Can’t beat them? Kill them!
We’ve long known that the jihadis are pretty adept at swaying opinion in the Middle East in their favor, and as propagandists, we in the U.S. left something to be desired.
Now, it seems like we’ve come up with a better way to fight the jihadi propagandists. Not with words or cool video, or even shutting down their web sites. Nah, we just kill them.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday it had hampered al Qaeda’s ability to recruit new members in Iraq by capturing or killing many of the people who make slick videos used to attract disaffected young Muslims.
U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Greg Smith said that in the past year, 39 al Qaeda members in Iraq responsible for producing and disseminating videos and other material to thousands of Internet Web sites had been captured or killed.
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“We think the vast majority of this media network has been degraded at this point,” he said, adding that the arrests had led to fewer Internet postings of al Qaeda beheadings, kidnappings and other attacks in Iraq.
U.S. defence officials have in the past complained the military was losing the propaganda battle against militants who skilfully exploited communication tools like the Internet.
Smith said there has been a steady decline in videos broadcast on 5,000 pro-al Qaeda Web sites since June 2007, roughly coinciding with falling levels of violence across Iraq.
Since our own media and the Left freak out whenever the U.S. government uses its own counter-propaganda program, or only real method of countering these jihadis is capturing or killing them. I prefer the later.
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