The Internet: 'An Arena of Jihad'
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August 13th, 2009
Check out yet another case of Homegrown Jihad in our midst.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-terror-trial13-2009aug13,0,4647485.story
Georgia man convicted of aiding terrorism groups An Atlanta jury finds Ehsanul Sadequee, 23, guilty in a trial that explored an Internet network of global militant plotting.
An Atlanta jury on Wednesday found a 23-year-old man guilty of aiding terrorist groups after a trial that explored a subculture of youthful extremists who used the Internet to plot attacks and form a loose network connecting North America, Europe and South Asia.
But this paragraph from the article really sums up the nature of the current threat we face in America.Sadequee's story, according to investigators, showed how the Internet has become an arena of jihad. Without ever meeting face-to-face, online militants can radicalize, hatch plots, exchange funds and help one another reach training camps and battlegrounds.
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Hacking and destroying militant websites should be an every day task for our cyber-defense people. They should have a quota to fill, like policemen do. They should also create software to pick out certain words and phrases which might point to terrorist activity on the internet.