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The New Al Qaeda Video
By Micah Halpern

Friday September 8, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

About: the al Jazera broadcast of Osama bin Ladin and the 9-11 terrorists

The broadcast is:
An al Qaeda media ploy to honor THEIR work on 9-11
A classic style Islamic message - connecting the past to the future and present
Meant to threaten and terrorize the United States
Meant to tell the Muslim world that Osama is still a major player who can still, just by presenting his image, threaten the West

More than anything else - the video shows just how easy it is for al Qaeda to produce a piece and send a message to their world of adherents.

Al Qaeda videos were, until now, aimed only at adherents, not the West.
This video is aimed at adherents, but ALSO, importantly, for us, for the West. They are clearly fighting a two front media war, on one front is the Muslim world and on the second front is the Western world.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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