Thanks Velveeta for that link. This is a related article.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008403print.html
October 03, 2005
Al-Qaeda recruits through the Internet
"To qualify for any of the jobs, a person has to be someone who 'seeks the guidance of God.'" In a larger sense this is actually nothing new. "Al-Qa'ida Recruits Through the Internet," from The Media Line, with thanks to Gabrielle Goldwater:
Al-Qa'ida has recently begun to recruit members to the organization through the Internet, reports the London-based daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat. Among the posts needed to be filled, are: an editor for Jihadist announcements in Iraq – both in audio and in video; an editor for TV video clips published through satellite stations; and an editor for written announcements in Arabic and English.
The wanted ads can be found on a website affiliated with Al-Qa'ida. The site said its public relations division will e-mail those who would like to apply for the jobs once they make the initial connection.
Al-Qa'ida did not specify what the salaries would be. It did state, however, that "Each Muslim has to know that he does not possess his time. His time belongs to the raped [Islamic] nation, whose blood was spilled without revenge."
To qualify for any of the jobs, a person has to be someone who "seeks the guidance of God."
Posted at October 3, 2005 08:22 AM
Here's the full article from Sharq al Awsat that the other articles refer to. This is an FBIS translation.
'Al-Qa'ida' Advertises Job Vacancies on the Internet. Does Not Specify Salaries. Following 'CIA' Example, Made Knowledge of Arabic and English Languages a Condition
Following the example of the US intelligence (CIA) advertisements for job opportunities, a website close to "Al-Qa'ida" has announced it has several vacant jobs that include a compiler of the videoed and audio jihadist statements in Iraq, a compiler of audio materials from satellite channels that concern the fundamentalists in the world, foremost of them Palestine, Iraq, and Chechnya, and a linguistic examiner of the Arabic and English languages who is versed in their grammar.
Some of the jobs announced by "Al-Qa'ida" include a specialist in the production of videos and a compiler of public and important issues that are of interest for Muslims in general.
The "World Islamic Media Front" said on the fundamentalists' websites that its public relations department would follow up the applicants wishing to join and communicate with them through their private mail. "Al-Qa'ida" did not specify the proposed salaries for these jobs but said "every Muslim must know that his time does not belong to him but to this usurped nation whose sons' blood is being shed. Nothing in this world should supersede this action because what is an individual duty is a duty for him and others like him." The Front, "Al-Qa'ida" internet mouthpiece, added: "The condition for joining the staff is for the applicant for any of these jobs to seek what is best."
Source: London Al-Sharq al-Awsat in Arabic -- Influential Saudi-owned London daily providing independent coverage of Arab and international issues; editorials reflect official Saudi views on foreign policy
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HOSPITALIZED WITH LIFE- THREATENING INFECTION
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Assist News Service Correspondent and missionary to Malawi Heidi Baker has been hospitalized with a life-threatening infection.
Heidi's husband Rolland wrote in an e-mail obtained by Assist (ANS), "I finally got home to Pemba after five flights, but on arrival had to turn around immediately and take Heidi to an emergency clinic in Maputo. Now we are on our way to a hospital in South Africa. (Heidi) has an extremely dangerous, life-threatening staph infection that has resurfaced after she was hospitalized with the same thing three weeks ago in Malaysia."
Rolland Baker said his wife's staph infection is highly drug resistant, and in Malaysia could only be treated by one antibiotic.
He added, "Heidi has been taking that antibiotic for these three weeks, but now the infection has flared up severely and is out of control. She has had this infection a number of times over the years, passing it on to me once. Each time it gets worse and harder to treat. Now it is spreading quickly and she is in great pain. We and all at our base in Pemba are praying, and now we are asking for our friends around the world to pray and join with us in trusting Jesus with all our hearts."
Rolland Baker asked for much prayer for his wife.
In the Baker's most recent story for ANS (www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05090119.htm) they wrote, "(We're) back in Africa after weeks of conferences in the West. And (we're) facing another kind of conference: a gathering of the poor, hungry, ragged, barefoot and sick from among our churches in the central region of Malawi. Carpets, air conditioning and chandeliers have given way to dirt, blowing dust and the hot sun overhead.
"Hospitality rooms and coffee shops are replaced by iron pots of milled maize cooking over open wood fires. Hotel rooms with soft beds, clean sheets and warm showers have become grass mats, under ripped and wind-blown black plastic coverings on a remote field with no electricity, water or relief from the night cold. Families huddle together in the dark to keep warm, without soap, toiletries or a change of clothes. Their threadbare shirts rip at a touch, and their teeth, hair and skin show the discolored ravages of malnutrition. They are weak. They hurt. And they long for ministry and love.
"Malawi and northwest Mozambique are caught in yet more drought and famine. Four million people are in danger of starving. The world hardly notices. Shipments from aid agencies don't make it to the remote villages where the need is greatest, and where we have most of our churches. But we have called a ‘bush' conference to encourage our people ... and I have come to preach the gospel in this sea of need."
Rolland and Heidi Baker began Iris Ministries, Inc., an interdenominational mission, in 1980.
According to their website (www.irismin.org/p/home.php), "Iris Ministries has expanded to over 5,000 churches all over Mozambique and into neighboring countries. The disastrous flooding of 2000/2001 catalyzed an overwhelming hunger for the things of God in the refugee camps where we ministered, and the Gospel continues to spread like wildfire. We now care for almost 2,000 children at our centers, and our churches are taking in orphans as well."
The Bakers may be reached at rolland@irismin.org.