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UK: Hacking for Terror?

Mark Hosenball writes in Newsweek:

U.S. and British investigators appear to have inflicted a major blow to the online jihadist movement by arresting a U.K.-based terror suspect. The officials now believe the man British authorities are holding is an influential Islamic extremist cyberwarrior who used as his pseudonym an Arabic word for terrorist. NEWSWEEK was asked by U.S. authorities not to publish the suspect's Web user name because of continuing investigations.

Two U.S. counterterror officials, who asked not to be identified because they were discussing a sensitive investigation, said authorities now believe that the person who used the Terrorist login is a 22-year-old resident of West London named Younis Tsouli, who was arrested in London on terror-related charges by Scotland Yard last October. Two alleged associates in the London area were arrested at the same time on similar charges.

posted by Fergie @ 3/16/2006 10:08:00 AM