e-Qaeda

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

The Washington Post has produced an impressive special report, "e-Qaeda," which shows how al Qaeda and allied groups are using the Internet to recruit more fighters, spread their message and train their followers to commit acts of terror. The site includes samples of terrorist manuals and screenshots of jihadist web sites. It includes an interview with Evan Kohlmann, an expert in jihadists' use of the web. Kohlmann says security analysts who study cyberterrorism have been "going at this all wrong. We've been talking about these guys taking out air traffic control towers or sabotaging computer systems that control sewer systems. That's not what they're doing. They're using this in order to win the propaganda war."

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Washington Post, August 7, 2005
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War / Peace

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stephane mot replied on

Note that if the web became the ultimate tool for recruiting "born again muslims", it also turned into a media battlefield between terrorists : leaders sometimes praise each other but most of the time, different groups are competing for audience / brand recognition (ie the indecent race after each terror attack). ______________________________________________________________________________________ Stephane MOT - http://www.stephanemot.com ______________________________________________________________________________________