Al-Shabab Live Tweets Attack

Less than a week after I posted about the debate as to whether or not to shut down terrorist groups' Twitter accounts, Somalia-based al-Qa'ida affiliate al-Shabab live tweeted their suicide attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu yesterday that killed eight people and wounded an unknown number of Somalis.

The tweets themselves range from the intriguing (albeit grossly inaccurate) live accounts of the attack, to the bizarre taunting of the UN representative, Nicholas Kay. But this incident suggests that the jihadist networks are still far ahead of the U.S. Government in terms of using social media for propaganda strategic communications purposes.