Technology is as much a part of their lives as it is part of our lives.

[The original al Qaeda always aspired to use technology in its war on the West. But bin Laden's had been the moment of fax machines and satellite television.] Zarqawi is a new generation, ... The people around him are in their twenties. They view the media differently. The original al Qaeda are hiding in the mountains, not a technologically very well-equipped place. Iraq is an urban combat zone. Technology is a big part of that. I don't know how to distinguish the Internet now from the military campaign in general in Iraq.

I think it's an ominous sign. Whenever there's an attack of this scale going on in London -- it's not just a British thing, it's a U.S. thing too, because most of the time when al Qaeda strikes, it tends to strike in multiple, simultaneous attacks.

It's a positive sign that more hostages were freed than were killed (in March), but it's also a reminder that being an American in Iraq is still a very dangerous position to be in.

Why would an Iraqi group release biographies of foreign fighters?

steer clear of misleading and irrelevant hierarchical representations of non-hierarchical terrorist groups.