FBI case seeks to make terra connections to the web

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Terrorism Probe Points to Reach Of Web Networks

In April 2005, police swarmed the U.S. Capitol to confront an erratic Australian man, carrying two suitcases, who they feared was a suicide bomber. After blowing up one of the bags, officers realized he was harmless.

The police never noticed the two nervous young men on a nearby sidewalk filming the Capitol during the standoff. But they might have been the real threat, according to newly released documents

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New details about the videos -- featuring such sites as the World Bank headquarters, the Pentagon, fuel tanks and the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria -- emerged in pretrial hearings in Atlanta. The pair are charged with providing support to foreign terrorists and could be sentenced to 60 years in prison if convicted. They have pleaded not guilty.

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Analysts said it also provides a glimpse of the growing threat posed by radical networks that have sprung up as a result of the Internet. One of the men, Syed Haris Ahmed, told authorities that they got to know extremists through Web forums and chat rooms, and they uploaded their D.C. surveillance video to "Jihadi people" online.

For a terrorist organization, "it doesn't matter anymore where your location is, and how many visa requirements" a country has, said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which researches Muslim extremists and their online activity. "Being on the virtual network, have people virtually all over the world."

Washington Post

[liberal N proud]

1. This is where it starts

They know they need to control the internet before they can completely control us.
First they will tie groups with Middle Eastern names. Once that is done, they will come after any other group that doesn't conform to their views.

Eventually that would include sites like this one.

Tin foil? Maybe but I fear not.

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3. No, not tin foil. Last week it was hackers and electricity. n/t

[MadHound]

2. Doing everything that they can to bring every media outlet under their control

The old school media is pretty much silenced. But the 'net is a wild card and everything possible is being done to constrain it. Pretty soon the content on the US version of the 'net will be more constrained that China's.

What they don't realize is that the truth will still out, even if it is a matter of one person talking to another.

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4. The, 'what about the children?' memes haven't worked as well. They are roll out the ...

'we are here to save you' tact.