[harwood]

These sites will re-emerge with a new host shortly. The effort to kill them is futile. I, for one, feel its best to leave them be. There is information to be gathered from them.

[jveritas]

And we keep going after the new Internet Providers who are hosting them to shut it down.

Many have a "Hollywood View" of how spying on the enemy should be, in real life it is much more difficult than it appears in a Hollywood spy movie. Shutting the terrorists websites and forum is the most effective way to badly damage the enemy communications.

[DesertPoc]

These sites ARE being monitored by the ones that want to know. People are going to communicate and if the sites are shutdown we will not know when/if/how/who they will attack.
I agree with Government... on this topic.

[Antoninus]

These sites will re-emerge with a new host shortly. The effort to kill them is futile. I, for one, feel its best to leave them be. There is information to be gathered from them.

No doubt they will pop up again somewhere else. But harassing their service providers is a good way to disrupt them unexpectedly. Time they have to spend looking for another provider is less time they'll have to plan attacks.