Terrorism and the Internet: New Media—New Threat?

ABSTRACT The Internet is a powerful political instrument, which is increasingly

employed by terrorists to forward their goals. The five most prominent contemporary

terrorist uses of the Net are information provision, financing, networking, recruitment,

and information gathering. This article describes and explains each of these uses and

follows up with examples. The final section of the paper describes the responses of

government, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and others to the terrorism-Internet

nexus. There is a particular emphasis within the text on the UK experience, although

examples from other jurisdictions are also employed.

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