Terror Armies Regroup
Would-Be Holy Warriors Use Internet
September 11, 2003
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2003 International News Analysis Today
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Aspiring terrorists need only to perform a Google search to locate both words of encouragement as well as terror know-how on the Internet - in several languages.
The Paris-based news daily, Le Figaro, conducted an Internet search using the French phrase "faire le djihad" (waging a jihad) and received 8,000 results. The most popular site is devoted to Sunni Islam, and features prominently on its home page the "fatwa," or religious ruling, by Sheik Al Ben Khudeir Al-Khudeir on the deaths inflicted upon the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
The murder of 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001 is justifiable, according to the "fatwa" of Sheik Al-Khudeir, as is the continuing warfare against the United States and its allies.
"If one presumes that the victims (of September 11) are innocents and that the deed [the attacks] brought about evil (to Muslims), it is necessary not to forget the innocents slaughtered by America are many more numerous, and the evil caused by American and its allies is much more terrible and abominable," Al-Khudeir declared.
When INA Today visited the site, an English language advertisement for Elvis recordings was featured at the end of Al-Khudeir's statement. Le Figaro encountered a game featuring three female "pin ups."
While the "fatwa" is in French, a side bar menu conducts the reader to pages offering a choice of languages, including English. The last of the side bar listings, entitled "Liens" in French, leads to pages making available videos on the "destruction of a helicopter" and the "elimination of FSB [Russian intelligence] agents."
The site gets a large volume of traffic; the first time INA Today attempted to visit, access was "temporarily suspended" due to excessive bandwidth use.
Once fired up and possessing necessary know-how, Internet holy warriors need not confine their activities to current flash points in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines, or take the substantial risk of directly attacking the U.S.
South American Marxist political and guerrilla movements will welcome the Internet holy warriors. Reports to the House Committee on International Relations in April 2002 pointed to a Middle Eastern terrorist presence in South America, and examined the dangers presented by the Colombian Marxist guerrilla group, the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
The guerrillas sense victory over the U.S.-backed Colombian government. The FARC is reportedly merging with the smaller, but still formidable, Marxist ELN (National Liberation Army) in a bid to end the nearly four-decade long civil war. A former top FARC commander declared that the guerrilla group was no longer seriously interested in negotiations and believed it could win the war.
The established media has all but ignored the struggle in Colombia, and regularly neglects to alert the American people of the Colombian revolutionaries' ties to terror. Should Colombia fall to the Marxist guerrillas and their terrorist allies, America would be faced with even greater pressure on its vulnerable southern border, as well as increased cooperation among groups who hate America for its economic and religious freedoms.
See also:
Islamic Terror Network on the Offensive
Red Terror Empire in South America
Cyber War Next Phase for Al-Qaeda?"
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