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Tracking Daesh’s female cheerleaders online
AFP ^ | 6/9/15

Posted on 06/09/2015 2:50:42 AM PDT by markomalley

In a nondescript office in central London, researcher Melanie Smith stares at her laptop, scrolling down the Twitter feed of a 17-year-old British girl who ran away to join the Daesh militants.

“What we’re looking at here is when she announced her husband’s death,” said Smith, pointing to a post from a few months ago that says: “May Allah accept my husband.”

There are also lots of retweets, from screenshots of Daesh propaganda videos to news articles, particularly around the time of the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January.

“We saw her retweeting pictures of the cartoonists who had been killed and also others who were celebrating the attacks,” Smith said.

The account is one of several held by Salma Halane, a schoolgirl from the northern city of Manchester who ran away to join the Daesh terrorist group with her twin sister Zahra in July 2014.

The twins are among an estimated 550 Western women that have joined the militants who have seized swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at saudigazette.com.sa ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; jihad; rop

1 posted on 06/09/2015 2:50:43 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Lies. These are not “western” girls. They are third-world denizens who have had their cup of coffee on European soil, only to revert to their former culture. The lie here is to make this sound like it could happen to anyone, rather than the middle-eastern and African problem it is...


2 posted on 06/09/2015 3:04:43 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

At the moment, it’s a third-world problem. If Obama gets his way, it could soon be a major problem in Europe and in the United States.

If Obama joins ISIS after he is done in our White House (very unlikely, not because he objects to their evil but because he is a spineless sissy), does he still get Secret Service protection?


3 posted on 06/09/2015 5:01:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: markomalley

continuous carpet bombing, rolling thunder, napalm and a few MOAB’s ought to calm down the daesh.... level raqqa for starters...they dont jiahd too well when blood is pouring out the eardrums or they are dead. the north vietnamese said the B52’s were teh most feared weapon levied onthem... let’s bring the joy to the jiahdis...hit them as they move from one area to another and once they “control” and area make it a free fire bombing zone... have a nice day scumbags.......
BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN WITH A TRAITOR IN THE WH. HE IS ONE OF THEM...


4 posted on 06/09/2015 5:49:30 AM PDT by zzwhale
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