Posted on 12/05/2011 5:27:07 PM PST by Cindy
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homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-jihadist-use-social-media-how-prevent-terrorism-and-preserve-innovation
Subcommittee Hearing: Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence | 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Dec 6, 2011 2:00pm
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled "Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation." The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.
Witnesses Mr. Evan F. Kohlmann Flashpoint Global Partners
Mr. William McCants Analyst Analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses
Mr. Andrew Aaron Weisburd Director Society for Internet Research
Mr. Brian Michael Jenkins Senior Advisor to the RAND President RAND Corporation
Funny that Facebook and Google won’t be there, considering that Zuckerberg and whatsisname from Google briefed Obama on Arab Spring, and both companies had people in Egypt at the time.
Thanks for the heads up, this is one to watch.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2800230/posts
“Social Networks & The Online Jihad”
World Threats.com ^ | October 26, 2011 | Posted by Candice Lanier
Posted on October 31, 2011 1:38:14 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “In July, the British government warned that Al Qaeda’s exploitation of social networking websites is on the rise.”
SNIPPET: “The massive and multifarious network of websites and social media has presented a challenge to authorities in trying to combat it. Additionally, civil liberty concerns have conflicted with government efforts to spy on communications.
Reducing terrorist activity on social media sites has been particularly difficult because users have adopted new forms of communication to conform with the new formats. Many Arabic speakers on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other sites use Arabizi, a form of colloquial Arabic written in the Latin alphabet and numbers. This allows the use of a standard English-language keyboard for typing messages. There exists, however, no standard version of Arabizi. It varies from country to country, even among groups within countries and is affected by differences in dialect.”
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Whither the jihadi forums?
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | August 1, 2011 | n/a
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Top Arabic Jihadi forums, 05 June 2011
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | June 4, 2011 | n/a
Posted on June 4, 2011 4:30:34 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Note: PWP stands for PassWord-Protected, meaning that a login is required to view - let alone participate in - discussions. Since some in the audience don’t understand the significance of this, allow me to spell it out: if only members can read the forum, then anyone observed reading the forum is a member. They have zero deniability (they couldn’t have accidentally “wandered into” the site), and they had to make the effort to join (an expression of intent).
While the goal here is to present a range of sites, the fact is that the jihadis themselves have largely coalesced at Shmukh and Ansar Arabic.”
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
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“Top jihadi forum list updated”
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | April 3, 2011 | n/a
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“Top Jihadi Forums of 03 April, 2011”
internet-haganah.com/harchives/007253.html
Posted April 3, 2011
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“Top jihadi forum list updated”
SNIPPET: “More precisely, the list has once again shrunk to less than 10.”
internet-haganah.com/harchives/007260.html
Posted April 3, 2011
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Top Ten Jihadi Forums, as of 14 February, 2011
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | February 14, 2011 | n/a
Posted on February 14, 2011 2:16:36 PM PST by Cindy
“TOP TEN JIHADI FORUMS, AS OF 14 FEBRUARY, 2011”
SNIPPET: “Assembled with the help of my dear brothers in Fateh al-Islam (and their minders in the Syrian intelligence service). The [PWP] notation indicates the site is password protected. There’s nothing worse than the mournful wailing of analysts, graduate students, and reporters who find themselves locked out of their favorite forum. Join early, join often, save important discussions as you find them, try not to say anything too embarrassing, and if you’re a civilian, make some effort to let your friendly neighborhood secret police know that you’re a good guy, not a bad guy, so they don’t have to waste time and money investigating you. Forums are not just websites, they are battlefields, and spectators are not particularly welcome by any of the combatants.”
(Excerpt) Read more at internet-haganah.com ...
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Top “Ten” List Updated
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | October 17, 2010 | n/a
Posted on October 18, 2010 12:40:40 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET - Quote: 17 October 2010
TOP “TEN” LIST UPDATED There are only 7 sites listed, of which one, at-Tahadi has been “closed for repairs” for a couple of weeks.
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17 October 2010
“TOP “TEN” JIHADI FORUMS 17 OCTOBER 2010”
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Top Ten Jihadi Forums, 04 September 2010
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | September 4, 2010 | n/a
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Top Ten Jihadi Forums, 19 July 2010
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“Top Ten List 2010-07-06”
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006893.html
05 July 2010
“TOP TEN LOCATIONS OF AL-FALOJA FORUM READERS”
SNIPPET: “Given that the adminstrators of the al-Faloja forum are already convinced that they have been somehow infiltrated or compromised, there seems little harm done in providing a glimpse of the current geographic distribution of the non-proxy using readers of the site.”
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“Top Ten Jihadi Forums 11 April 2010”
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“’TOP TEN’ LIST OF JIHADI FORUMS FOR 03 AUGUST 2009”
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com ^ | August 3, 2009 | n/a
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17 October 2010
“WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A “REAL TERRORIST” AND AN “ASPIRING TERRORIST”?”
SNIPPET: “A: Access to explosives.
The good news is that explosives can be hard to come by, but that doesn’t keep the brothers from dreaming of the day when they can lay hands on some.”
