Al-Qaeda Attempts Recruitment With Slick ‘Jihad Tourism’ Video

A slickly produced new video by Al-Qaeda’s media wing attempts to recruit terrorists with ‘jihad tourism’ pitch.

Recruits belonging to Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebel group march during a passing out parade at a military training base in Afgoye, west of the capital Mogadishu in 2011. (File Photo: Reuters)

Al-Qaeda’s slickly-produced recruitment video promises the vacation of a lifetime — going up an equatorial river in a rowboat, camping by a jungle lake, and a chance to shoot giraffes and Cape buffaloes, reports The Indian Express.

It’s the kind of big-game holiday that has long outraged environmentalists, and for which bored oil millionaires are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars. Except, this trip costs nothing.

<p>You eat, drink and hunt for free. Not in Bangkok or Los Angeles, or paying $500 a night at a London hotel. It is an entertaining journey of tourism and hunting. Indeed, the tourism of my nation is jihad.</p>

<p><b>Abdullah Azzam, jihadist patriarch and Osama Bin Laden’s mentor</b><br></p>

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