[nmw] ネットで拡大する「イスラム過激主義」
米軍事大学のコンサルタントを務めるイスラム過激主義の研究者が、ネットで
拡散する「ジハディスト」の脅威をテレビで説いた。
彼によると、現在ネット上に「５０００のテロリストサイト」があり、例えば
そのうちの一つは１７８６９人のメンバーがいたという。
１６、７歳の若者がネットを見て、過激なイスラム思想に洗脳されて、戦場に
現れるので、殺しても殺してもきりがないと彼は言う。しかも爆弾の製法なども
ネットで拡散され直ちに共有される、と。
しかし専門家としてお粗末なのは、だから対策をどうするというのが出てこな
いことだ。「聖戦主義」の根本には行き着いていない。
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By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2007 - The Internet is the most important venue
for the radicalization of Islamic youth, the head of intelligence at U.
S. Central Command, said in an interview aired yesterday.
Army Brig. Gen. John Custer and other experts described the effects of
terrorists' online recruiting and networking methods during a 60
Minutes interview with correspondent Scott Pelley.
"I see 16-, 17-year-olds who have been indoctrinated on the Internet
turn up on the battlefield," Custer said. "We capture them; we kill
them every day in Iraq, in Afghanistan."
Stephen Ulph, a researcher and writer on militant Islam, is a
consultant at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where
cadets are learning to recognize the Web's power as a new weapon. Ulph
told 60 Minutes that Jihadist recruiters online are waging a massive
battle for the hearts and minds of Muslims.
"They throw a bomb into (a recruit's) mental universe ... and shatter
it," he said. "And, then (they) say, 'Here's how we're going to
reassemble these fragments.'"
Recruiters use the Internet to deconstruct moderate interpretations of
Islam and then repaint the scripture in a more radical version, he said
"If your parents aren't proper Muslims, if the sheik of a mosque isn't
a proper Muslim, what are you doing obeying them?" he said. "Once they'
ve softened (the recruit) up and he's now in freefall, they say, 'This
is your identity. We're going to put the "j" back into Islam. It's
jihad.'"
Jihadist Web sites exploded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and an
estimated 5,000 terrorist sites exist online, 60 Minutes reported. One
Jihadi site they investigated had 17,869 members.
Custer described how Web sites are set up to entice possible recruits.
"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," Custer said. "You
can see Humvees blown up. You can see American bodies drug through the
street. You can see small-arms attacks.
"Next link will take you to a motivational site, where martyr
operatives, suicide bombers, are pictured in heaven; you can you see
their farewell speeches," he said. "Another click and you're at a site
where you can download scripted talking points that validate ...
religious justification for mass murder."
Custer said today's warfare is a different type, which takes place on
an asymmetric battlefield.
"There is no front line of troops. Civilians are targets. The press has
no credentials here. Kidnap them. Put a gun to their head, and put them
on the evening news," he said. "It's a battle of perceptions, and al
Qaeda understands it. And America needs to understand it.
"Can you imagine thousands of tanks on a battlefield now?" Custer said.
"I can't."
The general's comments echo remarks that another military official,
Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, made Feb. 26 at the Special Operations
and Low-Intensity Symposium, in Arlington, Va.
Al Qaeda and it associates operate within a "full-spectrum network"
that extends beyond the physical battlefield into the virtual world,
Kimmitt, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and
South Asian affairs, said.
"It has the ability to use the virtual and physical network, all tied
together in this center of gravity of this radical Islamist ideology,"
he said. "The fact that it uses the most advanced methods of
communications to get what it needs to be done is truly remarkable."
In addition to recruiting, terrorists who seek to obtain chemical,
biological weapons, and radioactive material for dirty bombs, use the
Internet to wire money and to transfer tactics, techniques and
procedures, he said.
"It has truly got its stuff together in terms of fighting as a network,"
he said. "Those (improvised explosive devices) ... going off in
Afghanistan weren't sent over there by books, they were sent over by
information directly available on the internet."
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