Saturday, March 13, 2010

Is The Internet Making It Easier To Become A Terrorist


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Internet Making It Easier To Become A Terrorist -- The Wall Street Journal

'JihadJane' and other U.S. suspects don't need militant training camps, officials say. They just go online.

Reporting from Washington and New York - The abrupt transformation of Colleen R. LaRose from bored middle-aged matron to "JihadJane," her Internet alias, was unique in many ways, but a common thread ties the alleged Islamic militant to other recent cases of homegrown terrorism: the Internet.

From charismatic clerics who spout hate online, to thousands of extremist websites, chat rooms and social networking pages that raise money and spread radical propaganda, the Internet has become a crucial front in the ever-shifting war on terrorism.

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My Comment: It is easy to blame others and/or other circumstances for the bad things that a person may or may not do. But in the end it is not he internet that makes a terrorist .... it is a person or persons who make a terrorist.

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