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ISIS Has Help Desk for Terrorists Staffed Around the Clock
NBC ^ | 11/16/15 | Josh Meyer

Posted on 11/16/2015 5:17:19 PM PST by markomalley

NBC News has learned that ISIS is using a web-savvy new tactic to expand its global operational footprint -- a 24-hour Jihadi Help Desk to help its foot soldiers spread its message worldwide, recruit followers and launch more attacks on foreign soil.

Counterterrorism analysts affiliated with the U.S. Army tell NBC News that the ISIS help desk, manned by a half-dozen senior operatives around the clock, was established with the express purpose of helping would-be jihadists use encryption and other secure communications in order to evade detection by law enforcement and intelligence authorities.

The relatively new development -- which law enforcement and intel officials say has ramped up over the past year -- is alarming because it allows potentially thousands of ISIS followers to move about and plan operations without any hint of activity showing up in their massive collection of signals intelligence.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; isishelpdesk; isisrecruitment
A help desk, huh?

I wonder what their SLAs are?

1 posted on 11/16/2015 5:17:19 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Marca uno por Español.


2 posted on 11/16/2015 5:20:49 PM PST by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: markomalley

Organizing For America?


3 posted on 11/16/2015 5:21:40 PM PST by digger48
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To: markomalley

I wonder who monitors the queues?

As for the SLA guidelines, I also wonder what the reward/punishment system is?


4 posted on 11/16/2015 5:22:07 PM PST by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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To: markomalley

“Good afternoon you have reached ISIS, please hold” hopefully they have better elevator music than Time Warner Cable when you call them


5 posted on 11/16/2015 5:24:05 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: markomalley

I hope the Spetsnaz crash their party.


6 posted on 11/16/2015 5:24:17 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: markomalley

“Hello, your call is very important to us.
Please check if your suicide belt is plugged in.
Please turn it off and back on.
Please hold...”


7 posted on 11/16/2015 5:28:36 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

OMG MY RIBS!!! They don’t have music but prayer calls and the sounds of bombs going off


8 posted on 11/16/2015 5:31:47 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: mrsmith

ROFL ROFL Wow freepers on a roll ROFL


9 posted on 11/16/2015 5:32:35 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: markomalley

I wonder if Clock Boy Achmed called the Help Desk?


10 posted on 11/16/2015 5:33:09 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: markomalley

Dial 1 for Arabic, 2 for Farsi, 3 for Pashtun, 4 for Uighur.


11 posted on 11/16/2015 5:52:28 PM PST by AU72
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To: markomalley

May have to call them on Thanksgiving. The Butterball hotline is always jammed.


12 posted on 11/16/2015 6:08:54 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: markomalley

Is it staffed in Mumbai?


13 posted on 11/16/2015 6:39:36 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: markomalley

14 posted on 11/16/2015 6:48:37 PM PST by moovova
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To: markomalley

ISIS uses ITIL!?


15 posted on 11/16/2015 7:10:03 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives
ISIS uses ITIL!?

Wonder what their ticketing system is? 'Suicide Now!' or 'Bloody Footprints'?

16 posted on 11/16/2015 7:15:18 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

The sad thing is the terror help desk is probably operated better than all the ObamaCare websites...


17 posted on 11/17/2015 3:30:38 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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