American Buddhist Net

I do not believe them on this. I believe they are using this issue to scare people and stifle political dissent. If the internet were doing what they say then it would be a "honey pot" and as such a simple way to catch people with terrorist intent. ABN
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Security Panel Finds Internet Being Used To Recruit, Train Terrorists

JESSE A. HAMILTON | Courant Staff Writer
May 8, 2008

WASHINGTON — - A Senate homeland security committee report set for release Thursday details a growing threat from terrorists' use of the Internet as a recruiting and training tool. The report concludes that the U.S. government should consider its own outreach program as a counter to the Web strategies of groups such as al-Qaida.

A draft of the staff-generated report obtained by The Courant says that "radicalization is no longer confined to training camps in Afghanistan or other locations far from our shores; it is also occurring right here in the United States." The homeland security committee, led by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, has investigated "the threat of homegrown terrorism" in several hearings since last year.

...The "thousands" of terrorist-operated websites have become "an effective distribution system for the core enlistment message and other content," the report contends. There is no longer as much of a need, it suggests, for physical training camps.

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