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The Al Qaeda CD: All hyped up
3:03 AM, Jun. 10, 2007
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Its been in the news since a few days. It all started when somebody handed over a CD to a local news service in Srinagar. The government has probed a CBI inquiry to look into the matter.Personally, I think the CD's not even worth a rat's poop. Its just that here, in India, we are in the habit of hyping up things for no reason. I guess its instinctive.
I mean, consider this for a moment. Would Al Qaeda be so lame as to hand over a CD, and that too, to some remote local news channel, so that its contents can be aired on national TV only to discover that the man, calling himself Abu Abdul Rehman Al Ansari, claiming to be the chief of Al Qaeda india chapter, is some lame-ass guy who's 20 something and is so nervous while he's reading his speech that he's actually shivering and shaking, and stopping to take deep breaths? Moreso, he's masked, and till now no Al Qaeda spokespersons have ever been aired on TV with masks on. Plus the guy is speaking Urdu, whereas all Al Qaeda broadcasts made till date have been in Arabic.
I almost laughed my head off when i saw the flash intro showing the Al Qaeda flag on a clipart kind of a globe. Typically the stuff you expect from an amateuristic flash animator...lousy animations having low-reso pics, text appearing-disappearing...pics alpha-ing in and out...unbelievable it was!
I think its probably the work of some local protest organisation, now that the Kashmir agenda has once again come into the limelight. The man in the vid, assuming he is in al qaeda, has surprisingly criticized Syed Sallahuddin, supreme commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen and chief of the Muzaffarabad-based United Jihad Council (UJC), and Hafiz Muhammad Syed, chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including them in the list of 'traitors against Islam'. Why would an Al Qaeda man do that? In fact, the Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba have always been known as organisations primarily funded by Al Qaeda itself.
What we must, as a country learn to do, is to not hype up and controvertialise things that might ultimately lead to unnecessary unrest and fear amongst our fellow countrymen. The day we adopt this attitude, the status quo in the country shall in all probability improve.
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