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101 Online Self Improvement Resources
by John Wesley:
Recently readers have asked me to share my favorite self improvement resources. Most of these sites don’t revolve around classic self improvement topics, but they all contain valuable information you can use to improve your life. Here are 101 online self improvement resources, organized into 5 general categories.....
The Blogosphere for Killers By: Daniel Henninger | The Wall Street Journal
Tech-savvy terrorists use the Web for propaganda and incitement.
The Economist Internet jihad A world wide web of terror Al-Qaeda's most famous web propagandist is jailed, but the internet remains its best friend...
Waterloo Bridge, c. 1901, by Claude Monet VIA
My Cyber Counter-Jihad - Shannen Rossmiller
Before 9/11, I had no experience with the Middle East or the Arabic language. I was a mother of three and a municipal judge in a small town in Montana. In January 2002, I began taking an Arabic language course online for eight weeks from the Cairo-based Arab Academy, supplemented with an intensive Arabic course at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As I learned more Arabic, the jihadi websites opened for me. Certain individuals stood out for either their radicalism or the information that they sent. I followed and tracked these individuals and kept notebooks detailing each website and person of interest.
I created my first terrorist cover identity on the Internet on March 13, 2002, to communicate and interact with these targets. In my first chat room sting, I convinced a Pakistani man that I was an Islamist arms dealer. When he offered to sell me stolen U.S. Stinger missiles to help the jihadists fighting the U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, I used the Persian Gulf dialect of Arabic to ask him to provide me with information that I could use to confirm his claims. Within a couple of weeks, the missile identification numbers were in my computer inbox. (Middle East Quarterly) (VIA TurcoPundit)
