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Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/02/60minutes/main2531546.shtml?source=mostpop_story
Terrorists Take Recruitment Efforts Online
[60 Minutes-CBS News] Scott Pelley - "The Internet is the single most important venue for the radicalization of Islamic youth," says Army Brig.-Gen. John Custer, head of intelligence at Central Command, responsible for Iraq and Afghanistan. "I see 16, 17-year-olds who have been indoctrinated on the Internet turn up on the battlefield. We capture them, we kill them every day in Iraq, in Afghanistan," he says. "You start off with a site that looks like current news in Iraq. With a single click, you're at an active jihad attack site. The real meat of the jihad website, Jihad Internet. Beheadings, bombings, and blood. You can see humvees blown up. You can see American bodies dragged through the street....Next link will take you to a motivational site, where mortar operatives, suicide bombers, are pictured in heaven....Another click and you're at a site where you can download scripted talking points that validate you have religious justification for mass murder." Custer says anyone watching the sites could actually believe the U.S. is on the run.