According to Bouchaib Silm, a researcher with the terrorism department at Singapore’s Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, terrorists are finding new ways to atract new recruits. Joining comedy clips and Top 10 video lists of the most devastating terror attacks, special animated projects are also making the rounds to spark interest. Silm notes that today’s youth will no longer heed a terrorist leader, such as Osama bin Laden, simply giving a speech in front of a bare wall. “The young of today will not listen to him,” he remarked. “They will get bored. So the recruiters need something new to attract them.” In Singapore, Salim made the comments at the Digital Terrorism conference last Tuesday, indicates the Associated Press/Yahoo! News.
Terrorists using animation to lure young recruits