On December 19 alone, one popular Jihadist forum showed 11 Jihadist videos posted during that day. The counter recording visitors to the pages of the most popular videos posted in recent days showed more than 1,800 videos. On other sites, counters have shown that the topics containing links to the most popular videos have been viewed more than 10,000 times.

There is an insatiable appetite among this fanatical community for these short, amateur film clips from ?the fields of Jihad,? and primarily from Iraq . Among the audience that regularly logs onto such sites, the videos provide pride and proof that the insurgency is not in its final death throes and helps the supporters of the insurgents bypass traditional media to form their own opinions about the success and sophistication of the fighters in Iraq.