Item 1: On the Authenticity of the “Zawahiri’s letter to Zarqawi”
Item 2: Izzat al-Duri, Saddam’s Vice President at large in Syria, asks that his Baath party be combined with the Jihadist movement, advises that a broad front be formed “to include all who can carry a weapon.”
Item 3: A new, regional Jihadist group declares its existence in Saudi Arabia
Item 4: Video Available: Training at the Badr camp, Afghanistan
The Terror Web Watch collects intelligence through active monitoring of Jihadist and other threat group web sites, forums, and other communication environments. Terrorists and their supporters call it Jihad electroni, the electronic Jihad. For them, exploiting the Internet is considered a vital part of raising money, spreading their ideology, building up support, and inspiring others to become terrorists. To a lesser extent, the Internet is also used for training, by circulating training manuals and videos, for discussing targets, and for planning and organizing operations.
Given how important the Internet is to terrorists and to the greater radical Islamist movement that supports them, monitoring the activities of terrorists and suspected terrorists in cyberspace should be nearly as paramount as monitoring their activities on the ground.
