According to many security specialists, the Internet has become the training and recruiting method of choice for terrorist organizations. Used for a long time for publicity and propaganda purposes, to promote martyrdom, for fund-raising and data storage, the Web today harbours numerous recruiting sites and “virtual” training camps for budding terrorists.
In addition to access to various documents along the lines of “The Terrorist’s Guide,” “How to Make a Bomb” and the “Jihadist’s Encyclopedia,” future recruits can also view videos to familiarize themselves with how to handle arms, abduct people, use fertilizer to make bombs and how to decapitate a hostage with a sabre. . . According to online security expert Gabriel Weimann, the al-Qaeda terrorist network has had a hands-on Web site of this type for many years now.
Illegal job/training sites still exist in cyberspace thanks to the assistance of online security systems experts. One of them, “Irhaby 007” (“Terrorist 007”), collaborated with jihadists by putting their videos online and protecting their original sources. Technical difficulties, the absence of strategic coordination between Western intelligence services and agents’ lack of knowledge make the fight against cyberterrorism very difficult.
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