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Terrorists fight their wars in cyberspace
as well as on the ground. However, while politicians and the media
have hotly debated the dangers of terrorists sabotaging the
Internet, surprisingly little is known about terrorists actual use
of the Internet. In this timely and eye-opening volume, Gabriel
Weimann reveals that terrorist organizations and their supporters
maintain hundreds of websites, taking advantage of the unregulated,
anonymous, and accessible nature of the Internet to target an array
of messages to diverse audiences. Drawing on a seven-year study of
the World Wide Web, the author examines how modern terrorist
organizations exploit the Internet to raise funds, recruit members,
plan and launch attacks, and publicize their chilling results.
Weimann also investigates the effectiveness of counterterrorism
measures and warns that this cyberwar may cost us dearly in terms
of civil rights. Illustrated with numerous examples taken from
terrorist websites, Terror on the Internet offers the definitive
introduction to this emerging and dynamic arena. Weimann lays bare
the challenges we collectively face in confronting the growing and
increasingly sophisticated terrorist presence on the Net. A
publication of the United States Institute of Peace, distributed by
Potomac Books, Inc. |
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| ISBN-10: 1929223714 ISBN-13: 9781929223718 |
Hardback - April 2006 |
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