Tracking jihad online will occupy the global war on terror, and undoubtedly no state administration has the time and human resources for such painstaking scrutiny of chatters across the globe in real time. Thus private trackers — like cyber-terror consultant Evan Kohlmann or the controversial Aaron Weisburd, founder of anti-jihadi watchdog Internet Haganah — will continue to be valuable intelligence sources. Incidentally, both Kohlmann and Weisburd were tracking “Irhabi 007”, perhaps the most phenomenal independent Internet jihadi public relations campaigner ever, who disappeared from the Web when a 22-year-old Moroccan, Younis Tsouli, was arrested in West London in late 2005 on a tip-off from Bosnia.
After land, sea, air and space, cyberspace is the fifth dimension of war. Its democratisation and sophisticated, but available, software have significantly enhanced jihadists’ reach and encryption capabilities. Forget the British campus, cyberspace — already the primary recruiting ground for global jihad — may soon morph into a real (certainly not virtual) battlefield, where we’ve to worry about much more than “talent spotter” Anglophone Internet imams like Anwar
al-Awlaki reductively simplifying complex theology into radical ideology and offering signposts to Al Qaeda for potential recruits.
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