BigBadBrian
10-03-2005, 03:51 PM
Al Qaeda posts ‘help wanted’ ad on website: report
(DPA)
3 October 2005
CAIRO - Terrorist network Al Qaeda posted a “help wanted” ad on the Internet seeking employees in the area of communications, according to a report on Monday by the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.
The ad, which according to the newspaper appeared on a site frequently used by Islamist groups, announced several communications- related positions.
The organization is seeking someone to compile statements on activities in Iraq, including audio and visual materials.
The person is also expected to compile from satellite channels footage of interest to fundamentalists on incidents in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and Chechnya.
It is also seeking an editor with excellent English and Arabic grammar.
The item did not provide any salary information, but said, “Each Muslim should know that their time is not their own, rather it belongs to the (Islamic) nation, which is under attack and whose sons’ blood is being spilled,” Asharq al-Awsat quoted the ad as saying.
Those interested were directed to fill out an application.
Two Al Qaeda members, one former and the other perhaps still a member, have suggested that the organisation is not a great employer.
Zaki Maghoub, an Egyptian fundamentalist incarcerated in Canada, recently complained about the salary he was paid by the organisation when he ran several agricultural projects in Sudan in 1992 and 1993.
Mahgoub told Asharq al-Awsat in an interview published in September that he made only 1,500 dollars a month even though he received high grades throughout his agricultural engineering studies.
Higher salaries were paid to other Islamists who weren’t engaged in hands-on work, Mahgoub said.
The discovery of a letter from “Abu Zayd”, an Al Qaeda soldier in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that was allegedly written to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, head of the organisation’s Iraqi operations, told a similar tale.
In the letter, which the US military said in August it had discovered during a raid on an Al Qaeda hideout in Mosul, Abu Zayd called the conditions of his employment “deplorable” and complained of bad pay, poor housing and the marginalisation of non-Iraqi fighters.
Link (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/October/middleeast_October76.xml§ion=middleeast&col=)
(DPA)
3 October 2005
CAIRO - Terrorist network Al Qaeda posted a “help wanted” ad on the Internet seeking employees in the area of communications, according to a report on Monday by the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.
The ad, which according to the newspaper appeared on a site frequently used by Islamist groups, announced several communications- related positions.
The organization is seeking someone to compile statements on activities in Iraq, including audio and visual materials.
The person is also expected to compile from satellite channels footage of interest to fundamentalists on incidents in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and Chechnya.
It is also seeking an editor with excellent English and Arabic grammar.
The item did not provide any salary information, but said, “Each Muslim should know that their time is not their own, rather it belongs to the (Islamic) nation, which is under attack and whose sons’ blood is being spilled,” Asharq al-Awsat quoted the ad as saying.
Those interested were directed to fill out an application.
Two Al Qaeda members, one former and the other perhaps still a member, have suggested that the organisation is not a great employer.
Zaki Maghoub, an Egyptian fundamentalist incarcerated in Canada, recently complained about the salary he was paid by the organisation when he ran several agricultural projects in Sudan in 1992 and 1993.
Mahgoub told Asharq al-Awsat in an interview published in September that he made only 1,500 dollars a month even though he received high grades throughout his agricultural engineering studies.
Higher salaries were paid to other Islamists who weren’t engaged in hands-on work, Mahgoub said.
The discovery of a letter from “Abu Zayd”, an Al Qaeda soldier in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that was allegedly written to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, head of the organisation’s Iraqi operations, told a similar tale.
In the letter, which the US military said in August it had discovered during a raid on an Al Qaeda hideout in Mosul, Abu Zayd called the conditions of his employment “deplorable” and complained of bad pay, poor housing and the marginalisation of non-Iraqi fighters.
Link (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/October/middleeast_October76.xml§ion=middleeast&col=)