SHOCKER! Terrorists use the INTERNET!

Maybe NPR is finally waking up.

“Basically most of the noise on the Internet are the clarion calls to battle from the jihadis, the inspirational and motivational messages that they communicate,” says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University. “And there has really been almost no concerted, systematic and strategic effort to counter those messages.”

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The young men from the Washington, D.C., area left clues about their intentions. Officials said a search of their computers showed they had watched YouTube videos that focused on U.S. troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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Back in October, a Boston man was arrested for allegedly trying to offer his services to a jihadi camp in Yemen. He also had been inspired by the Internet to make the trip. In that case, he didn’t have the right connections and didn’t make the cut. He came back to the U.S. without training.

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“I think that the Internet was correctly seen by al-Qaida and its fellow jihadis as a vacuum they could fill and they have filled it very well,” Hoffman says. “And we are just now, unfortunately, paying increased attention to this particular new threat.”

According to the article, Obummer had this to say:

“we have to constantly be mindful that some of these twisted ideologies are available over the Internet.”

Gee.  I guess seeing what can be done about that might be above his pay grade.  What a loser. Well since he wouldn’t want to accused of actually leading in this area, there are plenty of others who are working on it (despite what NPR thinks.) Check out YouTube Smackdown, Jawas, Internet Anthropologist Think Tank, Free Republic, Jihadi Smackdown of the Day or many others to join the fight.

H/T to Howie at The Jawa Report and dirtboy at FreeRepublic

UPDATE: Jammie Wearing Fool found this — the recruitment STARTED AT YOUTUBE. Wake the heck UP people!! What have we been telling you for literally YEARS??!?!?!!!

Google: helping make terrorist dreams come true

Talk about your tangled webs!  When you start looking at the online terrorist community you can get lost in a never ending circle.  Here’s the journey I took today – starting where else?  YouTube, the terrorists dream come true.  Let’s  take a trip, shall we?

 

Isn’t that sweet?  An old man strapped with a suicide belt.
This video is apparently so good it has 2 sequels:

 

In part 3 there we see
the suicide terrorist waving goodbye from a car that’s driving away,
and then later in part 3 – BOOM!  He blows himself to hell.

In case you’re wondering what the Arabic says at the top of the video,
here’s a rough translation:

In the decription of this
video, here’s what the poster, smtelznazn, says:

One portion of this
translated to English says:

How special!  To incite the believers!  Isn’t that the same as “inciting
violence,” considering that the whole video is about a suicide
terrorist blowing himself up?

So I decided to check out the link from the description.

Lovely stuff there…

So look at the top choice in this forum:

WOW!  A “dream that became a reality.”

Had to check that one out…

This list is links of videos to download…some are teaching videos, others
include martyrdom operations, IED attacks, ambushes, firefights, rocket
attacks, snipers, kidnapping…you name it!  If it’s a terrorist activity,
they’ve got it.

Being the naturally curious person that I am, I clicked a link….

Same list as from the terrorist website above!

I decided to check out the Afghanistan/Martyrdom Operations link…

The most recent post was from November 3rd.

Hey look — this looks vaguely familiar…

And it’s pretty long and you can download it here…

So someone took this video, or elements from it, and edited it into the 3 videos which I

saw at YouTube.  (YouTube has a 10 minute limit on uploaded videos and apparently

they DO enforce THAT rule.)

So who is this Global Islamic Media Front mentioned at YouTube in the poster’s description of his video?
Well, according to Global Jihad,

 

Global Islamic Media Front – GIMF, is the European propaganda arm in support of Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic organizations. Global Islamic Media Front is formed from Muslims living in Europe, especially in Germany and Austria and, probably, as a response to USA invasion to Iraq in 03/2003.

 

And not only that, but:

On 09/12/2007 the Austrian police arrested members of the group in Vienna (see – German Media-cell). Two more suspects were arrested in Germany, on 11/28/2008.

Eventually Global Islamic Media Front – GIMF was an enterprise of [a] few Muslims living mainly in Germany and Austria, who used the power of the web in a sophisticated manner.

So apparently the rest of the world sees GIMF as a bunch of pretty bad dudes.  Rusty and Howie over at The Jawa Report have been all over these guys for a LONG time saying  ”they constitute the largest pro-al Qaeda propagandist organization in the West.”  Back in 2007, when that post was written, GIMF’s
website was hosted at wordpress.com.  At this point, according to links at the Jihad Archive site, they are now hosted at blogspot.com.   Anyone want to hazard a guess who owns blogspot?

