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.

Boot Murtha

This picture just begged for a photoshop job – and I couldn’t resist….

How the press covered Iraq in 2007

The Portrait from Iraq – How the Press Has Covered Events on the Ground

By Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Through the first 10 months of the year, the portrait of Iraq that Americans have received from the news media has in considerable measure been a grim one. Roughly half of the reporting has consisted of accounts of daily violence. And stories that explicitly assessed the direction of the war have tended toward pessimism, according to a new study of press coverage of events on the ground in Iraq from January through October of 2007.

In what Defense Department statistics show to be the deadliest year so far for U.S. forces in Iraq, journalists have responded to the challenge of covering the continuing violence by keeping many of the accounts of these attacks brief and limiting the interpretation they contain.

…or they make stuff up.

A friend’s hubby comes home today!

Welcome home from your 5 month deployment!  I hope you guys have a GREAT Christmas together!