name: Daniel Akill
114: BIN LADIN'S AND AL ZAWAHIRI'S PROPAGANDA MACHINERY
24 January, 2008
Dear Readers. Kindly note: Headline in red and Excerpt in blue with highlights in red, followed by my comments with highlights in red.
Headline: Web users ask Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri questions Khaleej Times online
AFP 23rd January, 20080
Excerpt: PARIS - Internet users aimed questions at Al Qaeda’s Ayman Al-Zawahiri for a period of one month via jihadi chat-groups after the terrorist networks’ second in command promised to respond to them.
French researcher Dominique Thomas, specialist in Islamic movements at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) said: “While some of the participants have usernames that have long been familiar to jihadi webmasters, others “signed up recently especially for the occasion. We can imagine conspiracy theories behind this, with questions asked by intelligence services...”
For Hussein Shoboksi, editorialist with the Saudi daily published in London, Asharq Al-Awsat, the initiative is “an opportunity for the Al Qaeda network to round up dozens of young men, in order to incorporate them into its ranks.”
Comment: Most, if not almost all, or all, of the questions came from, and will continue to come from, Bin Ladin’s and Al Zawahiri’s Appointed Alqaeda Agents who reside in several separate countries, or who will be sent there for the purpose.This is not a Q & A Internet Forum; it is a Propaganda Machinery; well-planned and systematic, and calculated to bamboozle, intrigue, confuse, and convince the poor, the illiterate, and the ignorant; and attract them to join Bin Ladin’s futile, foolish, puerile, mad, vain, and egoistic cause.
In fact, to give or provide a platform of this sort to someone like Al Zawahiri, and to communicate with him, is to encourage and thereby compound an already poisonous mentality that accepts only the language of violence, folly, and madness.
What the hordes and mobs would ask themselves – if they weren’t so poor (as in poverty), illiterate, and ignorant – was: “Why are we being urged and paid to do this – kill mostly innocent civilians (men and women who go about their daily lives; and children, either at, or going to, school; destroy properties – both public and private (vehicles, buildings, homes, schools, mosques, churches, hospitals, Etc) – and committing suicide – actually throwing our lives away; for keys to paradise and the dream or illusion of virgins? If it is all true, then why won’t these people who urge and pay us to do all this for all that do it themselves, too – first, as an example for us to believe and follow; second, for them to get their share of virgins in paradise, since they’ve already got the keys?”
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