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MSNBC\u00a0reports today that the Pentagon is checking out 5000 websites a day.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, the Arab alphabet has not yet appeared on this site.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, some of the neoconservatives (who dominated the Pentagon in the first Bush administration) consider France an enemy of the United States, posing potentially an even greater threat to America than does Yemen.<\/p>\n

And if those Pentagon web experts recognize a French surname when they see one, and if they agree with Thomas Carlyle that “Sarcasm is the language of the devil,” well…<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

MSNBC.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

PENTAGON SURFING 5,000 JIHADIST WEB SITES<\/font><\/p>\n

MSNBC News Services<\/font><\/p>\n

Updated: 8:30 p.m. ET May 4, 2006<\/font><\/div>\n
WASHINGTON – A Pentagon research team monitors more than 5,000 jihadist Web sites, focusing daily on the 25 to 100 most hostile and active, defense officials said Thursday. And the makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants to exhort Muslim youths to take up arms against the United States, officials added.<\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team includes 25 linguists, who cover multiple dialects of the Arabic language and provide reports on events sparking anger on extremist Web sites, Dan Devlin, a Pentagon public diplomacy specialist, said Thursday. The researchers, for instance, focused in November on the backlash caused by the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.<\/font><\/p>\n

Devlin testified to Congress as part of a briefing on how terrorists use the Internet…..<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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