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Facebook shuts down Pak Taliban 'recruiting page'
December 11, 2012
Facebook has shut down an account by the Pakistan Taliban that the militant group created to recruit people to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit videos.  

According to a report by Los Angeles Times, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan  page was recruiting contributors for a new quarterly magazine called Ahyah-e-Khilafat.  

It had 281 'likes' as of Friday evening and included posts in English, mostly bland, PG-rated job postings for positions like video editor, translator and writer of "jihadi current affairs' and Islamic movements, the Washington Post reports. A post on the social networking site gave an email address and asked readers to ''plz spread' the message.
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