The Internet is a great equalizer. Even for Al Qaeda…
ABC News: Al Qaeda’s Web of Terror
bin Laden and Zawahiri still use these e-mail services to send their directives through the Internet.Not directly, of course, but through intermediaries, usually bodyguards, who are sent on foot from the leaders’ clandestine locations to the nearest house or cybercafé, where they simply log on and write their messages.
One of the most striking features of the remote Afghan-Pakistan border is the wide availability of Internet services, either private dial-up or cybercafés.
While hardly accessible by land or air, the town of Chitral — in Pakistan’s remote Northern Areas — where Pakistani intelligence still believes that bin Laden spends his summers, has several cybercafés.