General Trends in Terrorism

Cooperation in Southeast Asia is the most developed, but Islamic extremists in Central Asia, North Africa and even Europe and North America have also formed loose networks. For instance, in September 2002 the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) was formed, bringing together separatists from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Chechnya, and the Xingjiang Province of China [19]. 

Terrorist exploitation of technology is further enhanced when groups share their technological advances with other groups both formally and informally. As noted above, Samudra aimed his exhortation to use the internet for fraud and money laundering at all jihadists working towards the downfall of the West. 

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