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December 7, 2005
Al-Qaeda Engages In The Media wars: Weapons of choice
Topics: Terrorism
According to the Asia Times Online (that I've found to have a consistant anti - Bush administration slant), there's an upcoming release in Afghanistan of a state-of-the-art CD comprising selected speeches by Osama bin Laden from 2002 to December 2004.
The CD is already available (illegally) in Pakistan and in parts of the Middle East.
Security experts believe that soon it will flood the market as the first step towards a broader al-Qaeda goal; to shed its shadowy image and openly propagate the call for mass jihad against the US and any other foreign occupiers in the Middle East.The CD's speeches address specific audiences, like the one in 2002 to the Pakistani nation, the 2003 speech to Americans, a speech in 2004 to Europe and the December 2004 address to the people of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia).
The CD includes horrifying images of war and destruction in Iraq, and pays tribute to the Iraqi resistance.
Unlike in the past, the CD appears to have been made by professionals in a well-equipped studio. The audio and visual effects are clear, with English subtitles for non-Arabic speakers. Additionally, separate formatted files include transcripts in languages such as Urdu, Persian, English and Arabic.But the new CD isn't unexpected, nor is it something really surprising. After all, with the terrorists openly advertising back in the first week of October for help in the media war with ads like:"This package clearly shows one thing, that al-Qaeda has strongly regrouped and in an organized manner is spreading its propaganda material to the whole of the Muslim world," a senior Pakistani security official told Asia Times Online.
Wanted: Video editors, writers, and webmasters to help Al Qaeda spread its message. Contact: The Global Islamic Media Front via e-mail...... the Osama CD is certainly no surprise. And with the left-wing Democrats and the left-leaning American media, basically doing everything to support the enemies of democracy and freedom - the militant Islamists, now enjoined in the media battle with Al-Qaeda itself, it's no wonder that the Bush administration has started to fight back, even to the extent of having to pay the Iraqi media to simply print the truth about the good news in Iraq.
But the battle has only begun, and will be long and arduous. We are indeed decades away from a kid who's willing to strap a suicide bomb around his belly, saying, 'Maybe I shouldn't do that.
Posted by Richard at December 7, 2005 12:55 PM
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