Slashdot | Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail "H. Ertas, a Turkish editor of the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org) has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after being found guilty of editing a category about the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)."

Aljazeera.Net - UK Muslims get help from the Bard

Censor Anti-Islamic Books? [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes Brief reference to a book by Craig Winn entitled "Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma, In Muhammad's Own Words" - which is available on the Internet and in print. Pipes' discussion refers to the issue of whether censorship of such a volume (which has a negative perspective on Islam) is appropriate.

Project for the Research of Islamist Movements, PRISM Occasional Papers no. 4 vol. 2 (2004) -- Qaradhawi and the World Association of Muslim Clerics: The New Platform of the Muslim Brotherhood the latest paper from Dr Reuben Paz, from the Project for the Research of Islamist Movements based in Israel.

TIME Asia Magazine: Death on Flight 974 -- Dec. 06, 2004 non-tech, significant story

RAND: Out of the Ordinary - Finding Hidden Threats by Analyzing Unusual Behavior Links to PDF report whose abstract promises the following (I haven't tackled this one yet!): "The Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing schema identifies atypical behavior potentially related to terror activity; puts it into context; generates and tests hypotheses; and focuses analysts’ attention on the most significant findings. A supporting conceptual architecture and specific techniques for identifying and analyzing out-of-the-ordinary information are also described."

CNN.com - Log on to be a satellite spy - Nov 30, 2004

"Global transparency, driven by new media and low cost technologies, shape the strategic landscape." Defense Sicence Board Task Force on Strategic Communication referred to in the report below.

Asia Times - Pentagon uncovers propaganda failures: "Al-Qaeda and radical Islamists are winning the propaganda war against the United States, says a high-level Pentagon panel, which concluded that President George W Bush's administration's policies in the Middle East, its fundamental failure to understand the Muslim world and a lack of imagination in using new communications technologies are responsible. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special report: Young, Muslim and British

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | British Muslims want Islamic law and prayers at work: "Muslims in Britain want greater recognition of their faith with the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases and time off for prayers during the working day, but are equally committed to greater participation in British life. "

Reuters.com, Al Qaeda's Zawahri Says Will Keep Fighting U.S., Nov 29, 2004 "Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a videotape broadcast Monday al Qaeda would continue to attack the United States until Washington changed its policies toward the Muslim world.

""We are a nation of patience and we will continue fighting you (United States) until the last hour," Zawahri said in the excerpts of the tape aired on Arab television Al Jazeera."

CBS News | Spy Ring At Gitmo? | November 29, 2004 "The U.S. servicemen were described as al Qaeda sympathizers in newspapers across the country. But today, they have come to represent something entirely different.

"They are victims of a growing catalogue of botched terrorism investigations -- cases that start out with a bang of charges but ultimately collapse with a whimper, Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports ...

" ... "What happened was the computer analyst screwed up the analysis early on. Determined that he thought that the stuff had been sent over the Internet," says Key. "And then within weeks, they were told by the No. 3 computer investigator in the Air Force that wasn’t true."

Asia Pacific Media Network :: US: US general calls for bolder action to stop 'Muslim extremism' "Among the international measures Gen Abizaid singled out as key is treating people who contribute money to the Salafist movement no differently than people who carry out beheadings, he said.

""The truth of the matter is we have to be bold in our discussion and we need to make liable the people who are financially contributing to this organization as the criminals they are," he said."

Radio Australia - News - Internet allows al Qaeda to create 'Virtual Caliphate' "Chief of the US Central Command General John Abizaid says curbs are needed to prevent the Internet and other media from being used by groups like al-Qaeda." Doesn't suggest a methodology, however.

AP Wire | 11/27/2004 | Extremism Worries Muslims in Britain " ... Yasin Rehman, a spokesman at the moderate Council of Mosques in Luton, a poor city north of London, said al-Muhajiroun remains an active recruiter under different names. Such groups hold private meetings and study circles, and distribute leaflets at mosques that condemn the death of civilians in the fighting in Fallujah as "genocide.""

Economist.com | Charlemagne: " ... Mr Wilders quotes Dutch academics who estimate that around 10-15% of the Dutch population of 1m Muslims sympathise with jihadist ideology. He says that the 150 suspected terrorists should be deported or imprisoned immediately. But he also demands a similar fate for those Dutch citizens who endorse jihadist ideology, whether in print, in a sermon or in an internet chat-room."

MSNBC - From civic activist to alleged murderer

Muslim Youth Have a New Home: IBN's Youth Page a Hit : Culture and Community News- Onlypunjab.com: "The Islamic Broadcasting Network, IBN, is the first radio network broadcasting 24-hour daily news and programs to the Muslim community in the United States and abroad via its Internet webcast at www.ibn.net. IBN is an affiliate of the Islamic Media Foundation, a national non-profit organization based in the Washington DC area."

Newsday.com - World News, A jihadist’s journey: How a young Saudi transformed into a religious soldier ready for martyrdom on the streets of Fallujah: "Postings on Islamist Web sites about other Saudis who died in Iraq contain similar stories of improbable heroics and descriptions of the fighters dying in blazing gun battles that kill many U.S. troops. Such postings are part of the propaganda apparatus that draws new recruits into the jihad."