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Zarqawi Uses Web as a Deadly Weapon |
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Written by Grayfred Gray
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Wednesday, 10 August 2005 |
Susan B. Glasser and Steve Coll, Washington Post Staff Writers, reported August 9, 2005, that Abu Musab Zarqawi has turned the Internet into a weapon against the US and its allies in Iraq. They say, "Never before has a guerrilla organization so successfully intertwined its real-time war on the ground with its electronic jihad, making Zarqawi's group practitioners of what experts say will be the future of insurgent warfare, where no act goes unrecorded and atrocities seem to be committed in order to be filmed and distributed nearly instantaneously online."
They report that the use of the Internet has also changed the way acts of violence are being perpetrated. "Televised beheadings were not uncommon in Saudi Arabia. But Zarqawi did not use the long executioner's sword of Saudi government-sanctioned beheadings [in a videotape prepared for the Internet]. Instead, he invoked the imagery of his American captive as an animal."
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Their story shows that Zarqawi uses the web for open negotiations with al Qaeda and thereby gives a semblance of transparency to what he and al Qaeda are doing.
My comment: This is a chilling story and worth reading. It shows how another positive invention has been used to wage war. It shows us more reasons why war is not the answer, not for the USA, and not for those who are waging war against the USA. Peace is the way. Abandoning violence and embracing ways rooted in the sacredness of life offers hope to make the world a better place for people, all people, even those who have committed themselves to violence. So long as we use violence against violence, we feed the enemy as the story illustrates so well. |
