Comments on: UPI, “experts” analyze al Qaeda’s media arm

By: Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:50:06 +0000

Cyber Warfare: David and Goliath…

(Kat-Denizen Opinion; hopefully the Armorer doesn’t think I am invading the castle via the port door with all my posts) In light of the Armorer’s post below, I thought I would bring this to our attention: Analyzing Al Qaida’s Media……

By: trigon

trigon — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:44:33 +0000

If it’s so easy to make these videos, why aren’t we making our own? Get some of the video clips these guys use and dub our own ‘slightly off’ messages. Maybe cause a little dissention or at least disagreement in the ranks. If nothing else, it might be seriously amusing to punk these clowns. Making them look funny or stupid to their followers is nearly as damaging as a 500 lb. smart bomb. Who wants to have Col. Klink as thier fearless leader? And, we all know what an evolved sense of humor these idiots all have.

By: Rugged Individual

Rugged Individual — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:45:31 +0000

One advantage the sane people have is that the Islamists can only offer 15 seconds of fame and a forever of fraud regarding a harem of vestle virgins. Oh… And a bulldozed or dynamited home. I think HotAir’s future is MUCH brighter. ;)

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Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:38:02 +0000

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By: mojojojo

mojojojo — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:38:33 +0000

You’d be able fit all of their gear in one mid-size van or truck.

Or two camels.

By: Califemme

Califemme — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:06:41 +0000

At Hot Air we do it with, essentially, me, and for a year we produced a video every day, five days a week. Michelle would write most of the scripts, we’d shoot her part of it, and I’d go off and put it together, compress and post it, etc. Al Qaeda can only manage one every three days or so. Amateurs.

Need we say more? I think not. Great job with all of the Vents, Bryan. You and Michelle do AWESOME work, congrats!

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:13:55 +0000

Al Qaeda’s Army of One…

Very good analysis from Bryan Preston at Hot Air on the probability of al Qaeda’s as Sahab video production company being no more than a few guys. It’s even possible that the entire organization is a single individual–Adam Gadahn. Now,……

By: desertdweller

desertdweller — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:12:18 +0000

And beard trimming.

Al Qaeda needs to remove the heads of their current speakers and get some new talking heads.

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:02:41 +0000

Extremely interesting.

By: Spirit of 1776

Spirit of 1776 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:41:02 +0000

Nice analysis. Thanks for posting your thoughts on this, Bryan.

By: bones47

bones47 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:54:30 +0000

Guardian on September 21, 2007 at 10:07 AM

Great insight Bryan on these type of stories. It gives me hope that one day we will figure out where these bozo’s are hiding…….hopefully.

Guardian…….made my morning with your words….LOL

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:47:30 +0000

They definitely need to take a clue from western media and hire some hot Jihadi Bunnies to read the message.

By: nailinmyeye

nailinmyeye — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:25:42 +0000

they’re Mac users in my world. It just seems to fit with the whole revolutionary schtick these twits revel in

What are you sayin’ about us Mac users?

Oh, and I think that is a great analysis. You make a lot of sense in your description of this being a team of 5 or less, and how they might go about cranking out these videos. I wonder why the analysts want it to be a team of many many more.

By: dedalus

dedalus — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:21:15 +0000

Thanks Brian for the informative technical rundown. I knew those guys were evil, but software pirates too? Now that really does it.

By: CurtZHP

CurtZHP — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:20:38 +0000

A decent video camera, a decent PC with some decent software, and a room the size of your average bedroom, and you can produce talking head videos until you’re blue in the face.

People have made feature length movies with less hardware.

And these MSM pinheads make these guys sound like they’re Dreamworks SKG.

By: Guardian

Guardian — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:07:20 +0000

So in other words as-Sahab is a couple of goat-banging suicidal nerds.