"Radicalize yourself on the internet" or "virtual Jihadist". [View All]

[gordianot]

This is an old story that bears repeating after recent votes in the House and Senate that destroys "Habeas Corpus". While everyone one is trying to figure out who are "enemy combatants", some time ago Homeland Security may have provided a hint as to who they think are or will be enemies of the State.

see link: http://www.examiner.com/a-160056~Chertoff_calls_for_vigilance_against__homegrown_jihadists_.html

“We have to be mindful not only of the continuing, centrally directed al-Qaida plot — where they’re sitting there over in Central Asia and planning an operation to carry out — but also what I call virtual jihad,” Chertoff said. Those are people who can use the Internet to radicalize themselves, train themselves and don’t really have to have a live conversation with somebody in Central Asia or go to someplace in Central Asia for planning. They can do it in their backyard. Such domestic terrorists can learn how to build bombs and launch attacks against civilian targets merely by studying the right Web sites. And that’s a hard thing to penetrate, because the lower the signature of the communications and the more isolated the group is, the less chance that we’re going to be able to catch them using international methods,” Chertoff said.

That’s why Homeland Security continues to rely on local law enforcement authorities to help detect domestic terrorists, often with the help of local tipsters."

With this logic everyone with a computer could be a virtual terrorist.