You're right. The Atlantic is hardly a Bush mouthpiece, and to see this article there means somebody in RAT world is waking up to reality. Scary stuff, and we'd better get series about fighting this war with both hands and the gloves off.
There was also a good (long of course) and not very biased article in the New Yorker, it was a bit confusing though. It started out about being how the Islamists use the internet, but after that it got kind of all over the place. I was going to try and look for it on line, I might still do so. I'm not sure what they've got on their site.