Fascinating. I've thought about attempting this before, but I never thought I could pull it off given I don't speak another language, and I suppose I thought it would just be too difficult to gain terrorists' trust. Kudos to Shannon for actually getting in there and doing it!

This is where the War on Terrorism is really at though. As decentralised terrorist networks rely on information networks to distribute information, co-ordinate actions and develop knowledge, interfering with those information networks prevents terrorists from operating within an adaptation cycle - act, sense, decide, adapt. When terrorists are prevented from learning, co-ordinating and adapting to previous experience, we can continue to defeat them by utilising our asymmetric advantages (e.g. technology) at the tactical level.

I'd encourage everyone to give this a try if they think they can do it. You might not even need to pretend to be a terrorist, perhaps we could interfere with these networks by doing things like crashing servers, or starting flamewars!