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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Al Qaeda struggles to find footing against a new US President.

An interesting WaPo frontpager on how Obama and his shifts in position represent a real propaganda problem for Al Qaeda.
The torrent of hateful words is part of what terrorism experts now believe is a deliberate, even desperate, propaganda campaign against a president who appears to have gotten under al-Qaeda's skin. The departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American leader who reliably drove recruits and donations to the terrorist group.


I will go back again to reference the extremely important shift by the Obama administration from "war" footing to "criminal" footing towards Al Qaeda.

The whole article is worth a full read.

2 Comments:

  • Yeah, I read that this morning. Pretty interesting.

    There is also a good opinion piece on the early days of Gitmo. Worth a read for sure.

    By Blogger Praguetwin, at 8:00 AM  

  • I tend to habitually shy away from reading opeds so I didn't see it, but I'll take a look.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:49 AM  

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