[Travis McGee]

After another 9-11, if the fedgov won't do it, the Ten Million Deer Rifle Army will.

The standard operational unit size in that army will be one.

[piasa]

My eyesight is bad... I'll have to make do with a shotgun.

[piasa]

Encyclopedia of Afghan Jihad

This in an overview of the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Jihad, or holy war, reputedly stolen from the headquarters of bin Laden’s fighters in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Principal Subjects Addressed

Book 1: Explosives
Eight chapters with diagrams and formulas to handle, manufacture and detonate explosives.

Specific Topics: How to disarm explosives; scientific theories; industrial terror; the use of liquid explosives.

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Book 2: First aid
Methods of first aid including the handling of psychological shock, the treatment of burns and electrical shocks.

Specific topics: Describes the handling of several medical needs including delivering a child.

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Book 3: Pistols, revolvers
Illustrated guide to the care and use of pistols, revolvers and specialized hand-guns.

Specific topics: Where to keep guns in the house and how to use silencers.

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Book 4: Bombs, mines
Illustrated manual on grenades, bombs, mines, mine fields and mine war.

Specific topics: Recipes for mines made of raw materials; How to pass through a mine field.

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Book 5: Security, intelligence
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.

Specific topics: 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: Tactics Principals of war including battle organization, reconnaissance, infiltration, ambush; elaboration on incursion.

Specific topics: Muslims are urged to follow the Jihad, established in Afghanistan against un-Islamic states and stated where true Islam is not practiced.

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Book 7: Weapons making
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 steel files.

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Book 8: Tanks 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: Close fighting
Physical fitness; ackedo and other forms of self defense; how to overcome a rival.

Specific topics: How to attack with knives, chairs; methods of releasing oneself from a grip.

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Book 10: Topography area survey
Natural directions; using a compass; topography; following directions on maps; military area survey; area survey apparatus.

Specific topics: This book looks at the estimation and measurement of distance, height, and speed for military use.

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Book 11: Armament
Use of small arms including antiaircraft arms, machine guns, rifles, antitank arms and artillery.

Specific topics: Reviews mostly Russian weapons; offers practical details on the assembly, cleaning, and use of weapons.

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source - Associated Press, October 2, 2001