Al Qaeda's New Life

摘要

The latest internet enter-tainment for aspiring Islamic holy warriors is a video montage that opens with a picture of Osama bin Laden set against a background of nigged mountains. Bin Laden is aiming an assault rifle across the computer screen. His picture, on the right, begins to bob up and down, and a few seconds later, an image of George W. Bush appears, bobbing up and down on the left side of the screen. The bin Laden picture then fires at the picture of the American president, almost immediately shooting Bush's face full of bullet holes. Seconds later the Bush and bin Laden images dissolve, to be replaced by graphics of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Islamic archenemy, Chechen guerrilla leader Khattab. Putin also ends up full of holes, and he is followed by a jihadist rogues' gallery: Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who meet a similar fate.