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Spokesmen for the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] [[United States President|Presidency]], and the [[United States Department of Defense]] attribute the unwillingness of the captives held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in [[Guantanamo]] to their training from this document.<ref name=DefenseLinkManchesterManual/>   
Spokesmen for the [[George W. Bush Administration]] attributed the resistance to [[interrogation]] of suspected [[al-Qaeda]] members to instructions in this document.<ref name=DefenseLinkManchesterManual/>   
They say that the document tells its readers to lie about their identities, to lie about being tortured.
 
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Cover of the "The Manchester Manual" -- also known as the "the Jihadi encyclopedia".

The Manchester Manual (also known as the Jihadist encyclopedia) is a document prepared in the late 1990s, that western counter-terrorism analysts have described as a manual for terrorism.[1][2]

Spokesmen for the George W. Bush Administration attributed the resistance to interrogation of suspected al-Qaeda members to instructions in this document.[1]

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