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Radical Web Of Islam's Terror, National Post
 









Excerpts: A new generation of Islamist terrorists is connecting through the
Internet, not al-Qaeda. Their lack of central organization makes them even more
terrifying than their forebears. (...) Tsouli's online username, as they
discovered, was "Irhabi007" ("Terrorist007" in Arabic). It was a moniker well
known to international counterterrorism officials. Since 2004, this young man,
with no history of radical activity, had become one of the world's most
influential propagandists in jihadi chat rooms. It had been the online images of
the war in Iraq that first radicalized him. He began spending his days creating
and hacking dozens of Web sites in order to upload videos of beheadings and
suicide bombings in Iraq and post links to the texts of bomb-making manuals.
From his bedroom in London, he eventually became a crucial global organizer of
online terrorist networks, guiding others to jihadist sites where they could
learn the deadly craft. Ultimately, he attracted the attention of the late
leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. When British police discovered
this young IT student in his London flat, he was serving as Zarqawi's public
relations mouthpiece on the Web.
Source: Radical Web Of Islam's Terror[
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=638703 ], Marc Sageman, National
Post, 08/07/08

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