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Raw outtakes of an Al Qaeda terrorist preparing his "martyrdom" video offer a behind-the-scenes look at the group's online propaganda campaign.
MSNBC shows the video of Ziad Jarrah more than a year before he flew United Airlines flight 93 into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001.
The outtakes show a bespectacled, mild mannered-looking young man who often appears apprehensive and humorous during the recording of his video, with his videographers off-camera scripting him on what to say and how to act as he speaks into the lens. MSNBC says he often "stumbles through his own martyrdom tape" and "can't maintain a serious tone." Stopping occasionally to turn away as he breaks into a smile, the terrorist-to-be is told to act serious. Raised with a Christian education in Lebanon and with a German girlfriend, the terrorist was considered reluctant, not fully reliable and likely to break away from Al Qaeda, according to the report.
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