Somali Islamic Militants Now Using Twitter As A Weapon

Somalia’s Insurgents Embrace Twitter as a Weapon -- New York Times

NAIROBI, Kenya — Think of it as the Battle of the Tweets.

Somalia’s powerful Islamist insurgents, the Shabab, best known for chopping off hands and starving their own people, just opened a Twitter account, and in the past week they have been writing up a storm, bragging about recent attacks and taunting their enemies.

“Your inexperienced boys flee from confrontation & flinch in the face of death,” the Shabab wrote in a post to the Kenyan Army.

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