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A Military Assessement of the Al Qaeda Training Tapes

John Holschen
Insights Training Center, Inc
jholschen@insightstraining.com
www.insightstraining.com

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Initial Assessment

• The tape was apparently produced for Al Qaeda internal use and did not appear to be an external propaganda production.
  
  
• The tape showed Al Qaeda operatives engaging in a number of training exercises including small arms firing ranges, live-fire room entry, and numerous mixed live-fire/role-player type of scenarios.
  
  
• Scenarios included: Assassinations, kidnappings, bombings, and small unit raids on various types of targets. The training depicted in these scenarios was clearly for export according to an intelligence expert that commented on the tape. "None of these training scenarios depicts the type of fighting that Al Qaeda engages in within Afghanistan."
  
  
• Detailed planning, diagramming and walk-thru are followed by live-fire exercises were the norm.
  
  
• There was a lot of role playing, scenario type of interactions.
  
  
• The role players made aggressive moves simulating resistance at various points throughout the scenarios. All such resistance was met with immediate and brutal countermeasures by the terrorists. There was no presumed compliance on the part of the terrorists.
  
  
• The effort to produce detail and realism in training was impressive.
  
  
• These people are using extremely effective training methods!

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  From: hindu's daddy	11/16/2009 9:04:23 PM
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  The time has proved, hindus are the biggest terrorist on the face of  earth. You can say a letter will go to Kashmir, Yes it will because you have occupied and every single day you are killing inncent Kashmiris, Other muslims including Pakistanis take them as brothers, if u post letter and you indians deliver it does never mean that you own Kashmir, its for kashmiris and they will kick indian ass soon out with grace of God. India has always disturbed its neigbours, it thinks its competing china but can never, China will bring new WORLD ORDER, and INDIA will be crushed soon, and broke in pieces, Your Tamils will first take revenge from you, Bihar is already wihtou law and order, Naga Land will be a new country, ...... and whatever your RAW or ROTTEN does in Pakistan will never be forgiven and beaten their ass out of Pak Land. Dont close your eyes ..........stupid Indians.........kkkkkkkkk