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| Terror Networks & Islam |
| Al-Qaeda seeks to enlist Muslim journalists |
| 2005-10-18 |
| As the role of the media becomes increasingly important in the overall strategy of al-Qaeda, the network has decided to issue an appeal for help to all Muslims working in news and information. With a video broadcast on Monday on Islamist forums on the Internet, the "Emir of the Global Islamic Media Front" said: "We invite you to join the Islamic Media Front so that you can help us, through your ideas and your experience." "We need your help and your technical knowledge. The Front is present in Islamic forums on the Internet and will be boosting its messages in the future: Come and help Islam by joining the Front" the message urges. The recording was referred to during the latest al-Qaeda 'news bulletin', the third, broadcast last week. During the 8-minute video message, there is a close up of a man with his face masked, reading a text written on a page. THe man invites all Muslims in the communications sector to exploit their knowledge to help the jihad, underlining the central role that the Internet is playing in the battle against the enemies of Islam. Also on Monday, the same organisation broadcast a propaganda video on the Iraqi insurgency, entitled "The Echo of Bullets", a compilation of old video clips of Baathist guerrillas and fighters loyal to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with in the background an Islamic song which sings the praises of the Iraqi insurgents. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #15 ah, gee thanks! Where do I sign up?? :-) |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-10-18 22:53 |
| #14 Bobbym ah ah ah fur short. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-18 18:08 |
| #13 2b someone just stole somthin from youse. |
| Posted by: thiefer 2005-10-18 14:40 |
#12 "We invite you to join the Islamic Media Front so that you can help us, through your ideas and your experience."You mean more than they - and the Western media wankers - already do? :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-10-18 12:43 |
| #11 bobby, Fliergerabwehrkannon means anti-aircraft cannon. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-10-18 12:26 |
| #10 What are they complaining about? Didn't the eminent BBC journalist, Sir David Frost, just take a job at Al Jazeera, the BBC/Muslim World spin-off? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-18 12:06 |
| #9 2b---great post, but you didn't mention Juiche or Songun, Sea of Fire, or Brigands... Whoops! Wrong department, disregard. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-10-18 12:02 |
| #8 THA - 'spose we can ever educate anybody in the 'depleted' part of depleted uranium? BTY, just what is the trnaslation of (German?) "Fliergerabwehrkannon"? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-10-18 09:01 |
| #7 Shouldn't there be at least a passing mention of OIL and ZIONISTS, somewhere? Otherwise, pretty good, I think you've got yourself a job at Al Jezeera! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-10-18 08:56 |
| #6 2b: Superb! Though you might wish to add an account of depleted uranium shell fragments and how little Arab children with gumdrop tears and chocolate smiles now have a third foot growing out of their hip. Must not forget to mention DU, and make sure it is made in the USA and has been sitting in the village since 1991 Gulf War I. |
| Posted by: The Happy Fliergerabwehrkannon 2005-10-18 08:25 |
| #5 err, i thought AL-Jizz already worked for em and most of the western media too, I'm confused now lol. |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2005-10-18 08:16 |
| #4 Why hire any more? Don't the guys at CNN, CBS, NYT, WaPo, etc. count? Geez, they've got more journos on their side than soldiers in their army. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2005-10-18 07:59 |
| #3 Excellent work 2b. you're hired. The epitomy of fake but accurate. Abdul, Adul, whatever. The PFFAYMOOWASFBTLITCPFBRF deserves every penny the Boston Globe can raise. |
| Posted by: john 2005-10-18 07:51 |
| #2 Way good! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-18 07:21 |
| #1 oooh, oooh, hire me! I can do it!! A warm wind blew through the tiny little village. Babies, with empty stomachs, as big as watermellons, lay unattended on mats. No one came to answer their piteous cries. They will be lucky to live through the difficult Arabian winter. Abdul is a young man who is angry. Angry because US imperialism has left him with no job, no medicine and no social security benefits. He carries a gun, but has no bullets. His bullets were stolen when roving bands of bandits came through his town, killed his parents and took his sister. He wanders aimlessly through the town, speaking to an occassional shopkeeper, looking for odd jobs that provide him just enough to stay alive in this dry, desolate, despairing, difficult, dangerous, disappointing, desert. Adul makes smacking sounds as he eats what will certainly be his only meal of the day; left over bread given to him by Islamist extremists from the People's Front for Angry Young Men Out of Work and Sexually Frustrated Because They Live in Totalitarian Cess Pools Funded By Religious Fanatics. The PFFAYMOOWASFBTLITCPFBRF has greatly improved Abuls lot and he is grateful for the stale slice of bread and medicine that they give to him. Abdul is America's worst nightmare and America trembles at the thought of him. Sheltered and fed by the Islamists, Abdul can now find an outlet for his frustration at American occupation of in Iraq. "George Bush has humiliated me" he says. I must regain the honor of my proud people. Am I hired yet? NO? How about if I add some sound effects - pots clanking, babies crying? Come on. It's as good as anything I've seen written in the NYT or produced by NPR. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-10-18 03:43 |