  Nawaq Alhamzi, a suspected hijacker aboard
the jet that crashed into the Pentagon, lived last fall in a new
175-unit San Diego apartment building where so many people came and went
that he was barely noticed.  He always paid the rent on time. 

Some of the hijackers appeared to bend a rule in the manual stating that
``there is nothing that permits ...  drinking wine or fornicating.''
Days before the World Trade Center attack, Mohamed Atta and Marwan
Al-Shehhi were seen drinking at a sports bar in Hollywood, Fla.  Majed
Moqued was spotted perusing adult videos in two Laurel, Md., stores.  He
did not buy anything.  FBI agents discovered the manual last year in
Manchester, England, in one of several ``guest houses'' authorities say
al-Qaida used to harbor terrorist cells.  The FBI was investigating bin
Laden and his suspected role in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. 
embassies in Africa. 

A translation of manual from the original Arabic was made public last
spring, when prosecutors in New York introduced it as evidence in the
embassy bombing trial that ended with the convictions of four bin Laden
associates.  After studying the manual, the FBI suspected that bin
Laden's soldiers were attempting to infiltrate American society, said
Andrew, the former FBI anti-terrorism official.  But investigators
apparently did not conclude that terrorists had already put themselves
in position to strike.  They ``didn't think they were at that chapter
yet,'' Andrew said.  - Associated Press Writers Pat Milton and Larry
Neumeister contributed to this story

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