ISIS unfollows STRATCOM on Twitter after offensive New Year’s tweet
Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. – The terrorist group ISIS has “unfollowed” the U.S. Strategic Command on Twitter after suffering mental anguish by recent STRATCOM messaging, possibly taking information warfare to a new direction, sources confirm today.
The ISIS move is a reaction to a Dec. 31, 2018, STRATCOM tweet that stated as the famed ball dropped on Times Square, the Command remained ready to “drop something much, much bigger.” A video of a B-2 aircraft dropping bombs accompanied the tweet. STRATCOM deleted it after complaints about its aggressive message.
ISIS released a statement criticizing the video.
“In the name of Allah, the most merciful, we will no longer follow the criminal crusader U.S. Strategic Command on Twitter," the statement reads. "The images STRATCOM tweeted on New Year's Eve, threatening to drop bombs on our brethren, was hurtful and frightening. Several of our brothers who viewed it have already scheduled emergency sessions with their therapists. The tweet also dist…
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