Aw, man. Got all tingly there for a second.
“One of the targeted buildings is believed to be used as a propaganda production facility and meeting location for senior leaders, officials said.”
The CNN region office perhaps? Or maybe that of AP?
:-)
Seriously, this is good news!
We should have long ago sponsored an anti-al-Qaeda radio network that broadcasts to parts of the Muslim world on pirate radio stations. Not affiliated with the US directly at all, and funded by a black budget.
Unlike typical propaganda radio, which is almost comical in its crude efforts, this could be a much more culturally sensitive, yet brutal attack on al-Qaeda.
It could include statements from high level Muslim scholars in other nations that condemn al-Qaeda, and describe in detail how Muslims around the world are fighting al-Qaeda.
But it could be much darker. It could imply that al-Qaeda are heretics, homosexuals, Satan worshipers, even worse. It could give the names of some of the locals who were killed in other countries, by Muslims, and not in battle, but while performing acts repulsive to Muslims. Then it could directly attack the Imams who sent them there.
Delving deeply into superstition, it could hit al-Qaeda hard by recommending selected verses from the Koran as chants that could be used to drive al-Qaeda away, like they were evil spirits. This would be doubly damning, because if any al-Qaeda protested, they would be protesting against the Koran. So it’s damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t.
Such pirate radio could also be a font of misinformation to al-Qaeda itself. It could be as blatant as, for example, reporting that Zawahiri himself had ordered that all al-Qaeda everywhere must paint their left big toe red and keep it red. Then, if we caught anybody with their left big toe painted red, we would know that they are al-Qaeda.
Such radio could order al-Qaeda to attack heavily defended enemy positions. And maybe we could intercept their efforts to countermand those “orders”. We could declare al-Qaeda factions at war with other al-Qaeda factions.
Endless possibilities.
“Daghgharah?”
I’d like to buy a vowel please Pat!
As I keep saying. they’ll be finding weapons caches in Iraq for 1,000 years.