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y Tyrone_Slothrop
It's a hell of a lot closer to the IRA than Al Jazeerah is to Al Qaeda. Orders of magnitude. On some level, Al Jazeerah are capitalists, and they know what their audience wants to see. It's a long way from that to jihad. Al J is embracing modernity, and Al Q is a reaction to it.
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Yes and no.
Al Q sure finds a way to get those modern videotapes from a cave in Afgha-paki-stan to the Al J satellite feed. And OBL isn't all that backward when he uses a satellite phone to call in to Al J.
Without a bully pulpit like Al J, Al Q could never feed its message to the masses. They are symbiotic*
* Yes, they do the same for the PLO, Hamas, the Al Aqsa Brigades, etc.
