There was a Internet terrorist guru called "Irhabi 007" or "Terrorist 007". The British government was tracking him for 2 years and they could not get him, finally they were able to get not by getting his IP address but by arresting 2 other terrorists who knew him.
Shutting down the terrorist websites and forums will make the terrorists deaf, blind, and mute and that is vastly more beneficial than any little information we can get from them on the internet.
You may be correct. Although, it seems like the government would have moved to shut down these sites already (surely they’d find sufficient cause to do so, “freedom of speech” notwithstanding), rather than just monitoring the sites, if they thought that they do more harm than good.
But yeah, it may be better to cut off one of their major forms of communication.
How irhabi007/Terrorist007/Younis Tsouli was tracked and caught; convicted and in prison:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603333/posts
>I have been on these websites and forums they are doing far more damage and recruiting more terrorists <
Serious question. Do they converse in English?