{"id":3563,"date":"2010-10-15T01:52:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2010-10-15T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:52:38","slug":"guest-post-blip-01-bin-laden-the-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Blip 01: Bin Laden the Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?cat=526\"><strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong><\/a> is\u00a0the regular guest-blogger\u00a0at <strong>Zenpundit,<\/strong> and has also posted\u00a0at <strong>Small Wars Journal, All Things Counterterrorism,<\/strong> for the<strong> Chicago Boyz Afghanistan 2050 roundtable<\/strong> and elsewhere<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Charles read Theology at <strong>Christ Church, Oxford<\/strong>, under <strong>AE Harvey<\/strong>, and was at one time a Principal Researcher with <strong>Boston University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mille.org\/\">Center for Millennial Studies<\/a><\/strong> and the<strong> Senior Analyst<\/strong> with the<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtoninstitute.org\/\">Arlington Institute<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding the popular intel\u00a0phrase &#8220;connect the dots&#8221;,\u00a0\u00a0this is the first, brief &#8216;blip&#8217; in a series of short posts that Charles will be feeding in here along with more substantial pieces, to capture the sort of stray thoughts, while they are flying by,\u00a0that may add up to more of a mosaic later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bin Laden the Avatar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Charles Cameron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a quick question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/binladen1.jpg\" title=\"binladen1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/binladen1.jpg\" alt=\"binladen1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is bin Laden portrayed as an &#8220;Avatar&#8221; in the James Cameron sense in this<br \/>\nvideo in which he also talks about climate change &#8212; a significant<br \/>\necological theme in his recent discourses?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/occident2.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/english-translations-of-al-qaida.html\">h\/t Ibn Siqilli<\/a>, frame taken from the video &#8220;Help Your Brothers in Pakistan&#8221;. People have joked about it \u2013 see <a href=\"http:\/\/supertremendous.com\/Galleries\/Celebrity\/15-Awesome-Celebrity-Avatars\/Osama-Bin-Laden-Avatar-1648.html\">Here<\/a> for instance&#8230; But is AQ picking up on the meme and exploiting it, as they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/occident.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/cyber-jihadis-lord-of-rings-obsession.html\">exploited<\/a> Tolkien on <a href=\"http:\/\/jarretbrachman.net\/?p=189\">occasion<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Cameron is\u00a0the regular guest-blogger\u00a0at Zenpundit, and has also posted\u00a0at Small Wars Journal, All Things Counterterrorism, for the Chicago Boyz Afghanistan 2050 roundtable and elsewhere.\u00a0 Charles read Theology at Christ Church, Oxford, under AE Harvey, and was at one time a Principal Researcher with Boston University&#8217;s Center for Millennial Studies and the Senior Analyst with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,216,527,205,46,526,471,483,25,78,199,336,47,460,125,499,210,43,372,473,436,533,558,211,523,13,535,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4gw","category-academia","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-analytic","category-charles-cameron","category-cultural-intelligence","category-extremists","category-horizontal-thinking","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-intelligence","category-io","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-mideast","category-non-state-actors","category-propaganda","category-psychology","category-religion","category-social-science","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-theory","category-viral","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}