Online Jihadists Plan for 'Invading Facebook'

[The Straight Story]

Online Jihadists Plan for 'Invading Facebook'
By Noah Shachtman EmailDecember 18, 2008 | 4:53:03 PMCategories: Info War

Obl_fb 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.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/online-jihadist.html

[madeline_con]

1. Oh NOES! Are the children safe?

[backwoodsbob]

2. well hell

their goes the neighborhood

[htuttle]

3. Oh, they don't know what they're in for!

They'll get buried under an avalanche of gifts of plants, fish, karma, thrown snowballs and beer mail. Plus, there's the fact that they'll probably get kidnapped every other day.

They won't know what hit them...

[jakefrep]

4. Who knew SuperPoke and Boozemail could be anti-terror tools?

[Odin2005]

7. We'll throw pigs at them with SuperPoke!!!

:evilgrin:

[Sabriel]

5. See if I accept THEIR Friend request!

Not likely.

And wait until al-Qaida takes over Wordle! Then you'll see carnage like this:

http://www.wordle.net/

[Odin2005]

6. "House-Slave Obama"? Eat shit an die you Islamist nut-jobs.

:grr:

[cliffordu]

8. Are the ter'rists related to Dubya???

That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard this week.