Al-Qaeda Ramps up Propaganda Push

While the U.S. military battles itself over what to do about YouTube and blogs, Al-Qaeda has embraced digital media with both arms -- and is releasing propaganda videos online at a record rate.

The terror group's as-Sahab media division is now releasing a video every three days, on average -- "doubling 2006's previous record rate of one every six days," IntelCenter notes.

So far in 2007 as-Sahab has released 39 videos. In all of 2006 as-Sahab released a total of 58 videos. At its current rate, as-Sahab will surpass 2006's annual volume by early to mid-July. As-Sahab's video release rate is continuing to trend upwards and may reach one release every two days in the coming months. This unprecedented volume combined with the continued high production quality represents a significant dedication of resources by al-Qaeda to as-Sahab's efforts.

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