6/29/2005

“In a guerrilla first, [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi released a highly professional forty-six-minute film called All Religion Will be for Allah via the Internet on 29 June 2005. This slick production condensed many operations, including suicide bombings and ambushes, into one gory celebration. The distribution was as professional as the production, handled via a specially designed web page with dozens of links to the video. Al-Zarqawi’s ‘information wing’ offered the film in several formats–a high-resolution version for those with broadband and a smaller file for those with dial-up connections, and it was even possible to download it onto a mobile phone.”

 – Abdel Bari Atwan, The Secret History of al Qaeda, Page 124