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3 posted on February 14, 2011 2:24:15 PM PST by Cindy
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SNIPPET: “There is probably something close to consensus about the top four or five. After that things get a little arbitrary and capricious. Sites that other people would probably have listed, but that I have not, include but are not limited to:”
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Thanks for all your hard work Cindy.
Thanks for this gem too.
“WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A “REAL TERRORIST” AND AN “ASPIRING TERRORIST”?”
SNIPPET: “A: Access to explosives.
The Occupy movement has been aggressively pushing for social media involvement to spread their radical and oftentimes violent messages.
It seems that many conservatives in America are social media phobic, but while they ignore this communication medium, the Left is able to reach out to America’s youth and brainwash them to supporting their causes.
I wish Free Republic would be more acceptable to posting links to Facebook, Twitter, Blog, and G+ profiles and pages that support conservative causes.
It’s a battle to win the minds and hearts of future voters, and by ignoring social medium, we do so at our own peril.
Rep. King has held many hearings.
It could be there will be more hearings regarding Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Archive.org/Internet Archive.
You’re welcome DBrow.
You’re welcome Tet68.
The left, middle and the right do use social media.
The jihadis, other terrorists and criminals do use the internet in general, and social media networks, specifically.
That is a credible assertion. My point is who uses social media more? And I believe it is the Left. It seems that even the IT schools are filled with loonie left professors who brainwash their students with mandatory assignments on liberal IT heroes. Many of the Techie websites also lean left, with their own user commentary typical of liberal point-of-views. This Leftie infestation is propped up by the interconnectedness of social media providing the means for liberal networking and messaging. Aggressively promoting conservative websites, like Free Republic, on social media will help spread our message because they will be exposed to insightful conservative analysis and gossip to titillate the political senses. Those who control the message will win the battle.
I don’t know that the left uses social media more Mr. Brown.
I’m on twitter and I see more good folks there than bad ones.
I agree with you that conservatives need to be more agressive in promoting
web sites that are factual, infomative and the commentaries/pundits post informed opinions.
Anyway, this thread here is my latest thread to follow online jihad/real world jihad, terrorism, terrorists, extremists, etc.
I also appreciate your post that illuminates the use of social media by terrorists. When the recent New York terrorist was arrested for making a bomb, I followed his fingerprints from his blogs to his Twitter account to his Youtube channel to his messages on other websites around the world. Thankfully, we have capable law enforcement entities who can track these jihadists down to their lairs and make arrests before they cause fear and violence for us here in America. The more we can expose this evil to the sunlight, the better chance we can rid this world of this ideological disease.
“Best Ways to Detect Advanced Threats Once They Invade
If attackers want to get in, it’s likely they will find a way. Security experts offer advice on how to detect the intrusion.”
Dec 05, 2011 | 06:22 PM
By Robert Lemos, Contributing Editor
NOTE: The following text is a quote:
homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-jihadist-use-social-media-how-prevent-terrorism-and-preserve-innovation
Subcommittee Hearing: Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence | 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Dec 6, 2011 2:00pm
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled “Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation.” The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.
Opening Statements
Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA), Subcommittee Chairman
[full text of opening statement]
Witnesses
Mr. William McCants
Analyst
Analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses
[full text of testimony]
Mr. Andrew Aaron Weisburd
Director
Society for Internet Research
[full text of testimony]
Mr. Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Advisor to the RAND President
RAND Corporation
[full text of testimony]
ADDING links to the testimonies and opening statements:
QUOTE:
homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-jihadist-use-social-media-how-prevent-terrorism-and-preserve-innovation
Subcommittee Hearing: Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence | 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 | Dec 6, 2011 2:00pm
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled “Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation.” The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.
Opening Statements
Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA), Subcommittee Chairman
homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/12-06-11%20Meehan%20Open.pdf
Witnesses
Mr. William McCants
Analyst
Analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses
homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20McCants.pdf
Mr. Andrew Aaron Weisburd
Director
Society for Internet Research
homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Weisburd%20testimony.pdf
Mr. Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Advisor to the RAND President
RAND Corporation
homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20Jenkins%20.pdf
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5890.htm
Inquiry & Analysis Series Report No.769
“YouTube – The Primary and Rapidly Expanding Online Jihadi Base, Part VI: Following Deaths of Bin Laden and Al-Awlaki, Jihadi Groups Continue To Post Thousands of Videos, Provide Cyber Jihad Tools on YouTube; The Case of ‘Muslims Against Crusades’”
By: Steven Stalinsky*
December 6, 2011
SNIPPET: “Introduction
Through our monitoring of jihadi use of YouTube over the past two years,[1] we have determined that YouTube has emerged as one of the leading websites for online jihad. It has replaced – and surpassed – websites administered by the jihadis themselves, which were previously the leaders in online jihadi efforts.”
www.youtube.com/user/unitedummahHD
www.youtube.com/user/unitedummahHD?feature=watch#p/a/u/0/0AIywZqHjIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4MxM14tYw&feature=related
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For The Record - The IPT Blog
Awlaki’s Father Promotes Son’s Speeches
by IPT News • Dec 6, 2011 at 3:52 pm
SNIPPET: “Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of al-Qaida ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki, has released a YouTube video encouraging others to follow his deceased son’s terrorist teachings. The video was released through the YouTube channel of British Islamist group United Ummah, the latest reincarnation of the recently banned organization Muslims Against Crusades.”
