December 9, 2005: Despite the loss of training camps in Afghanistan in late 2001, al Qaeda still manages to run a training program. While it has long (before 2001) used the Internet to distribute training manuals, there is still a need for hands- on training. This is especially true for explosives, and bomb making. By 2002, some of the training courses had been re-established in remote areas of Afghanistan, and just across the border in Pakistan.
There were also terrorist training camps in Pakistani Kashmir (for preparing men to operate across the border in Indian Kashmir), but al Qaeda was, as much as possible, kept out of these camps. That's because, while the Pakistani government was willing to fight al Qaeda, it could not go after the Islamic terrorists fighting in Indian Kashmir, and being trained in Pakistani Kashmir. So al Qaeda was, more or less, kept out of the camps used by the Kashmir bound Islamic terrorists. But up in the mountain villages along the Afghan border, individual al Qaeda bomb and operations experts held quick, and clandestine, courses for Afghans, Pakistanis, as well as men from Arabia and Southeast Asia. Although their were some losses, when Pakistani police, or CIA operatives, caught a class in progress (and inflicted casualties), the system has worked. The "traveling terrorist training camp" idea has spread to Southeast Asia as well. It has not, apparently, shown up in Europe or North American yet, largely because of the need for a really remote area for the testing of student bombs. The West is also a difficult for Islamic terrorists to move about unnoticed. The hunt for the traveling terror instructors continues, although many of the faculty captures are not publicized for one reason (they are sometimes snatched in countries that would otherwise leave them alone) or another (it's important to keep the trainers disappearance secret so that you can more easily chase down other terrorists.) The traveling training system does not educate nearly as many terrorists as did the system of fixed camps in Afghanistan before 2002. But many future attacks will be traced back to skills acquired on the run after 2001. http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20051209.aspx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/U6CDDD/izNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
