On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
On Monday the Lahore court in Pakistan barred the deportation of 5 Americans until judges review the case. A Taliban recruiter first made contact with the 5 young men after one of them " Ahmed Abdullah Minn" posted comments on YouTube videos praising attacks on American troops.
These YouTube postings were a regular feature which led the Taliban recruiter Saifullah to contact Minni.
"On Monday, the Lahore High Court barred the government from deporting the five Americans until judges review the case. The court gave the Punjab authorities until December 17 to provide a detailed report on the arrests."
The way Minni and the terrorist shared messages was to leave draft messages on a shared yahoo account. They reason that this would reduce the chances of an intercept by authorities.
"The men traveled overseas without telling their families, triggering an international manhunt after concerned relatives contacted the FBI. The five – Ramy Zamzam, 22; Ahmad Minni, 20; Umar Chaudhry, 24; Waqar Khan, 22; and Aman Hassan Yemer, 18 – were transferred Saturday from Sargodha to Lahore, where the FBI questioned them."
"It is unclear how widespread this ‘online recruitment’ is, but Evan Kohlmann, a senior analyst with a private group that monitors extremist websites, has been quoted as saying: “Increasingly, recruiters are taking less prominent roles in mosques and community centers because places like that are under scrutiny. So what these guys are doing is turning to the Internet.”
Where online recruiters go so do Terrorist recruiters. Its not just company recruiters whoa re able to find candidates online. Here we see a clear case on how terrorists can use social networks as a recruitment tool. People who want to be found by terrorists thrown themselves open for recruitment and end up getting contacted.
These YouTube postings were a regular feature which led the Taliban recruiter Saifullah to contact Minni.
"On Monday, the Lahore High Court barred the government from deporting the five Americans until judges review the case. The court gave the Punjab authorities until December 17 to provide a detailed report on the arrests."
The way Minni and the terrorist shared messages was to leave draft messages on a shared yahoo account. They reason that this would reduce the chances of an intercept by authorities.
"The men traveled overseas without telling their families, triggering an international manhunt after concerned relatives contacted the FBI. The five – Ramy Zamzam, 22; Ahmad Minni, 20; Umar Chaudhry, 24; Waqar Khan, 22; and Aman Hassan Yemer, 18 – were transferred Saturday from Sargodha to Lahore, where the FBI questioned them."
"It is unclear how widespread this ‘online recruitment’ is, but Evan Kohlmann, a senior analyst with a private group that monitors extremist websites, has been quoted as saying: “Increasingly, recruiters are taking less prominent roles in mosques and community centers because places like that are under scrutiny. So what these guys are doing is turning to the Internet.”
Where online recruiters go so do Terrorist recruiters. Its not just company recruiters whoa re able to find candidates online. Here we see a clear case on how terrorists can use social networks as a recruitment tool. People who want to be found by terrorists thrown themselves open for recruitment and end up getting contacted.
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