FBI TARGETS ONLINE TERROR AS IT CLOSES 70,000 BLOGS!
by Maayana Miskin
The United States Feberal Bureau of Investigation has targeted online terrorism, and as a result has shut down over 70,000 blogs! The heads of BurstNet technologies, which were behind the shutdown, say they were told by FBI agents that the blogs included links to terrorist material.
Among the terroist materials taken offline were bomb-making instructions and a list of Americans targeted for assassination, BurstNet said. The terrorist material may have been linked to the pro-terror online magazine “INSPIRE” which is connected to Al-Qaeda.
BurstNet shut down the Blogetery web site, which provides the blogging. Company representatives stated that the FBI did not require them to take Blagetery offline altogether, but that they did so due to the site’s previous violations of terms of service. Representatives argued that the number of blogs shut down was far less that the 73,000 claimed by Blogetery.
The US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee met in May to discuss the problem of online terrorism. Many members of the committee expressed deep concern over terrorist recruitment online.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Obama Administration that “home grown and lone-wolf extremists” are as great a potential danger as Al-Qaeda and other international terrorist networks.
