Terrorists Go Tech Savvy

Associated Press
March 8, 2008

	But of course al-Qaeda is tech savvy, as they have all the technology an endless budget provided by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad can buy.

In an internet age, Al Qaeda prizes geek jihadis as much as would-be suicide bombers and gunmen. The terror network is recruiting computer-savvy technicians to produce sophisticated Web documentaries and multimedia products aimed at audiences in the US, Britain and other Western countries.

Already, the terror movement’s Al Sahab production company is turning out high quality material, some of which rivals productions by Western media companies. The documentaries appear regularly on Islamist websites, which Al Qaida uses to recruit followers and rally its supporters.

That requires people whose skills go beyond planting bombs and ambushing American patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan. “The Al Qaeda men who are coming today are not farmers, illiterate people,” said Qari Mohammad Yousuf, an Afghan and self-declared Al Sahab cameraman. “They are Ph Ds, professors who know about this technology. Day by day they are coming. Al Qaida has asked them to come.”

It was impossible to verify Yusuf’s claim, although a former police chief in Yusuf’s home province of Kunduz verified his links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Yusuf’s information has proven reliable in the past.

Nevertheless, Western experts who monitor Islamist Web sites say the technical quality of Al Qaeda postings — including those from Iraq and Afghanistan— has dramatically increased from the grainy, amateurish images that were the hallmark of al-Sahab’s work only a few years ago.

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