AlQaeda 2.0 -- The New Business Model

Nuke Gingrich ^ | 8/23/06 | nuke gingrich

[grandpa jones]

The old business model was smashed to rubble in the mountains of Tora Bora, Afghanistan. Although soundly defeated and on the run, AlQaeda and their Taleban hosts were able to disseminate the closely guarded secrets and methods of the AlQaeda Encyclopedia to more tech-savvy true believers and would-be jihadists. Now, all the AlQaeda 2.0 needs is a willing mind, and an internet connection.

In the September/October edition of Foreign Affairs Evan Kohlmann said: Al Qaeda and similar groups rely on the Internet to contact potential recruits and donors, sway public opinion, instruct would-be terrorists, pool tactics and knowledge, and organize attacks. The RAND Corporation's David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla have called this phenomenon "netwar," which they define as a form of conflict marked by the use of "network forms of organization and related doctrines, strategies, and technologies."

[grandpa jones]

The U.S. government still functions as a five-and-dime store in an eBay world.

[misterrob]

Because we have leftists and civil LIBERALtarians who refuse to let the government do what is supposed to do and that is protect the people.