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Article: CHAIR HARMAN ISSUES STATEMENT ON USING WEB AS WEAPON: INTERNET AS TOOL FOR VIOLENT RADICALIZATION AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2007
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The House Homeland Security Committee issued the following statement from a subcommittee hearing:
Chair Jane Harman
Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing & Terrorism Risk Assessment
"Using the Web as a Weapon: the Internet as a Tool for Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism"
AS PREPARED:
Last month, the New York Times introduced the world to Samir Khan, a 21-year old American living at his parent's house in North Carolina.
Khan has been operating one of the most active English-language websites on the planet - one that promotes a radicalized view of Islam and violence against Americans here at home.
It hosts hundreds of links to ...