Sunday, August 20, 2006

High-Res Executions and Bloody DVDs / Der Speigel, 17 Aug 2006

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Susanne Koelbl
"Terrorists are becoming increasingly adept at producing high-quality videos. DVDs depicting bloody beheadings are now available at markets in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They're also on the Web. This has left the Internet as the most reliable medium for Islamist radicals. Intelligence official Markus Kaiser, whose job it is to watch the terrorists' gruesome videos from beginning to end, says that the increasingly high quality of the extremist media professionals' work is already making an impact. More improvements, he thinks, could be on the way. "