al Qaeda releases beheading videos ???

The video is actually old and the murders dates from November 2004 and early 2005, but it had never been released. Why would al Qaeda in Iraq release this video now nearly three years after the crime?

The video shows four hostages who al Qaeda claims are highway bandits confessing. Two are then murdered together and two more beheaded at different times.

The victims are: Othman Nasser Azawi, Ali Hassan Makhlaf, Joumouaa al Lwizi, & Abd Assatar al Sabaawi.

It's bad. Very very bad. If not the worst beheading snuff video I've ever seen, right up at the top. Sickening. Disgusting. The words don't even come close to painting a true picture.

jawa has it:here

By why would they release these beheading videos now?

AQ is begging for recruits and they are not getting them.

AQ webmasters have been taken out, and they search for any replacement, the chief requirement is loyalty not experience, security has to take precedence over ability as a web master.

So they have people running the web sites that are not experienced cadre.

"By their unique nature, terrorist organizations face difficult challenges in almost any operational environment, particularly in terms of maintaining situational awareness, controlling the use of violence to achieve specified political ends,..."

"We see a consistent focus on how to achieve the appropriate use of violence when the rank and file often clamor for more violence than is useful, or seek to enrich themselves in the course of their duties. Groups also struggle with the problem of maintaining situational awareness while staying covert, so that members understand which actions will support the political goal, and which will be counterproductive ( BEHEADINGS ). Finally, there is regular concern with balancing the need to control operational elements with the need to evade government attention and limit the consequences of any compromise."

"Security concerns mean they cannot perfectly monitor what agents are doing.20 Moreover, the nature of the operational environment means that it is hard to punish agents, even when leaders do catch them taking unauthorized actions. In terrorist groups, the agents hold an implicit threat over group principals—they can go to the government. For example, Jamal Ahmed Al Fadl, who testified in the Embassy bombing trial, stole money from al-Qa’ida, got caught, went on the run, and approached the U.S. government in an attempt to save himself and his family.

Open-source analyses of terrorist organizations generally begin from the perspective that members of these groups are uniformly motivated by the cause, are equally willing to sacrifice for the cause, agree on what the cause is, and see eye-to-eye on the best tactics to achieve their strategic end.24 However, substantial evidence has accumulated to indicate this is not the case. The Harmony documents reveal a surprising level of infighting and conflict, even within highly capable groups such as al-Qa’ida (Al Adl Letter, Harmony AFGP-2002-600080)."

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PARADIGM INTEL INDICATES THE PUSH FOR RECRUITING CONTINUES AS THE NUMBER ONE GOAL, THEY VIEW THE CONTINUED DEGRATION OF THEIR RANK AND FILE AS THEIR MOST SERIOUS PROBLEM.

AND THE PRESSURE FOR RECRUITS HAS DROVE THE WEB SITE NEWBEES TO PUBLISH OLD BEHEADING VIDEOS TO CAPTURE MORE MARKET SHARE ( SURFERS ) EVEN THOUGH BEHEADING VIDS ARE COUNTER PRODUCTIVE TO THEIR political goals.

THEIR BID FOR MORE ISLAMIC RECRUITS HAS FAILED AND THEY NOW ARE SEEKING TO DEVELOP HOMEGROWN VARIETY SINCE THEIR ISLAMIC RECRUITING HAS FAILED. HENCE THE BEHEADING VIDEOS.

gERALD