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Le New York Times a publié fin juin un article très intéressant à propos d’A-Qaida et de ce que l’on appelle dorénavant le web 2.0. Ainsi l’auteur, comparant l’organisation terroriste à une entreprise comme les autres sur Internet, explique comment sa stratégie, mêlant action réelle et marketing virtuel, a porté ses fruits et a placé le réseau de Ben Laden comme leader du terrorisme mondial.


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The old ways of the Baath regime have carried over into the present. Information on one of the Al Qaeda computers confiscated by the American military contains a manual illustrated with what almost appear to be children’s school drawings on how to use drills, gouge out eyes, use blow torches to burn the bottom of victim’s feet, suspend people in chains, cut limbs, and enact other gruesome ways of torture.

Ce que le parti Baas a enseigné à Al Qaida, Al Qaida l’enseignerait-il aux enfants ? L’intéressant témoignage d’un irakien sur cette affaire déjà ancienne et dont j’ai parlé je ne sais plus où.
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The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.

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Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said European al-Qaida recruits in the border region of Pakistan are being trained to use commercially available substances to make explosives, and they may be able to carry out an attack on U.S. territory.
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Europeans are being recruited specifically because they generally do not need visas to enter the United States, he said.

Al-Qaida recrute Europe ceux qu’elle veut former au terrorisme parce que les Européens obtiennent des visas pour entrer aux E.-U. plus facilement… Chouette. Pour une fois qu’on exporte autre chose aux E.-U. que du camembert, il faut que ce soit des terroristes.

Source : Military.com.

De l’usage de Second Life par les groupes terroristes :

Streaming video can be uploaded into Second Life and a scenario can easily be constructed whereby an experienced terrorist bomb-maker could demonstrate how to assemble bombs using his avatar to answer questions as he plays the video. Using the decentralized organization effect, already successfully used by SL companies, the bomb-maker and his pupils can be spread around the globe and using instant language translation tools (available in the world) could be speaking a variety of languages. Just as Real Life companies such as Toyota test their products in Second Life so could terrorists construct virtual representations of targets they wish to attack in order to examine the potential targets vulnerabilities and reaction to attack. But possibly by far the most useful tool currently available to radical groups is the ability to transfer in-world money between avatars that can be translated into real currency. The Second Life currency of Lindens (approximately $270L to $1US) can be bought using a credit card in one country and credited to one avatar (account) and can be given to a co-conspirator avatar in another country. The person controlling this second avatar can then convert these lindens to the real-world currency wherever they are based using a local credit card or paypal equivalent. Clearly the ability to transfer money in this fashion is a very useful function. While Linden Labs sets a limit on the amount of currency an avatar can buy or sell (typically $5000US) this is likely to change and $5000 gets you a long way in many parts of the world.

En somme, sur SL, on peut recruter des wannabe kamikazes, les endoctriner, les entraîner pour des attentats, se renseigner et transférer de l’argent, le tout en toute discrétion (la photo ci-dessus montre, par exemple, Oussama ben Laden discutant avec deux de ses lieutenants).

Bientôt les romans cyberpunks des années 90 seront aussi datés que les Jules Verne… Et le journal télévisé rapportera comme des banalités des évènements dont Gibson n’aurait pas osé faire le sujet de ses romans…

Source : Counterterrorism Blog.