Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become the podium of hiring new members and gathering new intelligence for the terror organizations, says an expert.
According to University of Haifa Profesoor Gabriel Weimann,
“The social media is enabling the terror organizations to take initiatives by making ‘Friend’ requests, uploading video clips, and the like, and they no longer have to make do with the passive tools available on regular websites.”
“The most advanced of western communication technology is, paradoxically, what the terror organizations are now using to fight the West,” concluded the Professor.
The statement of the Professor, who has been conducting a study of encoded and public Internet sites of international terror organizations for the past ten years, comes amid reports when countries like the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are instructing their soldiers to remove individual details from social networking sites to restrain the probable monitoring by Al Qaeda.
