Pentagon surfing 5,000 jihadist Web sites

[truthpusher]

"This crusade — crusade — crusade — is going to take a while," President Bush says in one video, edited to make him repeat the word "crusade" six other times."


article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634238/from/RSS/

Pentagon surfing 5,000 jihadist Web sites
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Research team monitors range of sites, some aimed at children 7 and under
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The Associated Press
Updated: 6:29 p.m. ET May 4, 2006
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WASHINGTON - A Pentagon research team monitors more than 5,000 jihadist Web sites, focusing daily on the 25 to 100 most hostile and active, defense officials say.

The team includes 25 linguists, who cover multiple dialects of the Arabic language and provide reports on events sparking anger on extremist Web sites, Dan Devlin, a Pentagon public diplomacy specialist, said Thursday. The researchers, for instance, focused in November on the backlash caused by the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

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Extremist propaganda is most often used to recruit jihadist fighters and supporters between the ages of 7 and 25, the officials said. But "we've seen products that are aimed at ages even lower than 7," testified Pentagon contractor Ron Roughhead. His company wasn't identified, for security reasons.

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"This crusade — crusade — crusade — is going to take a while," President Bush says in one video, edited to make him repeat the word "crusade" six other times.

The officials said they are hoping to give a version of the briefing eventually to all U.S. soldiers in Iraq and the broader region.

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link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634238/from/RSS/

[matcom]

1. for the record....

HI AGENT MIKE!! :hi:

[Deja Q]

3. !

:spray:

[Deja Q]

2. Well, it's focused on a relevant, real issue.

Why do I see no wrong in this action they are taking?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[mr_hat]

5. I agree. If they're out there sending signals,

let's evaluate them. Forewarned...

[gratuitous]

8. So, if you were a terrorist, plotting evil

You'd put it on your website?

I wonder how many agents are involved in this monitoring? Five? A dozen? One for each website, just sitting and staring at the computer screen eight hours a day, day after day, hitting the "Refresh" button every 20 seconds?

[brentspeak]

13. Terrorists post videos of beheadings on the Web

So we know for a fact that there's a connection with the Internet.

[soothsayer]

4. three quarters are probably CIA sites, and the rest are kids

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. At least half of them are freepers

pretending to be al CAIda.

I tracked down a bunch of supposed 'al CIAda' communications to a freeper who wrote for Talon News.

[superconnected]

7. Wonder what number DU is on the list.

[ShortnFiery]

9. Now now, everyone say a fond "Hey there" out to Agent Mike?

:P :hi:

[951-Riverside]

10. Don't you mean Maj Gen Mike? :D

:hi:

[ShortnFiery]

11. Naw, only in the deep recesses of the current monitoring spook's mind ...

Oops!

I didn't mean that Agent Mike.

You're the BEST at what you do!

Kissy Kiss Kiss. :P

[brentspeak]

14. Who's Agent Mike

I'm out of the loop.

[NorthernSun]

15. Agent Mike: The guy monitoring DU

I get hits from the Pentagon all the time on my news website. I guess investigative news is jihadist to Rummy and Dummy.

[Chrisduhfur]

12. Damn media is always blowing my cover....

Hah little do they know that I spend 7 out of 8 hours on myspace.