Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in U.S. (washingtonpost.com): "On Aug. 20, 2001, Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen, a man who would soon be named a minister of the Saudi government and put in charge of its two holy mosques, arrived in the United States to meet with some of this country's most influential fundamentalist Sunni Muslim leaders ...

" ... He met with the creators of Islamic Web sites that U.S. authorities contend promote the views of radical Saudi clerics tied to Osama bin Laden. And among the imams on his travel schedule was a leader of a small religious center tucked into a nondescript office building in Falls Church, the same site used for a time by the spiritual leader of a group of area men indicted in June as suspected jihadists."

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | A towering minaret, huge prayer halls ..., 3 October 2003 New Ahmadi mosque in Morden Surrey, costing £15m.

Telegraph | News | Hijackers in same hotel as Saudi minister, 3 October 2003

Out and About: I'm giving a paper at SOAS on Qur'anic Interfaces Online, for the 'Qur'an: Text, Interpretation and Translation Conference' (16-17 October 2003). Also a paper on Islam, UK Muslim Communities and Cyberspace at the University of Göteborg's conference: 'The impact of information and communication technologies on religious, ethnic and cultural diaspora communities in the west' (27-29 October 2003)

Wired News: Pentagon Spy Office to Close, 25 September 2003

New York Post Online Edition: Gitmo 'Spy' linked to Al Qaeda, 26 September 2003: "Computer evidence indicates al-Halabi e-mailed or posted four of those documents on the Internet, Wega said. "

OrlandoSentinel.com: News: More on allegations surrounding Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, a Guantanamo Bay translator, and allegations relating to the hiring of staff at the facility: "Describing the recruitment process in June 2002, a Titan official said some candidates for the translator jobs were found through the Internet, newspaper ads, language associations and word-of-mouth."

FT.com Protests force curbs on tools of 'suspicionless surveillance', October 2 2003: "In Washington, Congress last week pulled the plug from the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness programme, a pilot effort to mine commercial and other data on private individuals for patterns of terrorist behaviour. Congress has now restricted funding and barred its use for any domestic surveillance."

ic Wales - Islamic Net cafe aims to build bridges, 2 October 2003 An Islam and the net story from Wales. There's a new cafe in Cardiff (more info at www.theserenity.org)

Internet Magazine, Viruses get faster and nastier, 2 October 2003

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bali bombings 'planner' sentenced to death

albawaba.com: The reasons behind Pakistan large-scale military campaign against al Qaeda, 2 October 2003

Independent, Pakistan launches offensive against al-Qa'ida, 2 October 2003

Jerusalem Post Internet Edition, In the name of the Koran, 11 September 2003 Just located this article, which explores aspects of the interpretation of 'jihad'. [note: article requires registration to site - which is free]

Khilafah.com - 745 years after sacking of Baghdad, the Mongolians are back, 30 September 2003 reference to the application of electronic surveillance equipment by US in Mongolia.

BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Ask Afghan President Hamid Karzai Send in your email to Hamid Karzai...

New York Times, U.S. Must Counteract Image in Muslim World, Panel Says, 1 October 2003: Findings of the United States Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World.

Progressive.org, Edward Said Interview, by David Barsamian, 1 October 2003 Interview from February 2003 with the late Edward W. Said, whose comment about the net and its impact on his own writings was interesting (the whole interview is worth reading): "There's a form of censorship here in the U.S., which is that you're marginalized. You can't appear in the mainstream media. But my stuff is published in the Arab countries, and then it appears on the Internet. It's picked up and people read it. When I got a request to write an article for The New York Times Magazine about my idea of a solution, a binational state for Palestinians and Israelis, that was because an editor there had read me on the Internet."

The EastAfrican on the Web, Who's Reading My Mail?
Everybody, it Seems!, 1 October 2003 "[But] ... under the guise of tracking the bad guys, many self-serving African governments would love to develop a culture of "cyber-security", particularly if that UN summit gives them the excuse. It was only this month that Tanzanian police freed a Pakistani national whose intercepted e-mails to a friend in Pakistan were found suspect."

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bin Laden disciple jailed for 10 years in Belgium, 1 October 2003

Independent Bangladesh, Muslims neglect science for too long: Musharraf, 1 October 2003: "The decades of neglect and inattention in the Islamic world to the development of research, scientific infrastructurend indigenous technological capacity has resulted in the Islamic community being marginalised and left behind"