Fansub jihad

The NYT reports today on the jihadi version of fansubbing. According to the paper, people like North Carolina 21-year-old Samir Khan cull all variety of al Qaeda-type material—anti-American screeds, terrorist adventure novels, bomb-making videos—translate them into English and repackage them with what the Times presents as a scary kind of new-media savvy. Long diverting rants [...]