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By Greg Bruno
Times Herald-Record
July 27, 2007 West Point — Every weekday, after filling their coffee mugs and powering their computers, analysts at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point take their seats and prepare for battle. They read radical Islamic Web sites on the hunt for fresh propaganda. They visit extremists' chat rooms, searching ideological threads. And they monitor pro-jihadi news agencies for the latest from the front lines. Here, inside the gates of the nation's oldest service academy, the wheels of a burgeoning cyberwar are turning. "The Internet has created a phenomenon unprecedented in human history: a globally connected community of terror," center director Lt. Col. Joseph Felter told a congressional committee in May. "Terrorist groups that use the Internet share ... the same weaknesses. The Internet helps us take advantage of these weaknesses."
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