[dennisw]

Al-Qaida has dramatically increased its media presence over the last year, capped off recently by a flurry of highly polished video and audio messages from fugitive leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri. But it is the videotaped rants of a 27-year-old American terrorist named Adam Gadahn that offer the most intriguing clues about the mechanics of al-Qaida’s propaganda machine and the sort of individual the shadowy terror organization is seeking to recruit.

The presence of Gadahn, also known as “Azzam the American,” is the clearest indication of al-Qaida’s effort to reach out beyond the typical profile of a terrorist recruit and make contact with a new breed of operative: native-born Europeans and Americans.

[TomGuy]

This afternoon my local WB channel ran the movie Wag the Dog. It is about a president who creates a war to win re-election, after a sex scandal.

It was funny, but, it was also too close to reality. I kept thinking of the MSM/Reuters and the faked and staged photos from the Israeli-Hizbulla war.

Wag the Dog is a MUST SEE. Everyone should watch it occasionally to be reminded how easily the general public can be, and are being, manipulated by various powers.

[Cobra64]

Hillary's running mate '08