Thursday, 20. August 2009

'Terrorist Facebook' – the new weapon against al-Qa'ida


Social networking is not just for the MySpace generation. Intelligence agencies are adopting a controversial new technique to identify terrorist masterminds.

Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figures and predicting terrorist attacks before they happen.

independent.co.uk