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| Internet is a virtual classroom for al-Qaeda supporters |
| 2004-08-12 |
| Al Qaeda has turned the Internet into a virtual classroom for its supporters around the world after U.S. troops drove Osama bin Laden's followers from training bases in Afghanistan, security experts say. The Internet played a key role in al Qaeda's planning and coordinating for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. landmarks. In the years since, the Web has taken on an even greater role in recruiting, spreading fear and propaganda, and executing attacks, according to the security experts. "The Internet is even more dangerous than it was in the past," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, in a telephone interview from Washington. "Whatever you had in Afghanistan in the training camps, you have today on the Internet," said Katz, whose nonprofit organization tracks militant Islamic sites and counts the U.S. government and major U.S. corporations among its clients. "Some of the manuals (posted on the Web) are the actual manuals from Afghanistan ... some written by Saif al-Adel, one of the most wanted military commanders of (Al Qaeda) who has not been captured. He's on the FBI most-wanted list," she said. A recent posting detailed how to use a mobile phone in a bomb attack, a method used to kill 191 people in March in coordinated blasts on Madrid commuter trains. "It was step-by-step, and to make sure you get the picture they had a video to demonstrate it. It's scary," Katz said. A month before a wave of kidnappings in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, she said, manuals appeared on Jihad Web sites with precise instructions on how to seize hostages. One was posted by Abu Hajer, who later kidnapped U.S. engineer Paul Johnson and assassinated him, she said. "I was asking myself, 'Why are we getting so many warnings?' Maybe the answer is that this way they communicate with other members, saying look, this is our agenda." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #18 TW!! I'm shocked! I though you were better than us? ;-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-12 11:08:26 PM |
| #17 Mucky, be sure to remember "arse." Ass is only if he has a favourite quadroped, and the results would certainly not be appropriate for the office ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-08-12 11:03:22 PM |
| #16 Mucks, tell boss no:1 to take favourite MSM rag, roll it up, light it and put it up his arse. Rantburg Rules |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2004-08-12 8:51:35 PM |
| #15 yep - most IT staff has the ability to completely track usage. I'm constantly using unattended fellow worker's computers to keep my RB usage below the "high stakeout" level LOL |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-12 6:41:58 PM |
| #14 Editing your settings won't do jack if the network has a proxy that tracks usage. Of course, often the "inappropriate" site lists are random or oddly skewed. For example, my current client blocks Daniel Pipe's site and a site called fxhome.com, which is the home site of a small video-effects software company. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-12 6:32:28 PM |
| #13 2% count me as one of em peples like that. thanks i am save that somewhere and try it tomorow. thanks. :) |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-12 6:31:18 PM |
| #12 Muck --> My Computer/C:/Documents and Settings/muck4doo/Local Settings At least thats the path I've always used. Just in case you dont know where to go. Ive been surprised by many here on the job that have no idea about this sort of stuff. |
| Posted by: 2% 2004-08-12 6:25:54 PM |
| #11 Seafarious, if we let Mucky write the recipes the jihadis will be busy for years :-) |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-12 6:15:49 PM |
| #10 TGA...anyone here know what the arabic for "blue wire connects to the |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-08-12 6:13:07 PM |
| #9 Muck...then you should go to the jihadi sites from work, then report back to RB from home... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-08-12 6:11:32 PM |
| #8 If Al Qaeda relies so much on internet information I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA and the Mossad ran a few websites with bomb recipes in Arabic... with little errors... Lost in translation, so to speak... |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-08-12 6:11:26 PM |
| #7 im going have ta lern do that. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-12 6:10:16 PM |
| #6 bar the main problem was new peples they are hire kep playing yahoo games. so im can understand that. he is just want us lay low while on usage and isnt mind what we are do on free time. what ima not like is he is single out rantburg as an inapropate web site to visit. he isnt mention rest. that what is piss me off! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-12 6:06:55 PM |
| #5 Go underground. "Edit" your history and temp files. |
| Posted by: 2% 2004-08-12 6:04:06 PM |
| #4 Well, when ya use the company's resources, don't be surprised if at some point they decide to place limits on its usage. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-12 5:58:51 PM |
| #3 did he also mention unsatisfactory typing - not enough words per minute? no? then you're OK, Mucky, my man! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-12 5:57:56 PM |
| #2 goddamit! speking internet my goddamer boss is tell us today they are look at all places we are visit this wek and he is say rantburg inaproepriat. he is not mention any other blogs im visit just rantburg. this is goddam piss me off! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-12 5:55:05 PM |
| #1 Remember "The Anarchist Cookbook", by person or persons unknown? Well, mysteriously, in the later editions, many chemical names were replaced with their German equivalents. Guess what happens if you call up a chemical supply warehouse and ask for a large amount of certain chemicals using their German names? Also, several of the recipes don't quite give you what you are hoping for--or do, just a lot sooner than you would like. The Internet is like a library. There are lots of good books in it, and a lot of poorly written pulp. You have to take the good with the bad. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-08-12 5:02:39 PM |