Lethal bomb-making manuals are on sale alongside your weekly groceries - on Tesco's website.
The step-by-step guides show fanatics how to make explosives or chemical agents like those used by al-Qaeda. They are available through the site's entertainment section, next to kids' books on Harry Potter and High School Musical.
And, shockingly, the three manuals - costing £35 each after a five per cent discount - were sent to us with NO checks to see if we were extremists. Rob Webb, whose sister Laura, 29, died in the 7/7 attacks in London in 2005, said: "I can't understand why anyone would sell this material, especially Britain's biggest retailer. There is never a justification for killing innocent people - or for books or material that could help would-be terrorists do this."
Terror expert Charles Shoebridge said: "Tesco's slogan is Every Little Helps. And, for a terrorist, books like these certainly do."
The deadly manuals, by author Jared Ledgard, were dispatched within days of our online order. Each explains how to make hundreds of bombs and chemical agents - many with items bought in the high street.
A Soldiers Handbook, Volume 1: Explosives Operations tells how to create a huge blast from a lightbulb and other materials. Another section details how to build pipe bombs filled with shrapnel.
Mr Shoebridge said: "There really can be no other purpose for such a device other than to kill and maim."
Hundreds of bomb materials are mentioned in The Preparatory Manual of Explosives, Third Edition, including Semtex, ammonium nitrate and TNT.
The book is advertised on the website as: "An invaluable reference manual covering the preparation and use of 166 of the most influential explosive compounds known to man."
Mr Shoebridge said: "These explosives have been extremely effective in terrorists' hands."
The art of creating deadly gases were highlighted in A Laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents. Mr Shoebridge said: "Hydrogen cyanide is one of the most lethal agents when used in enclosed areas. You could die within minutes of inhaling."
Several UK-based fanatics have been jailed for owning terror manuals. A fortnight ago, al-Qaeda-trained Sohail Qureshi, 30, of east London, got 41/2 years' jail for offences including possessing bomb manuals.
He was in email contact with "Lyrical Terrorist" Samina Malik, 23, of Southall, west London, who in November became the first British woman convicted under the Terrorism Act for owning terror manuals and given a nine month suspended jail term.
And in October, Abdul Patel, 18, of east London, dubbed the Terrorists' Teaboy as he used to run errands for extremists, was jailed for six months for hiding a bomb manual.
Chemical weapons expert Professor Alastair Hay, of Leeds University, said the manuals could help build gas bombs, adding: "I can't understand the rationale for collating them. The message should be that chemical weapons are dangerous and illegal."
Dr Clifford Jones, of Aberdeen University, said the explosives books were accurate.
Tesco withdrew the books after we contacted them. A spokesman said: "These titles are available on all leading book websites. However we do respond quickly to feedback and have removed these titles after The People alerted us."
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