YouTube: A terrorist's friend

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[StarCMC]

Ignorance is not bliss.  We have learned that  members of the mosque attended by Nidal Hasan are telling the media that they "have no pity" on the people murdered and wounded by Hasan, and we are finding out that Hasan was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.  Now we are finding out that Hasan worshipped under the same radical Yemini imam as 3 of the 9-11 terrorists.  We cannot afford to ignore what is going on in the Muslim world.  

There are those who do not understand what I have meant when I have told you that YouTube is supporting, aiding and abetting our enemy.  There are those who think I am overstating that.  Please let me show you what I mean, and why we need to hold YouTube's feet to the fire for as long as it takes to get them to take responsibility for what they are doing.

According to an article at wired.com (which I would post except that they are blocked due to copyright concerns,) the terrorists use YouTube to host their videos so that they don't have to pay for the bandwidth.  In other words, using YouTube's free services, based in the United States, enables the terrorists to continue broadcasting their propaganda at no cost.  How convenient!

I know you've seen videos at YouTube and the hirabist sympathizers who post their "Allah Akhbar!" comments there.  But what I want you to see is how these videos are then used in terrorist forums.  I am only going to use one example, but there are many, many more.

The site we're going to look at is alboraq.com.  It is a forum for Mujahideen, and Jihad & Reform front, and others.  Here are 3 screen caps of the home page:  









If you wish to view the site yourself, click here -- this is an anonymized (so they can't see your ip address) translated (from Arabic to English) link.  







On a specific thread at al boroq. com (again, this link is anonymized and translated) you can see that there was a poster who shared multiple videos at YouTube.  










     Most of those videos have now been removed due to Terms of Use violations, but one is still live at YouTube.  

     

The title of this video is Appeal to the Ansar al-Islam to unite with the Islamic State of Iraq.  Ansar Al-Islam was designated a terrorist organization in 2004, and the Islamic State of Iraq is an umbrella organization of a number of Iraqi insurgent groups established on October 15, 2006.  While the video itself just appears to be an imam talking to muslims, when you understand what he's appealing to them to do, it becomes quite chilling.  Oh - and the little symbol in the lower left of the video?  That's As-Sahab, the media production house of al Qaeda.  



For grins, I ran a google search for "youtube.com" at the alboraq.info site, and look what it yielded -- LOTS of youtube videos.  (If you click the links to look for yourself, you might want to click the cached version or use a proxy so that you are not exposing your ip address to them.  I would also caution NOT to download items from terrorist sites as they may have viruses.)


YouTubes terms of service state, in part:

While it might not seem fair to say you can’t show something because of what viewers theoretically might do in response, we draw the line at content that’s intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death. This means not posting videos on things like instructional bomb making, ninja assassin training, sniper attacks, videos that train terrorists, or tips on illegal street racing. Any depictions like these should be educational or documentary and shouldn’t be designed to help or encourage others to imitate them.

Yet in blantant violation of their own TOS, and in defiance of  Executive Orders, they continue to provide free video hosting services to known terrorist organizations and their followers.  This while our soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines have boots on the ground.  YouTube is committing treason, and choosing to ignore this will only result in greater encouragement for more terrorist attacks against our citizens.  


Related topic:  FreeRepublic's You Tube Smackdown on STRIKE!

[Global2010]

It is almost like the shell game.

The War is the Obama adminastration vs. Fox news media.

But the truth is the war is brewing under the other shell.

And Obama is a lousy hustler meaning not good at it.

[StarCMC]

Will do!

[amom]

Thanks!

[SERKIT]

Hasan was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.

Is this why Slim Shady doesn't want anyone to 'jump to conclusions'? Will some of those conclusions jump to him?

[STD]

Let's put together a list of imams, their addresses and the mosques where we can all attend prayers!

I want to get to know this god who has such power and might that he can order his followers to murder by the busload.

Looting, taking slaves and killing those people, I don't like from Israel.

I heard somewhere that they gather up to 5 times per day to chant away! Can we get schedules printed up, so every American can go down and get to know this powerful god. We can watch them at the same time to figure out if their bad guys too!

[luvie]

Frightening!

Thanks for the information, Star! It is very valuable!

[Jo Nuvark]

Awesome research. Well defined.
Thank you for the hard work.

May God help our nation.

In Jesus name!!!

[nutmeg]

ping

[Cacique]

btt

[Katarina]

Awesome job you have done, thank you so much.

[trooprally]

DC Chapter Master Ping List

StarCMC has put together another great, informative thread.

Also, RaceBannon has another interesting thread HERE showing some AH in New York City praising the murders.

[StarCMC]

Thanks for that link. Unbelievable.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Let’s see, what I’m supposed to gather from all this fontwork is that You Tube is not doing as good a job of policing terrorist videos as it is at policing other content contrary to its policies?

I believe You Tube’s system is complaint driven. If nobody complains, the video stays up.

[LadyRaven]

“I believe You Tube’s system is complaint driven. If nobody complains, the video stays up.”

After 18+ months of the FR YouTube Smackdown project - what we “know” - for a fact - is that YouTube does what they pretty much damn well please including ignoring complaints, daily (not weekly/monthly/haphazardly, but daily) flagging, their own worthless terms of use, and, the law.

One of many, many, examples - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=080898D23359FD16

[StarCMC]

‘Tis oh so true.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I hope this has a web site all of its own... I would not trust a critique of You Tube to stay up on You Tube. Neither have I heard squat about any Smackdown Project; it ought to be better known here on FR (which is why the shout out to Jim Rob).

Are the troublesome videos narrated in Arabic? This might be a problem for English speaking moderators.

[StarCMC]

Hey HiTech! We do have several website, the main one is Quoth The Raven. We've been active here on FR with the Smackdown for 19+ Months. We had 1 thread per month and posted a new list to "smack" every day. Here's the most recent: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2353251/posts. A lot of the videos are in Arabic without translation. And yes, it might be a problem, but when the title of the video is blatant, and there are terrorist symbols such as Al Qaeda flags and such, it should be fairly obvious that the video needs to be removed. :-/