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

[William Sutton]

Starting with Ted Stevens?

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William Sutton


On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Greg Brown wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says
> > Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:08pm ET
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > "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.
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system,
> > which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > By the end of the next fiscal year, he said the department aims to up that
> > to 35 staffers.
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