New York Times: Zarqawi pioneered use of the Net as a tool of global jihad

New York Times: Zarqawi pioneered use of the Net as a tool of global jihad

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday June 8, 2006


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The New York Times is set to report that, "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi established the Web as a powerful tool of the global jihad, mobilizing computer-savvy allies who inspired extremists in Iraq and beyond," RAW STORY has learned.

The Times describes Zarqawi and his aides as being the first terrorists to make full use of the new technology over the last two years for propaganda, recruiting, and instruction. Their websites were effectively able to take the place of now-destroyed al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan.

In recent months, the group's video clips have been posted on multiple servers and even include a cell phone version. Videos too graphic to have ever appeared on mainstream news media have been disseminated in this manner. One expert on terrorism calls Zarqawi "the Alexander Graham Bell of terrorist propaganda" and says that, "It's a new day for these groups because of him."

Zarqawi's speeches would translated into multiple languages and posted by his fans within hours of their release. Now those followers are posting electronic eulogies, praising his martyrdom, and vowing to continue his fight.


http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/New_York_Times_Zarqawi_was_first_0608.html

Sooooooooo this gives the Bushies even more reason to seek control of the internet ... New York Times can still sell fear for them ....

"Comrades: The contemporary world labourmovement is polarized; two poles deterine,
with unprecedented clarity, the two basic tendencies within the world working class.
One of them, the revolutionary pole, is *our* country, the Soviet Union; the other,
the coniciliationist pole, is the Unitest States. Never before have there ver been
perfected forms of comprimise with te bourgeoise, as are to be found in the Amercian
labour movement of the past 2 or 3 years.... (July 29, 1924)

Leon Trotsky

... same shit... another repetetive decade.

This article is little closer to the truth of the matter:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200607/online-jihad

:rofl:

writes letters - everybody communicates - big deal. Just more crap to scare the sheeple into allowing the government to police the internet.

They can't control the media and the spin the way they used to with people being able to communicate with each other individually even across international borders.

gee, I wonder what fresh hell this will open up. :puke: