[TriLUG] Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 09:26:23 EDT 2006


This sounds dangerous.  We'd better start syping on everyone that uses
Internets right away.

On 10/19/06, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
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> http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-10-16T210812Z_01_N16404472_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-CHERTOFF.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
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> Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says
> Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:08pm ET
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> BOSTON (Reuters) - Disaffected people living in the United States may
> develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet
> and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland
> Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.
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> "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the
> Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International
> Association of the Chiefs of Police.
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> "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to
> necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that
> diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like
> bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind
> of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."
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> Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system,
> which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat.
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> To help gather intelligence on possible home-grown attackers, Chertoff
> said Homeland Security would deploy 20 field agents this fiscal year into
> "intelligence fusion centers," where they would work with local police
> agencies.
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> By the end of the next fiscal year, he said the department aims to up that
> to 35 staffers.
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