ISIS

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

You probably had no idea, but representatives from Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the U.S. government came together earlier this week to privately discuss how they could jointly fight ISIS propaganda online. Never mind the fact that ISIS is the child of reckless and inhumane preemptive wars of aggression perpetrated by the U.S. government. Such introspection naturally never crosses the mind of government bureaucrats ostensibly attempting to understand the epic disasters they created in the first place.

For a long time there was still some skepticism whether Turkey was providing military and other support to members of the Islamic State. As we reported last week, that skepticism was promptly eliminated following the release of transcripts of phone calls that took place between Turkish military officers and Mustafa Demir, the ISIS commander in charge of the Syria-Turkey border.

A video released by ISIS shows the terrorist group making direct threats against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for their stance in combating extremism on their social media platforms.  The 25-minute video was released by “the sons of the Caliphate army”, and shows photographs of both Zuckerberg and Dorsey being targeted by bullets. USAtoday.com reports: The video was spotted by Vocativdeep web analysts on the social media service Telegram, which is used by ISIS.

ISIS has always had a love-hate relationship with Jack Dorsey.

On the one hand, no organization (with the possible exception of the CIA and MiT) has done more for Islamic State than Twitter. The group's followers are adept users of social media and Twitter is one of the main channels by which al-Hayat Media Center and its dozens of offshoots distribute their propaganda. 

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi  reportedly ordered the arrest of some his top lieutenants near Mosul, on charges of treason. Iraqi News reports: Nineveh – Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday, that the so-called ‘masked terrorist’ arrested dozens of prominent ISIS leaders on charges of treason, while pointed out that the arrest operations were carried out by orders of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.