Images: Al Qaeda Documents Reveal Depths of Terror | |
Documents and journals discovered near a suspected al Qaeda home in Kabul contained hand-written notes on how to make RDX, the basic chemical found in high explosives like Semtex and C-4. | |
Inside the Arabic manual titled "Super Bombs" were the words "nuclear fission" and "isotopes" written in English. | |
The documents were found in multiples -- photocopied, carbon-copied and duplicated for training and practical purposes. | |
CNN experts extensively analyzed the documents and discovered that the al Qaeda program "appears to have existed for a long time," though none reveal if the terrorist group has tried to build nuclear weapons. | |
The terrorists' handbooks were reportedly for more than 20,000 volunteers who attended Osama bin Laden's training camps. | |
A list of 64 different chemicals for making explosives described what was in the chemicals and where to find them. | |
Documents also revealed how to detonate several charges -- blowing up multiple targets. | |
Diagrams of how to detonate targets like bridges, railroads and buildings were included in the training manuals. | |
CNN's experts believe the terrorists tested the formulas and developed a procedure of making the high explosives. | |
CNN's experts compared the information on high explosives in the al Qaeda documents to the Internet and found al Qaeda's was "more polished." |