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U.S. Senators Voice Alarm Over Terrorist Net Presence

Anne Broache writes on C|Net News:

Politicians on Thursday said the U.S. government must do more to counteract propagandizing by al Qaida and radical terrorist groups on the Internet.

Leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs said they're troubled that extremists are increasingly flocking to the Web to recruit, organize, conduct online courses, raise funds and plan attacks in a manner that's cheaper and speedier than ever before.

"We cannot cede cyberspace to the Islamist terrorists because if we do, they will successfully carry out attacks against us in our normal environment," Committee Chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said at a morning hearing here titled "The Internet: A Portal to Violent Islamist Extremism."

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the committee's co-chairman, spoke of the need to "resist the perversion of the World Wide Web into a weapon of worldwide war."

posted by Fergie @ 5/03/2007 02:01:00 PM