Al-Qaedacast
These are tricky times for most large organisations, always trying to think up new and clever ideas to stay one step ahead of the competition. With so many distractions for an increasingly media savvy population, such as social networking and the Nintendo Wii, it can be hard to stand out from the crowd.
International terror group Al Qaeda are no exception and are planning on leaping straight into the 21st century, launching there own podcast – The Al-Qaedacast.
It is set to replace the somewhat old fashioned C90 cassette tape and VHS broadcasts currently in use by the group.
The weekly podcast will feature interviews with leading members of the group, including elusive leader Osama Bin Laden. It has a run time of approximately 20 minutes each week, 17.5 minutes of which is spent denouncing the ways of the western world, before, somewhat ironically, asking for donations to be sent via PayPal.
The Al-Qaedacast idea was first brought forward at a meeting of the Al-Qaeda Trust, a group which looks after the interests of donors. The group also suggested they should approach big name stars, such as the recently available Jonathan Ross, to help present some of there programming to make it more appealing.
A number of the Trust’s members have iPods and have been impressed with the Podcast concept.
It is not known if Osama himself is an Apple user, it had been thought that someone with as much built up hatred and resentment of western society was most likely a Windows ME user.
A US source said “they can do what they like, hopefully they’ll accidentally geo-tag uploads, that’ll make our lives much easier.”