Uncloaking Terrorist Networks

atlantageek writes "First Monday has an article called 'Uncloaking Terrorist Networks'. The author Valdis E. Krebs discusses his attemps to unravel the terrorist network using social and organisational network theory."

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[Jacer]

I don't like the automatic assumption that they're insane based on the fact they've commited an act of terrorism. It's just a bit of culture shock. I'm sure if you grew up in the same enviroment you'd detest the U.S.A. as well, for anyone living outside of the country, we're a bunch of arrogant pricks. I don't advocate violence, however, I think we could learn a lesson of values from Sept. 11th. We could give two shits about anyone else dying, our bombings kill innocent people all the time, with no remorse on our part, hell, we're so happy to kill anyone in our bombings we don't care who we hit. We're at war with a country because of a band of terrorists, sick isn't it. We want to kill one man, but our bloodlust is so HUGE we can't stop there, we need to continue to kill, to exact our vengence, we won't be satisfied until we kill a number of people ten fold of our own, regardless of they're just as innocent as the business people in the WTC. The sad part is that a majority of Americans don't care, I've seen so many bumper stickers reminiscent of "damn towel heads, kill'em all and let god sort them out!" As if having a god exempts you from any sort of punishment. I'm not saying we should turn the other cheek, but we should take a more reasonable approach to solving this, a reasonable approach does not involve nearly a years worth of violence, and military spending in the hundreds of billions, possibly trillions. Anywho, I must be going.