New al-Qaida training tape shows another side of terror

WorldNetDaily ^ | September 4, 2002 | Joseph Farah

[scripter]

An al-Qaida training videotape, captured in Afghanistan, shows Osama bin Laden's terrorists are not only planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction but are preparing to kill Americans with drive-by shootings and home break-ins, through ambushes of law-enforcement officers and targeted assassinations on golf courses, WorldNetDaily has learned.

The videotape was produced, U.S. analysts believe, for al-Qaida's internal use and did not appear to be an external propaganda device.

U.S. military intelligence considers the tape much more significant in what it reveals about al-Qaida's modus operandi than the highly publicized video purchased and broadcast last month by CNN. U.S. forces found a cache of 64 al-Qaida tapes while combing caves and hideouts in Afghanistan. Analysts were surprised by some of what they saw in the latest video and believe they employ terrorist tactics and techniques meant for export to America and other nations.

"None of these training scenarios depicts the type of fighting that al-Qaida engages in within Afghanistan," noted one intelligence expert who saw the tape.

The training video shows al-Qaida operatives practicing the following kinds of assaults:

• using pickup trucks with shooters concealed in the bed of the trucks;
• using motorcycles as a shooting platform for drive-bys and assassinations;
• execution of prisoners;
• ambushes of law-enforcement officers;
• residential assassinations;
• assassination on a golf course using a rocket-propelled grenade and rifle fire;
• drive-up kidnapping of target walking on a street;
• use of tunnels, storm drains and sewers for infiltration during urban raids;
• rappelling from rooftops of buildings to make entry on upper floors;
• use of motorcycles for grenade attacks; and
• raids on buildings with large numbers of occupants – perhaps schools or office buildings.

Analysts point out that all scenarios involving prisoners and hostages ended in execution. None included plans for negotiated settlements for escape by terrorists.

"They plan to kill the prisoners and die in place," explained one analyst.

The "perfect day" as seen by al-Qaida would combine attacks designed to produce a maximum number of casualties with attacks that would give them the opportunity to get "face time" on the news channels to deliver their rhetoric, explained one expert who viewed the video.

"The major take-home lesson here is that although the enemy is known to be seeking the ability and opportunity to use weapons of mass destruction and of an unconventional nature, such as hijacked airliners, they are also spending a lot of time training to carry out attacks the old-fashioned way – attacks executed by small groups of dedicated personnel equipped with little more than small arms," explained one analyst.

Hostages, prisoners and anyone else identified as a target or problem by al-Qaida terrorist operatives will be killed, say those who viewed the tape. There is no point in complying with orders, they say. Those who do not resist ultimately will be rewarded with ritual execution in front of television cameras, according to the tactics and techniques captured on this video.

In one scenario on the video, terrorists pretend to be stranded on a six-lane highway, their vehicle disabled. When a police officer stops to assist, the driver blows his horn. Another occupant of the vehicle opens fire on the police officer with a rifle. In other scenarios, shooters were concealed in the trunk of the car. When the terrorists were picked up by accomplices in a getaway car, the original vehicle was blown up, apparently to destroy evidence.

In another scenario, an innocuous-looking terrorist knocks on the door of a residence, standing in view of the resident and answering questions through a closed door. When the resident opens the door, the terrorist immediately draws his weapon and fires, emptying his weapon into the victim.

In the golf course assassination, the target was on the green, near the hole. A rocket-propelled grenade is fired at a vehicle adjacent to the green, perhaps a security detail. Then the target of the assassination is killed with rifle fire.

When asked if these techniques are intended for use in the U.S., one military intelligence operative said without hesitation, "Yes."

[Dialup Llama]

>In another scenario, an innocuous-looking terrorist knocks on the door of a residence, standing in view of the resident and answering questions through a closed door. When the resident opens the door, the terrorist immediately draws his weapon and fires, emptying his weapon into the victim.

You try that in certain parts of the US, you'll get killed. Al-Queda doesn't realize that Americans are not the same as Phillipino villagers.

[scripter]

Should this scenario unfold... no mercy.

[gg188]

Time for serious profiling not just in airports (past time for that) but also on every street corner, every sidewalk, every store.

[MissAmericanPie]

Like I would open my door to any "innocuous-looking" Arab. They have no business knocking on my door. And as far as storm drains go, half the children in a friends neighborhood use the storm drains to walk home from school in, so they might find them a little crowded.

