WASHINGTON - The video has all the bells and whistles of a Nintendo game: Three times, a small white subcompact rams a vehicle with American flags, igniting a fireball that rips the cars to pieces in a simulation of the March 2006 suicide attack that killed American diplomat David Foy in Karachi, Pakistan.
The latest al-Qaida offering in the war of ideas -- complete with warnings that U.S. embassies are prime targets, the bomber's testimonial and footage of past carnage -- had been promoted for days before its Aug. 6 release with the Internet teaser: "Coming soon ... the big surprise."
Experts say al-Qaida and its offshoots are engaged in a jihadi sweeps season, flooding the Internet with propaganda in an increasingly aggressive campaign to radicalize and recruit a global army of believers. "The subtext is, 'We're still here. We're still alive. And we're in charge,'" said terror expert Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corporation think tank.
As of July 25, al-Qaida's media arm, As-Sahab, had released 67 videos this year -- averaging one every three days -- compared to an average of one every six days in 2006, said IntelCenter, a private company that tracks the postings. The busiest month was May 2007, when 17 videos were released.
"You are talking about a very large and sophisticated campaign that is addressed to the best and brightest of the Muslim world," said Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit. "They started in 2002 with a couple of electronic journals ... every few weeks, mostly with text and a few photographs, and have gone almost to a 24-hour news service. "... We do a lot of worrying about Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya . What we should worry about is al-Qaida becoming the CNN of the Muslim world."
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You'll notice that the report goes a little crazy right after the reporter makes a long pause in the video. This peeked my interest so I watched it again only to catch something that I had missed the first time. ( Producers.. go figure. )
I heard something that struck me as being funny in the long pause of the reporter... Right after he says " HIGH LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVITY" I thought I heard someone talking to him. I recorded the segment and found the pause ( clearly visible in the audio spectrum ) and selected the segment and AMPLIFIED the segment three times ( That is all I did ).
Listen to this original segment and then the enhanced segment.
This is the Original Segment of Audio
Click to Download or Play The section to listen for is at 00:00:49
Image to the right is a screen capture in Cool Edit Pro of the original audio track from the YouTube video. You can clearly see the pause in Rob Malcolm's audio. This is the segment that I amplified and found the voice of what I presume to be the producer telling Malcolm to "Tell them no radioactivity"..
You can check it yourself on the YouTube audio. It's a perfect match to the original. Suggestion: Listen closely at the pause of the reporter for background audio. Turn up your speakers. Now listen to the enhanced segment...( The segment that I increased the gain in the audio )
Click to Download or Play The section to listen for is at 00:00:49
Someone PLAINLY tells the reporter through his ear set - which his microphone picked up, "TELL THEM NO RADIOACTIVITY" - and the reporter begins to fumble through his piece -- probably because his story just flew out the window.
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