Artifact Details
![A colorful booklet with burn marks through the cover and into the book](/static/9f19619fd7214611788c84dbbeb8ba31/41aff/museum_al_qaida_training_manual_001.jpg)
After 9/11, CIA officers were part of the U.S.’s first response in Afghanistan, gathering many artifacts for intelligence analysis.
In 2001, US intelligence officers picked up this al-Qa’ida training manual outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. The officers found the manual while searching the ruins of a suspected chemical processing site. US ordnance that damaged the site caused the handbook’s burn marks. The manual includes instructions for firing Stinger missiles.
Artifact Specs
22.8 cm x 18 cm x 1 cm
(L x W x H)