Monday, February 11, 2008

Al Qaeda's Top Terrorist Is A Techie

The 23 year old son of a foreign diplomat, an IT student in London, and Al Quaeda's top cyber terrorist has been put in jail for 16 years by the London courts for promoting murder over the internet. Yunes Tsouli helped Islamic extremeists wage the propaganda war against the western countries through gruesome videos, messages from bin Laden, and images of kidnapping and murdering of hostages in Iraq. I thought this article was really interesting because it not only shows the power of propaganda able to recruit a 23 year old educated man with a powerful family into such a job, but also the lengths some will take to use such disturbing and violent images as propaganda.

Full article: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/Al_Qaedas_top_terrorist_is_a_techie/rssarticleshow/2708225.cms

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