Jim Kouri reports for Conservative Base, March 19, 2016:
A number of cyber-terrorist hackers who claim they are affiliated with the notorious Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly posted a “hit list” that provides not only the names of 36 Minnesota law enforcement officers, but also personal details about the targeted cops.
“Caliphate Cyber Army” (CCA) have taken responsibility for posting the full names, home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of the targeted policemen. Those on the hit list are said to live in cities throughout Minnesota, with the highest concentration in and around the Twin Cities, which is a haven for radical Islamists emanating from Somalia who entered the U.S. as “refugees” escaping ISIS-affiliated Al-Shabaab.
A group of hackers affiliated with ISIS in the past hacked the records containing the confidential information of American police and security officials. In 2015, Islamic terrorists launched a similar attack when they hacked into the social media web site Twitter to penetrate the account of the U.S. military’s Central Command (CentCom).
Last Fall, a group calling itself the “Islamic State Cyber Army” (ISCA) put the names and addresses of people who have worked for American security agencies, especially those providing contractors to the military, law enforcement and intelligence operations overseas.
Also, in the past, ISIS would post the names and other details of American soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen at the conclusion of their videos of beheadings and executions. They would then urge viewers of the videos to search and kill those listed.
Military, police and security personnel aren’t the only men and women being targeted by jihadists. Another Islamist group calling itself “Sons of the Caliphate” has threatened Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. While both men are devout Democrats and Obama supporters, they are being listed on the hit list for their alleged efforts to trackdown and suspend ISIS-affiliated social media accounts.
According to a House report from 2015, one out of four of Americans who has attempted to join ISIS is from Minnesota. The city of Minneapolis has the United States’ largest Somali population.
Conservative Base provided no source, other than the YouTube video. So I did an Internet search for “Caliphate Cyber Army” and found a March 13, 2016 article on SITE Intelligence Group, which appears to be the source. Titled “CCA Disseminates Personal Info of U.S. Police in Minnesota as ‘Wanted to be Killed’,” the article begins with this paragraph:
Using a hashtag originally designated for “degrading” the Islamic State (IS), the pro-IS hacking group, Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA), released the alleged personal information of 36 U.S. police officers living in Minnesota with the message “wanted to be killed.”
The SITE Intelligence Group describes itself as “the world’s leading non-governmental counterterrorism organization.”
Instead of going after the jihadist groups that target and name members of law enforcement and the military, Obama’s attorney general Loretta Lynch instead has vowed the Department of Justice would prosecute any one who employs “anti-Muslim rhetoric” that “edges toward violence” (whatever that means).
H/t Don Hank
~Eowyn