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Indeed, one of the lessons of 2009 is that the Internet can serve as a recruitment tool for extremists. From Smadi to the Virginia Five, many of the men accused of terrorist-related activities in the past year first made contact with jihadist groups online, officials say. "More and more...
Jihadist recruiters have grown increasingly sophisticated in their use of the Internet, and many of them specifically target American audiences. Extremist e-preachers like Anwar al-Awlaki - an American living in Yemen who exchanged e-mails with Hasan - communicate in English, which makes them more accessible to American Muslims. Pakistani...
The good news: if recruiters can use the Internet, so too can U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies. Terrorism experts say U.S. authorities have become much better at finding plotters online and putting them under surveillance. Smadi, for instance, was first spotted on a jihadi website.
Coulson argues, in fact, that one reason so many terrorism-related cases popped up in 2009 was the improvement in the ability of U.S. authorities to detect plots. It helps too that ordinary Americans have grown more alert to the danger. "More and more people will call in the police...
Also, the American Muslim community has become better at nipping potential threats in the bud. In the case of the Virginia Five, the families of the men approached CAIR, which encouraged them to get a lawyer and make contact with the FBI. Hooper says community leaders are working harder to...