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How to Kill Americans, the Al-Qaeda Guide
2010-10-12 19:14:18.751 GMT
Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
Oct. 12 (Telegraph) -- AL-QAEDA has published a series of articles in its magazine giving would-be militants tips on how to kill Americans, including a section on how to mow people down with a pickup truck.
The 74-page online English-language magazine, titled Inspire, which has a foreword by Osama bin Laden, encourages "individual jihad" to kill Americans and Westerners. It is an indication that the terrorist network is signalling a move away from terror "spectaculars", which are easier for intelligence agencies to foil, towards one-man operations.
In a graphic feature called "The Ultimate Mowing Machine", it gives ideas for one-man operations, such as attaching blades to the front of a pickup truck which can then be used to "mow down" passers-by. "To achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control of your vehicle," it advises. "The ideal location is a place where there are a maximum number of pedestrians and the least number of vehicles."
Another option is the use of personal firearms. "A random hit at a crowded restaurant in Washington DC at lunch hour for example might end up knocking out a few government supporters,"
it says. The magazine is the second edition of Inspire, which is produced by Arab-Americans who have defected to al-Qaeda's Yemen base.
Their ideological figurehead is Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemeni cleric, who is said to be the mastermind behind the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, and who was in email contact with Major Nidal Hassan, the Fort Hood "shooter".
Some have alleged the magazine is a piece of Western "black propaganda".
It seems to confirm that al-Qaeda operations are being hampered by better intelligence and drone attacks on its bases in Pakistan and Yemen. Last month, a "Mumbai-style" attack on European cities was uncovered by a combined operation involving US, British, French and German intelligence agencies.
"It is no longer possible to operate by the methods of the old model, through the 'secret regional-hierarchical'
organisations, especially after the September 11 events and the onset of the American campaigns, where the great majority of the existing secret organisations were destroyed," one article admits.
"We need to concentrate the research on the methods of the open fronts, and the methods of individual jihadi operational activity."
The internet and mobile phones had been useful tools, another article says, but it goes on: "The rules concerning surveillance in the West have been relaxed when it comes to monitoring Muslims and you could be arrested for the least suspicion."
In a reaction to closer monitoring of airlines, it urges followers to become jihadis at home – to strike at the head of the serpent, as it puts it.
However, one of the articles, "I am proud to be a traitor to America", is a first-hand account by a recruit about his journey from a North Carolina suburb to the mountains of Yemen.
In other features, the magazine also takes up a cry of many Western governments by highlighting the usefulness of degrees in chemistry and microbiology – if only to develop unconventional weapons. Science graduates, it suggests, are as highly sought after by jihadi employers as capitalist ones.
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"To achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control of your vehicle,"
Sounds like the morning commute on Route 128.
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"The Ultimate Mowing Machine"
I guessing they are not talking about buying a new John Deere.
I think that would just be The Regular Mowing Machine, AP. When you're going for maximum carnage, you want to customize.
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Sounds like the morning commute on Route 128.
Or just about anywhere on the Southern half of I-240 between 10 a.m. and 8:30.
I can't speak for Greater Memphis, but I do recall arriving at Lambert on a Friday morning, girding myself for a lengthy voyage to downtown on I-70 and being pleastantly surprised that I didn't really have to hit the brake until I saw the Arch.
I do recall the confluence of 55, 44 and 70 near the stadium being something of a clusterfuck later that afternoon, however.
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I do recall the confluence of 55, 44 and 70 near the stadium being something of a clusterfuck later that afternoon, however.
St. Louis roadways are such a bitch that the Post-Dispatch actually has a beat for it. Maybe that's common at all major newspapers, but it struck me as funny when the reporter visited my class a few years ago saying she covered the transportation beat. I think it may have been because of the major construction of Highway 40, though.
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Sounds like the morning commute on Route 128.
Or just about anywhere on the Southern half of I-240 between 10 a.m. and 8:30.
I can't speak for Greater Memphis, but I do recall arriving at Lambert on a Friday morning, girding myself for a lengthy voyage to downtown on I-70 and being pleastantly surprised that I didn't really have to hit the brake until I saw the Arch.
I do recall the confluence of 55, 44 and 70 near the stadium being something of a clusterfuck later that afternoon, however.
It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it.
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"St. Louis roadways are such a bitch that the Post-Dispatch actually has a beat for it. Maybe that's common at all major newspapers"
The Boston Globe used to have a Sunday column called "Stops & Starts" during the heyday of the Big Dig, but I think it stopped now that the project is finished. I stopped getting the Globe a couple of years ago.
I can't for the life of me figure out why a newspaper would have a beat reporter assigned to daily traffic. It would be like having someone report on the sand dunes at a beach.
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"The Ultimate Mowing Machine"
I guessing they are not talking about buying a new John Deere.I think that would just be The Regular Mowing Machine, AP. When you're going for maximum carnage, you want to customize.
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Shouldn't someone with missing teeth be attached to it ?
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I'm sorry, but is that Nitrous on that engine? That's fucking hysterical
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"It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it."
My wife works in the city, and it takes her an hour to drive 11 miles. I have a 19-mile commute on a highway that rings the city, and it takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.
Part of the problem is we live on a peninsula, out of which there are only three roads. I hit traffic at the signal about 100 yards from my house and I'm in it until I get to work. And the road I normally use to get out of town goes through Salem, which is impassable during the month of October because every witch, wizard, warlock and weirdo makes a pilgrimage to Salem for Halloween.
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I didn't even get that far. I hit the floor laughing when I saw the air filter.
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"It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it."
My wife works in the city, and it takes her an hour to drive 11 miles. I have a 19-mile commute on a highway that rings the city, and it takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.
Part of the problem is we live on a peninsula, out of which there are only three roads. I hit traffic at the signal about 100 yards from my house and I'm in it until I get to work. And the road I normally use to get out of town goes through Salem, which is impassable during the month of October because every witch, wizard, warlock and weirdo makes a pilgrimage to Salem for Halloween.
Depending on which highway you travel, St. Louis traffic isn't that bad. My commute to work in the morning is about 20 miles and I am usually at work in less than a half hour. If there isn't an accident, I never stop on the highway, and I'm rarely in any significant congestion. But I travel on Highway 70. Highway 40 is the worst, and I think parts of 270 (which rings the city/county) are pretty bad as well.
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It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it.
I hated it when I first started, but like Fors said, it's not too bad in most parts. 270 is absolutely the worst since it connects the major interstates together.
Now that I live in a small hick town, it takes me two minutes to get to work.
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"My commute to work in the morning is about 20 miles and I am usually at work in less than a half hour."
I need a valium ...