From The National Post: “Terrorist groups are using the Internet to recruit international suicide bombers, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said yesterday.”

“The Los Angeles-based organization found two sites, one in Iran and the other in Gaza. With a few clicks of a mouse and the keying-in of basic contact information, volunteers can enlist for an attack on the United States or Israel.”

[…] The […] centre launched Digital Hate 2002, its fourth CD-ROM report, in Toronto yesterday. It contains information on 200 Web sites that use the Internet to promote intolerance and terrorism.

[…] As well as the suicide enrollment sites, the report notes sites offering free, online video games where children can play at being a virtual suicide bomber or engage in ethnic cleansing as a KKK member or skinhead.

It also discovered a growing number of sites propagating the theory that the United States itself commissioned the Sept. 11 attacks.

”Cyberspace is the new weapon of choice for terrorists and the promotion of the “big lie” tactics,’ Rabbi [Abraham] Cooper said. ‘The sites really run the spectrum from real recruitment and endorsement of suicide bombings to the desensitization of youth.’

There were 11 Canadian sites listed in the CD-ROM’s report, but Rabbi Cooper noted that they all were hosted by U.S. servers. He said many foreign countries like Canada, Spain and Germany used American URLs to host their sites because of that country’s first amendment right to free expression.

I hope friendly intelligence agencies are hacking these suicide bomber-enrollment sites, gathering up all the available information on these “volunteers”, and then contracting out hits on ’em before the bastards’re able to make their li’l “martyr’s” videotapes and strap on the Semtex ‘splodeybelts.

I wouldn’t lose a minute’s sleep about it, to be honest with you.