Thursday, March 30, 2006

Al-Qaeda Doctrine: Training the Individual Warrior / Terrorism Focus, Volume 3, Issue 12 (March 28, 2006)

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369944
Michael Scheuer
"While Terrorism Focus previously examined al-Qaeda's strategic and tactical doctrine (February 28, March 14), this article looks at the type and purpose of the non-military training that is given to the individual al-Qaeda fighter or mujahid. Based on al-Qaeda sources (see notes for complete listing), this training appears to be common to both the organization's insurgents and their special forces, and is intended to produce fighters who are pious, disciplined and unity-minded, fatalistic, and cognizant of the requirements and attitudes of those they are defending."