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Mushrooming extremist websites emerging biggest global terror threat: Interpol chief | Interpol Chief Ronald Noble has warned that the rising number of extremist websites have made the recruitment
process much easier for the al-Qaeda, which according to him, is difficult to manage as another site pops up as soon as one is knocked out. "The threat is global,
it is virtual and it is on our doorsteps. As soon as you knock out one, another
pops up. It's like playing 'whack-a-mole'," the BBC quoted Noble, as saying. While
addressing a conference of police chiefs in Paris, he said that there were 12
sites in 1998, which increased to 4,500 by 2006 and added that tackling radicalisation
has become more difficult because of the internet as many of the activities involved
are not criminal. He further stated that middle-class youths are easily targeted
through the internet. Meanwhile, a researcher at the London-based International
Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, said that the number of radical websites
was now far higher than the figure given by Interpol. "It's well into the thousands
in English alone," said Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens. Last week, the head of British
security service MI5, Jonathan Evans, expressed concern about the influence of
Yemen-based radical Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, whose sermons feature in more
than 5,000 videos on YouTube. Awlaki has been linked to the deaths of 13 people
at Fort Hood military base in the United States in November 2009 and the attempted
bombing of a passenger jet as it flew to Detroit the following month.
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