Posted on 08/02/2007 12:11:14 PM PDT by Contentions
Thomas X. Hammes is a retired Marine colonel and the author of a well-regarded work on modern war: The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. He is also a fellow participant in an online discussion forum on military affairs called the Warlord Loop. I was so taken with one of his recent postings on how to battle jihadists on the Internet (a major venue for Islamist organizing and proselytizing) that I asked him if he would adapt it for contentions readers. He kindly agreed. Here it is:
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Not saying that I do, but if I had a friend who was interested in such a project, The first step would being able to receive domain names and or IP addresses to be targeted. In this way initial research could be farmed out to people that did not have the skills to perform the “hack”. Are there any intelligence lists out there with such info?
Most of the geeks I know are on the side of the Jihadis.
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They are one-worlder, John Lennonite, “Imagine” types, and think the Jihadis can be reasoned with and that the US response to the Jihad is irrational.
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