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Title: NY police commissioner: Internet is "the new Afghanistan"
Source: Yahoo News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070815 ... t=AssAVAqKhJvpIgnvQbPYtTsXIr0F
Published: Aug 15, 2007
Author: New York police commissioner Raymond Kel
Post Date: 2007-08-15 19:34:07 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 509
Comments: 17


New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announces the bust of counterfeiters of retail goods in New York, November 27, 2002. The Internet is the new battleground against Islamist extremism because it provides ideology that could radicalize Westerners who might then initiate home-grown attacks, Kelly said on Wednesday. (Chip East/Reuters)

Internet is "the new Afghanistan": NY police commissioner

By Michelle Nichols and Edith HonanWed Aug 15, 3:51 PM ET

The Internet is the new battleground against Islamist extremism because it provides ideology that could radicalize Westerners who might then initiate home-grown attacks, New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.

"The Internet is the new Afghanistan," Kelly said, as he released a New York Police Department (NYPD) report on the home-grown threat of attacks by Islamist extremists. "It is the de facto training ground. It's an area of concern."

The report found that the challenge for Western authorities was to identify, pre-empt and prevent home-grown threats, which was difficult because many of those who might undertake an attack often commit no crimes along the path to extremism.

The report identified the four stages to radicalization as pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization, and said the Internet drove and enabled the process.

Radicalization could be triggered by such things as the loss of a job, the death of a close family member, alienation, discrimination, and international conflicts involving Muslims, said the report by senior NYPD intelligence analysts.

"Much different from the Israeli-Palestinian equation, the transformation of a Western-based individual to a terrorist is not triggered by oppression, suffering, revenge or desperation," it said.

"Rather, it is a phenomenon that occurs because the individual is looking for an identity and a cause and unfortunately, often finds them in extremist Islam," said the report "Radicalization in the West: The Home-grown Threat."

While the September 11 strike on the United States by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network was planned overseas, the report said the attacks had helped proliferate and accelerate radicalization, especially in the West.

"More importantly, 9/11 established the current trend of committing an act in the name of global jihad as a natural culmination of full radicalization and the ultimate responsibility for the fully radicalized jihadist," it said.

But starting the radicalization process does not mean everyone will progress to "become a terrorist."

"Individuals who have been radicalized but are not jihadists may serve as mentors and agents of influence to those who might become terrorists of tomorrow," said the report, which analyzed five home-grown U.S. attack plots.

It says Europe's failure to integrate second and third generation immigrants into society, both economically and socially, had left young Muslims more vulnerable to extremism.

While economic opportunities in the United States are better and the country's Muslims are more resistant to Islamist extremism, they are "not immune to the radical message."

"The powerful gravitational pull of individuals' religious roots and identity sometimes supersedes the assimilating nature of

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#11. To: Zipporah (#0)

"Individuals who have been radicalized but are not jihadists may serve as mentors and agents of influence to those who might become terrorists of tomorrow," said the report

Replace "jihadists" with "communists" and you have the red scares of decades past.

When the American elite gets panicked about losing their wealth and power, they unleash their lower-class bully-boys.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-08-15   20:43:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: MUDDOG (#11)

..who let the dogs out?

Zipporah  posted on  2007-08-15   20:49:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Zipporah (#12)

It's a historical pattern of a century now of the American elite violently over- reacting to perceived threats to their power and privilege, when in fact the threats are miniscule.

But then, intense greed and avarice engender intense paranoia.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-08-15   20:56:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: MUDDOG (#13)

But then, intense greed and avarice engender intense paranoia.

Consider Cheney's 2am black helicopters hovering over his 9 acres in MD and the road blocks; the neighbors complained at first (I'm sure they learned to STFU).

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#16. To: robin (#15)

Good example.

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