The media and al Qaeda during the period of the attacks: 2000 - 2010

If interest in the Arabic-speaking media is not new, the attacks of 11 September in the United States have accentuated and broadened public interest in the opinion of the Arabic-speaking or, more broadly, Islamic populations. In fact, he has contributed to a number of recent academic collections and records which, for example, dealt with Arabic-speaking media systems, how the Arabic-speaking world is represented in the Western media, or the one whose western world is represented in the Arabic-speaking media. Note that, during the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq in 2003, this question became crucial, since the interpretations proposed by the Arabic-speaking media exerted some influence on the level of support of the middle-class populations. The European Commission has also made a number of proposals to the Council and the European Parliament.

Thus, the English-language media consulted and retained information disseminated in the Arabic-language media. Today, this question remains just as important, as evidenced by the fact that, at the time of the writing of these pages, the satellite channel of Qatar, Al-Jazeera, broadcast a video, made by members of Al-JazeeraQaida, in which one of the suicide bombers – an English citizen of Pakistani origin – responsible for the terrorist attacks in London on 7 July 2005, encouraged suicide attacks by justifying the killing of western civilians.

During the period of 2000-2010 the first terrorist group was Al Qaïda. This was the best solution for the group to use the social medias. The chief of Al Qaïda was Oussama Ben Laden, and he used many thames videos to spread is way of thinking.

So, we can say that al Qaïda used media as adds for their ideas.

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