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| Al-Qaeda TV uses al-Massari's Radio al-Tajdeed music |
| 2005-09-28 |
| EFL Professor Paul Wilkinson, of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrews University, said the newscast marked a significant development in al-Qaeda's use of the web. He said: "We need to find out more about who is behind it and monitor the content. It may tell us something about what they want us to believe as well as the false statements we can easily discard. "It is clear they are using it to give their own spin on everything going on around the world." Such "open source" web-based propaganda is thought to be instrumental in the radicalisation of young Muslims in Britain. It is virtually impossible for the authorities to stamp out. The programme begins with the words: "In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Global Media Front presents to you Sout Al-Khilafa." The newsreader welcomes viewers to the "The Nation's Weekly News Summary" and launches into the lead story saying: "The Sout Al-Khilafa team sends its best wishes to the Islamic nation for the defeat of the Zionist occupation in a portion of occupied Palestine." The next item covers Zarqawi "the valiant hero" and two of his speeches declaring "the beginning of the Sunni vengeance raid against Shiite Muslims" who now lead a government coalition. The newscast contains claims by the Islamic Army in Iraq of the launch of ten chemical mortar shells and 45 missiles on a US military base in Al-Madain. A video shows five rockets being fired from behind a sand bank. In the final story, the programme ridicules George Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina and claims: "The entire Islamic world overflowed with joy." It describes the US President as "broken and completely humiliated" and "a fool unable to deal with the wrath of Allah that visited the city of homosexuals". The programme ends with music popular among Zarqawi's followers. It was often broadcast on Radio al-Tajdeed - the London-based station run by the Saudi asylum seeker Muhammad al-Massari. A short advertisement in English for the film Total Jihad is played towards the end of the newscast. The video was picked up by the Washington-based Clandestine Radio website which monitors online terrorist activity. Its founder, Nick Grace, said: "This is the first time they are compiling their video into a weekly format. The significance of the detail of this programme shows us what the agenda of the supporters of al-Qaeda is." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 Works by analysis of voice stress, like any "Truth" detector it only works if the individual being tested knows he's telling a lie. If the subject thinks what he's saying is the truth, or if he's been lied to and doesn't know it's a lie, then the "Detector" doesn't work. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-28 15:32 |
| #2 "It may tell us something about what they want us to believe as well as the false statements we can easily discard." A firm from Texas, I believe, is touting a device that identifies lying individuals just by their conversation with much higher accuracy than a lie detector. They have marketed it to police departments and offered it for Van der Sloot's statements in the Natalee Holloway case in Aruba. I have no idea how it works but I think, if true, this would be great in determining which statements on these videos are genuine threats and which are bluffs. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2005-09-28 14:14 |
| #1 How about a filter on any Arabic text website, solved. |
| Posted by: Wheque Chavise7647 2005-09-28 00:20 |