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The war on terrorism has not been won, Gabriel Weimann argues in Terrorism in Cyberspace, successor to his seminal 2006 book, Terror on the Internet. Even though al-Qaeda鈥檚 leadership has largely been destroyed and its organization disrupted, terrorist attacks take 12,000 lives annually worldwide and jihadist terrorist ideology continues to spread. How? Largely by going online and adopting a new method of organization.

Terrorist structures, traditionally built of loose-knit cells, divisions, and subgroups, are ideally suited for flourishing on the Internet through websites, email, chatrooms, e-groups, forums, virtual message boards, YouTube, Google Earth, and other outlets. Weimann addresses terrorism鈥檚 arrival online; recent trends鈥攕uch as engaging children and women, promoting lone wolf attacks, and using social media鈥攁nd future threats, along with ways to counter them. He analyzes content from more than 9,800 terrorist websites and selects their most important kinds of web activity, describes their background and history, and surveys their content in terms of kind and intensity, the groups and prominent individuals involved, and their effects. The book also considers cyberterrorism against financial, governmental, and engineering infrastructure; efforts to monitor, manipulate, and disrupt terrorists鈥� online efforts; and worrisome threats to civil liberties posed by ill-directed efforts to suppress terrorists鈥� online activities.

Gabriel Weimann is professor of communication at the University of Haifa, Israel. He was a Fellow at the 乐鱼 体育 in 2013鈥�14.

Professor Weimann discussed Terrorism in Cyberspace at a presentation at the Library of Congress on June 10, 2015. .

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Foreword
Bruce Hoffman

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Terrorism Enters Cyberspace
1. Terrorism Enters Cyberspace

Part II. Emerging Trends
2. Narrowcasting
3. Lone Wolves in Cyberspace
4. The E-Marketing of Terror
5. Debates Online
6. Online Fatwas
7. Terror on Social Media

Part III. Future Threats and Challenges
8. Cyberterrorism
9. Countermeasures: 鈥淣oise鈥� and the M.U.D. Model
10. The War of Narratives
11. Challenging Civil Liberties

鈥淲eimann鈥檚 historical and contemporary understanding of al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah is excellent and he is able to produce key summaries and examples of each group, their operatives, and the ways in which they have utilized the Internet to engage in violent extremism. Of special note is the chapter on online debates where Weimann discusses the various diplomatic incidents that have occurred online within and between competing terrorist entities. Weimann is a confident communicator and his concise and logical arguments build a strong case for the continued monitoring and combatting of terrorists鈥� use of the Internet.鈥� His book remains an excellent analysis of jihadists鈥� online content and is a very good contribution to the literature on terrorism in cyberspace.鈥濃€擠avid R. Mair,

鈥淲eimann methodically zeroes in on the many ways that terrorists exploit cyberspace. His book offers a disturbing compendium of their techniques and tactics.鈥濃€擫awrence D. Freedman,

鈥淭errorism in Cyberspace is a timely and indispensable resource for all those concerned about effectively countering terrorists鈥� exploitation of the Internet and the dark elements that can reside there.鈥濃€擩oshua Sinai,

鈥淲eimann鈥檚 book is engaging and concise, analyzing terrorist communications and critiquing government responses without sensationalism.鈥� The book鈥檚 lesson is implicit, yet clear. A long-term strategic approach requires economic opportunity and education reforms that promote critical thinking, to encourage young voices in the Muslim community to create a new round of life stories that push back at extremism.鈥濃€擲usan Froetschel,

鈥淭errorism in Cyberspace represents the next step in its author鈥檚 decades-long quest to map, analyze, and understand the evolution of terrorist communications since the advent of the Internet and this new form of mass communication.鈥濃€攆rom the foreword by Bruce Hoffman

鈥淭errorism in Cyberspace should seal Weimann鈥檚 reputation as a gifted scholar with his finger on the pulse. A compelling portrait of tomorrow鈥檚 threat landscape, this is a book to be reckoned with.鈥濃€擩ane Harman, 乐鱼 体育

鈥淚ts sweeping expertise and insight will make it one of the most important and eagerly anticipated books to be published on this subject. It will also be considered as an 鈥榠nstant classic鈥� in the field.鈥濃€擩oshua Sinai, Resilient Corporation