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Facebook removes Pakistani Taliban recruitment page
[Dawn] Facebook has taken down a page used by the Pak Taliban to recruit new fighters, a front man for the US-based social network site told AFP on Wednesday.Earlier, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said the Umar Media TTP page used Facebook as "a recruitment" tool. This month, 270 users clicked a link to say they "like" the page. The account appeared to have been created in September and has just a handful of messages, written in English. "At Facebook, we have rules that bar direct statements of hate, attacks on private individuals and groups, and the promotion of terrorism," a Facebook statement said. "We have a large team of professional Sherlocks both in the US and abroad who enforce these rules. Where abusive content is posted and reported, Facebook removes it and disables accounts of those responsible. "Whenever we become aware of possible violations of our terms, we will investigate these instances and take action if violations of our Statements of Rights and Responsibilities take place." In Pakistain, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP this month that the faction was "temporarily" using the page "to fulfill its requirements" before launching its own website. The TTP mainly operates in Pakistain's tribal areas along the mostly non-existent border with Afghanistan, where it has links with the better-known Afghan Taliban, and during a five-year insurgency has carried out many attacks inside Pakistain. Posted by: Fred 2012-12-13 |
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