briatx
08-15-2007, 01:44 PM
We all pretty much knew this was coming, but still this is extremely dangerous.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-08-15T182226Z_01_N15248720_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-NEWYORK-INTERNET.XML
(http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-08-15T182226Z_01_N15248720_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-NEWYORK-INTERNET.XML)
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Internet is the new battleground against Islamist extremism because it provides ideology that could radicalize Westerners who might then initiate home-grown attacks, New York police chief Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.
"The Internet is the new Afghanistan," Kelly said, as he released a New York Police Department (NYPD) report on the home-grown threat of attacks by Islamist extremists. "It is the de facto training ground. It's an area of concern."
The report found that the challenge for Western authorities was to identify, pre-empt and prevent home-grown threats, which was difficult because many of those who might undertake an attack often commit no crimes along the path to extremism.
The report identified the four stages to radicalization as pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization, and said the Internet drove and enabled the process.
Radicalization could be triggered by such things as the loss of a job, the death of a close family member, alienation, discrimination, and international conflicts involving Muslims, said the report by senior NYPD intelligence analysts.
Individuals who have been radicalized but are not jihadists may serve as mentors and agents of influence to those who might become terrorists of tomorrow," said the report, which analyzed five home-grown U.S. attack plots.
etc...
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-08-15T182226Z_01_N15248720_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-NEWYORK-INTERNET.XML
(http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2007-08-15T182226Z_01_N15248720_RTRIDST_0_SECURITY-NEWYORK-INTERNET.XML)
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Internet is the new battleground against Islamist extremism because it provides ideology that could radicalize Westerners who might then initiate home-grown attacks, New York police chief Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.
"The Internet is the new Afghanistan," Kelly said, as he released a New York Police Department (NYPD) report on the home-grown threat of attacks by Islamist extremists. "It is the de facto training ground. It's an area of concern."
The report found that the challenge for Western authorities was to identify, pre-empt and prevent home-grown threats, which was difficult because many of those who might undertake an attack often commit no crimes along the path to extremism.
The report identified the four stages to radicalization as pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization, and said the Internet drove and enabled the process.
Radicalization could be triggered by such things as the loss of a job, the death of a close family member, alienation, discrimination, and international conflicts involving Muslims, said the report by senior NYPD intelligence analysts.
Individuals who have been radicalized but are not jihadists may serve as mentors and agents of influence to those who might become terrorists of tomorrow," said the report, which analyzed five home-grown U.S. attack plots.
etc...