Digital Terrorism Exposed In New Interactive CD-ROM Report

April 5, 2006

 Digital Terrorism Exposed In New Interactive CD-ROM Report

Digital Terrorism and Hate 2006 - the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s eighth annual interactive report details how the Internet has become a virtual university for terrorism and has emerged as the nerve center for training, recruitment, and terrorist activities in the Middle East.
 
Available in English, French and Spanish for the first time, Digital Terrorism 2006 focuses on over 6,000 websites which raise money for terror groups, teaches bomb-building and the use of steganographic code (hidden messages within text) for terrorist acitivities, and offers hate-related video games to children. 

Not one single effort can stop these activities, but together, you can help us make a difference. Our Digital Terrorism and Hate report serves as an early warning system.  Our demonstrated expertise and strong ties to experts ensure that, with your help, we can make a real difference in the struggle against online terror and hate.

Our new report details the frightening new trends and strategies used by terrorists, extremists and purveyors of hate by exposing:

• Middle East-based Internet forums that actively promote attacks on Israeli, Jewish and Christian institutions by posting detailed information on how to make ‘dirty’ bombs, use cell phones as detonators, and plan chemical and biological attacks

• Online tutorials for terrorists, includes animated scenarios for urban warfare and suicide attacks on motorcades as well as a video course on how to use global positioning technology

• In Europe, online radio, ‘clubs’ and newsgroups with cutting-edge graphics stoke growing tensions between the West and disaffected young Moslems. And. neo-Nazi and skinhead groups use overseas Internet sites to evade anti-hate laws and attract thousands for illegal hate music concerts. Hooligan sports groups seek recruits for racist manifestations at football matches
 
• Our researchers were among the first to track trans-national hate, in which, European, North American racists and Middle Eastern extremists use the Internet to forge links. Meanwhile, shocking new antisemitic websites, including al Qaeda’s Hiddenworlds, Irancartoons, and Housewitz, fan the flames of Jew-hatred worldwide
 
• Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and like-minded terrorist groups whose global network of supporters use the Internet to maximize the worldwide impact of kidnappings, beheadings and mayhem

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is in ongoing contact with government agencies, community activists and the media, transmitting timely and impactful information to ensure more comprehensive and effective strategies to combat online terror and hate
 
We hope that with your help we will be able to expand the number of languages we research and present worldwide, including Arabic and Russian. And, as always, we will work to ensure universities, schools and libraries receive a copy of Digital Terrorism and Hate 2006 .
 
Your support will help the Center ensure that this frightening surge of technological hate and extremism is exposed and ultimately defeated.  Please help us today.

Digital Terrorism and Hate 2006 will be available for purchase in May 2006 at www.wiesenthal.com.

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