And if you don’t mind my adding, JV, there’s a site called “Internet Hanagah” that’s been exposing jihadi sites for several years, in fact that’s it’s entire raison d’etre. I haven’t checked it recently but there was a time when the owner “Adam” and his correspondents and contributors were identifying, categorizing, monitoring, and tracking 4 or 5 new jihadi sites every week.
Unlike our own JV, Internet Hanagah has not been big into translations, but more the identification and tracing of jihadi sites to their operators and/or web hosting sites. There was at least a tacit approval of site “takedowns”, until “Adam” apparently ran into some kind of confrontation with federal agents which he loosely documented right there on Internet Hanagah.
JV, you and I have discussed briefly before, but it looks like they have swung to the view of the feds and now just monitor without the previous enthusiasm for takedowns.
Still you have done a great job here JV and I wish you could hook up with MEMRI or IH or someone and do weekly or semimonthly exposes of the hate site. I’d like to see translations such as you’ve done here, but then back to the old IH model of “whoops, looks like it’s disappeared this week.”
If the feds are indeed monitoring and translating,k they do the American public absolutely no good whatsoever by classifying the translations and keeping the jihadi rhetoric hidden from us. I think it’s important that Americans and all people of good will be informed about what the jihadis are saying this week or this month.
Agree that if they insist on monitoring these terrorist forums they must show the terrorist rhetoric to the public, the terrorists are very much aware they are being monitored, they say it all the time and they are not concerned about it.