Terrorism on The Internet
WASHINGTON—A just released U.S. Institute of Peace report exposes the dangers posed by terrorists' use of the Internet. In www.terror.net: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet, Institute Senior Fellow Gabriel Weimann discloses how terrorist organizations and their supporters maintain hundreds of web sites that take advantage of the unregulated, anonymous, and easily accessible nature of the Internet to reach large and varied audiences worldwide. Weimann examines eight different ways that t...