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From a letter found in Zaraqawi's safe-house:
...here in Iraq, time is now beginning to be of service to the American forces and harmful to the resistance for the following reasons:
...3. By undertaking a media campaign against the resistance resulting in weakening its influence inside the country and presenting its work as harmful to the population rather than being beneficial to the population.
...Based on the above points, it became necessary that these matters should be treated one by one:
1. To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase the number of supporters who are refusing occupation and show the clash of interest between society and the occupation and its collaborators. To use the media for spreading an effective and creative image of the resistance.
Here we see Al Qaeda discussing in detail the importance of media war to accomplishing the goals of the terrorists. The letter places our media war efforts as #3 in a list of 7 strategies that are harming Al Qaeda, and places Al Qaeda media war efforts at #1 in a list of 7 Al Qaeda strategies for harming the U.S.
Given the great importance terrorists place on using media to support them, it is of extreme importance that we do not grant terrorist mouthpiece Al Jazeera a right to broadcast in English to the West. In a media war, doing that would be like letting the terrorists build a fortress right on our shores and shoot at us from it. Click here to find out what you can do to stop Al Jazeera's English-language broadcasts.
(This posts elaborates on an Instapundit article.)
