{"id":452,"date":"2007-12-03T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2007-12-03T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T05:16:09","slug":"inmates-studying-al-qaeda-manual-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Inmates studying al-Qaeda manual. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since we <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/islam-prison-gang-busted\/2007\/04\/21\/1176697161148.html\"><font color=\"#a90000\">last<\/font><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSSYD339257\"><font color=\"#a90000\">had<\/font><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/?page=4&amp;section=0&amp;article=53740&amp;d=1&amp;m=11&amp;y=2004\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.arabnews.com');\"><font color=\"#a90000\">a<\/font><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/National\/Islamic-prison-gangs-face-crackdown\/2007\/04\/22\/1177180455182.html\"><font color=\"#a90000\">story<\/font><\/a> about <em>al-Qaeda<\/em> expansion into New South Wales jails. However, today the <em>Sun-Herald<\/em> reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/inmates-studying-alqaeda-manual\/2007\/12\/01\/1196394682263.html\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.smh.com.au');\"><font color=\"#a90000\">that<\/font><\/a> Muslim prison inmates in New South Wales have been studying an <em>al-Qaeda<\/em> manual. And up to 40 inmates have apparently established\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026an internal organisational structure to maintain morale, resist interrogation and recruit members to Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm\u2026 Where have we heard that before?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes. In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/07\/20\/MNGRAK22RQ1.DTL\"><em><font color=\"#a90000\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/font><\/em><\/a> last year! The <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/07\/20\/MNGRAK22RQ1.DTL\"><em><font color=\"#a90000\">Chronicle<\/font><\/em><\/a><\/em> reported that detainees of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had created\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"more-695\"><\/span><span id=\"bodytext\" class=\"georgia md\">\u2026their own<strong> <\/strong>internal organizational structure to maintain morale, resist interrogation and recruit members\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing. Not only did they both create \u201cinternal organizational structures\u201d but they both have the exact same objectives listed in the exact same order. What are the chances of that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>Sun-Herald <\/em>continues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The al-Qaeda training manual was first obtained by the CIA in 1996.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/07\/20\/MNGRAK22RQ1.DTL\"><em><font color=\"#a90000\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/font><\/em><\/a> last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"bodytext\" class=\"georgia md\">The al Qaeda training manual, obtained by the CIA in 1996\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The <em>Sun-Herald<\/em> today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It suggests a 10-position leadership structure for members held in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/07\/20\/MNGRAK22RQ1.DTL\"><em><font color=\"#a90000\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/font><\/em><\/a> last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"bodytext\" class=\"georgia md\">\u2026suggests a 10-position leadership structure for members held in prison<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The <em>Sun-Herald<\/em> today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The structure includes \u201cbarracks chief and deputies\u201d, \u201cgreeters to meet and instruct new arrivals\u201d, \u201cwelfare attendant to organise equitable distribution of goods from families and aid organisations\u201d and \u201cclergy\u201d, presumably to attend to spiritual needs as well as to recruit new adherents to their faith, according to the CIA report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, finally, in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/07\/20\/MNGRAK22RQ1.DTL\"><em><font color=\"#a90000\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/font><\/em><\/a> last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"bodytext\" class=\"georgia md\">It includes \u201cbarracks chief and deputies,\u201d \u201cgreeters to meet and instruct new arrivals,\u201d \u201cwelfare attendant to organize equitable distribution of goods from families and aid organizations,\u201d \u201cmorale officer to organize leisure time\u201d and \u201cclergy, presumably to attend to spiritual needs as well as to recruit new adherents to their faith,\u201d according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"georgia md\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/austrolabe.com\/2007\/12\/02\/inmates-studying-al-qaeda-manual-again\/\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this just a coincidence or did the Sun Herald forget to check if someone had printed the same fabrication elsewhere? <\/p>\n<p>The Sun-Herald today:<\/p>\n<p>It suggests a 10-position leadership structure for members held in prison.<\/p>\n<p>And in the San Francisco Chronicle last year:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026suggests a 10-position leadership structure for members held in prison<\/p>\n<p>If the CIA has had the Al Qaeda training manual since 1996 then how come they haven&#8217;t caught any of them yet? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=452\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3388,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-7i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}