An unusually large number of unexplained bombings and explosions have recently occurred in a very short period of time. Is it credible to say that so many similar events in so many different places in so many different situations happened coincidentally? Our observations suggest that terrorist organizations are increasingly interlinking their operations through advanced communications and that these links are bringing together organizations other than those traditionally associated with terrorism. Additional observations suggest that, for the moment, Western intelligence has broken into at least one part of that system of communications.
Changes that software like Freenet and Gnutella have brought to Internet communications, however, could alter the operation field considerably. If interlinked terrorist organizations deploy this much more complex software – which can be downloaded for free from the Internet – intelligence services could face problems they have not learned to solve.