First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida, did a fabulous piece Tuesday on how terrorists are using websites like YouTube and MySpace to recruit, train, and send messages to their cadre (hat tip to our friend Joe Myers). Some of the transcript was posted at FirstCoastNews.com, and the absolutely must-see video is here:
It's a video showing a room full of children sharing their dreams. They are not excited about being doctors, lawyers or teachers. Instead, the children shout, "We are the nation of Hezbollah. I shall sacrifice my life for Allah."
A group of children in training to be a mujahideen, or holy warrior.
Online there are videos of those warriors. One suicide bomber announces he is readying himself to blow up a group of American soldiers.
The article continued:
The video goes on for eight minutes and even shows the explosion. In the background are cheers from those taking the pictures.
The video is just some of the many the First Coast News I-team found on the internet from sites like Youtube and Myspace.
"I think right now we are a ticking time bomb,"
says Tom Hayden, a retired Lt. Col Marine, who is also a counter terrorism expert.Hayden says some of the videos, while disturbing, are online for a reason.
"Something like myspace, probably the most well known, popular website right now, it's even being used to transmit messages," says Hayden.
He says there are messages left on the internet for those recruited to carry out another 9/11 type attack. Hayden says those Jihad soldiers are getting messages in chat rooms and on message boards.
"There is a specific time that a message is coming. Then it's on there and then it is taken off," says Hayden.
He says hidden messages are also being sent in pictures and videos and the solider is already equipped with the code to unlock the secret. "It's being used quite frequently."
In fact, some of the videos we found and recorded were gone in a matter of days, removed by the user.
There was no trace of what was there or who the page belonged to. The experts will tell you that's a problem, because there is a new breed of terrorist out there.
"You won't see anymore like we have Mohammad Atta and that group that came," says Hayden.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation agrees, saying the Internet has created a series of new problems.
Shocking.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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The Iraq update facts were
November 22, 2006 - 12:09 ET by JDWIn the end which sector will be more effective in their cause, terrorists or news media?
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Progressive Intellectual Elites helping the terrorists
November 22, 2006 - 12:43 ET by TheTruthJDW Says: 1 through 7. . .
The self proclaimed “Progressive Intellectual Elites” that dominate the media do not ‘feel’ that the little people should know such things because they might do something really stupid and vote for the wrong person like a Republican.
In the end which sector will be more effective in their cause, terrorists or news media?
Considering that the LIBERAL media goes out of its way to help the terrorists I thought their cause was one and the same.
MSM: Arrogant intellectually dishonest LIBERALS teaching those stupid peasants how to vote by way of selective reporting, misinformation, propaganda, and out right lies.
Why must the inert be expos
November 22, 2006 - 13:01 ET by JDWWhy must the inert be exposed to Ms Sheehan let alone the US death count updates?
The NYT leaked national security, how can that effort be construed as anything other than aiding and abetting?
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
"The NYT leaked national
November 22, 2006 - 14:09 ET by Indiana Joe"The NYT leaked national security, how can that effort be construed as anything other than aiding and abetting?"
It can't. It shouldn't. Prosecution and imprisonment for ALL those responsible should have followed.
But it didn't, and it won't.
America loses in the MSM ... again.
Why did Casey win and Ford
November 22, 2006 - 17:15 ET by JDWWhy did Casey win and Ford lose?
JDW
Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it ... you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Noel
November 22, 2006 - 14:17 ET by BlondeNoel,
Wow, that's quite a video. It should be required viewing for each and every member of Congress who's behind Cut & Run. And all of the anti-war protesters.
Why is it so hard for the liberals to understand that these people are trying to kill us?
I don't know which disturbed me more, the chanting jihadi children, or the homicide bomber going merrily on his way to "blow up the Americans"...not to mention the bomb actually going off.
This country needs to wake up and get a clue. Before we have another smoking ruin in one of our cities.
Thanks for the link.
.....Political correctness
November 22, 2006 - 19:39 ET by ww thumper.....Political correctness when dealing with Islam will kill america....ww .....
ww,I'm getting an image of a
November 22, 2006 - 19:44 ET by Blondeww,
I'm getting an image of a liberal in a chair, a la Clockwork Orange, with eyes pryed open and watching this video.
Over and over again until each liberal idiot actually gets it.
