Monitoring Second Life for jihadis: eQaeda in virtual worlds continues

Following up on some recent discussion about Second Life and eQaeda, New World Notes explored the topic further.  An al-Qaeda expert, Rohan Gunaratna, mentions that "we are... monitoring... Jihadists" in Second Life.  "We" presumably means this Singapore center, of which Gunaratna is the head.

The New World Notes post goes on the recap some elements of older eQaeda discussions, notably the idea of a virtual caliphate, the use of a virtual world for training purposes, and virtual worlds for socialization.

Previous Infocult posts on eQaeda have touched on online gaming, modding, municipal WiFi, online learning, online training camps, the Orkut social networking platform, radicalized Canadian youth, blog hosting services, al-Zarqawi's tactics, Google Video and data security, and a "virtual caliphate."  People have been imprisoned for this.  People are thinking about tracking ISPs for eQaeda hosting. 

Perhaps a Typepad "page" is in order, or a separate department for eQaeda?