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Al-Qaeda's 'how To Use A Kalashnikov' Video Guide
Rome, 8 Dec. (AKI) - Global Islamic Media Front, the group behind the al-Qaeda TV news bulletins, has distributed a new video guide over the Internet, showing viewers how to use, assemble and take apart a Kalashnikov. The film, which is around six minutes long, begins with computer generated images which show the mechanical functioning of the AK47, the Russian machine gun used by many armed forces. While one of the many Jihadi songs adopted by al-Qaeda in the last few years can be heard in the background, the video shows in slow motion, the movements of the different pieces that make up the machine gun. After two minutes the lesson properly begins, with the voice of an unseen 'teacher' welcoming aspiring Jihadis, and explaining to viewers exactly how the various pieces of the gun are taken apart and what function each one has. Once dismantled, the viewer is shown how to re-assemble the Kalashnikov. There is no indication of when the film was made, but it has been persistently posted on different Islamic forums on the Internet in the last few days. On 16 November, police in the Syrian capital Damascus detained seven Iraqi women at the airport, one of whom had a dismantled weapon hidden in a bag full of baby items. The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported that the women were caught while trying to board a flight to Bahrain and it is thought they may have planned to use the gun to try and bring down the plane. The emergence of the video also coincides with repeated references in the same Internet forums to a new cargo of Kalashnikovs reported to have reached the Gaza Strip, after being smuggled in through Egypt a few days ago. The forums say the weapons are a more manageable model of Kalashnikovs currently in use in Iraq, which have been christened "the al-Zarqawi Kalashnikov". Posted by: Steve 2005-12-09 |
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