Thursday, April 06, 2006

Insurgent exploits

Recently the latest 'horror' video clip hit Al-Jazeera and the 'net of a helicoptor pilot's remains being dragged around like a sack of golf club parts. My first gripe is the quality. These believers of their 'true life system' manage to obtain arms manufactured by US and Russia, train the willing in combat tactics, educate the young to develop them to become fanatic missionaries, and using pamphlets/booklets like: "Homemade Pipe Bombs" and "Making A Remote Detonating Device Using A Cell Phone And Pet Hamster" they learn how to make IED's--to which, I would imagine, that they refer to these as their version of "Bible Tracts". Why then, if they have access to technology such as satelite internet, could they not use high-definition digital video camcorders?

I remember the days of the old VHS and being a young rebel passing around a well-worn tape of material of the adult kind--Baywatch--which after several hundred viewings, pauses, rewinds, and the classic "Frame-By-Frame" mode the once decent quality of watching Pam Anderson's globes undulate inside her red swimsuit as she runs sexily across a sunny beach became a static mess that sends the auto-tracking of the VCR into haywire mode. This was like watching the Nick Berg beheading. I had to view this clip dozens of times because the sound and video quality was so poor to conclude that the clip was probably a fake and that guy in the orange jumpsuit was the cousin of 'Buster' on Mythbusters. In my opinion, if these schmucks known as "Insurgents" really want to bring terror to the West then certainly they would use higher quality cams. And since they have computers they could easily upload their latest beheading into Windows Movie Maker and laydown some upbeat tracks and even get 5.1 Surround Sound-esque of their praises to Allah. I would really love to get a podcast of this and head down to the local Best Buy and pop my media card in the latest Home Entertainment System, eat some popcorn, hit play, and kick back in a leather chair.

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