Yassin Musharbash on new Jihadists

The journalist Yassin Musharbash has analysed the change in the al-Qaida terror network and Jihadism since the attacks of September 11, 2001. "The new Jihadists are younger, better educated and more up-to-date than Osama's generation, but they are also more unpredictable. They have no experience in combat but they do have other technical skills. They think in networks because they are at home in the Internet. And they are already in the process of influencing a new kind of al- Qaida - not only with actions but with online debates as well. There's a possibility that al-Qaida will soon emulate the anti-globalisation movement, that has no centre but is nonetheless a political factor to be taken seriously and can organise large-scale political campaigns. A kind of Wiki-Qaida is also conceivable: an Internet-based Jihad project that anybody is allowed to write for, collaborate in and shape, and that simultaneously carries out terrible attacks in the real world... Only one thing is certain right now: the old al-Qaida no longer exists since September 12, 2001. And there is no precedent for the new al-Qaida. It is in the process of inventing itself - and what we are seeing is only its heralds."

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