As many as 70,000 blogs have been shut down as the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation targets online terrorism. The heads of BurstNet technologies, which was behind the shutdown, say they were told by FBI agents that the blogs included links to terrorist material.
Among the terrorist materials taken offline were bomb-making instructions and a list of Americans targeted for assassination, BurstNet said. The terrorist material may have been linked to the pro-terror online magazine Inspire, which is connected to Al-Qaeda.
Representatives of BurstNet said the material was “potentially inciting dangerous activities.”
One speaker, Brian Jenkins of the RAND Corp., said online terrorist recruiting has largely been a failure, with about 15 Americans recruited to terrorism each year.
However, the FBI recently warned that domestic terrorism is among the foremost threats facing America. FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Obama administration that “home grown and lone-wolf extremists” are as great a potential danger as Al-Qaeda and other international terrorist networks.
"Among the terrorist materials"? What else was "among" those shut down? The Obama Administration's definition of domestic terrorism includes tea party, right wing Christians, veterans!
Friday, July 23, 2010
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