A quickly growing jihadist group that used Facebook to spread its radical message has been shut down by the popular Web networking site after FOXNews.com alerted the company to the group's activities.
Facebook blocked the group, Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra — Arabic for "Knights in Support of the Invasion" — Thursday evening after the group swelled to about 120 members in just over one week.
The group had been exhorting its members to wage "Jihad to aid the religion of Allah and his Prophet."
• Click here to see the now-shuttered Web site of the jihadist group.
FOXNews.com, working closely with a former radical Muslim now dedicated to exposing cyberterror activity, was able to gain access to the group and its content.
• Click here to see photos of jihadist profiles from the site.
Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra wrote that its purpose was "to support Jihad and Mujihadeen" and that it started the Facebook group "to invade this Web site" and to ask "Allah to grant us Jihad and martyrdom."
It promised future action: "Today we invade your sites, tomorrow your lands and homes, o you cross worshippers."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470385,00.html
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