Al-Qaeda Training Manual

The US Department of Justice (US DOJ) has publicly disclosed the Al-Qaeda Training manual(a) which was recovered from the house of arrested alleged terrorist Khalid Khaliq on July 2005 in Manchester, England.The training manual containing comprehensive chapters of lessons written in Islamic language has been translated in English following US DOJs handling of a trial on the spate of terrorist attacks of the UK and the US vital installations (US DOJ, 2008).Accordingly, to cite, the training manual outlines four substantial topics, such as (1) Lesson 1 Principles of Military Organization, (2) Lesson 2 Necessary Qualifications and characteristics for the Organizations Member, (3) Lesson 3 Counterfeit Currency and Forged Documents, and (4) Lesson 4 Organization Military Bases (US DOJ, 2008).In this paper, the lay out of a counterterrorism specialist will be discussed, relating the hypothetical questions on what insinuations for counterterrorism are contained in the training manual an d what counterterrorism strategy piece of tail be developed in light of the manual.Implications for counterterrorismAs a point of view on the classification of the training manual as a captured document, counterterrorism specialist may critically realise two fundamental implications for counterterrorism, such as (1) revalidation of the captured document, and (2) operational review on counterterrorism strategies. This critical reconsideration underscores the way of the systems in assessing the counterterrorism campaigns in both military and civilian organizations.Revalidation of the captured document would exert extensive effort for key military units and the intelligence community to analyze the veracity of cultivation contained in the training manual.The first scenario to down the revalidation could be in the field personnel, like the CIAs HumInt (human intelligence) clandestine operatives that verifies and classifies the substantive category of such information. The second sce nario could be the analytical method, examining the depth and largeness of the captured document in the aspect of strategic purpose and intent referring to the psychological warfare (psywar) of the literature.The operational review on counterterrorism strategies could be in line with redefining and reformulating brusk and long term plans or tactics purposely to counter the operation plan or OPLAN that can be found in the training manual. Overall, the implication would take into effect the enactment of policy framework that deals with counterterrorism.Counterterrorism StrategyAs cited from the training manual, Al-Qaeda massively recruits individuals working in borders, seaports and airports, of which will carryout the mission to blast or demolish vital places, like public amusement centers, embassies, economic zones, communication and media establishments, and government and military facilities to name a few (US DOJ, 2008).Given the above situation, the first employment of a counte rterrorism strategy is to secure the possible, potential and vulnerable places for terrorist attacks. One aspect of security measures is through personnel profiling or the conduct of evaluating the profiles of working personnel and supervise their activities. In which case, a security guideline must be decisively implemented in working areas.However, the counterterrorism strategy can be efficiently and efficaciously implemented without legal constraints by implementing the necessary, existing and applicable laws, regulations and state policies that are meant to safeguard the working places and promote lawful prevention against terrorism. Thus, mobilization of strategic counterterrorism campaigns can be implemented at the extent of public tolerance and compliance.On the other hand, it is a common knowledge that the US Naval quickness in Guantanamo, Cuba has been apply as a prison of arrested terrorists, in which the controversy of alleged inhuman treatment of prisoners has recent ly ordered by President Barrack Obama to dispose of utilizing the facility as a torture den.By mentioning this information, it owe to relate the situation that counterterrorism specialist or expert may rely on applying psychological and sensual torture as a method to extract information or obtain it as a first-hand validation from detained terrorists, partly of the strategy in reaffirming the information which is also called by the intelligence community as rendition.