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A British woman is charged under anti-terror laws for possessing a “computer hard drive loaded with operating manuals for guns, poisons, mines and munitions.”

Police said the charges against the woman were connected with the arrest last month of a man caught at Heathrow airport in possession of a night vision scope and a poisons handbook.

Police said among the items on the hard drive found in her possession were the Al Qaeda Manual, The Terrorists Handbook, The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook, a manual for a Dragunov sniper rifle, The Firearms and RPG Handbook, a manual for a 9mm pistol and a manual on how to win hand to hand fighting.

Police do say a lot of things, but even if we were to believe them and not surmise that these faux manuals were planted, they still remains just that - faux manuals. The “Mujahideen Poisons Handbook” (available on the net since 1998) for instance has been derided by experts noting that it is filled with a mix of stink bombs and imaginary compounds using imaginary production methods. When a British news paper tried to point this out they were forced to remove the article in question.

Meanwhile, US agents are caught entrapping British citizens on British soil for offenses that aren’t even illegal. The easy extradition that would follow is of course a virtual death sentence given the lawlessness of the US system.