Jihad's Third Generation of Terror  By Matthew Harwood  It's no
secret that the power of the Internet has been leveraged by the
likes of al Qaeda to radicalize and to recruit a new generation
of terrorists, as well as disseminate terrorist tactics and
methods to whomever has the initiative to carry out an attack.
But a new trend in jihadism is emerging, according to terrorism
expert Marc Sageman in the March/April issue of Foreign Policy
(subscription only):   Sageman describes these self-starters as
the "third wave of radicals" to emerge out of al Qaeda's
ideology of global jihad. The first wave was "al Qaeda Central,"
those Afghan Arabs that came to the region around the
Afghanistan/Pakistan border to fight the Soviets during the
1980s. These recruits were well-educated, middle class, and an
average age of 30 before taking up arms. The second generation
came from those elite Middle Eastern expatriates who left their
homelands to study in  Western universities throughout the
1990s. Alienated in their new cul