Gerald at the Internet Anthropologist Think Tank explains why this is so important and why we should care that Google/YouTube/Blogspot are providing free services to terrorists:

 

They keep seeding their lies, falshoods and propaganda in the media and no one is responding to their poision they spread thru the Internet.

A LIE POSTED IN ENOUGH PLACES LONG ENOUGH WILL BE BELIEVED IF NOT CONFRONTED.

WHEN, WHEN DOES THE USA START THEIR MEDIA WAR AGAINST THE ISLAMOFACSIST?

That’s a darn good question.  Germany and Austria were smart enough to jail some of the members of this terrorist organization.  We’re not even smart enough to keep them from using the free U.S.-based
internet services of Google (YouTube, Blogspot.)  Google:  Making more “dreams become a reality” for the terrorists.

 

God help us!

Related topics:  FreeRepublic’s
You Tube Smackdown on STRIKE!

 

Major
Hasan Dined with ‘Jihad Hobbyist’ (Terrorists hook up on the internet)

YouTube:
A terrorist’s dissemination and recruiting tool

YouTube:
A terrorist’s friend

YouTube’s
Complicity in Terrorism

YouTube: A terrorist’s desimination and recruiting tool

In the last post I put up, I showed you how the terrorists use the videos that they post at YouTube.  Now I’d like to show you what some of those videos are about.  I was surfing around terrorist websites and found this gem.  The site is Ansar al-Mujahideen, which is a website for the Mujahideen terrorists (as you might suspect from their name.)   Here are some screen caps of the page, with an anonymized link.  This video is produced by As-Sahab, the media wing of Al Qaeda.  Their logo is plainly visible in the lower right corner of the screen.

There are many, many places that these videos can be downloaded.  The idea is that people will download them and then upload them again to places like YouTube and LiveLeak.

The translation/description of the video is peppered with screen shots of the video, and the whole thing is available here on youtube.  As you can see, the full translation in English is right on the video itself.

If you look over in the sidebar to the right of the video, you will notice that this full video is five segments long – which is most likely due to youtube’s time restraint of 10 minutes per video.

Each of the segments discuss martyrdom and some specific martyrs.

If you skip to the 5th in the series this is the second scene:

The words on the screen are “Oh Allah, grant us martyrdom in this life and in death.”  As these are gun-toting jihadi terrorists, there is little doubt as to what this might mean (unless of course you’re the teleprompter in chief.)  In another scene the words are “Oh Allah, amplify your benevolence and your greatness on us by blessing us with martyrdom.”

The video goes on to show the site of some hirabist’s “martyrdom” (or in other words “jumping off point to hell.”)

At 1:59, we are treated to an imam calling for doctors to answer the call of jihad and go to the front lines to help heal the wounded Muj.  At 2:32 he says “oh healers of the Ummah, Advance! and remain in the state of readiness to fulfill the obligations!”

Back over at Ansarnet there’s this post, at the end of the thread with the download links and descriptions:

 

I guess someone answered the call.

There is no doubt that this series of five videos has no other reason to exist other than to encourage the faithful terrorists and to draw more to their cause.  Is this not inciting violence, which is against YouTube’s terms of service?  Why then do these videos stay on you tube’s servers?

Related topic:  FreeRepublic’s You Tube Smackdown on STRIKE!

YouTube: A terrorist’s friend

Ignorance is not bliss.   We have learned that  members of the mosque attended by Nidal Hasan are
telling the media that they “have no pity” on the people murdered and wounded by Hasan, and we are
finding out that Hasan was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute’s presidential transition task force last year.  Now we are finding out that Hasan worshipped under the same radical Yemini imam as 3 of the 9-11 terrorists.  We cannot afford to ignore what is going on in the Muslim world.

There are those who do not understand what I have meant when I have told you that YouTube is supporting, aiding and abetting our enemy.   There are those who think I am overstating that.
Please let  me show you what I mean, and why we need to hold YouTube’s feet to the
fire for as long as it takes to get them to take responsibility for what they are doing.

According to an article at wired.com the terrorists use YouTube to host their videos so that they don’t have to pay for the bandwidth.   In other words, using YouTube’s free services, based in the
United States, enables the terrorists to continue broadcasting their propaganda at no cost.  How convenient!

I know you’ve seen videos at YouTube and the hirabist sympathizers who post their “Allah Akhbar!” comments there.  But what I want you to see is how these videos are then used in terrorist forums.  I
am only going to use one example, but there are many, many more.

