LONDON - Al-Qaida sympathizers are planning to produce a children's cartoon film to inspire young Muslim viewers to take up armed violence against the West, security specialists who monitor militant websites say.
Such a development would add to an expanding repertoire of media tactics employed by the trans-national group, which is placing increasing reliance on online propaganda to shore up support in the absence of successful attacks in the West.
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Al-Yemen said he and several associates were in the final stages of creating a cartoon about al-Qaida's Yemen-based branch that would teach children the history of al-Qaida and inspire them to commit acts of terrorism, Quilliam reported.
