Installing safety measures for the internet in order to prevent future crimes and terrorist attacks

As stated by the World Security Network Foundation short WSNF, modern-day terrorists have gained strength through the internet and use it as a tool in order to achieve valuable information about their targets. Modern-day terrorists specifically use the Internet in order to send their messages, recruit new radical supporters, obtain crucial information about their targets, and to spread fear among the public. Terrorist attacks carried out with help of the Internet were the 9/11 Twin Towers attack or the Madrid train bombing in 2004. Both would not have been possible without help of the Internet. Internet‘s use in these were f.e. to calculate the quantity of aircraft fuel remaining to reach the Twin Towers or f.e. information on Madrid‘s public transportation routes and locations of police departments around the area. As you can see the Internet is a vital tool for terrorists and there is a even a study suggesting that 90% of information needed to conduct an attack are gathered by it.

Now that you have heard to what extent the Internet is used to execute a terrorist attack, it is your duty to research the following links and provide the conference with debatable solutions to this issue.

Links:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_and_terrorism

www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/27/bbc_al_qaeda_internet/

www.carleton.ca/cifp/app/serve.php/1121.pdf

www.homelandsecurity.org/hsireports/Internet_Radicalization.pdf

www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/int_e250707.htm

Honorable Delegates,

my name is Jonathan Knabe and I will have the pleasure of serving as this year‘s chair of the Security Council alongside with Eline Severijnen. This year‘s topics are very interesting and I‘m sure you will find adequate solutions in your resolutions for these matters. But first let me introduce myself. I am currently going to the John F. Kennedy school in Berlin Zehlendorf. I am 16 years old and this will be my 6^th MUN conference so far, however, my 1^st conference serving as a chair. I play many sports such as tennis, soccer, swimming, basketball etc: Also I play piano, guitar, ukulele and I love to sing. I have a twin sister who is unfortunately not attending this conference. That‘s about all there is to say about me.

I am looking forward to great Balmun conference 2011 with you and would simultaneously like to encourage all of you to participate actively. Don‘t be embarrassed to say something. My dad always says that if you‘re prepared and ready for something, you have no reason to be scared. People don‘t judge you as much as you think, but even if they do, he says, it takes a lot more courage to stand up and say what you are standing for than to listen to those delivering their opinion. And with this said, I would like to wish us all a wonderfully successful conference in Rostock.

Jonathan Knabe