Marines on an operation to eliminate insurgents that began Friday broke through the outside wall of a building in this small rural village to find a torture center equipped with electric wires, a noose, handcuffs, a 574-page jihad manual - and four beaten and shackled Iraqis....
The manual recovered - a fat, well-thumbed Arabic paperback - listed itself as the 2005 First Edition of "The Principles of Jihadist Philosophy," by Abdel Rahman al-Ali. Its chapters included "How to Select the Best Hostage," and "The Legitimacy of Cutting the Infidels' Heads."
June 19, 2005
The insurgents' torture house.
The NYT reports:
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The manual needs to get wide distribution.
"Insurgents," "militants," "captors..." here in fly-over country, they're just known as "terrorists."
noumenon: Oh, but ultimately it is your society they're trying to intimidate. Yes, the Iraqis are getting the message. Are we?
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