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There is judge from Pennsylvania who found someone on the internet who wanted to do a terrorist attack and she was able to lure him in and eventually the FBI caught him. The judge was successful in getting this terrorist or at least lead to his arrest for few simple reasons. The guy was not smart at all, and he only spoke English on the terrorist forum because he was an American, and he was too stupid and did not hide his IP address. So it was really luck all over because this guy wanted to be a terrorist but he is not one of the well trained Al Qaeda terrorists who are well aware that they are being observed and they do not make stupid mistakes as that guy from Seattle did.

The British government tracked for 2 years an internet terrorist guru whose name was "Irahabi 007". Despite all the available technologies and monitoring all his internet activities they could not locate him in the UK and they could not find his IP address because he was very good in hiding his IP address and not leaving traces. He was finally arrested but only after the British government arrested two people who knew him. Also "Irahabi 007" was British born muslim and he wrote everything in English.

Now imagine islamic terrorists on the internet who are very well versed in hiding their IP and similar hiding identity techniques, are very well aware that they are being observed and monitored, they are very disciplined, and communicate only in Arabic, it will be extremely hard to get them.