Cybercafés and Prevention of Terrorist Activities

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the use of the Internet by terrorists in cybercafés and explore measures intended to stem the use of cybercafés for terrorist activities. Specifically, the reasons terrorists use of the Internet, how they use the Net, their motivations for utilization of cybercafés, various measures adopted in different countries for combating terrorists’ use of cafés for their acts, impediment to prevention of terrorism via cybercafés, and future trends are set forth.