Architect of New War on the West
23 May Washington Post - Architect of New War on the West by Craig Whitlock.
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From secret hideouts in South Asia, the Spanish-Syrian al-Qaeda strategist published thousands of pages of Internet tracts on how small teams of Islamic extremists could wage a decentralized global war against the United States and its allies.
With the Afghanistan base lost, he argued, radicals would need to shift their approach and work primarily on their own, though sometimes with guidance from roving operatives acting on behalf of the broader movement
Last October, the writing career of Mustafa Setmariam Nasar came to an abrupt end when Pakistani agents seized him...
...has turned out to be a prize catch, a man who is not a bombmaker or operational planner but one of the jihad movement's prime theorists for the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world.
Counterterrorism officials and analysts see Nasar's theories in action in major terrorist attacks in Casablanca in 2003, Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. In each case, the perpetrators organized themselves into local, self-sustaining cells that acted on their own but also likely accepted guidance from visiting emissaries of the global movement.
Nasar's masterwork, a 1,600-page volume titled "The Call for a Global Islamic Resistance," has been circulating on Web sites for 18 months...
e-Qaeda: How al-Qaeda Uses the Internet
Also in the 23 May Washington Post - e-Qaeda: How al-Qaeda Uses the Internet. Special report that contains articles, videos and examples...
Terrorsim on the Internet
23 Washington Times commentary / book review - Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges by Gabriel Weimann. Review by Joshua Sina.
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As today's generation of terrorists are ferociously hunted by counterterrorist organizations, they possess a distinct advantage that their older predecessors lacked: access to computers, the worldwide Internet and cyberspace's myriad technological benefits in conducting communications and warfare.
Attesting to the pervasive use of the Internet by modern terrorist groups, Gabriel Weimann's groundbreaking and important book points to the exponential growth in such use since 1998, when less than half of the world's 30 active terrorist organizations had established a presence on the Net, compared to today when the 40 active groups have more than 4,300 Web sites serving them and their supporters...
