One of the leading articles on the UK's The Guardian website today reports the Dubai assassins stole the identities of British citizens.
We all are guilty of it. Having easy-to-crack passwords, giving too much information, not deleting our browser cookies... leaving a trail of information everywhere.
It's hard. We live in the information age, in a society where someone's e-mail address can be found by a couple keystrokes in a search engine.
So is it really surprising that The Guardian reported today that the Dubai killers had stolen the identities of British citizens?
According to the article, "Dubai killers stole identities of UK citizens":
A hit squad that murdered a senior Hamas official in Dubai used the stolen identities of six British citizens and faked at least five other European passports, it emerged today.
The international investigation into the assassination of Mahmoud al Mabhouh last month is certain to examine the role played by Israel, where four of the victims of identity theft, three Britons and a German, currently live....
UK authorities issued the British passports used by the assassins in Dubai last month, official sources said. They confirmed the killers had not altered the names and numbers in the passports, but the photographs had been changed.
At least five of the Britons whose identities were used by the assassins in Dubai live in Israel. All deny any involvement.
How does identity theft come into play when so many terrorism acts revolve around the concept of identity, of a certain culture, belief, conviction?
Does the above article confirm that cyberterrorism has become an inexorable part of terrorism acts today?