Jihadis intend to invade FaceBook...
 

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.

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???

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 :munchin

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). :mad: