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2016-06-13 | |||
A pro-Isis group has released a hit list with the names of more than 8,000 people -- mostly Americans.
The "United Cyber Caliphate" that hacked U.S. Central Command, 54,000 Twitter accounts and threatened President Barack Obama is the same pro-Isis group that's reportedly created a "kill list" with the names, addresses and emails of thousands of civilian Americans. Reports of the list came to light online when Vocativ reported the list was shared via the encrypted app, Telegram, and called on supporters to kill. Former FBI agent-turned lawyer Stuart Kaplan says the threat is especially alarming, because the people on this list are civilians who don't have the security necessary to protect themselves. "It's going to create some hysteria," he said.
"If in fact a sympathizer gets ahold of this list and is readily able to identify you as being his neighbor and, then, decides (because they're a sympathizer) to go out and do something horrific to you, there is no way to calculate the potential or to prevent that."
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Posted by:Steve White |
#1 The list has not yet been made public. I'm certain that the named citizens are being notified, privately, as we speak, and efforts are underway to assure their safety. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2016-06-13 02:09 |