Sick Fundamentalist BullshitInformation was released today regarding an Al-Qaeda in Iraq training center for children. The discovery was found during a raid in Diyala and it showed young masked children training to conduct kidnapping and assault operations on civilians. I think it goes without say what a shit idea Al-Qaeda's caliphate would be, and here's an article at USA Today which will fill you in on the details (video footage is also here). Unless you're a writer at Lew Rockwell, who questions Al-Qaeda's existence, I think we all agree that these guys are totally fucked in the head. But let's take a look at what Arabic media is saying about Al-Qaeda, since their outlets reach the population that might get subdued into this jihadi logic.
Al-Arabiya also ran footage of the Al-Qaeda propaganda video showing youngsters training on how to kidnap civilians to generate ransom money:
I also dredged up an article from 4 Feb on Al-Arabiya's English website entitled "The Al-Qaeda/Israel Riddle". While the article seems to convey the message that, by some bizarre logic, Israel may be affiliated with Al-Qaeda, it still denies that Al-Qaeda is a legitimate organization.
It is time for Arab citizens to know that Al-Qaeda is an extremist, terrorist group. Until today, Al-Qaeda and Al-Zawahiri did not offer Palestine anything except those political pornographic tapes that are presented on TV screens -- a cheap struggle for which Al-Qaeda does not pay anything. The task of the Arab media should be to expose this falsehood, not promote it.
While the author certainly isn't waving any American flags, at least the Saudi-owned media giant, Al-Arabiya, isn't talking about the benefits that Sheikh Osama is handing out. I find this to be important in a time of war, that the message of Al-Qaeda being a bunch of car-bombing thugs gets out to the people. Particularly the Saudis, where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from.
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