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al-Queda looking to recruit more geeks to produce attack videos like this one
Posted on: March 13, 2008
Al-Qaeda’s propaganda wing, al-Sahab, produced 16 Web videos in 2006. Last year, that number jumped to 74. Now al-Queda is recruiting “geek jihadis“: adherents handy with portable generators, laptops, and video-editing software. After filming attacks like the one depicted in this clip, these operatives edit the videos and then transport them on USB devices to Internet cafes and upload them to secret servers on the Web. “The al-Qaeda men who are coming today are not farmers, illiterate people,” al-Sahab cameraman Qari Mohammed Yusuf told the AP. “They are PhDs, professors who know about this technology. Day by day they are coming. Al-Qaeda has asked them to come.”
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