Friday, December 10, 2010

FoxNews.com - Al Qaeda Looks to Make New 'Friends' -- on Facebook

FoxNews.com - Al Qaeda Looks to Make New 'Friends' -- on Facebook: "EXCLUSIVE: If you're on Facebook, Al Qaeda wants to friend you.

Terrorist groups are using Facebook to share operational information and to target, recruit and radicalize members of the general public, according to a Department of Homeland Security report obtained by FoxNews.com.

The DHS report, 'Terrorist Use of Social Networking Sites: Facebook Case Study,' notes while terrorists have been using social networking sites for quite some time, their strategies for exploiting Facebook have evolved and that they have learned 'the inherent value in exploiting a non-ideological medium.'

According to the November report, terrorists and jihadists use Facebook as:"

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