Back in fall 2005, al-Qaida’s new media wing, As-Sahab, was advertising online for skilled media workers (with no indication if they paid in accordance with Jihadist Guild standards). Since that time, As-Sahab has increased both their production values and their reach, trying news broadcasts (with a machine gun pointing at the viewer and ski-masked anchor) and short films in addition to single-camera bloviating. With Osama’s new plans to declare war on Pervez Musharraf via As-Sahab and Ayman al-Zawahri coming on-screen again yesterday, I assessed how the main on-air personalities having been working for As-Sahab in its Goebbels-inspired programming…

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