[paul544]

And after the first attack, there won't be a house in America without a gun. Except the Brady house.

[scripter]

Time for serious profiling not just in airports (past time for that) but also on every street corner, every sidewalk, every store.

I was thinking the same thing. We live next door to some of the nicest folks that fit the profile. They would be collateral damage. Many innocents will perish. Should this really happen and I catch them in my house, I will soak them in pigs blood and have them drawn and quartered with my Dodge diesel pickup. It will be hell. It will be war.

[Nateman]

The drug war has led to this kind of activity being an everyday occurance in the cities already.The Typical American is a lot tougher then these morons realize.

[griffin]

Wow. This kinda makes sense. Imagine all this going down with a decent percentage of sleeper cells becoming active on ONE day? First, in all major cities do some assaults on LEO hangouts and stations. Simultaneously, hit neighborhoods, schools, hospitals and nursing homes...shopping malls? Opportunities are endless.

How many Afgahn El-kida trained terrorists did Bush say their estimate was, that were processed thru those camps? How many could be in the US now? All it takes is a cell of 2 or 3 to pin down a whole police station for an hour or two....how much damage can be done in a neighborhood during that time?

Hooray for the 2nd Amednment. Damn....and school just started.

[scripter]

And after the first attack, there won't be a house in America without a gun.

We're down below 2000 rounds. Time to stock up. Wish I could see the look on some liberals face as they read that. :-)

[altair]

And after the first attack, there won't be a house in America without a gun.

They'll have to repeal a whole bunch of gun control laws first. How about homes near schools that have been declared gun-free zones by law?

[altair]

In the golf course assassination, the target was on the green, near the hole. A rocket-propelled grenade is fired at a vehicle adjacent to the green, perhaps a security detail. Then the target of the assassination is killed with rifle fire.

Urgh. Security on a golf course is a nightmare.

[meadsjn]

This could become unpleasant.

[Squantos]

Bring it on RAG HEADS !

Stay Safe Meadsjn and go to the link (cut and paste) below for your own state permit !!

http://www.boguspermits.com/NewFiles/p_terror.html

[paul544]

That will go out the window the first time there is an attack on a school. I still like to think that Americans will only be pushed so far.

[meadsjn]

Hostages, prisoners and anyone else identified as a target or problem by al-Qaida terrorist operatives will be killed, say those who viewed the tape. There is no point in complying with orders, they say. Those who do not resist ultimately will be rewarded with ritual execution in front of television cameras, according to the tactics and techniques captured on this video.

I'm willing to risk a fine until I can get a permit formatted.

[meadsjn]

Hey -- no fair! There's no permit for either Idaho or Washington on that link.

[Redcloak]

And after the first attack, there won't be a house in America without a gun. Except the Brady house.

Maybe Sarah could borrow her son's deer rifle.

[meadsjn]

Ahh! That'll work!

[Squantos]

LOL !.......If there will ever be a jury nullification for poaching tangos it will be now IMHO........ I have the sticker on my vehicles hoping one of em will be driven to "act" upon his hate for all things American.

My other sticker on my rear window is one of the hobes kid pissing on Usama Bin Ladens name. Call it my version of hunting over "Bait".....Texas Style !

Stay Safe !

[Squantos]

LOL !

Knock Knock ......Candy Gram !

Stay Safe MAP !

[meadsjn]

Thank you. If this is for real, folks everywhere are going to have to shape up real fast.

[MissAmericanPie]

Safe is my middle name.=o) You stay safe too.

[griffin]

talk about a race war....we'd be profiling heavy after that...maybe???

[griffin]

Yeah! No Minnesota either! :(

[griffin]

I'd hafta check the rule book. But I'm pretty near certain that when the deer start shooting at ya...it's kinda ok if you nail 'em w/o a permit.

Question is, "how do ya know there shootin' at ya!? Is it a hiss or a zing?".

[meadsjn]

I'm not sure; never had the pleasure ... yet. I was regular Navy.

[The KG9 Kid]

If this is true -- and I'm thinking that it ain't -- then this proves that Al-Queda is primarily made up of geeky Arab adolescents engaged in fantasy role-playing games.

Still, I'll keep my 'Homeland Defense Rifle' handy in case they do show up at my doorstep.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Bump for Terrorist Hunting Permit.

[c-b 1]

Time to start packing the cavity in all our hollow points with LARD.

[Squantos]

Good way to learn what it sounds like it to sit in a target pit and mark targets as shots are made from 600 yard line. The only other way to learn is something you won't enjoy at all.......trust me :o)

Stay Safe !...........good hunting !

