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

[Greg Brown]

Yes, but could you imagine the transcript?

Heh, um, Internets by golly they uh terror!

On 10/19/06, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
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> Starting with Ted Stevens?
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> William Sutton
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> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Greg Brown wrote:
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> > 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
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> > >
> > > 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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