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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.

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Steven Clift
http://publicus.net
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