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http://www.meforum.org/3123/asad-abukahlil-angry-arab
Research and Writing
The ‘Angry Arab’ Goes Mad
by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene
FrontPageMagazine.com
December 8, 2011
As’ad AbuKahlil—a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus—spoke last month at a day-long “teach-in” at the University of California, Berkeley titled, “Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring.” It consisted of a number of “workshop sessions” at the Valley Life Sciences Building, followed by a “plenary session” at the Multicultural Center, and was co-sponsored by the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Berkeley Muslim Students Association PAC, the International Socialist Organization, and the Syrian American Council.
AbuKhalil’s workshop on “The U.S. and the Arab Uprising” was held in a tiny, hot, windowless room filled with students wearing hijabs and keffiyehs. Immediately visible to all who entered was a sign leaning against the black board that set the anti-American atmosphere:
Victory to the Arab Revolutions!
U.S. Out of the Middle East!
AbuKhalil, author of the “Angry Arab” blog, was introduced as “the most influential Arab blogger in English and Arabic.” Wasting no time living up to his self-caricature, he presented the demise of Israel as his life’s work, referred repeatedly to the “usurping Zionist entity,” and characterized the U.S. as the source of all that ails the Arab world. For instance:
Obama and Hillary always pat themselves on the back and say they are on the side of the Arab people. . . . They are on the side of counter-revolution. . . . There is a tyrannical order in the Arab world . . . in place since 1979 . . . the year Egypt was forced by the United States to sign a peace treaty with Israel. A dictator Anwar Sadat was conveniently armed, an unrepentant anti-Semite and Nazi.
He did not explain the origin of these descriptions of Sadat, but no one questioned him or objected.
AbuKhalil was exultant over the latest bombing of the gas pipeline from Egypt to Israel, a signal to him that the U.S. is no longer “all-powerful”:
The United States wants to take our agency from us, they want to convince us, as Israel has tried to do all these decades, that we are incapable of changing the situation, the enemy is too strong . . . invincible.
Displaying a lust for violence, AbuKhalil boasted:
I am in favor of chaos because I’m really enjoying what’s happening in Egypt, especially what’s happening against Israel [the attack on the Israeli embassy]. I’ve played these scenes on YouTube more times than I’ve played songs.
The audience laughed in agreement as he spoke.
AbuKhalil made his hatred of Israel clear in his description of hearing Israeli soldiers screaming—so he claimed—as they retreated from Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon in 2006. “It shows you if Arabs are allowed freedom to fight Israel, this is the kind of Palestine you will see,” he bragged.
More shocking was his blithe dismissal of Hamas’s constant barrage of rockets into southern Israel, which he called, “those firecrackers from Hamas [fired] at a town in occupied Palestine.” He then belittled the suffering the bombardment has caused:
You will notice there were like ten injured and sometimes they had shocks . . . they actually list the injured; they [listed] those whose feelings were hurt; those who were startled. This war crimes thing is for victimhood reputation.
Again, the audience laughed heartily.
Later, a member of the audience challenged him by asking about the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) report showing that Iran’s nuclear program has military dimensions. AbuKhalil dodged the question by raising Israel’s alleged nuclear program and what he called the “racist content of the notion that nuclear weapons are dangerous in the hands of Muslims, but safe in the hands of Christians and Jews.” He apparently has no worries about the Iranian regime’s threat to wipe Israel off the map, its constant threat to its neighbors, or the apocalyptic nature of the mullah’s theology; only Israel can threaten peace in the region.
During the plenary session that followed, AbuKhalil said he was angered that the work of the Canadian-Muslim feminist and author Irshad Manji, and “other Islam-haters” has been translated into Arabic. Yet he describes himself as “secular” and a “feminist”—under the right circumstances, one supposes, meaning that Western liberal concepts don’t apply to those who criticize Islam.
He also condemned the translation into Arabic of a tract on non-violence aimed at the Arab uprisings. “Very boring,” he declared:
The United States wanted the revolution to be non-violent. They started the myth in the New York Times. It’s not. It’s a violent struggle by Arabs. And please, I am not making an apology. It’s justifiable. They want to bring down these regimes in any way possible.
Whether glorifying violence, exalting in the death and misery of Israelis, or blaming the U.S. for the ills of the Arab world, AbuKhalil lived up to his moniker as an “angry Arab.” Presumably, he brings the same radicalism to the classroom, which is a frightening prospect for his students. When anger replaces reason, there’s little hope for an education, no matter how many “teach-ins” universities offer.
Please email your concerns and comments to California State University, Stanislaus, Political Science and Public Administration (LRiddell@csustan.edu).
Berkeley resident Rima Greene co-wrote this article with Cinnamon Stillwell, the West Coast Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. Stillwell can be reached at stillwell@meforum.org.
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