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| Al-Qaeda's 'how To Use A Kalashnikov' Video Guide |
| 2005-12-09 |
| 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 |
| #7 If you want to know the proper method of firing an AK without using sights see:http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=414704&page=1 |
| Posted by: bruce 2005-12-09 21:59 |
| #6 Don't spend $19.95 when you can download it for free. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-09 15:29 |
| #5 Is you a Muslim? Is you crazy fo Islam? Does you wanna kill them infidels and crusaders? Well then you should be interested in my new video "Be a Kalishnikoff User". Just sends 19.95 and you be blastin away at infidels, crusaders and, for an extra 5 dollar, zionist entitys faster then you can say "Allah Akbar". And if yas act now I throw in my free book "Be a Ho for Mo"... |
| Posted by: Velvet Al-Jones 2005-12-09 14:19 |
| #4 That is not the way of Allan, Sensei. True sons of Islam must not stray from the Path as illuminated by the one-eyed holy men and one-armed weapons instructors... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-12-09 13:56 |
| #3 That they need a video says alot. I had the first AK I laid hands on dissassembled and reassembled in minutes having never seen it done or reading about it. It's not a complicated weapon. I am sure this is a "new" muzzle break/ flash hider. To make one more accurate, take it off full auto and actually use the sights. |
| Posted by: Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu 2005-12-09 13:48 |
| #2 About the only way to make an AK more managable is to use the AK-74 flash suppressor/muzzle brake, which helps with muzzle whip. Otherwise, I have no clue what they are talking about, unless they are refering to the product improvements between the AK-47 original and the AKM version. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2005-12-09 13:28 |
| #1 I'm supposed to get to shoot my friend's Romanian version of the AK this month. Maybe I need to watch the video. Does the video end with 'spray and pray.'? |
| Posted by: JAB 2005-12-09 10:09 |