An ISIS-affiliated group has threatened to assassinate Twitter employees that close down their accounts.
Users
linked to the extremists tweeted a series of messages on Sunday urging
'lone wolves' in the US and Europe to make the firm their target.
A
specific warning was directed at staff at the Silicon Valley
headquarters, warning they would 'bring the war' to San Francisco.
One of the calls is believed to have come
from Al Musra Al Maqdisia, or The Supporters Of Jerusalem - a
Jerusalem-based group that pledged its allegiance to ISIS in February.
The tweets from the now-suspended account, translated by Vocativ,
read: '#TheConceptOfLoneWolfAttacks The time has arrived to respond to
Twitter's management by directly attacking their employees and
physically assassinating them!! Those who will carry this out are the
sleepers cells of death.'
It
continued: 'Twitter management should know that if they do not stop
their campaign in the virtual world, we will bring the war to them in
the real world on the ground.'
The
user then directly threatened workers at the Silicon Valley
headquarters: 'Every Twitter employee in San Francisco in the United
States should bear in mind and watch over himself because on his
doorstep there might be a lone wolf assassin waiting'.
And
finally, they urged Europe to join the pledge:
'#AttackingTwitterEmployees is on the agenda of mujahedeen and lone
wolves who are across Europe'.
The social network has been a crucial platform for the jihadis to promote their warped interpretation of Sharia law.
The freedom of speech premise that underlies Twitter makes regulation of extremist propaganda almost impossible.
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