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Al-Shabaab Twitter account shut down for second time
Source: Associated Press
Al-Shabaab Twitter account shut down for second time
Associated Press in Nairobi
theguardian.com, Friday 6 September 2013 14.52 BST
The Twitter account of al-Shabaab, Somalia's al-Qaida-linked terror group, has been closed for the second time this year.
The closure comes only days after al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Somalia's president and tweeted that next time he would not be so lucky. It also comes within 24 hours of a US-based terrorism expert's report that Twitter's terms of service have been violated.
Al-Shabaab uses Twitter mainly to make claims of enemy kills and to spread its view on events in Somalia and east Africa. A United Nations report on Somalia released last month said UN experts believed the person running the English-language account was a British member of al-Shabaab.
Twitter suspended al-Shabaab's previous account in January two days after the group used the platform to issue a death threat against Kenyan hostages. Twitter's terms of service forbid specific threats of violence against others.
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Associated Press in Nairobi
theguardian.com, Friday 6 September 2013 14.52 BST
The Twitter account of al-Shabaab, Somalia's al-Qaida-linked terror group, has been closed for the second time this year.
The closure comes only days after al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Somalia's president and tweeted that next time he would not be so lucky. It also comes within 24 hours of a US-based terrorism expert's report that Twitter's terms of service have been violated.
Al-Shabaab uses Twitter mainly to make claims of enemy kills and to spread its view on events in Somalia and east Africa. A United Nations report on Somalia released last month said UN experts believed the person running the English-language account was a British member of al-Shabaab.
Twitter suspended al-Shabaab's previous account in January two days after the group used the platform to issue a death threat against Kenyan hostages. Twitter's terms of service forbid specific threats of violence against others.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/06/al-shabaab-twitter-shut-down
