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Today's random fact.
Sep. 27th, 2007 10:14 pmApparently one of the books Al Qaeda used as a textbook for budding jihadis in their Afghanistan training camps was Menachem Begin's The Revolt.
I keep thinking that they ought to have some knee jerk fire-and-brimstone objection to the idea of using a book by an Israeli author in this context. But I guess either expediency trumps ideology or they can justify it as "learning from the enemy". Possibly both.
(Info from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, as referenced in Buda's Wagon - which also credits Lehi with the first effective use of the car bomb, back in '47).
I keep thinking that they ought to have some knee jerk fire-and-brimstone objection to the idea of using a book by an Israeli author in this context. But I guess either expediency trumps ideology or they can justify it as "learning from the enemy". Possibly both.
(Info from Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, as referenced in Buda's Wagon - which also credits Lehi with the first effective use of the car bomb, back in '47).
