Al-Qaeda Wields Press as Terror Weapon

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Monday, May 1. 2006

Al-Qaeda Wields Press as Terror Weapon

Terrorists use the press and public relations as weapons, said a study released Wednesday by Arizona State University. Steven Corman, director of the school's Consortium for Strategic Communication and a Defense Department consultant on communications networks and counterterrorism, analyzed 300 al-Qaeda statements and documents. He found that jihadist operations use consistent patterns of outreach that establish them socially and religiously, generate public sympathy, and intimidate opponents.

The question is whether the media's backing for Islamism is intentional, which seems likely given these two examples:

-Abu Ghraib
-The greatest, yet unreported, media scandal of all time

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