And how do these fighters turned clerks deal with the boredom induced by their current lives? They rush, of course, toward the attentional sinkhole that is the modern internet. “I sometimes miss the jihad life for all the good things it had,” said twenty-five-year-old Abdul Nafi. “In our ministry, there’s little work for me to do. Therefore, I spend most of my time on Twitter. We’re connected to speedy Wi-Fi and internet. Many mujahedin, including me, are addicted to the internet, especially Twitter.”[2]
