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THE bomb hit the ABC's headquarters,destroying everything except one digital transmission tower.The force of the blast left Aunty's site a cratered mess.Just weeks before,a group of terrorists flew a helicopter into the Nissan building,creating an inferno that left two dead.Then a group of armed militants forced their way into an American Apparel clothing store and shot several customers before planting a bomb outside a Reebok store.This terror campaign,which has been waged during the past six months,has left a trail of dead and injured, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars' damage.The terrorists belong to a militant group bent on overthrowing the government.But they will never be arrested or charged for their crimes because they have committed them away from the reach of the world's law enforcement agencies,in the virtual world known as Second Life.Second Life,or SL as it is known to devotees,is an online reality game.It was launched in 2003 by California-based Linden Labs but it did not come to prominence until last year, when corporations including Sony,IBM,Nissan and the ABC bought islands and began marketing to visitors.In SL people create their own characters,known as avatars,and live an alternative life, buying goods,real estate and living in a community of more than eight million people from across the world.They go about their lives,attending concerts and seminars,building businesses and socialising.On the darker side,there are also weapons armouries in SL where people can get access to guns,including automatic weapons and AK47s.Searches of the SL website show there are three jihadi terrorists registered and two elite jihadist terrorist groups.Once these groups take up residence in SL,it is easy to start spreading propaganda,recruiting and instructing like minds on how to start terrorist cells and carry out jihad.One radical group,called Second Life Liberation Army, has been responsible for some computer-coded atomic bombings of virtual world stores in the past six months....
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