#AmessagefromISIStoUS: Islamist militants tweet gruesome images of dead American soldiers and vow to blow up embassies after Obama launches airstrikes!!
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Militants who support the terror group ISIS tweeted threats to America on Friday after Barack Obama began airstrikes in Iraq
- Some warn of car bombs at embassies while others taunt US military personnel with death threats
- A handful of biting retorts have mocked the ham-fisted attempt to use social media as a tool of war
- Obama approved airstrikes Thursday night to protect US personnel and relief efforts helping refugees in Iraq’s Kurdish regions
Supporters of the ISIS terror group tweeted thousands of messages on Friday bearing the hashtag #AmessagefromISIStoUS featuring gruesome photos and threats to U.S. soldiers and citizens after American airstrikes took out terrorist targets in Iraq for the first time.Some tweeted photos depict dead U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. marines hung from bridges in Fallujah, decapitated men, human heads on spikes, and the twin towers in flames on September 11, 2001.’This is a message for every American citizen,’ read one message sent with the hashtag. ‘You are the target of every Muslim in the world wherever you are.’
Obama’s decision Friday morning to launch strikes against ISIS artillery positions set off ISIS backers and triggered online propaganda
‘We will make a barbecue party on you': Some of the threats came in broken English from accounts that mostly tweet in Arabic
‘We will make a barbecue party on you': Some of the threats came in broken English from accounts that mostly tweet in Arabic
‘US citizens will be a target for ISIS,’ another reads, ‘because of American airstrike[s] on Iraq.’ Another warned that ISIS is ‘ready to cut your heads Dear Americans O sons of bitches. Come quickly.’ That tweet also carried a second hashtag: #WarOnWhites. Others featured taunting captions to pictures of soldiers previously wounded or killed in Iraq, reminding Us commanders what happened last time there was a full scale invasion. The latest Twitter blitz in an extension of ISIS’s propaganda push on social media that the terror group has used throughout their campaign to spread fear and intimidate the world. Over the last few months the medium has been used to post graphic pictures of beheadings, mass executions and boastful messages from fighters who have come from Western countries. The new messages highlight the possible consequences of President Barack Obama’s decision to authorize military airstrikes against the Islamist group, which are partially armed with munitions left behind when he pulled American troops out of Iraq at the end of 2011. ‘All it would take is one attack on a diplomatic facility to rally more online strutting,’ said a State Department official told MailOnline on condition of anonymity, ‘and lots of people will blame the president for antagonizing people who already want to kill Americans.’ But it is yet to be seen how powerful ISIS is to carry out terror outrages beyond the territories under its control.
Holy war: ‘You are the target of every Muslim in the world wherever you are’
Casualties memorialized online: ISIS has turned to Twitter as a propaganda tool
Embassy threats: A State Department official told MailOnline that a single bombing could change global perceptions and win President Obama new levels of scorn for launching airstrikes
Obama ran for office in part on a platform of ending America’s armed conflicts in the Middle East; Friday morning’s airstrikes marked his first openly declared hostilities in the region – in this case, against a self-declared but unrecognized ‘Islamic state.’The U.S. government will likely brush off the tweeted messages even though they could prove embarrassing to the Obama administration. The official said: ‘No one in the U.S. with any social media savvy takes this kind of posturing seriously,’ he said, ‘but in some parts of the world it will have an effect.’ Indeed, a relative handful of Americans fired back online at the Islamist tweeters, mocking them for turning a life-or-death fight into a matter of bits and bytes. ‘All the bloody images, tough words and pics of knuckle draggers with bushy beards are not scary,’ one California man tweeted. ‘Just pitiful.’ After ISIS cheerleaders sent a tweet threatening to take over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, another user likened the promise to a lockdown incident on Friday caused by a small child who wriggled through the White House’s outer perimeter fence. ‘Threatening to enter white house?’ he asked. ‘How? Like this toddler?’ The same man, pretending to be an ISIS radical, joked that ‘we will raise our hands when your unmanned drones come. Until then please bear with our threat tweets. Thank you.’ But ISIS’s taunting kept coming, hitting the 10,000-tweet mark by the time it was 5:00 p.m. in Washington.
Some Americans pushed back on Friday
‘These people aer SCREAMING Please make an example of me,’ came a mocking reply to ISIS
Not likely: One joking observer mocked the ISIS hashtag as a subversive project of Israeli intelligence One, which included a poignant photo of a soldier saluting a cargo plane full of American flag-draped caskets, said Obama’s military action would mean ‘more and more American widows and orphans.’ Another, paired with a photo montage of dead and maimed U.S. military personnel, said only: ‘We miss you in iraq US Troops ’
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