US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff returned to the e-Qaeda idea this week, arguing that jihadists use the web to organize. It's like telecommuting for terror:
"They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."
I like the hint of the echo chamber meme in "or speak with anybody else".
Ars Technica, where I found this, links to a useful 2004 survey of the many information operations options the Web affords canny jihadists.
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