WASHINGTON, May 31 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida training manuals instruct anyone who is captured to claim they were tortured during interrogation as part of a disinformation campaign. "There have been allegations made by detainees," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. "We know that members of al-Qaida are trained to mislead and to provide false reports."
In a raid on an al-Qaida cell in Manchester, British officials obtained al-Qaida's most extensive manual for how to wage war, the Washington Times said Tuesday. A directive lists one mission as "spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy."
If captured, the manual states, "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison."
Meanwhile, one U.S. investigator, Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, said last week the most explosive charge -- that guards at Guantanamo flushed the Koran, Islam's holy book, down a toilet -- is not true. |