Anarchist literature

An examination of the current anarchist literature enforces this point. The term anarchist literature is used to refer to the dozens of books that have historically been available through mail order companies such as Desert Publications and Paladin Press dealing with the production of explosives and bombs. Many of these sources are still copied today as primer material to train current A1 Qaeda bomb makers. The same information has been disseminated over the Internet in numerous bomb-making websites. 

To illustrate how improvised explosives are often related to historically rejected formulations a sampling of the anarchist literature will be utilized. The small cross section examined will consist of Guerrilla s Arsenal (GA) [8], Improvised Munitions Black Book Vol. 1 (BB1) [9], Ragnar s Homemade Detonators (RHD) [10], and FMX The Revised Black Book (FMX) [11], It should be stressed that this small cross section examined represents only a fraction of the readily available information accessible through the Internet. These examples are utilized solely to show the overlap of historical explosive formulations and current terrorist recipes. More examples of current-day usage of these improvised materials will be included in the next sections of this chapter. 

BB1 gives instructions on how to prepare a chlorate-based mixture that is quite prevalent in the anarchist literature. This formulation consists of KCIO3 phlegmatized with Vaseline. Typically this particular formulation is given the nickname Poor Man s C-4. It does not have the power of C-4 but does posses... 

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