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Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis (sky.com)
itwbennett writes: Sky News reports that it was handed a USB stick with 'tens of thousands of documents' detailing phone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State members by 'a disillusioned convert' to Islamic State. 'One of the files marked 'Martyrs' detailed a brigade manned entirely by fighters who wanted to carry out suicide attacks and were trained to do so,' according to Sky News. CSO Online's Steve Ragan had a little fun at ISIS' expense and worked up a data breach notification that ISIS HR is free to use should they so choose.
As I understand it ISIS is basically a different system now than it was in 2013. Still it should provide a huge number of places to investigate. Godspeed, FBI.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Can anyone explain to me why Islam is considered a religion of peace? Most of the terror in the world today is committed by Muslims. They control many totalitarian states that are particularly abysmal with respect to human rights. Why are there so many apologists for Islam? There's much outrage when a Christian-owned bakery refuses to cater for an LGBT wedding but there's silence when Muslims commit acts of violence against nonbelievers. Why is Islam given a free pass when they do far worse things? Islam is far more repressive than Christianity, but somehow this is tolerated. Why?
just wanted to point out that when wikileaks and other documents about western government activities were leaked, western media organizations given full access to them( like guardian etc) went through them blanking out names etc of people who may be endangered( like intelligence agents) by the leaks, before publishing them. wikileaks itself published them after such vetting by selected journalists. there was no doubt about the authenticity of those documents btw.
now not so authenticated lists of alleged isis members are published with "family contacts", but no such safeguards are taken.
as i said, i am just pointing out this is a double standard.
well as they say, all is fair in war huh? and western private media seem to be fighting the war on one side just as much as soldiers. question is are they then entitled to protection?
Who else things that these names and addresses are actually U.S. government employee data that came from the OPM hack a while ago, and they are publishing it as "These are ISIS people!" as a "*Psych*! Gotcha!"???
Is that IS leadership leaked it themselves to trap members to stay and fight.
If they are on the list they have no safe harbour but IS.
Only the racists believe there are. In reality, there's only a few. It's those Republicans that lie and claims there's more than a small handful in the entire world.
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This is just some cartels black list of folks who know too much.
When do the drone strikes commence? And will anyone bother to verify that they are actual bad guys and not random people on a fake list?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
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Because you cam bt your ass that the US govt. won't begin actively targeting ISIS just because of this info, even though the pentagon would love for it to.
Do we not even understand how a wedding cake and MASS MURDER are different? Really? Those are equivalent acts in your mind?
And I can't help but notice that, once again, a leftist is jumping up front and center to defend Islamist killers. Why does this keep on happening? It's like they're allied together in the service of destroying Western civilization.
@DNS-and-BND don't forget that in 1992 Christian Serbs massacred approximately 80,000 Muslim Bosnians.
One doesn't have go very far back to find cases of MASS MURDER performed by non-Muslims.
[sarcasm on]
EIGHTY EFFING THOUSAND MUSLIMS MASSACRED BY CHRISTIANS!!!!
Therefore ALL Christians MUST be persecuted and assumed to be terrorists unless proven innocent!!!!!!
Reference: http://www.history.com/topics/bosnian-genocide
I liked the security firm that was hired to deal with the problem. I hear they have a reputation for quick response times and excellent technical skills.
Now all we need to do is decrypt their iPhones and all our problems will be over!
This posting is provided 'AS IS' without warranty of any kind, implied or otherwise.
I jist don't get it. Obama says we can't get info like this as long as encrypted cell phones are around.
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Example from history: George Galloway. Nobody thinks he's a nice bloke anymore (even the socialist left in the UK, pretty much, particularly now he's decided he's pro-Brexit), but the evidence used to drag him, hilariously, in front of an inept, posturing, childish bunch of US politicians was comically faked.
This stuff gets faked. It's possible in this case that all the people mentioned actually are IS fighters and for this document _still_ to be a fake.
Don't trust your eyes.
Can you imagine the backlash if Clinton, Obama, Trump and Bush were on that list?
Islamic state has promised 1 year of free credit monitoring to the
affect terrorists, unless they blow themselves up prematurely...
CAP == 'whispers'
...whistleblowing is still bad, right?
I get that this makes for a great news story and generates a lot of traffic for Sky.
On the other hand, wouldn't it have been a good idea to first give that list to government officials and let them muck around with it for a couple of years, instead of alerting the ISIS members that their cover was blown?
Imagine this published in the Internet. Let popular justice take its course.
you set-up leftists vs islamists here, right? that's pretty bogus already, but just below that you fail to see how christians and jews are and have done far more invading and oppressing of people than islam ever has.
if western civ .. by which you might mean 'current american foreign policy drives and motivations' was not pushing people into radicalism, then financing them to form factions acting as justification to invade otherwise sov nations, there would not be 'terror'. we'd just have the occassional 'lone gunmen' as in 'the good old times'.
what a joke.
Actually, the USA seems to go really far out of its way not to ignore the criminality of blacks, in comparison to its willingness to ignore the criminality of whites.
For example, despite similar rates of use of marijuana, blacks are arrested more often for marijuana use.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
This article in Huffington post claims that we enthusiastically prosecute Blacks for the same crimes that we ignore in whites, and that blacks commit no more crimes than whites:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I am not black so I don't know the black experience, but this sure seems like systematic injustice to blacks to me. Also, it seems to me that it's demonstrably false that blacks can be fairly characterized as "rampantly criminal" as you said. Instead it seems that perception of blacks as rampantly criminal is flatly racial bias if not outright racism.
--PeterM
Because back in 2013 we were told that ISIS was a Junior Varsity basketball team, nothing to fear.
100's of million $'s in ordinance and kill two of them and half a million civilians.
ISIS have problems with foreign fighters getting disillusioned, defecting, going home.
All those contemplating that now know for certain their government knows about them, and that they're likely to face serious jail time on their return. It might encourage them to stay put.
That's a good reason for leaking this deliberately.
I didn't RTFA article but I cannot see why /. used the humor graphic.
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That would be hilarious! Maybe it's a list of Catholic priests.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
ISIS IS US: The Shocking Truth Behind the Army of Terror
by Washington's Blog et al.
Link: http://amzn.com/B019RXBP7M
FBI crime statistics say otherwise. Blacks commit violent crimes in numbers that far exceed their rate in the population, and no amount of racial bias can explain the deviation, either, especially since a lot of the victims are black, too.
Because reality is never that much fun/interesting?
Do you really not know the word `think'? Gah.
This is material support for a terrorist organization.
Some rabid american might be coming for you.
Where the hell did you dig out that bs stat from? Your own ass? Holy cow!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_January%E2%80%93June_2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_July%E2%80%93December_2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_January%E2%80%93June_2016
And so if we do have this "highly confidential " information....then what? Are we going to act upon it? That's the question.