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The fight Al-Qa'ida has waged against the West has been fought on a virtual as well as physical battlefield. Recently, many jihadist strongholds and hiding places on the web have been shut down. This article charts the growth and the current crisis of Al-Qa'ida's ‘media jihad’.1 1. This article draws on research undertaken for the Economic and Social Research Council research project: ‘Legitimising the discourses of radicalisation: political violence in the new media ecology’, led by Andrew Hoskins (University of Warwick), Ben O'Loughlin and Akil N Awan (both Royal Holloway University of London).
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