Mixed emotions on this--
On the one hand, this the first terrorist linked video ever that appears to have ever been "held back" by any media outlet. Remember the NYT's new motto----if it exists it must be released, don't bother to fact check anything. It's frustrating to see the double standard.
On the other hand, we have several days for this to build and build as the public becomes aware that there is a "secret" video being withheld from them by the Big Media, to protect them---while details of the forbidden fruit leak out day by day. Once someone gets ahold of it, even a bootleg copy, and it gets on the internet, the anticipation and interest in seeing this suppressed video will be enormous.
Interesting that the Monitor doesn't discuss the link to the Iraq terrorists that the video supposedly references. Wouldn't want anyone to think that Iraq has any relationship to Al Queda, would we?
I do not see any reference to Iraq or al-Zarqawi.
The absence of such reference alludes to a power struggle within AQ between to Afganistan front and the Iraqi front.