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| Terror Networks | |
| FBI Program Results in Arrest, Execution of Islamic State Computer Experts | |
| 2017-01-04 | |
| [NYT - Obama regime pat on the back piece] An FBI program is making it possible for U.S. military drones to apprehend and kill computer specialists, including social media experts, hackers, recruiters, and propagandists working for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). As a result of the FBI joining forces with the U.S. military, the U.S. government has killed nearly a dozen Islamic State-linked computer experts and apprehended nearly 100, reports The New York Times (NYT), citing former and current U.S. officials. In explaining how the FBI program works, the Times reports that the agency uses its ability to sift through the information of thousands of ISIS sympathizers on social media and pinpoint individuals who have been inspired to carry out terrorist attacks. The FBI does that? Not NSA? The agency then shares its findings with the U.S. military, a move that has reportedly resulted in the death and apprehension of many jihadists. 'Shares with' whom? Military liaison at FBI Main used to consist of one of old duffer. Perhaps the section has expanded. I suspect this effort takes another routing. In the last two years, the FBI effort has yielded the arrests of an estimated 100 people affiliated with an ISIS cell of computer specialists, identified as "the Legion." U.S. and allied forces have also killed nearly a dozen of the most important members of the Legion, including its leader, influential ISIS hacker and recruiter Junaid Hussain.
Meanwhile, the newspaper identifies the program as a "secretive campaign that has largely silenced a powerful voice that led to a surge of counterterrorism activity across the United States in 2015 as young men and women came under the influence of its propaganda." Despite the campaign’s successes in taking out and arresting ISIS social media experts one by one, the U.S. military, in addition to intelligence and law enforcement officials, conceded that ISIS still maintains a sophisticated social media arm capable of inspiring deadly attacks like those that took place in San Bernardino, CA, and in Orlando, FL. The ISIS social media arm "remains a potent foe suspected of maintaining clandestine cells in Europe," reports NYT. Nevertheless, U.S. officials "point to the coordinated effort against the Legion as evidence of the success the United States has had in reducing the Islamic State’s ability to direct, enable or inspire attacks against the West." The threat posed by the Legion had been initially considered a problem for law enforcement, rather than the military. Gently worded, but standard Bureau 'rice bowl' thinking. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 "Can anyone take comfort in these numbers?" I'd say Leftists, Rex, but that's probably not true. 70's not nearly enough to satisfy them. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-01-04 20:12 |
| #5 hmmm yes well the number of civilians killed within the US as a result of Islamist terror stands at close to 70. Can anyone take comfort in these numbers? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2017-01-04 20:04 |
| #4 the Times reports that the agency uses its ability to sift through the information of thousands of ISIS sympathizers on social media and pinpoint individuals who have been inspired to carry out terrorist attacks. "Then we 'unfriend' them." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-04 14:43 |
| #3 Now perhaps they can get Customs and Immigration on board. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-01-04 11:00 |
| #2 Well, there were those Chechen Tsarnaev brothers who slipped through the tightening FBI dragnet. The Feebs are working to remedy this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-01-04 10:48 |
| #1 Sometimes the program works, sometimes the cows are milked a bit too long. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-04 08:22 |