[IP] Worth reading -- Web becoming terrorists' base of operations
Next we will hear how the net mist be copntrolled; how cryptology
must be forbidden ettc. The end is near
of the free wheeling net and it's benefits djf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/
AR2005080501138_pf.html
Jihadists Turn the Web Into Base of Operations
By Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 7, 2005; A01
In the snow-draped mountains near Jalalabad in November 2001, as the
Taliban collapsed and al Qaeda lost its Afghan sanctuary, Osama bin
Laden biographer Hamid Mir watched "every second al Qaeda member
carrying a laptop computer along with a Kalashnikov" as they prepared
to scatter into hiding and exile. On the computer screens were
photographs of Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta.
Nearly four years later, al Qaeda has become the first guerrilla
movement in history to migrate from physical space to cyberspace.
With laptops and DVDs, in secret hideouts and at neighborhood
Internet cafes, young code-writing jihadists have sought to replicate
the training, communication, planning and preaching facilities they
lost in Afghanistan with countless new locations on the Internet.
Al Qaeda suicide bombers and ambush units in Iraq routinely depend on
the Web for training and tactical support, relying on the Internet's
anonymity and flexibility to operate with near impunity in
cyberspace. In Qatar, Egypt and Europe, cells affiliated with al
Qaeda that have recently carried out or seriously planned bombings
have relied heavily on the Internet.
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