MIA DC Muslims used Facebook and Youtube to start their careers in terror.

More details on the MIA DC Muslims keep on coming in.

We read here how the MIA DC 5 were rebuffed by al Qaeda because they lacked the right terror resumes and recommendations. Now we learn they had used Facebook and Youtube to try and make the right contacts.

Per the AP:

The men used the social networking site Facebook and the Internet video site YouTube to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan, said S.M. Imran Gardezi, the press minister at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington. When they arrived in Pakistan, they took that effort to the street.

"They were trying to link up to some groups, but there is no evidence for now that there was a definite plan," Gardezi said.

Local Pakistanis became suspicious of the young men and tipped off police, he said. Police arrested the group in a home belonging to the uncle of one of the men. Gardezi said the uncle had past ties to extremist groups.

Gardezi said the men have not been turned over to the FBI and said Pakistan intended to carry out its own legal process.

I'm sure you'll be happy to know that the MIA DC 5 have been in touch with the US State Dept.

"We have had access to the five detainees," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters Thursday at an unrelated news conference. She called the move "part of the usual outreach" of the U.S. government and declined further comment.

For his part President Obama had this to say about the matter. And no, he did not say they 'acted stupidly'. (evidently only white American cops do that.)

President Barack Obama declined to talk specifically about the case Thursday, but said, "We have to constantly be mindful that some of these twisted ideologies are available over the Internet."

Obama, in Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, also praised "the extraordinary contributions of the Muslim-American community, and how they have been woven into the fabric of our nation in a seamless fashion."

(I wonder if by 'seamless fashion' he means arranged marriages, honor killings and terror attacks?)