Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenge Gabriel Weimann Terrorists fight their wars in cyberspace as well as on the ground. However, while politicians and the media have hotly debated the dangers of terrorists sabotaging the Internet, surprisingly little is known about terrorists' actual use of the Internet. In this timely and eye-opening volume, Gabriel Weimann reveals that terrorists organizations and their supporters maintain hundreds of Web sites, taking advantage of the unregulated, anonymous, and accessible nature of the Internet to target an array of massages to diverse audiences. Drawing on an eight-year study of the World Wide Web, the author examines how modern terrorist organizations exploit the Internet to raise funds, recruit members, plan and launch attacks, and publicize their chilling results. Weimann also investigates the effectiveness of counterterrorism measures, and warns that this cyberwar may cost us dearly in terms of civil rights. Illustrated with numerous examples taken from terrorist Web sites, Terror on the Internet offers the definitive introduction to this emerging and dynamic arena. The volume lays bare the challenges we collectively face in confronting the growing and increasingly sophisticated terrorist presence on the Net. Gabriel Weimann is professor of communication at Haifa University and a former senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. A prolific analyst of terrorism and the mass media, he has published a number of books, including Communicating Unreality, The Influentials: People Who Influence People, The Threat of Terror, Hate on Trial, and The Singaporean Enigma. He has also written more than one hundred book chapters and articles, including papers in the Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Communication Research, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the American Sociological Review. He has received numerous grants and awards from international organizations and has held visiting professorships at universities throughout the world.