From the Stop the Presses Department, “Insurgent groups spreads their own news via Internet,” from the Conta Costa Times, with thanks to Skeetstreet and RB:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The ritual is all too familiar.
Hours after an attack on a U.S. convoy or an Iraqi police patrol, a brief statement begins appearing on Islamist Web sites claiming it was carried out by fighters loyal to Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraq’s most wanted man.
But in the past two weeks something has changed.
Every day now, new messages appear on the Web offering encouragement to resistance fighters. Last week, Zarqawi’s group started an Internet magazine, complete with photographs and 43 pages of text.Other Islamist groups are joining the effort, including one calling itself the Jihadist Information Brigade.
The Iraqi insurgency appears to have mounted a full-scale propaganda
war.
You don’t say!