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Militants Seen Educated in Cyber Training Camps

Louis Charbonneau writes for Reuters:

The Internet has become a key teaching tool for Islamist militants who are using it to educate recruits in cyber training camps, crime and security experts said on Wednesday.

Gabriel Weimann, an Internet security expert who teaches at the University of Haifa in Israel and the University of Mainz in Germany, said militants used to do all their training at secret camps in countries like Afghanistan.

"Now they meet in cyberspace," Weimann told a conference on Internet security at the headquarters of Germany's Federal Police Office (BKA).

He said that Web sites and chat rooms used by militant Islamist groups like al Qaeda are not only used for the dissemination of propaganda but also for education.

posted by Fergie @ 11/21/2007 11:17:00 AM