March 05, 2007
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON – The Internet is the most important venue for the radicalization of Islamic youth, the head of intelligence at U.S. Central Command, said in an interview aired yesterday.
Army Brig. Gen. John Custer and other experts described the effects of terrorists' online recruiting and networking methods during a 60 Minutes interview with correspondent Scott Pelley. "I see 16-, 17-year-olds who have been indoctrinated on the Internet turn up on the battlefield," Custer said. "We capture them; we kill them every day in Iraq, in Afghanistan."
"There is no front line of troops. Civilians are targets. The press has no credentials here. Kidnap them. Put a gun to their head, and put them on the evening news," he said. "It's a battle of perceptions, and al Qaeda understands it. And America needs to understand it. More....
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that's it! ban the internets! we can start it up again when people don't hate us.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that was the intent of the article. I know it was not my intent for posting it.
ReplyDeleteYour comment is an inaccurate representation as to the context of the post.
It shows that the intenet is just another tool being used in the War on Terror against the U.S.
As for people not hating us, that will be impossible. Being a free nation is something they will always resent.
Should you desire to debate about why you feel the U.S. is so hated, I would be more than happy to oblige you on that content.
I would assume your reference to banning the internet ( the real one and the one Al "the sky is falling" Gore invented)is that this would an attack on our First Amendment rights.
The only thing more and more restricting our right to free speech is the democrats and liberals trying to redefine our First Amendment right to Free Speech.
They are trying to redefine free speech to politically correct free speech that is acceptable to their agendas.
King