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Job wanted: Terrorist touts jihad as LinkedIn skill
2015-01-15
[IsraelTimes]. Professional networking site believes account is fake; Taliban capo wanted by Pakistain for previous attacks

A LinkedIn account allegedly belonging to a senior Taliban capo was deleted after it was used to recruit gunnies to the murderous Moslem group, the British Telegraph newspaper reported.

The profile for Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
, front man for Taliban splinter group TTP Jammat-ul-Ahrar, listed his skills as jihad and journalism and described him as self employed and working in media production.

By the time it was taken down, the account boasted 69 connections, an indication of the number people in ones network, not dissimilar to a business contact. The profile listed details of his school, employment history and language skills as well as a photograph.

Ehsan is wanted by Pak authorities for his role in multiple terror attacks, including the attempted 2012 liquidation of then-15-year-old human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
activist Malala Yousafzai
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu...
, who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in documenting Taliban atrocities and campaigning for womens rights.

The Taliban chief currently has a $1 million (NIS 3.96 million) bounty on his head.

After deleting Ehsans account, a LinkedIn spokesperson questioned its veracity, given that the IP address of the account, which points to where in the world it was set up, suggested it may have been fabricated.

[I] cant say for certain that it is someone else But I can say that our security team has a high degree of confidence that it is a fake account, which is reason enough to restrict it, The Telegraph was told.

After a stint as front man for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) the Pakistain wing of the Taliban Ehsan and his fellow commanders went on to found TTP Jammat-ul-Ahrar, a terror group that operates from tribal areas in the Pakistain-Afghanistan border
...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons...
zone.

TTP Jammat-ul-Ahrar grabbed credit for a number of attacks over the second half of 2014, including a November 2014 suicide kaboom on the India-Pakistain border that killed over 60 people, according to local officials.
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