Osama Internet

• 

  How Rural India Is Fighting ‘Information Poverty’

  Digital literacy in rural areas has made us see sights that we had only dreamt about. We have seen children in Rajasthan use Google images to travel to Agra to see the Taj Mahal. We have seen women in Bihar jumping over the boundary walls of their houses to escape the elder men’s glare when they go to take their digital literacy classes. We have ...

• Yasin Bhatkal motivated recruits through Osama videos, reveals chargesheet

  Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was inspired by Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and showed his videos to young men to motivate them to sacrifice their lives in the name of 'jihad', according to the chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

• Terrorists turn to online chat rooms to evade US intelligence

  Al Qaeda fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if vague plot that US officials say closed 19 diplomatic posts across Africa and the Middle East for more than a week.

• As Pakistan votes, the military watches sternly from its barracks

  When a rock-band song mocking Pakistan's army was mysteriously blocked on Internet sites recently, no one was surprised. But, as political parties jousted their way to this Saturday's elections, it was a small reminder of where power really lies.

• 

  Qaeda forum accepts bin Laden's death

  Al-Qaeda has accepted its leader's killing and accepted him as a knight who sacrificed his soul and money to fight the US

• Osama was logged off, al-Qaeda stayed online

  Osama bin Laden cut himself off from direct access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he founded has been able to seize the power of the Web to spawn an army of online followers who will prolong al-Qaeda's war against the West long after his demise.Al-Qaeda's technological evolu...

• Internet chatter up on bin Laden revenge attacks

  Pipe bombs, a targeted car crash, a lone gunman: Western intelligence officials said on Friday they are seeing increased Internet and phone chatter about cheap, small-scale terror attacks to avenge the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.More than 100 protesters, meanwhile, gathered on Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in London shouting, "USA, ...

• FBI warns against "virus" Osama photos, videos on internet

  The FBI said people should not open unsolicited spam e-mails that claim to show photos or view videos of bin Laden's death

• Qaeda forum accepts bin Laden's death

  Al-Qaeda has accepted its leader's killing and accepted him as a knight who sacrificed his soul and money to fight the US

• Fear of tech helped betray bin Laden

  Osama's decision to shun communications tools like the telephone and the internet helped contribute to his demise.

• Osama multi-million dollar mansion had no phone, Internet

  The mansion that Osama bin Laden was living in at Abbottabad near Islamabad was considerably larger than the other homes in the area and was built in 2005, say US intelligence sources. The mansion was believed to be worth at least a million dollars.Different agencies report that the house was guarded by high compound walls, some of them upto 16 fee...

• 'Osama bin Laden of Internet' still speaks on YouTube

  From the shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., to the stabbing of a British member of Parliament, investigators have identified Anwar al-Awlaki's stirring online calls to jihad as an important instigator of terrorism. So members of Congress last year appealed to YouTube to remove calls for violence by Mr. Awlaki, the militant American-born cleric now hidin...