TWENTY MINUTES OF TERRORIZING DISINFO: The usual newsmen bang the gong

The nose of the mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. -- Edgar Allen Poe

Take 60 Minutes' recent special on "jihad.com." Reported by Scott Pelley, the 800lb gorilla of US journalism led with the tired story of al Qaeda in cyberspace.

It was so poor one could easily reconstruct how it must have gone down. "Get the interns to Google 'al Qaeda' and 'the Internet,' then skim from the first page of returns," someone commanded. And so it was done, returning a couple of dated pieces on Younis Tsouli, aka jihadi hacker irhabi007, and a small cast of anti-terror industry shills who've turned jihadi websites and their electronic scribbles into a cash crop to be fed to intelligence agencies.

60 Minutes - like the terror war coverage by many of their news competitors - generally edits out any material critical while taking pains to leave in that which is purely sensational. For the segment, an irhabi007 document with the ominous acronym "CBRN" - for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons -was flashed across the screen...

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