[jennyp]

In another scenario, an innocuous-looking terrorist knocks on the door of a residence, standing in view of the resident and answering questions through a closed door. When the resident opens the door, the terrorist immediately draws his weapon and fires, emptying his weapon into the victim.

God, I had had a similar thought: There are so many quiet, peaceful neighborhoods in our cities, where a team of 4 or 6 could quietly drive up in the wee hours of the morning, and spread out and quietly break into the houses and kill. Then move on to the next house that looks like an easy mark. Eventually they would meet armed homeowners who were awakened and ready to respond, and then the terrorists would meet Allah. But by the time everyone in the city woke up that morning there would be terrible news, with the magnitude of the terror slowly unfolding as a couple dozen victims were eventually discovered.

Or they could go around torching several dozen houses in a neighborhood with incendiaries on timers. Etc.

A free, prosperous country like America is very vulnerable in the immediate sense, and we really do rely on the government's ability to respond to an atrocity after the fact with overwhelming force, in hopes that it will deter crime from happening in the first place. In the case of terrorists on a suicide mission that's just part of the script & not a deterrent, but in that case it's essential to destroy that which they value: Their countries, their religious talismans, their relatives, etc.

If it came to that, that is. (Yes I know, it already did last September.)

[Jeff Head]

If they get the chance ... it will IMHO.

It is another area, in addition to the larger attacks, that I try and graphically point out in the Dragon's Fury Series

Particularly if and when any larger "nation-states" ally with them ... as I believe several already have.

Keep your powder dry and mind your knot.

[Jeff Head]

LOL!

I will come up with an Idaho version this evening after work!

[Jeff Head]

Alright ... no need for a single state version now that you created that.

[scripter]

BTTT for a new day of readers.

[meadsjn]

And I suppose all of us gals will be standing in long lines at the local Post Office to pick these up for you guys. I do hope the migratory illegal alien catch-and-release (outside our borders) stamp will be available at the same time, I'm do not want to stand through those lines twice!

mrs meadsjn

[Minutemen]

Well, al queda is absolutely right as to where they belong:

"Use of tunnels, storm drains and sewers for infiltration during urban raids.

[Pagey]

Gee,I wonder why the Gov't hasn't let the average citizen see these videotapes,or at least have 60 Minutes (Gack!!!) or some news Channel tell Americans about these Videos.(And I'm supposed to just go about my daily business and not profile,huh?Riiiiiiight!)They do want to kill us and that fact has to to be kept in the forefront of our minds.These videos offer one more solid reason to oppose gun control in the U.S.A.

[Destructor]

Bring it on ragheads! Destructor has somethin' fo' yo ass! I'm loaded for Bear, and spoiling for a fight!! God help you if you break into my house.

[Delbert]

Should this scenario unfold... no mercy.

There will not be a mosque left standing in the U.S.A.

[NorCoGOP]

When asked if these techniques are intended for use in the U.S., one military intelligence operative said without hesitation, "Yes."

Attention al-qaeda fan club members (aka protestors) - this means you are targets too...wake up!!

[Travis McGee]

It will be hard to find a mosque in the USA one month after this crap breaks out in a major way.

[Eustace]

We can't underestimate them or overreact.

I have enough stuff to take care of my neighborhood and I'm not afraid to kill anyone who means to do me harm. There won't be any prisoners here.

I can't tell the difference between the middle east people so I hope the ones not involved stay off of the streets.

What bothers me is the way the Los Angles riots started , any excuse for a free for all. I have to imagine the same things happening across America in large cities , which to me means FEMA taking over and gun confiscation.

Oh well.........

You've always got a place to go griffin , stay Well

[The KG9 Kid]

Suppose it's time to bump this thread...

[Senator Pardek]

Good work.

[M. Thatcher]

excellent

[meadsjn]

An al-Qaida training videotape, captured in Afghanistan, shows Osama bin Laden's terrorists are not only planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction but are preparing to kill Americans with drive-by shootings and home break-ins, through ambushes of law-enforcement officers and targeted assassinations on golf courses, WorldNetDaily has learned. When it hits the golf courses, maybe the news will go mainstream.

[aristeides]

That's just what I was thinking when I read that.

By the way, I had dinner at a country club in Montgomery County last night!

[meadsjn]

Bumping with link back to current events:

Police confirm shooting at Michael's