Posted on 10/30/2007 2:46:16 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
Thomas X. Hammes is a retired Marine colonel. He is the author of a seminal book on conducting counter-insurgency warfare. The work is called "The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century." Recently, he made an intriguing proposal on how to battle jihadists on the Internet (a virtual agora where Islamist militants appear to consort with alarming frequency). This is what he said:
"For the last few years, individuals and private organizations that are pro-Israeli have been in a daily fight to shut down or deface anti-Israeli Web sites. Unofficial and informal, this Internet Hagana has had considerable success. They cannot shut down all hostile sites because they keep popping up, but at least they have not completely ceded the field to the Internet jihadists.
"While we have a few Americans who take similar action... why don't we encourage Americans/western 'geeks' to go after these Web sites? Exploit them, disrupt them, shut them down, post false information, and create distrust. This will not be a government-controlled or directed effort...I am suggesting a leaderless effort that allows Americans to use their creativity, technological skills, and the rabid dedication some people will apply to such a project. The mufsidoon are coming after all American citizens; this is a way some Americans can fight back.
"Some will object that such actions will simply encourage Islamists to attack American sites. But our sites — government and private — are already subject to tens of thousands of attacks per day....
It's easy for terrorists to start a Web site. All they need do is contact an Internet service provider or "host" offering access to the World Wide Web. If they want to include a blog for interactive communication, there are a host of companies offering free software....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
don’t we want them up for intel?
If you read the entire article, he addresses that. See the link.
Makes sense to me. I don’t have the technical know-how to do it, but plenty of people do.
As for the counterargument, that we should leave them up so the intelligence agencies can monitor them, I think that’s less than sensible.
In the first place, they are recruiting, spreading hate, and doing a lot of damage while the FBI “monitors” them. In return, the FBI gets a few names to add to their lists, but they can’t usually do anything. So the damage is probably worse than the indirect benefits.
In the second place, there will still be more than enough sites to monitor, and more names to gather than they can possibly deal with—especially since there is not much will in this country to deal with it.
IN keeping with the other thread.
War, doom, gloom and crushing suffocation to the Jihadis.
What happened to the other thread? I assume you’re referring to the one with the threat to take down FR. That was very odd!
I'm sure if there are some islamonazi codeslingers, they would rather be out fu@king some goats.
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PING to you—Hmmmm, sound familiar?
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