Last week, AQAP launched a new series of banner attack ads focusing on them fighting the Americans, with US-flag-draped coffins, the official explained. The State Department team countered the attack by buying space on the same site with new ads, featuring the coffins of Yemeni civilians. Photo by Reuters
Hillary Clinton Boasts Of US Cyberwar Against al-Qaeda -- The Telegraph
The US State Department has taken to hacking al-Qaeda's websites in Yemen and filling them with American propaganda, Hillary Clinton has said.
In a rare public admission of the covert cyber war against extremists, the Secretary of State said cyber experts based at at her department hacked Yemeni tribal websites, and took down messages about killing Americans.
"Within 48 hours, our team plastered the same sites with altered versions of the ads that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people," Mrs Clinton said yesterday.
In response "extremists are publicly venting their frustration and asking supporters not to believe everything they read on the Internet," she said.
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