Blonde Sounds like someth
November 22, 2006 - 19:46 ET by ww thumperBlonde Sounds like something they would do for sure.....Political correctness when dealing with Islam will kill america....ww .....
I didn't watch the video. I d
November 22, 2006 - 14:20 ET by Indiana JoeI didn't watch the video. I don't think my stomach could handle it.....
Ignoring all of THIS, the suicide tykes, the use of the Internet for surreptitious planning, ALL of the danger that is REALLY out there! These guys are in it for the LONG HAUL!!!
It's very, VERY frightening. When will the MSM wake up to how much they are aiding and abetting the destruction of the free world, just to pat themselves on the back for being "relevant" in the political world?
They are supposed to REPORT, not INFLUENCE, events in the news. WTF is going ON here???
REPORT, REPORT, REPORT!!! ALL the news, not just the "cherry-picked" stuff!!! Get it, guys??? When will you finally, FREAKIN' GET IT??? When you have to work for Al-Jazeera?
TOO LATE THEN, @$$HOLES!!!
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Oh my, you mean the terrori
November 22, 2006 - 15:30 ET by blogonatorOh my, you mean the terrorists are using modern technologies to recruit and spread terrorism!? Whoa, I thought they just used dirt and sticks! This article and its revelations are about 5 years behind the times. Don't underestimate the enemy. They do have the internet.
Umm, what happened to the mod
November 22, 2006 - 15:51 ET by dscottUmm, what happened to the moderators at the Youtube forum? You can't tell me that someone at Youtube doesn't check every video posting. Where is Youtube domiciled? I thought there were supposed to be laws on the US books about inciting violence, which btw is not a free speech issue. If Florida law enforcement can charge a Maryland resident with soliciting minors from his house in Maryland, then these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws. Someone needs to be arrested over there at Youtube for not complying with the law.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
I read today that they get
November 22, 2006 - 16:19 ET by blogonatorI read today that they get something like 60,000 video uploads a day and that they community does the policing by flagging content. Rather than people writing columns about it, thereby drawing attention and helping the terrorists, they should being a responsible american and report/flag the content.
leftist mantra, “give peace (terror) a chance”
November 22, 2006 - 20:02 ET by PlaceboNo surprise… of course, the folks that should view this video won’t. They are and will continue to live in denial. The mass-media remains steeped in its condescending and self-aggrandizing, leftist mantra, “give peace a chance” mode. Unfortunately, the Sheehan-ites and other leftist amoebas get the media to orgasmic pitch, while our beyond, courageous troops in Afghanistan and Iraq put their lives on the line for all with no narrow-mindedness.
Google undoubtedly sees no harm that, their new acquisition is being used for recruiting aspiring terrorists. They, as is the mass-media, are loathsome and traitorous gits!
One has to ask: why these videos are not flagged?
Two Beheadings Way Up!!!!
November 22, 2006 - 22:45 ET by acumenThanks for posting this Noel.
Great trailers for the latest American reality TV blockbuster hits; 'Giving American Voters What They Want' and 'Push 3 for Arabic'.
If you would like to obtain a personal DVD of these shows, please consider sending a contribution to Keith Ellison D - Minn, the first Muslim member of Congress. If you can't afford to make a donation, then please continue to support Democrats in 2008 in their effort to take America in a "new direction".
Two beheadings way up, declares Agha Saeed, chairman of the American Muslim Alliance who is thrilled with these new reality shows saying getting a Muslim like Ellison in Congress is a step forward for reality TV, but he emphasized that it must not be tokenism and should be part of a larger shift toward inclusion of Muslims in American politics and life. “One person is not going to make any change, unless that victory for the individual marks the beginning of a new attitude and a new approach,” Saeed said. (or if that one person is that guy in the video driving the car with the suicide bomb.
The video of these kids chant
November 23, 2006 - 16:24 ET by thefirststrikeThe video of these kids chanting is mild. Go to www.obsessionthemovie.com and watch the trailer for that movie. These kids are being indoctrinated ala the same methods used by the Nazis in WW2 to twist the minds of the Hitler Youth, and the liberals refuse to see or acknowledge it!!
But I am sure none of that ever happened until GW was in office, because as we all know he personally invented terrorism after the 2000 election. It was all an election ploy to get the American public to support a war in Iraq.
<sarcasm off>
D.J,R.