[VadeRetro]

I had one, once. Never noticed anything all that sexy in it.

Some of the camp furniture you were supposed to lash together out of sticks looked like it would have taken a month. Stuff about hygiene, instructions for playing "Capture the Flag," terrorist training like that.

[BenLurkin]

Generally speaking, modern Governments are increasingly hostile to anything which leads people to be self-sustaingin. Much better for the subjects to be as dependent as possible.

[jwh_Denver]

It teaches youngsters survival in the wild. But forget Akela, it's al-Qaeda Whitehall fears.

What a nuck. If al-Qaeda resorts to the Boy Scout Handbook what's the worry about them?

[skinkinthegrass]

..not to mention "SURVIVE SAFETY ANYWHERE (The S.A.S. Survival Manual)" by John Wiseman, Pub. 1986 Crown Publishers, NY....A fine book. :))

[NeoCaveman]

BWahahaha

[atomicpossum]

Anti-terror chiefs are convinced fanatics will use the book. Under the Terrorism Act 2000 merely owning a copy puts you in the frame.

Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews confirmed: "I've seen it on a list of books in an indictment. It's undoubtedly an offence just to possess it."

Yeah. Right.

Is this from the Onion?

[mrsmith]

Three badges he
could wear...

For hiding away in the Tora Bora range with his troop.

For posting a tape of his own voice and getting it played on Al Jazeera.

For keeping note of every Awacs spy plane observed overhead.

[onedoug]

"The Boy Scout Handbook". Good survival guide.

[freekitty]

Is this for real?

[DonQ]

I would honestly have supposed that (a) the Scout handbook in English would have limited readership among Al-Qaeda's troops, (b) there are Boy Scout publications already available in Arabic so banning the British edition wouldn't have any effect, and (c) although the British Boy Scout book might give British boys a little information on living in the wild - there aren't too many places in the British Isles that are more than an hour's walk from a town or city - there must be better books in Britain, such as Army manuals left over from WW2.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[armyboy]

Gee. are some the books from Paladin Press on that list too?

[MountainPatriot]

This is absurd. That the Scout Handbook would be of any value to hard-core terrorists.

The Patriot Act has gone too far and Powell should hasten his exit.