Al Qaeda Jihadi Textbook: 9/11 Forced US To Fall Into The "Trap" Of Overextending The Military...

ABC News Maddy Sauer June 27, 2006 at 01:10 PM
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Al Qaeda's strategic vision involves challenging the United States and its allies overseas using small- to medium-scale attacks, according to an online book available on extremist websites that has become the seminal jihadi textbook. The first English translation of the text is being circulated this week among DOD and government policy circles.

The translation is being released by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. As ABC News reported last month, the Center has been translating thousands of declassified insurgent and extremist documents that were seized in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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