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| Terror Networks |
| Al-Qaeda still recruiting online |
| 2006-03-02 |
| The United States has been searching for ways to block Al Qaida recruitment and propaganda through the Internet. Officials said the Defense Department has sought to lead an effort to draft methods to block Al Qaida access to the Internet. They said that despite its military superiority, the United States has failed to stop Al Qaida's growing exploitation of the Internet as the group's primary means of recruitment, information and financing. "Its use of the Internet is interesting," said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director for policy and plans at Central Command. "It uses the Internet to recruit, to train, to proselytize, in some methods to hand out orders and instructions. It uses it for financing. It uses it to show its latest videos to the world." Kimmitt said in an appearance to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Feb. 22 that the military would increasingly focus on understanding and foiling Al Qaida's use of the Internet. He said the effort was part of what he termed the "long war" of Central Command against Middle East-based Islamic insurgency groups. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |