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Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive
andy1307 brings us a story from the Washington Post about al-Qaeda's technological capabilities and the methods they use to protect themselves and their networks from opposing military forces. Quoting:
"US and European intelligence officials attribute the al-Qaeda propaganda boom in part to the network's ability to establish a secure base in the ungoverned tribal areas of western Pakistan. Analysts said that as-Sahab (AQ's propaganda network) is outfitted with some of the best technology available. Editors and producers use ultralight Sony Vaio laptops and top-end video cameras. Files are protected using PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, a virtually unbreakable form of encryption software that is also used by intelligence agencies around the world. [Al-Fajr, a propaganda distribution network] is heavily decentralized, with its webmasters generally unaware of one another's true identities for security reasons, intelligence analysts said. It also has separate 'brigades' devoted to hacking, multimedia, cybersecurity and distribution."
Yawn. Proof please. Next.
History 101 , apparently
1) Bush, the neo-cons, and Mossad are entirely responsible for 9/11.
2) Osama bin Laden died in Dec. 2001. He made only 1 recording denying any responsibility for 9/11. All subsequent videotapes have been proven beyond any doubt by video experts to be fake.
3) "Al-Qaeda" - "The Toilet" in arabic, is entirely the creation of our CIA.
4) Anyone who dares resist US state-terrorism is automatically labeled "Al Qaeda"
In reality Ayman al-Zawahiri is a Mossad man, as is Abu Hamza, since the only source of information we have on these people is a bunch of people we know tell us lies.
When agents of the US government censor, torture and otherwise violate the US Constitution, enemies of the US can claim hypocrisy. The US must act better to be perceived as better.
This is idiotic. The US acts better.
Of course when talking about muslims "acting better" doesn't mean much, but even if US soldiers had raped EVERY iraqi woman and merely left half of them alive afterwards, they'd have acted better than muslims. (the muslim prophet kidnapped women using a military force only identified in the muslim "holy" texts as "the muslims", had them raped by said military force called "the muslims", asked ransom for them, which was paid, and then killed the women, every last one, only to proceed to attack the village, eventually succeeding in severing all heads involved, their crime ? refusing to become muslim. This is the man every muslim has as a first duty to imitate. Despite their utter lack of decency, most muslims actually do behave better than their prophet, but most massacring paedophiles behave better than him)
Are you seriously claiming the US is behaving worse than the muslims ?
Are you totally insane ? Do you have a wife ? A daughter perhaps ? Shall I act "slightly better than 'the muslims'" against her for a while and see if you "perceive me better" ?
So let's just take your post as an illustration of that age-old principle : Never let reality come in the way of a "progressive" argument. Progressive being apparently Iran "we don't have no gays <cue picture of an Iranian noose containing well, a gay, with 'islamic' soldiers poking them with bajonets".