Who the hell is providing internet service for these jihadist freaks?

[brentspeak]

With apparently little problem, ISIS is uploading their emails and videos onto the Web from the parts of Syria and Iraq which they themselves have devastated. It's hard enough to find a working reliable wifi spot in the USA; how does a group of Islamic killers in a bombed-out building in the middle of an Iraqi or Syrian desert somehow have the technology and the internet connection to upload their atrocities onto Twitter?

[ksoze]

1. Wifi spots

Not sure where you are, but workable wifi spots are everywhere here as well as overseas. Don't need wifi to upload content - any cell connection will do.

[brentspeak]

6. So another question would be

where are they getting their cell service from?

[seveneyes]

2. Good question and why not add a speed dial to the nearest drone when Jihadi uses it?

Not enough tech is being used to bust up these killers.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Can't Twitter help us locate them?

[snooper2]

4. really? LOL...

Hard to get the intertubes in the desert right

[brentspeak]

7. Enlighten us with your technical know-how and background concerning the internet n/t

[snooper2]

10. soon as I get done trying to figure out why LDAP isn't workinng on this new soft client version

[Go Vols]

15. Interwebs here think I am in a diff state

than the one I live in connecting thru my ISP.

I have a TOR browser open too and the interwebs thinks my ISP is Solido Networks ApS and I am in Denmark.

[CJCRANE]

5. They "own" social media

in the sense that they are literally running rings round everyone else.

Using social media is a big part of their "shock and awe" campaign against local residents. A big part of a guerrilla campaign is terror and deception and our corpmedia and social media seem happy to play along with their games.

[FSogol]

8. Wait, is it now ok for the NSA to trace their phone calls and read their emails?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. It always has been ok, except to those who can't distinguish between American citizens and ISIS

You wouldn't be one of those people, would you?

[FSogol]

11. No, but someone else in this thread might be.

[cwydro]

14. NSA is too busy

Spying on American citizens

[magical thyme]

13. since one member of ISIS appears to be British

what's to say none of them are Americans?

[FSogol]

16. NPR had a special forces commander on about a week before the beheading and

he made the case that there were US and British passport holders among the ISIL fighters that would return home to spread terror at some point. It seemed like a way to justify more war to me at the time, but when Foley's murderer appeared to be a Londoner, I remembered the warning.

[CJCRANE]

18. It's a twofer.

These guys can go and terrorize our enemies and then come back back and terrorize us.

[CJCRANE]

17. These people post their allegiance openly on Facebook

and Twitter.

It doesn't need much detective work.

[951-Riverside]

12. The same people providing them with money, weapons and training

...The same people who are going to benefit from "war" with them.



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syria-arming-the-rebels/transcript-63/