Osama bin Laden wants to add you as a friend.
Jihadists have a plan for “invading Facebook” and using the popular social networking site as a means of spreading their message and finding new recruits, experts say.
“We can use Facebook to fight the media,” one recent posting on the extremist site al-Faloja said, according to Jihadica.com.
“We can post media on Facebook that shows the Crusader losses,” the posting said.
Terrorist groups have long used the Internet to communicate and spread their beliefs.
“We have already had great success in raiding YouTube,” the poster added. “American politicians have used Facebook to get votes, like the house slave Obama.”
Despite al Qaeda’s history of using the Internet, George Washington University professor Marc Lynch said, terrorists may be more cautious about Web 2.0 sites like Facebook.
“One of the biggest problems for a virtual network like AQ today is that it needs to build connections between its members while protecting itself from its enemies,” he told Wired.com. “That’s a filtering problem: How do you get your people in and keep intelligence agents out?” With Post Wire Services