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.
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.
Abdullah Azzam, jihadist patriarch and Osama Bin Laden’s mentor
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