Jihadis intend to invade FaceBook...

[Warrior-Mentor]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/1...-jihadist.html

Online Jihadists Plan for 'Invading Facebook'
By Noah Shachtman
December 18, 2008

Online jihadists have already used YouTube, blogs and other social media to spread their propaganda. Now, a group of internet Islamic extremists is putting together a plan for "invading Facebook."

"We can use Facebook to fight the media," notes a recent posting on the extremist al-Faloja forum, translated by Jihadica.com. "We can post media on Facebook that shows the Crusader losses."

"We have already had great success in raiding YouTube," the poster adds. "American politicians have used Facebook to get votes, like the house slave Obama."

Groups like al-Qaida were pioneering users of the internet — to train, share ideas and organize. But some observers, like George Washington University professor Marc Lynch, see a reluctance to embrace Web 2.0 tools like Facebook. "One of the biggest problems for a virtual network like AQ today is that it needs to build connections between its members while protecting itself from its enemies. That's a filtering problem: How do you get your people in, and keep intelligence agents out?" he asks.

But as Jihadica.com author and West Point Combating Terrorism Center fellow William McCants notes, the proposed Facebook invasion "is not an attempt to replicate [existing] social networks." Instead, "the members of the campaign want to exploit existing networks of people who are hostile to them and presumably they will adopt new identities once they have posted their material."

The al-Faloja poster suggests seven "brigades" work together within Facebook. One will distribute videos and writing of so-called "martyrs." Another will spread military training material. Most of them will work in Arabic, presumably. But one of the units will focus just on spread English-language propaganda through Facebook.

[rubberneck]

Originally Posted by Warrior-Mentor

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/1...-jihadist.html

Online Jihadists Plan for 'Invading Facebook'
By Noah Shachtman
December 18, 2008

Online jihadists have already used YouTube, blogs and other social media to spread their propaganda. Now, a group of internet Islamic extremists is putting together a plan for "invading Facebook."

"We can use Facebook to fight the media," notes a recent posting on the extremist al-Faloja forum, translated by Jihadica.com. "We can post media on Facebook that shows the Crusader losses."

"We have already had great success in raiding YouTube," the poster adds. "American politicians have used Facebook to get votes, like the house slave Obama."

Groups like al-Qaida were pioneering users of the internet — to train, share ideas and organize. But some observers, like George Washington University professor Marc Lynch, see a reluctance to embrace Web 2.0 tools like Facebook. "One of the biggest problems for a virtual network like AQ today is that it needs to build connections between its members while protecting itself from its enemies. That's a filtering problem: How do you get your people in, and keep intelligence agents out?" he asks.

But as Jihadica.com author and West Point Combating Terrorism Center fellow William McCants notes, the proposed Facebook invasion "is not an attempt to replicate [existing] social networks." Instead, "the members of the campaign want to exploit existing networks of people who are hostile to them and presumably they will adopt new identities once they have posted their material."

The al-Faloja poster suggests seven "brigades" work together within Facebook. One will distribute videos and writing of so-called "martyrs." Another will spread military training material. Most of them will work in Arabic, presumably. But one of the units will focus just on spread English-language propaganda through Facebook.

Like a dog chasing his own tail they have no idea what they will do with it when they catch it. If they want to use facebook to recruit and communicate I suppose it makes life much easier for our intelligence community to follow along than it would be to sift through the billions of telephone calls and e-mails sent daily.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Warrior-Mentor

Online Jihadists Plan for 'Invading Facebook'
By Noah Shachtman
December 18, 2008

Ah,, We read some of the same morning papers..

I'm not sure where this will go,, My impressions of Facebook is it's a semi-closed friends only pyridine, in that if you don't "accept" a friend you won't hear or see them??

Now, as an additional venue to spread their shitte around,, they are probably already there,, AND I hope that TSA/ISA/CIA (who-ever) is watching them..

With the acknowledged small amount of intel I have access to,, I would guess they have a link to google-foo spiders and are quietly scanning, watching and reading all open forums with any military value,, including here..


This other article is more worrying. These toads actually think they are doing a public service by posting sensitive material???

Wikileaks Posts Secret Bomb-Stopper Report — Did It Go Too Far?
By Noah Shachtman December 18, 2008 | 2:09:41 PMCategories: Bomb Squad, Press Corpse

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/1...k-wikilea.html

In July, 2005, I asked a member of a Baghdad-based military bomb squad about the radio-frequency jammers his team was using to cut off signals to Iraq's remotely detonated explosives. His response: "I can't even begin to say the first fucking thing about 'em." A few days later, one of those jammers seemed to save me and him from getting blown up. Months after that, David Axe was thrown out of Iraq by the U.S. military, for a blog post which mentioned the Warlock family of jammers.

So I was more than a little surprised, when I saw that Wikileaks had posted a classified report, outlining how the Warlock Red and Warlock Green jammers work with — and interfere with — military communications systems. The report, dated 2004, gives specific information about how the jammers function, their radiated power and which frequencies they stop. That Baghdad bomb tech would've put his fist through a wall, if he saw it out in public.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

Now, as an additional venue to spread their shitte around,, they are probably already there,, AND I hope that TSA/ISA/CIA (who-ever) is watching them...

My thoughts exactly! The problem with most forums is that you never know 'exactly' who you're talking to out there on the www.

Richard's $.02

[Saoirse]

Originally Posted by rubberneck

Like a dog chasing his own tail they have no idea what they will do with it when they catch it. If they want to use facebook to recruit and communicate I suppose it makes life much easier for our intelligence community to follow along than it would be to sift through the billions of telephone calls and e-mails sent daily.

I read last nite on ...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024285.php#comments

regarding their use of pedophile sites to disseminate information and discuss planning. But then again, that does not surprise me, since they have been raping minds and bodies since 622 AD (as one person commented).