The jihadis don’t have any master plan except one: kill as many infidels as they can. Any advantage they obtain is incidental.

No master plan??? Bollocks. Killing infidels is a tactic, worth sacrificing ten jihadis – and the random shooting into crowds cares nothing if some of the faithful are blown away too. The very real advantage they obtain is wholly strategic: the imposition of terror on entire populations, including their elites, who become one degree more paralyzed at each event. Anyone remember how many of America’s heroic First Amendment-defending media organs reproduced the images of the Mohammed cartoons? Lest we forget, about two. Terrorism works.

The drip-drip-drip of MSM stories coverning such events – oh, with such dramatic photos of distressed survivors weeping in each others’ arms, clouds of smoke, and one-sentence clip-quotes from grim helpless leaders and bystanders (and such terrorists as can be quoted) – is part of the process, too.

The Seattle Times is a splendid example of the raw material used by for inspiration by the intrepid makers of the video we see at the top of this article. If you’re interested in how the Mumbai operation developed tactically, the Times of very low value compared to Internet sources such as the Belmont Club. Dramatic content, sure. Random ‘eyewitness’ quotes, half of an entire page, like blind men groping an elephant. The hysterical editors tell us that as many as 16 groups hit at least 10 sites, although their news page had figured out that the lads numbered but 10. Neither editorials nor news pages make a peep about the torture of hostages, Jewish nor gentile. But they make the ritual knowitall attack on the Indians, for failure to anticipate the attack. And they assure us that contrary to earlier reports, it appeared that Westerners were not the gunman’s main targets, carefully excising news of the search by said gunmen for specifically American or British passports among their captives.

No wonder that video hits home – caricature or not, it contains enough perspective on MSM motives to shame the purveyors of news to the masses, if they’re capable of shame.

Certainly the overdramatized and underinformative news media do their bit to spread and advertise the terror and its perpetrators.