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By: EFE
Monday, October 7
An Islamic State group had a website and an app on Amazon Web Services
WASHINGTON – A propaganda group from the Islamic State (IS) maintained a website and an application that depended on the Amazon Web Services platform, which deactivated the site on Friday, the US press reported.
According to The Washington Post, it is about Nida-e-Haqq , a group that distributes Islamist content in the Urdu language (spoken in Pakistan and occasionally in Afghanistan), including messages from the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghan branch of the Islamic State.
That group was the one that
The link to Amazon Web Services (AWS) was I discovered to by SITE Intelligence Group – an organization that tracks extremism online – its CEO, Rita Katz, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
The journalistic version indicated that the Nida-e-Haqq application released on Thursday what it claimed was the image of a terrorist with a suicide vest before the Kabul explosion.
Katz explained that the source code of the application showed that it extracted words and images from a website of the propaganda group hosted on Amazon Web Services since April and disabled today.
Amazon spokesperson Casey McGee noted in an email to the Post that after investigation, disabled the website that was linked to that app , as it “violated the Acceptable Use Policy” of Amazon Web Services.
Said policy prohibits be, among others, that customers use the cloud computing service “to actively threaten, incite, promote or encourage violence, terrorism or other serious harm.”
On Thursday, at least 170 people lost their lives and others 150 were injured at the Kabul airport after a suicide attack, sources close to the Taliban told Efe in Kabul.
The Pentagon has reported the death of 13 US soldiers and of 18 injured in the attack , which took place five days before the United States concluded its evacuation and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.