Recruiting

May 26, IDG News Service – (National) U.S. need to fight online
terrorism recruiting, expert says. The U.S. government lacks a plan to
counter terrorist recruiting efforts online, even though such efforts by
jihad groups are growing, one terrorism expert told U.S. lawmakers. The U.S.
government does not make an effort to engage with people who may be open to
terrorist recruiting efforts and dissuade them from joining, a professor in
the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University told lawmakers May
26. The U.K. government has a program that works with local communities to
identify possible targets for terrorism recruiting, said the professor, a
former scholar in residence at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Instead
of on-theground programs working with potential targets of terrorism
recruiting, U.S. agencies have, in some cases, tried to control terrorism
communications on the Internet. “We shouldn’t be censoring the Internet,” he
said. “I think the problem is we default toward these very intrusive
approaches.” Internet service providers should have protection from lawsuits
if they take down terrorism-related Web sites, said a former
counterterrorism official with the CIA and the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177404/U.S._need_to_fight_online_ter
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