Living in Oblivion with As-Sahab, al Quaeda's media production co.

This is of interest to me, here at The Second Sight, because in the media sector has an economic as well as social benefit that is often undervalued in the American consciousness.  Chris Anderson has already mentioned in his book The Long Tail, the similarly titled phenomenon of "the long tail of terrorism" is a result of digital technology and the proliferation of world wide cable and the internet that have made distribution of content more fluid.

September 2008, Stratfor posted intelligence and analysis on As-Sahab, al Quaeda's media branch:

Arab satellite news network Al Jazeera and an Islamist Web site aired previously unseen footage Sept. 7 of Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking al Qaeda leaders apparently planning the 9/11 attacks. The video, like most other recent ones of al Qaeda leaders, was produced by the jihadist network's As-Sahab media branch, the fairly new organization behind the network's latest media blitz. In fact, banner ads appearing on extremist Web sites claim the video is a trailer for an upcoming As-Sahab documentary on the 9/11 attacks.

The post goes on to explain the logistic challenges of media production for a jihadist organization shooting in remote locations with peculiar below the line security concerns for cameramen and other technicians who have close access to the core leadership.