Posted on 08/24/2016 10:23:14 PM PDT by Perseverando
Back in April 2016, the New York Times published an article highlighting a number of Facebook pages in the Middle East being used to sell U.S. military equipment.
A terrorist hoping to buy an antiaircraft weapon in recent years needed to look no further than Facebook, which has been hosting sprawling online arms bazaars, offering weapons ranging from handguns and grenades to heavy machine guns and guided missiles.
The Facebook posts suggest evidence of large-scale efforts to sell military weapons coveted by terrorists and militants. The weapons include many distributed by the United States to security forces and their proxies in the Middle East. These online bazaars, which violate Facebook’s recent ban on the private sales of weapons, have been appearing in regions where the Islamic State has its strongest presence.
Many of the Facebook pages have subsequently been shut down, as selling stolen U.S. military equipment to terrorist organizations technically violates Facebook's user policies. But the remnants remain...like the Facebook post below showing a row of kids shooting increasingly lower caliber weapons culminating with a young man shooting a sling-shot...adorable!
At the same time the New York Times was reporting on the Facebook sales of U.S. military weapons, a lobbying group in London known as Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), was scouring through Department of Defense records to ascertain exactly how many weapons had been given to Iraqi and Afghani troops by the U.S. military. With a string of Freedom of Information Act requests that began last year, researchers at AOAV pooled 14 years’ worth of Pentagon contract information related to rifles, pistols, machine guns and their associated attachments and ammunition, both for American troops and for their partners and proxies.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
US -> Tripoli -> Benghazi -> Syria -> ISIS -> Facebook
But let a soldier fail to return ammo and BANG
2007 was Bush’s fault.
F&F via Foggy Bottom...and yet I have to wait ten days and fill out a DOJ for for a defunct cap gun.
I currently run a Tor service. I had been using a variable IPN, but I can set a static IPN from any of about 30 countries.
Some of us are wondering if the variable IPN is what flagged us and had FB look into it further and saw we were using nicknames instead of our real-names.
Again though, my question is, are they only targeting westerners for this verification of identification?
It is doubtful that most folks living in the middle-east hell hole can or would provide legitimate identification to FaceBook.
Placemark.
Can I use "materially misstated" if I'm a bit late on my PG&E bill?
“Lapse in accountability” = jail for certain people. Laugh it off if your a dem in power.
For other people, "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
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