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Thanks to Calpernia for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953807/posts

“FBI: Atlanta, Canada terror suspects met”
By HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jan 14, 5:40 PM ET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: ATLANTA - Two U.S. citizens accused of plotting to attack civilian and government targets shot “casing videos” of Washington landmarks that were found on a terrorism suspect’s computer in Britain and met with suspects in a Canadian terrorism case, an FBI agent testified Monday.

Agent Mark Richards testified that the videos of the U.S. Capitol and other Washington landmarks taken by Syed Ahmed and Ehsanul Sadequee were found on a computer belonging to Younis Tsouli, a Moroccan-born man who pleaded guilty in Britain in July to inciting others to commit acts of terrorism.

Richards also said Ahmed and Sadequee, during a trip to Toronto in March 2005, met with several of the 17 people charged in a June 2006 Canadian terrorism sweep. Charges against the suspects in the Canadian case include participating in a terrorist group, importing weapons and planning a bombing.”

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006284.html

16 January 2008
“IF YOU’RE A TERRORIST AND YOU’RE DEPENDENT ON THE INTERNET, I HAVE BAD NEWS”
Al-Qaida’s 007

Posted on 16 January 2008 @ 03:30

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http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3191517.ece

From The Times
January 16, 2008
“Al-Qaeda’s 007”

“The extraordinary story of the solitary computer geek in a Shepherds Bush bedsit who became the world’s most wanted cyber-jihadist”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: ““Once you get on to one guy who’s important in a network, because the structure of a network is flat . . . you get everyone he’s connected to,” Aaron Weisburd explains. “In the old days a terrorist organisation would have a much more hierarchical structure, you would have tight little cells and one guy would know maybe one person one step up and maybe one person one step down, but that’s it. In a network structure, if you get the right guy the whole thing goes down.”

That’s exactly what happened with Tsouli. His arrest has been linked to a series of others around the world, including the arrest of 17 men in Canada in June 2006 and the two Americans who travelled to Washington. There have also been arrests and convictions here in the UK of individuals who visited Tsouli’s web forums.

Others have tried to take Irhabi 007’s place, even paying homage to him and using similar names. But no one has been able to fill his shoes and al-Qaeda has been forced to use teams of people to replicate what that one young man did from his bedroom in Shepherds Bush. No one has matched his influence on the web: they have learnt to keep a lower profile than the celebrity-conscious Tsouli. “Keep in mind, those were some pretty big shoes and his name is still being talked about on the internet now like he’s a god,” Evan Kohlmann says.

The cat-and-mouse game continues: one in which the teenage and twentysomething supporters of al-Qaeda often have the upper hand over law enforcement and intelligence officers, who often come from a different, less computer-savvy generation. But for other wannabe internet terrorists, the cyber-trackers are still out there. As Aaron Weisburd puts it: “If you’re a terrorist and you’re dependent on the internet, I have bad news.”

— Terrorist 007 is on Newsnight on BBC Two tonight at 10.30pm, and on Our World on BBC News24 on Saturday (2.30 and 9.30pm) and Sunday (2.30pm)”