The application form also asks whether the applicant has travelled to Pakistan and if yes how many trips they had taken to the country.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released documents which were part of a cache seized by US commandos who conducted the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's house in Abbottabad, Pakistan when Laden was killed.
Among the many documents, there appeared to be a blank job application form for would-be al Qaeda members. It contains several pages, which the United States says was printed on stationery carrying a watermark reading "The Security Committee – al-Qaeda Organization”, “O ye people of faith, be vigilant".
It said applicants should "please answer the required information accurate and truthfully," and "please write clearly and legibly."
While the initial questions look like a standard job application form with basic questions regarding name, family background, qualification etc, soon the form makes it clear that it is like no other job applying questionnaire. It asked when an applicant had arrived "in the land of Jihad," how much of the Koran they had memorised, which sheikhs or Muslim dignitaries they knew, which countries they had visited, how many passports they possessed and whether they were interested in carrying out a "suicide operation."
The questionnaire also included whether the applicant was fluent in foreign languages and whether they invented or researched in any domain. The document also asks whether the applicants know workers or experts in chemistry, communications, or any other field. It also asked whether their family or friends work with the government.
It also asks whether the applicant has travelled to Pakistan and if yes how many trips they had taken to the country.
Along with this,official US passport application forms, formal US indictments of al Qaeda-related figures, US government accounts of al Qaeda's organization and details of the US embassy in Pakistan's "Toys for Tots" program were seized. English-language books seized included "A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam," "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," "Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century," "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" and "Military Intelligence Blunders."
There were also copies of many American media articles, including "Is al-Qaeda Just Bush's Boogeyman?" from the Los Angeles Times in January 2005, and a piece in Newsweek magazine "on hawks and doves on Iraq within the Bush Administration."
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