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DUBAI: Al Qaeda has put job advertisements on the Internet asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported. The London-based Asharq al-Awsat said on its Web site this week that Al Qaeda had âvacant positionsâ for video production and editing statements, footage and international media coverage about militants in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Chechnya and other conflict zones where militants are active.The paper said the Global Islamic Media Front, an Al Qaeda-linked Web-based organisation, would âfollow up with members interested in joining and contact them via emailâ. The paper did not say how applicants should contact the Global Islamic Media Front. Al Qaeda supporters widely use the Internet to spread the groupâs statements through dozens of Islamist sites where anyone can post messages. Al Qaeda-linked groups also set up their own sites, which frequently have to move after being shut by Internet service providers. The advertisements, however, could not be found on mainstream Islamist Web sites where Al Qaeda and other affiliate groups post their statements.
Asharq al-Awsat said the advert did not specify salary amounts, but added: âEvery Muslim knows his life is not his, since it belongs to this violated Islamic nation whose blood is being spilled. Nothing should take precedence over this.â The Front this week issued the second broadcast of a weekly Web news programme called Voice of the Caliphate, which it says aims to combat anti-Qaeda âlies and propagandaâ on major global and Arab television channels such as CNN and Al Jazeera.