Brash and violent: al-Qaida’s new mouthpieces
Source: timesfreepress Hanif Qadir, a former extremist who now runs the Active Change Foundation, a de-radicalization project in London which works with young people at risk of embracing terrorism and people convicted of terrorists offenses, stands at the foundation's youth center in east London. In Britain, a controversial government project involving police and educators has identified 1,000 people, most under age 25 but some as young as 7-years-old, as vulnerable to the appeal of extremism — many of whom reguarly browse jihadist videos or websites. Youngsters swap imported extremist DVDs and clips of beheadings stored on their cellphones, and use SMS messages or Twitter to trade addresses for jihdaist websites, Qadir said.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) By DAVID STRINGER Associated Press LONDON — Even before Osama bin Laden’s death a month ago, a young generation of