The Jawa Report says the taliban is preparing to launch a YouTube channel. I thought it was a running joke that YouTube is called JihadTube but now I don't think it's a joke at all.
“The real war is the media war,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud told Daily Times. “It is our desire to learn also how one should fight the media war.”Daily Times
Mehsud sought to win over reporters by terming the murder of Express TV’s Bajaur correspondent ‘unforgivable’. He assured journalists that his organisation would “hang the killers” of Ibrahim if they were identified.
“The Taliban have not been very advanced as far as the media war is concerned. But we are making efforts to catch up with the latest methods, and we will soon be available on YouTube,” a non-Pashtun and non-combatant member of the Taliban’s media cell told Daily Times, his face covered up to evade the identifying gaze of invited lenses.
Access to the latest technology does not appear to be a problem for the Taliban; their media cell employed the latest digital video cameras and laptops to record every moment of the ‘biggest Taliban media show’.
Senior BBC Urdu reporter Haroon Rashid commented that the media show put on by the Taliban underscored the “completer control of the militants” over Waziristan.
The Taliban media cell has already been releasing video CDs showing horrific images, apparently with different aims. One such video, screened during an army media briefing on May 18, shows a boy as young as 10 firing shots at the head of a blindfolded man and beheading another.
“Such images leave a deep impact on viewers. It is part of Taliban psychological warfare to break down opponents psychologically,” a retired army expert on psy-ops warfare told Daily Times in Peshawar.
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Interesting! the Taliban's websites have been taken down several times!
I dont think they will have a chance
in hell to get any where with this !
Between Jawa,Smackdown,war-intel,several other sites every where! and with the military Cyber units coming in October or so !
They are going to be UN-HAPPY!
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