Terrortwits

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Osama Bin Laden would make a good 'twitterer' ? Twitters like to post little snippets that really don't say much, or can say alot, in one or two sentences, which go out to the world, and then fade away. That's not unlike the way the leader of the al Qaida organization likes to send messages, little notes about things, which go out to the world, and get everyone wound up for a few minutes, days or hours, then he backs off and we anxiously sit and wait for his next one. I call them "terrortwits"

I do that with a couple of twitterers that I follow, I read their one or two lines of wisdom, then sit back and think about it for a few days, and if it's really good sometimes I "re-tweet" it, and it goes out to an even greater audience. That is just how bin laden likes to do his communications.

In his latest, Bin Laden, makes a statement that says something along the lines of if the USA would get out of Palestine things would simmer down in the terrorist business, and at the same time he puts a spin on the failed Christmas airplane bomber attack that makes it seem like the failed attempt was in fact a sucess, which in some ways it probably was. It has at least kept us on our toes.

That's what bin laden's terrortwits are like, they keep us on our toes, something like the way the creators of Jaws the movie promoted their sequel, they used the line, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." Well that's just about what bin laden does, just when we think things are calming down a little, he or one of his minions does something to stir the pot, and get things boiling again.

It's ingenious really, sitting back in his comfy cave somewhere along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, spending months working on his next one or two line statement that always look so painfully thought out as he sits on the ground, assault rifle close by, and says something profound that succeeds in riling us up and getting the word out to his followers, who I call "Twits" to let them know that he is still alive and well and proud of them even when they screw up.....like a father of backward children who you know will never amount to much.....

You can read about bin laden's latest release in The New York Times Here!