Young British Muslims Access Al-Qa'ida Terrorist Manuals on Internet [Report by Sue Reid: "Just Log On To Find the Enemy Within Who Despise the British Infidels . . ."] Another day at a British library. A youth in a red and white Islamic headband crouches over a computer engrossed in the horrifying message that comes up on screen. It contains the rousing words of the official Al-Qa'ida manual for would-be terrorists. 'Oh Mujahid brother, in order to join the great training camps, you don't have to travel to other lands. 'Alone in your own home with a group of your brothers you, too, can begin to execute the training programme to conduct strikes in cities . . . with blood, embellished with body parts and perfumed with gunpowder.' By any standards, it is a frightening mantra. But what is more terrifying is that the website's message was found by the Arabic-speaking youth in just a few seconds at Manchester Central Library. He is not alone. While the great majority of Muslims here are patriotic and law-abiding, every day in Britain, at the very heart of our towns and cities, a very small minority of young Muslims -- most born or raised in this country -- are secretly learning extraordinarily lethal lessons in terrorism. And they are able to do so because of the publicly-funded computer rooms of public libraries and the 50p-an-hour local internet cafes that have sprung up on the corners of every street. Thus have the tentacles of terrorism penetrated the heart of ordinary British society. So dangerous is the extent of the brainwashing that the home intelligence service, MI5, has launched an inquiry into the websites of terrorist organisations which are being accessed in public places. Their officers acted following an investigation by the Mail a little over a year ago which revealed the shocking extent to which the library service is being exploited. We handed our files over to MI5 after we discovered that library computers in Manchester, Central and West London, Luton, Preston, Leeds and Crawley in Sussex were all being used by young Muslims to learn about an array of terrorist tactics: how to make nerve gas in the kitchen, buy an AK47 assault rifle, stashes of dynamite or even inject cyanide into supermarket food. Alarmingly, the websites contain deeply inflammatory material which urges direct action against 'the infidels' and label Britons as the enemy agents of 'the Christian cross'. They clearly incite hatred against the West and advocate assaults on those who live here. We found one website that specifically targeted Muslim children and told, in a strip-cartoon story, of a seven-year-old who becomes a hero in paradise by dying in a grenade battle against Western soldiers. Another opened on a computer at Regent's Park library in London, just half a mile from where two bombs exploded yesterday, insisted: 'Islamic governments will never be established through peaceful solutions . . . only by both pen and gun, word and bullet.' The shocking sites promulgating such violence are regularly closed down by the security services. Yet, within hours, they often reappear because they have been re-registered in countries such as Syria or Pakistan where they cannot be shut down from Britain. More worryingly, the all-invasive ethos of political correctness in our public services means that librarians who want to complain about the potential danger of such websites and those who use them are told to say nothing. One librarian told me: 'We have been instructed not to challenge the young men who are actively accessing the sites of Al-Qa'ida and other terrorist organisations.' Yesterday, in the aftermath of the London bombings, we found that the vast majority of terroristinspired websites in use last year are still running. The most lethal of these continue to give specific instructions to Muslims to make war against Britain, America and parts of Europe as a 'holy duty'. The Al-Qa'ida manual found on the website at the Manchester library is named after Al-Battar, an alias of Sheikh Yousef Al-Alyyiri who was Osama Bin Laden's personal bodyguard before being killed two years ago by Saudi Arabian security forces. It explains how to become an urban guerilla. Another Al-Qa'ida propaganda site discovered at Manchester goes further. It tells the reader how to make the poison ricin. A click on the screen and the same site praises the Madrid bombings as 'blessed strikes'. This deeply disturbing array of websites advises young Muslim militants to marry British women to provide a cover story and then recruit other young men in Britain to their cause. 'Concentrate on new recruits from different origins. Recruit as many spies as possible. Avoid areas where the police pay particular attention, such as where drugs are distributed or where prostitutes work. Don't be seen with any extremists who are already known to the authorities,' says one It warns that the undercover terrorist must never send text messages as they can be monitored by the security services. It adds: 'Never travel in vans or lorries as this will attract the attention of the police. Plan your targets well. All Christians or Jews are good. But target museums, restaurants, bars, churches, hospitals, public places and public toilets; businessmen, diplomats, politicians, scientists and military experts.' Another website -- again from Al-Qa'ida but written in English -- advises that bullets should not be wasted on the 'infidels' of the West. Instead, they should be killed by using bare hands, choking the victim. 'When undertaking any assassination using a knife, the enemy must be struck in one of these lethal spots: anywhere in the rib cage, both or one eye, the pelvis (under the target's navel) and directly above the genitals,' it explains. Most of the libraries give free access to the internet for several hours a day; many do not even ask for an address or identification of users, and, if they do, there are few checks to ensure the information given is not completely bogus. In any case, many of the young people who sign on hide behind codenames such as 'afghanhero'. Our investigators watched one young man at Luton Central Library clearly viewing a video of one of Bin Laden's training camps. It showed pictures of an Uzi-waving fighter jumping through windows and blowing off doors with hand grenades. When he noticed he had been spotted, the youth immediately clicked off the site and turned to the innocuous BBC website homepage. After he had left his seat, our investigator traced exactly how the youth had spent his hour on the computer by looking at the history 'log' on the machine. The policing of public libraries in America to detect misuse of computers is already under way. It started after the Twin Towers atrocities of September 11, 2001. Notices on the walls warn users who log on to inflammatory anti-American sites that they will be arrested. Yesterday in Britain it was clear that nothing of this sort was in place. However, Reda Hassaine, a former MI5 spy who worked undercover in the Nineties at the controversial centre of Islamic fundamentalism, Finsbury Park mosque, paints a frightening picture. 'The disaffected young Arab in Britain was once lured to the mosques to see videos of Islamic martyrs carrying out suicide bombings which brainwashed him against the West,' he said. 'He will have been shown film after film of the mujahideen fighting in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Algeria. Today he sees and hears the same propaganda on an Al-Qa'ida website. And because it is a website he thinks it is cool to be a terrorist, so he is tempted to become one.' What a terrifying legacy of our technological age. To repeat, the great majority of British Muslims are law-abiding, but this doesn't absolve Britain's naivety in dealing with the threat of home-grown terrorism by the enemy within. [Description of Source: London Daily Mail (Internet Version-WWW) in English -- web site of daily tabloid newspaper, generally right of center and Euroskeptic; root URL at filing time: http://www.dailymail.co.uk] Source-Date: 07/08/2005 FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. 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