Posted on 10/01/2010 2:17:42 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "TERRE HAUTE — The announcement this week of an Islamic terror plot to wage attacks in Europe came as little surprise to Aaron Weisburd.
He’s been monitoring jihadi websites since 2002, and is a field instructor for the West Point Academy, traveling around the nation to teach law enforcement about terrorism and jihad, or holy war.
On Wednesday, Weisburd was one of the featured speakers at the International Crime, Media and Popular Culture Studies Conference, hosted by Conference Chairman Frank Wilson and Indiana State University’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice."
SNIPPET: "He created a blog of terrorist website data that he was uncovering online, and he got the attention of al-Qaida.
A jihad leader issued a “fatwah” or death sentence for Weisburd in October 2002, and he said, “that got me hooked” on monitoring the jihadi websites.
“I’m a native New Yorker,” said the doctoral candidate who works in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois, Chicago, “and I was upset about 9-11. So [angering] al-Qaida seemed like the right thing to do.”"
SNIPPET: "Just how those sites play into the worldwide terror scene, and the intelligence that can be gleaned from them, is one focus of Weisburd’s work."
“The videos seem to be aimed at getting people beyond the fear of killing or being killed,”
but but but, I thought it was a religion of peace, love and harmony?
“The videos seem to be aimed at getting people beyond the fear of killing or being killed,”
We once faced an enemy that was so fanatically devoted to their cause, they demonstrated the same fearlessness in the face of death. The only way to deter that, I think, is to show them that we are ready and willing to provide them with all the death they seek, yet it will do nothing to help them accomplish their goals.
Even that is useless until we are prepared to dismantle the engine of their fanatical belief system once they surrender.
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