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What should the democratic response be? Is it just more of the BBC Online in Arabic, or should nations invest in online content strategies to counter terrorist generated content? I figure the most strategic way to connect the Arab world to English content and vice versa is to pay Google to add Arabic to the list of languages they translate. That would also make it easier for more Westerners to get the jist of Arabic web sites as well. Steve Clift http://dowire.org See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/08/05/CU2005080501141.html Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations By Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, August 7, 2005; Page A01 In the snow-draped mountains near Jalalabad in November 2001, as the Taliban collapsed and al Qaeda lost its Afghan sanctuary, Osama bin Laden biographer Hamid Mir watched "every second al Qaeda member carrying a laptop computer along with a Kalashnikov" as they prepared to scatter into hiding and exile. On the screens were photographs of Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Nearly four years later, al Qaeda has become the first guerrilla movement in history to migrate from physical space to cyberspace. With laptops and DVDs, in secret hideouts and at neighborhood Internet cafes, young code-writing jihadists have sought to replicate the training, communication, planning and preaching facilities they lost in Afghanistan with countless new locations on the Internet. ... -- Steven Clift http://publicus.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Past Messages, to Subscribe: http://dowire.org *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** New RSS XML Feed Available: *** http://www.mail-archive.com/do-wire@lists.umn.edu/maillist.xml