Dhiren Barot, jailed today for the UK's worst terrorist plot, wrote a book in the late 1990s about bringing "interfering" Western countries to their knees through strategies including germ and chemical warfare.

His chilling thesis was written in 1999 - well before the terrorist outrages of July 7, 2005 and September 11, 2001 - in a book about Kashmir, the territory disputed by India and Pakistan where he is said to have had terrorist training.

With the cover picture of an AK-47 rifle placed over a copy of the Koran, the 150-page The Army Of Madinah In Kashmir was written by Barot in the late 1990s under the alias Esa Al-Hindi.

The book contains in the first few pages a dedication to "my sister", as well as honouring the "memory of the thousands upon thousands... who fell under the Kashmiri moon".

Partly a manual for would-be Kashmir fighters and latterly a rambling political essay, the book contains gruesome accounts of conflicts on the Indian-Pakistan border.

The book, published by an Islamic bookstore in Birmingham and still freely available, also has Barot discussing the merits of targeting Western nations and citing the IRA as a potential role model.

Immediately below a quote from the Koran, he writes: "Great stealth is required. To attempt to bring any one of these interfering nations to its knees is a major task which undoubtedly takes a great deal of carefully coerced interaction.

"At the same time, do not be disheartened by those who would dare to brand you as terrorists, for perhaps you may even be proactive only as a show of power, minus civilian casualties."

He adds: "The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a good example of what can be achieved through commitment, sacrifice and constancy - even if the means employed are a little outdated."

Describing his strategy of targeting Western countries on their home ground as "Flank Protection", he writes that only Muslims living in those nations would succeed.

"For it is they, the locals, and not foreigners, who understand the language, culture, area and common practices of the enemy whom they coexist amongst," he writes.

He suggests creating "a big enough problem on their home front, one that is destabilising enough to force them to sway their glances away from the Eastern Muslim world. For this, it would seem that the most favourable target would be the national economy of the western block."

In another section, Barot discusses how in his opinion some Muslims are "frightened to advance and take the initiative, afraid of being branded as terrorists".

He goes on to back up his extremist views with a quote from the Koran, adding: "Terror works and that is why the believers are commanded to enforce it by Allah."

Although he does not talk of specific plans in the book, his later plots are echoed with the words: "Whatever one does, it should be synchronised with other activities for more effective results."

Later in the book Barot hints at some methods that might be used against the West, with a list of possible strategies.

"For the benefit of the reader, to end we outline some of the ‘stealthy’ modern-day war stratagems, which are commonly used by the western world to bring others to their knees.

"An exploration of some of these avenues could well be long overdue...Ideological warfare, Psychological warfare, Economical warfare, Colonial warfare, Physical warfare, Drug warfare, Germ warfare, Chemical warfare, Sabotage warfare," he writes.

But despite Barot’s musings, there is little in the book on his own background, or first-hand accounts of his own encounters in Kashmir.

A short biography on the cover, which mentions his Hindu upbringing, conversion to Islam and claims that he married a woman in southern Thailand, says that he did fight in Kashmir.

But his words on the province mainly retell the stories of other Muslim soldiers alongside numerous allegations of wrongdoing by Indian troops.

It also features several diagrams outlining guerrilla war tactics favoured by the Mujahidin in Kashmir. Counter-terrorism sources say they have been able to prove the book is Barot’s work at around a dozen evidential points.

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