http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4959002.ece
Link between child porn and Muslim terrorists discovered in police
raids
Paedophile websites are being used to pass information between
terroristsRichard Kerbaj and Dominic Kennedy
A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is
becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across
the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images
of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism
swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain.
Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic
images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way
of passing information between terrorists.
British security services are also aware of the trend and believe
that it requires further investigation to improve understanding of
terrorists' methods and mindsets. Concerns within the Metropolitan
Police led to a plan to run a pilot research project exploring the
nature of the link. One source familiar with the proposal said that
this could eventually lead to the training of child welfare experts
to identify signs of terrorist involvement as they monitor
pornographic sites.
Concerns have already been expressed at Cabinet minister level about
the risk of vulnerable Muslim youths being exploited by older men.
Not all jihadis are spiritually driven men on a mission
Officers have noted that child sex abuse images have been found
during investigations into some of the most advanced suspected plots.
However, it is understood that the proposed research project was
never implemented because the AntiTerrorism Branch was overwhelmed by
the sheer number of cases it was having to deal with.
It is not clear whether the terrorists were more interested in the
material for personal gratification or were drawn to child porn
networks as a secure means of sending messages. In one case fewer
than a dozen images were found; in another, 40,000.
British security sources confirmed that such a link had been
discovered in several cases. They noted the contradiction between
people supposedly devoted to theocracy and Islamic fundamentalism and
their use of child pornography. "It shows that these people are very
confused," a source said. "Here they are hating Western decadence but
actually making use of it and finding that they enjoy this stuff."
Baroness Neville-Jones, Conservative security spokeswoman and former
chairwoman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, said: "The
information about a possible link between extremism and child
pornography potentially provides useful insight into three things:
the methods that extremists use to communicate; the methods they use
to target vulnerable people in society; and the techniques they seek
to use to conceal their online activities." She added: "There is no
doubt that these possible linkages should merit further research."
Andrew Dismore, the Labour MP and chairman of the parliamentary Joint
Committee on Human Rights, said: "This is an important development.
We have to do more than just the police work. It needs child
protection, criminological and psychological work. It could become a
very important weapon in the fight against terrorism." He urged
researchers to review cases where terrorists had been convicted to
look for this link.
The first British suspicions of a link between child sex abuse and
jihadis emerged in London in 2006 when antiterrorism police in two
unrelated investigations were shocked to find computerised images of
hardcore child pornography. The key case that tipped off the security
services to a plausible link involved the "White-chapel Rapist",
Abdul Makim Khalisadar. A former Mujahidin and a preacher at the East
London Mosque, he was being examined for his links to a hardcore
Islamic militant who was later convicted of terrorism. Khalisadar was
never convicted of terrorist offences. The other investigation
involved a young religiously observant Muslim.
The Times has learnt that a criminal investigation also found child
pornography on computers after a raid in 2001 at a mosque run by an
al-Qaeda recruiter in Milan. Italian police believe that the images
were encoded with messages. At a forthcoming terrorism trial in
Spain, the alleged mastermind of a Muslim cell has also been accused
of downloading hundreds of child sex abuse pictures and videos.
Meanwhile, police uncovered a right-wing terrorist plot when they
raided a home after being tipped off about pornographic images. This
June, the Nazi sympathiser Martyn Gilleard was jailed for 16 years
after being found guilty of terrorism. Police found 39,000 indecent
images of children at his flat in Yorkshire.
Invisible ink for the internet age
— Messages may be concealed within digital images and audio, video or
other files. The method is called steganography, derived from the
Greek for "covered writing"
— Although the average person will not be able to detect the hidden
messages by either listening to or viewing a file, the intended
recipients can use applications to reverse the steganography process
and gain access to the information
— Experts say that the advancement in encryption technology is
outpacing the authorities' abilities to monitor suspected terrorists
and paedophiles
— Italian authorities uncovered files of child abuse images that had
been manipulated by a terrorist cell after a raid on the Via Quaranta
mosque in Milan in November 2001. Investigators claimed that the
terrorist cell encoded the images before sending them to each other
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