[IP] F more on Terrorists reportedly use the Internet as new "base of operations" [fs]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: August 8, 2005 7:18:39 PM EDT
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [Politech] Terrorists reportedly use the Internet as new  
"base of operations" [fs]


> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/ 
> AR2005080501138_pf.html
>
> Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations
>
> By Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser
> Washington Post Staff Writers
> Sunday, August 7, 2005; A01
> ...
>  "every second al Qaeda member carrying a laptop computer along  
> with a Kalashnikov"
> ...
>  al Qaeda has become the first guerrilla movement in history to  
> migrate from physical space to cyberspace. ... 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.
> ...

SHAME on the Wash Post!  While true, this is nothing more than fear- 
mongering horse-puckey!

It's equivalent to breathlessly reporting how terrible-awful- 
dangerous it is that the terrorists are using cars and trucks ... or  
cell phones ... or any other modern technology ... certainly  
including essentially ALL of their arms, ammunition, etc., which come  
-- directly or indirectly -- from the "First World" arms-makers who  
are reaping such monumental profits from these conflicts.

(Note that the terrorists most-surely do NOT manufacture their own  
machine-guns, shell casings, RPGs, or for that matter, ANY of the  
cell-phones that they modify and use to remotely trigger bombs.)

Where are the high-profile mass-media stories about THESE terrorists'  
technologies?!

--jim


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