23-Year Old Cyber Terrorist
The Daily Mail reports that “[a] computer nerd from Shepherd’s Bush, West London, became al Qaeda’s top internet agent, it can be revealed today.”
The nerd? Younes Tsouli, 23, an IT student at a London college. He arrived in Britain from Morocco with his father, a diplomat.
His username: Irhabi 007.
Tsouli arrived in London in 2001 with his father, a Moroccan diplomat. He studied IT at a college in central London and was quickly radicalised by images of the war in Iraq posted on the internet.
By 2003 he had already begun posting his own material including a manual on computer hacking and a year later had moved on to publishing extremist images and al Qaeda propaganda on the web.
Al Qaeda quickly became aware of his existence and recruited Tsouli.
In 2005, Tsouli became administrator for the web forum al-Ansat, used by 4,500 extremists to communicate with each other, sharing such practical information as how to make explosives and how to get to Iraq to become a suicide bomber.
He’s also called “King of Internet Terrorism.” He quickly became more than a propagandist: he actively helped extremists plan terrorist attacks.
Here’s a video, via LGF:
An important catch for British police, and the West as a whole. After Tsouli’s arrest, they were able to arrest dozens of other extremists.
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