Acidus wrote:

Insurgent propaganda video of US solders getting sniped.

I'd be curious to know where you got this / how you found this video.

When posting this kind of material, bear in mind that click-throughs end up becoming public information. As you can see by following the "links" link on the video page, there are (at present) only two sites linking to this video: MySpace and MemeStreams. Anyone else who clicks on "links" here will see this, as well.

This posting provides clear evidence of the story I recommended last week, Jihadists Use Internet as Recruiting, Networking Tool, in which it was said that

"The Internet is the most important venue for the radicalization of Islamic youth."

"It's a battle of perceptions, and al Qaeda understands it. And America needs to understand it."

I had suggested:

Maybe, if we got the American schoolchildren to write their letters to Iraqi, Iranian, Saudi, Syrian children ... or, they could make videos to them, and post them on YouTube.

But it looks like the Iraqi kids had beaten us to the punch.

noteworthy wrote:
Acidus wrote:

Insurgent propaganda video of US solders getting sniped.

I'd be curious to know where you got this / how you found this video.

When posting this kind of material, bear in mind that click-throughs end up becoming public information. As you can see by following the "links" link on the video page, there are (at present) only two sites linking to this video: MySpace and MemeStreams. Anyone else who clicks on "links" here will see this, as well.

This posting provides clear evidence of the story I recommended last week, Jihadists Use Internet as Recruiting, Networking Tool, in which it was said that

"The Internet is the most important venue for the radicalization of Islamic youth."

"It's a battle of perceptions, and al Qaeda understands it. And America needs to understand it."

I had suggested:

Maybe, if we got the American schoolchildren to write their letters to Iraqi, Iranian, Saudi, Syrian children ... or, they could make videos to them, and post them on YouTube.

But it looks like the Iraqi kids had beaten us to the punch.

I found a reference to Juba the Sniper on Wikipedia. It sounded vaguely like the myth of a Viet Cong sniper, who has simply a composite of many men. I went looking to see where these videos were and how the mainstream public in the US and the Middle East are reacting to them.

As for linking and link tracking, I've already been sued and lost a job because of people misunderstanding things I've done. After that, you really stop giving a damn. I will read what I want when I want and form my own opinions. Anyone who holds that against me isn't someone I want to associate with anyway.