On Saturday, November 3, 2001, at 07:23 PM, osama_ben-laden@hushmail.com wrote:

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http://www.sunday- times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/11/04/stiusausa02024.html

The sophistication of some parts of the manual has alarmed intelligence agencies, which have asked counter-terrorism experts given access to the document not to discuss or release key elements, particularly on bioterrorism.

We were forced into limited self-publication when none of the major media outlets would handle it. I guess some properties are just too hot. We find the praise being heaped by these agencies gratifying. It has created a broader market for what we thought would be a niche property. Announcements to follow.

obl

Osama, From the excerpts published in the Times, it looks like you plagiarized major sections of the U.S. Army manuals, e.g., the famed Improvised Munitions Handbook and various explosives manuals. You even copied the CD-ROM distribution system! Now if you set up a "College of the Arabian Lands" patterned after our own College of the Americas school, and you copy the curriculum of teaching methods for assassination, execution of villages, mining of harbors, and using shaped charges to collapse suspension bridges, then I plan to report you to the RIAA! --Tim May "How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?" --Alexander Solzhenitzyn, Gulag Archipelago