British computer whizz-kid exports terror via internet

[spindrifter]

June 07, 2006


British computer whizz-kid exports terror via internet
By Daniel McGrory

An e-mail trail has led to the arrest of suspects across the world who were recruited and then schooled in bombmaking


AN INTERNET trail left by a British computer expert has led investigators to an intricate terror network spreading from the backstreets of Baghdad through cells of young militants living in European capitals to Islamic extremists plotting car-bomb attacks in North America.

For nine months police and intelligence agents in eight countries have patiently worked through a forest of e-mails and intercepted telephone calls that have so far led to the arrest of up to 30 men.

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A senior security source told The Times that there is a far greater number of terror networks operating in Britain than had been thought, all using the internet to plot attacks here and abroad.

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One aim is to create an army of “white-skinned” militants, men born in Europe and America who can convert to Islam and become harder for the authorities to detect as they cross the world on their missions, including suicide attacks. Using skilled computer operators around the world, al-Zarqawi’s outfit passes on bombmaking manuals, advice on how to sustain terror cells and even ways to use credit card fraud to hack into vital internet sites.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2214663,00.html

[dubeskin]

1. Great!

Now companies have an excuse to monitor and control the internet from terrorists.

[ContraBass Black]

2. Bingo.

[spindrifter]

4. My feeling when I read this

was that the British were planting this as a whitewash of their shabby arrest in London earlier this week and to try to justify the internet spying that they are all engaged in.

[ContraBass Black]

3. Maybe they can hook up with the Aryan Nation and Christian Identify Church

For some lone-wolf action.

[charlie]

5. What is this "whizz kid" horseshit?

"Skilled computer operators"? So they coordinated and conferenced over the internet. Man, there must have been some big fucking brains on them there terrorist-wannabes to do that. Holy cow, how can we ever hope to keep up such techno-genius evildoers?

[MazeRat7]

6. Computer expert my ass. He left an Email trail - how script-kiddy of him.

[WhiteTara]

7. whizz kid left an internet trail?

not much of a whiz, I'd say. :shrug: looks smelly