Worth reading -- Web becoming terrorists' base of operations

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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