2011年4月22日星期五

Jihadists turn on mobile phones

April 21, 2011 last updated at 23: 02 GMT Jihadist image, Jihadica Photoshopped images are widely used in Jihad data have sophisticated ways of distributing propaganda shared online militant mobile, developed a study suggests.

Researchers found that jihadists were compile packages are to be received information on Smartphones.

You talk included copies of videos, songs, and images that the followers are encouraged to share.

Some were short range wireless technology Bluetooth use anonymous information distributed to potential supporters.

The study was by German researchers Nico Prucha of seven years cataloging materials who spent online are spearheaded by jihadists.

Mr Prucha said that without technologies such as the Web and mobile phones, al Qaeda can Welk have good long ago.

"It is the only way for them part of the debate to stay," he said. "Without it would be isolated as they were in the 1980s."

Mr Prucha said that before the rise of the Internet it was difficult for those interested in al Qaeda or other militant groups to find information.

Often, he said, was on a chain of personal connections that led directly involved the group to someone in one of the active cell.

Propaganda materials of these cells produced did it, some followers of copied back how they were herumgereicht reach. However, the endless copy limited their effectiveness, especially when it comes to videos.

"If you copy a VHS tape 10 times the quality gets really bad," said Mr Prucha, added that the Web had removed these restrictions.

"Now I need to know to see jihadists, these materials," he said. "And the quality is not in the course of time be".

Open mobile

The study of Mr Prucha and security consultant Nigel Stanley proposed that Jihad consolidates efforts to people, the details of the Islamic faith, mobile phones and Smartphones.

Some their productions with their logo to ensure the authenticity militant groups and the brand set up to prepare wings or brigades, the special material for smartphones.

Included in the packages of material from the researchers studied copies were of Quran, audio readings, songs, talk of Osama bin Laden, Photoshopped images of the attacks of the 11th and videos shot during the campaigns of jihadists.

Logo, JihadicaLogos help supporters on the ground if what they see, is authentic

Much of the material appeared professionally produced, Mr Stanley said.

"It is not the garbage you get someone in a back room could", said Mr Stanley. "It's been through have thought as and has high production values."

The material is formatted for viewing on mobile phones, and for the specific mobile operating systems found in Arab States.

Mobile had become popular with militant Islamists as to spread a tool because they were "intimate" and rarely shared, said Mr Stanley propaganda.

She had assumed particular importance in many Arab Nations, where contact between the sexes is limited. In such situations leave many people their Bluetooth connection turned on, they may contact with members of the opposite sex without breaking local or religious.

Jihadists use were this trend, Bluetooth and to anonymously distribute propaganda packages with the technology, said Mr Stanley.

Have lasting influence, knowledge about how fighters spread their messages must go to the academic community and Mr Prucha said the online efforts of militant Islamists, places like Jihadica this document.

"We must be able to radicalize their attractiveness and their calls," he said. "But if we consider this information to us, without sharing there with Muslim communities are of no greater good."


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