What the author is saying is that "Internet Haganah" is sniffing their noises at your efforts because they are of the opinion that shutting down the blogs runs the jihadists underground makes them harder to fight. The author poses the rhetorical question if it is better to battle jihadist blogs as you do, or just use them as a source of information as "Internet Haganah" does..
The author's summary says that even though you have managed to bring sites down, they are slowly but surely starting to come back online, so "Internet Haganah" objections are a moot point. He calls it an episode in the online war against the Jihadists.
My impression is that the author admires your efforts, but feels that that that the enemy is very adaptable. He names it an 'episode' in the online war against the Jihadists.
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Thank you.
I have argued with myself for a long time whether it is better to shut down the terrorist websites or to keep it up for intelligence value. At the end I concluded that these websites and forums are doing far more harm to US national security and that of the whole world that any "little" ( I emphasize on "little") intelligence value it can give in particular personal information about some terrorist or particular information about coming terrorist attacks. It is very rare that such information can be found on these terrorist websites/forums and require a lot of luck to catch it if of course they are being monitored 24/7 a require hundreds if not thousands of Arabic speaking people monitoring it. In the meanwhile, and until you get the little intelligence, these forums and websites are serving a the main recruiting tool for the terrorists and not only recruiting but also teach them how to conduct terrorist attacks. Therefore, we are far better off shutting it down than keeping it up.
PS: Some people who are advocating keeping these terrorist websites up are making profit from it by charing consulting fees on what is going on these websites.