If this is your first time visiting National Terror Alert you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. The National terror Alert feed features breaking news, alerts and bulletins on demand and it's free of charge..
You will only see this message on your first visit to the site. Thanks for visiting!

Radical Islamists are using the Internet to recruit homegrown terrorists in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate panel yesterday. “I don’t think it’s necessary to send radical recruiters into the United States, and I think there’s a risk to doing that,” Mr. Chertoff told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

“But I have no question about the fact that [Osama] bin Laden and [Ayman al-Zawahiri] and others like them quite consciously use the media, including the Internet, as a recruiting tool,” Mr. Chertoff said. “In terms of recruiting, I would say that the principal way to enter the U.S. is through the Internet.”

Read Article