How the master mujahid exploits Western media dhimmitude. From The Australian, with thanks to JE:
OSAMA bin Laden watches Larry King.It may seem a rather trite observation considering the numbing frothiness of King's CNN talk show compared with the gravity of all that surrounds the world's most hunted terrorist.
But it may reveal much about the role al-Qa'ida's leader sees the Western media playing in his bloody war against the infidel.
In a new book by terrorism expert Peter Bergen, there is a passage in which Hamid Mir, bin Laden's Pakistani biographer, recalls seeing the September 11 mastermind, in his hideaway, glued to CNN.
"When I met him after 9/11, he said: 'I was watching you on the Larry King show a few days ago, and you told Larry King that when Osama bin Laden talks on religion, he is not convincing, but when he talks on politics, he is very much convincing. So today I will convince you on some religious issues'," Mir tells Bergen.
"So I said, 'OK, you watched the Larry King show?'.
"He said, 'Yes, I am fighting a big war, and I have to monitor the activities of my enemy through these TV channels'."
Remember, it was the CNN pictures of the corpses of US troops being brutally dragged through the streets of Mogadishu - and the subsequent retreat ordered by then president Bill Clinton - that gave bin Laden the belief that the US did not have the stomach for war.
And so when bin Laden speaks, like any media-savvy politician with an agenda, it is worth examining what might lie beyond his words.
Read it all.
But when is the last time he spoke? Remember, he didn't mention a single word about the Cartoon Jihad, which has been going for several months now.
Gary:
The fact that OBL has so far been silent about the cartoon jihad means little. He only emerges from his spiderhole sporadically, but fairly purposefully, such as his pronouncements on the eve of the last US presidential election. No particular advantage for him to pronounce on the cartoons. Others have done all the work already. Besides, it's part of the mystique the psychopath has consciously cultivated around himself.
My T-shirts arrived yesterday. I guess I am a redneck, as I bought extras for my Mom and Dad. (hahahah) I don't know about wearing the things
though. It's kinda like painting a target on yourself, but what the hell-- at the very least, they'll be collectors' items!
Some of MetroSpy's critics could use some Valium and therapy!
Truth4U,
You have posted the same, long, comment on just about every story on Jihadwatch and Dhimmiwatch. Once is enough. After the second posting of the same stuff everyone just passes it by. At least make your post relevant to the issue at hand. Thanks.
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And I thought he only watched the Sci-Fi Channel.
Being one of the undead, himself.
His favorites:
Invasion of the Umma Snatchers
And:
Night of the Living Da'wa.