Al-Qaeda offers mobile videos

Source: al Jazeera

As-Sahab, the media production house of al-Qaeda, is issuing specially formatted videos from Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri that can be downloaded to cell phones.

The move is aimed at spreading al-Qaeda's message and extending its influence.

As of Sunday, eight previously recorded videos were made available for download, including a tribute to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former al-Qaeda in Iraq leader killed by US forces in June 2006.

Ben Venzke, the head of IntelCenter, a US group that monitors and analyses al-Qaeda's messages, said it was not the first time As-Sahab has released videos designed for cell phones.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E0A98A30-69BF-499A-9C30-0F18FFE76497.htm

:shrug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaM2JD6jeHQ

Let it run the first 50 seconds through the original part of the old George Formby film and then the soundtrack gets edited !

It contains secret video of a new rifle Al-Qaida is trying out. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD-KaUl_olo

... This week U.S. Air Force Space Command, a major command headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, issued a solicitation called "Terrorism Threat Research" (thanks MS) saying that it was planning to license a "terrorism research database" to receive "real-time" warnings via pager, cell phone, and PDA.

The database is produced by IntelCenter, one of a cottage industry that has sprung up since the early 1990's to feed at the counter-terrorism trough. According to the group's website, the IntelCenter's "primary client base is comprised of military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the US and other allied countries around the world."

Space Command wants to obtain 20 licenses to the IntelCenter's U.S. Government Terrorism Threat Intelligence Package ($1650.00 per license according to the IntelCenter website) ...

But it makes you wonder what the tens of thousands of government employees working in U.S. intelligence agencies actually do. It makes you wonder why it could be that if this information is so useful to Space Command and the government that it shouldn't be provided by our $40 billion intelligence community directly ...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/04/counterterrorism_profiteers_wi.html