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by Mohanad Hage Ali February 3, 2009

written by Mohanad Hage Ali February 3, 2009

Last November, senior military leaders in the United States took the unusual measure of briefing the president on “a severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers.” According to a Los Angeles Times’ report, the attack, which was believed to be originating from Russia, targeted combat zone computers and the US central command overseeing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nevertheless, the security services’ primary concern was whether its non-state enemies could acquire the capability to conduct cyber attacks against Western targets. More than two years earlier, US authorities warned there was a threat, posted on a website affiliated with Al Qaeda, to attack the stock market and banking services online. The threat was apparently issued as revenge for the detentions in Guantanamo Bay. The US Homeland Security Department called it an “aspirational threat”. The magnitude and consequences of such attacks are best comprehended when the Internet economy’s size is

Mohanad Hage Ali

Mohamad Hage Ali is the deputy director for research at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut where his work focuses on the shifting geopolitics and Islamist groups after the Arab Uprisings. Hage Ali teaches politics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and has lectured at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. In his work, Hage Ali focuses on Levant politics, and has published a book titled “Nationalism, Transnationalism and Political Islam: Hizbullah’s Institutional Identity” in 2017, and co-edited “A Restless Revival: Political Islam After the 2011 Uprisings”. Prior to Carnegie, Hage Ali worked as a reporter at al-Hayat newspaper in London, and as an editor in chief of NOW Arabic in Beirut, where his work focused on political Islam and Iraq.

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