Axel Rudakubana's vile Al-Qaeda terror manual just one click away on Google
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A Mirror probe today reveals how a vile terror manual discovered at the Southport knife killer’s home is made freely available by web giant Google. After PM Keir Starmer warned of troubling material online, we found the chilling document can be accessed with just a mouse click. As web tycoons this week lined up to welcome Donald Trump as US president, our investigation lays bare the disturbing content easily accessed on the internet.
It follows Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleading guilty on Monday to murdering three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside town in July. In a Downing Street address today, Starmer told how we now “see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom, accessing all manner of material online, desperate for notoriety”.
Within minutes of the PM’s warning, we found a terror handbook discovered by police at Rudakubana’s home was instantly available via Google. The 2004 document by an ex-CIA staffer features a reproduction of the manual, with a commentary alongside. Though the reproduced “Manual of Terror” excludes specific instructions for producing poisons and toxins, it covers tradecraft, espionage and even assassination.
The Mirror is choosing not to give further details of its troubling contents. Among other charges, Rudakubana pleaded guilty to possessing the PDF file in breach of a terror law. Google, whose chief Sundar Pichai was among tech bosses who took prime spots at Trump’s inauguration, did not provide comment.
