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DRB

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http://www.charlotte.com/news/story/320885.html

When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word.

"America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully. ..." he wrote on his blog. "America is known to be a people of arrogance."

Unlike bin Laden, the blogger was not operating from a remote location. It turns out he is a 21-year-old American named Samir Khan who produces his blog from his parents' home in Charlotte, where he serves as a kind of Western relay station for the multimedia productions of violent Islamic groups.

Recently, he featured "glad tidings" from a North African militant leader whose group slaughtered 31 Algerian troops. He posted a scholarly treatise arguing for violent jihad, translated into English. He listed hundreds of links to secret sites from which his readers could obtain the latest blood-drenched insurgent videos from Iraq.
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While there is nothing to suggest that Khan is operating in concert with militant leaders, or breaking any laws, he is part of a growing constellation of apparently independent media operators broadcasting the message of al-Qaida and other groups, a message that is increasingly devised, translated and aimed for a Western audience.

Terrorism experts at West Point say there are as many as 100 English language sites along with Khan's, which claims 500 regular readers, among the more active.

While their reach is difficult to assess, it is clear from a review of extremist material and interviews that militants are seeking to appeal to young American and European Muslims by playing on their anger over the war in Iraq and the image of Islam under attack.

Tedious Arabic screeds are reworked into flashy English productions. Recruitment tracts are issued in multiple languages, like a 39-page, electronic, English version of a booklet urging women to join the fight against the West.

There are even online novellas like "Rakan bin Williams," about a band of Christian European converts who embraced al-Qaida and "promised God that they will carry the flag of their distant brothers and seek vengeance on the evil doers."

Militant Islamists are turning grainy car-bombing tapes into slick hip-hop videos and montage movies, all readily available on Western sites like YouTube, the online video smorgasbord.

"It is as if you would watch a Hollywood movie," said Abu Saleh, a 21-year-old German devotee of al-Qaida videos who visits Internet cafes in Berlin. "The Internet has totally changed my view on things."
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valve bouncer

valve bouncer

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There are even online novellas like "Rakan bin Williams," about a band of Christian European converts
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This bit made me laugh for some reason, maybe because it's my surname.
I shouldn't laugh here though, this is a very serious matter. I think the answer is obvious though. We must ban Arabic to English translations. We'll all be safer then.
 
ire

ire

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I bet that guy gets his ass kicked now that his name has been published in the press
 
DaveW

DaveW

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As good a thread as any to post up this link..... al-Jazeera has angered al-Qaeda :poster_oops:

The jihadist forums routinely lambast al-Jazeera, along with the other Arab media outlets, for not acting as the propaganda outlets that they'd like. They've been frustrated for years with al-Jazeera's presentation of the tapes, cutting them up and airing only the newsworthy bits, with commentary and analysis from often unsympathetic guests. That's one of the many reasons that they came to rely on the internet distribution method, so that they wouldn't be at al-Jazeera's mercy. Still, it's clear that this one is something special - they are genuinely outraged, beyond the norm.
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