The site we’re going to look at is alboraq.com.  It is a forum for Mujahideen, and Jihad & Reform front, and others.   Here are 3 screen caps of the home page:

If you wish to view the site yourself, click here — this is an anonymized (so they can’t see your ip address) translated (from Arabic to English) link.

On a specific
thread
at al boroq. com (again, this link is anonymized and translated) you
can see that there was a poster who shared multiple videos at YouTube.

Most of those videos have now been removed due to Terms of Use violations, but one is still live at YouTube.

The title of this video is Appeal to the Ansar al-Islam to unite with the Islamic State of Iraq. Ansar
Al-Islam was designated a terrorist organization in 2004, and the Islamic State of Iraq is an umbrella organization of a number of Iraqi insurgent groups established on October 15, 2006.  While the video
itself just appears to be an imam talking to muslims, when you understand what he’s appealing to them to do, it becomes quite chilling.  Oh – and the little symbol in the lower left of the video?  That’s As-Sahab, the media production house of al Qaeda.

For grins, I ran a google search for “youtube.com” at the alboraq.info site, and look what it yielded — LOTS of youtube videos.  (If you click the links to look for yourself, you might want to click the
cached version or use a proxy so that you are not exposing your ip
address to them.  I would also caution NOT to download items
from terrorist sites as they may have viruses.)

YouTubes terms of service state, in part:

While it might not seem fair to say you can’t show something because of what viewers theoretically might do in response, we draw the line at content that’s intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death. This means not posting videos on things like instructional bomb making, ninja assassin training, sniper attacks, videos that train terrorists, or tips on illegal street racing. Any depictions like these should be educational or documentary and shouldn’t be designed to help or encourage others to imitate them.

Yet in blantant violation of their own TOS, and in defiance of  Executive Orders, they continue to provide free video hosting services to known terrorist organizations and their followers.   This while our soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines have boots on the ground.  YouTube is committing treason, and choosing to ignore this will only result in greater encouragement for more terrorist attacks against our citizens.

Related topic:  FreeRepublic’s  You Tube Smackdown on STRIKE!

Smackdown

ID-10T sighting

From the NYSlimes Iraq blog where they say they’ll give us a look at the REAL Iraq (did anyone out there believe them?)….

Comment of the Moment

Will we find out in time that the ’surge is working’ ploy cost the US a billion a month in secret spending?”

— ed gleason

I miss Patton

UGH!

“We are putting more strains on the all-volunteer force than it was ever designed to bear,” Army Lt. Col. John Nagl, a prominent counterinsurgency expert, said at a panel discussion in Washington on Tuesday to announce the results of the survey.

Link

What has happened to our Officers? I’m just asking, because sheesh! I doubt the officers of our military during WWII hemmed and hawed about our troops being stretched “dangerously thin.” John Wayne was TOUGH. He didn’t take any guff from anyone. I have a feeling Patton would throw these guys in the brig for whining.

Eric Volz is FREE! (Off-topic post)

This is an off-topic post for this blog, but Eric is the grandson of family friends of ours. Eric was being held in prison and convicted of murder in Nicaragua despite his solid alibi. He is now FREE!!!

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Statement from the family of Eric Volz – Friday, December 21, 2007 – 8:30pm Central

“Eric Volz was released from a Nicaraguan prison hospital earlier today and will be in hiding, due to reports of threats against him.
We have reason to believe he is being followed and are taking every precaution to assure his safety.

Our family is overwhelmed by the incredible outpouring of support of Eric’s innocence over the past year. In the center of an impossible situation, we have experienced the most abundant love from friends and total strangers, and we thank you.

We are grateful to the courageous individuals in the Nicaraguan government who fought for truth and justice to prevail in this case as well to those in the US government who provided assistance in securing Eric’s release.

This ordeal has taken an incredible physical and emotional toll on all of us, especially Eric. We thank you in advance for respecting our privacy and allowing our family to recover.”

CNN Video
Associated Press story

Hey Reid, Murtha and Pelosi et al – you lose!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Iraqi Sunni and Shia Join In Historic Peace March in Baghdad!

Link to story at Gateway Pundit

And another hattip to AliVeritas!

I don’t know about you…

but I don’t trust the New York Times for my updates on the State of Iraq.

Or is Iraq still a weakly governed and very violent place where sectarian reconciliation is starkly absent?

The problem for American policymakers, troops and voters is that both these situations are simultaneously real.