Anonymous Takes Down 5,500 ISIS-Affiliated Twitter Accounts after Being Called ‘Idiots’ by the Jihadists

            After announcing an all out war against ISIS after the Paris terror attacks, cyber vigilante group Anonymous immediately took action by taking down 5,500 ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts.

According to the report of Newsweek, the "Islamic Cyber Army" of ISIS responded to the threat made by Anonymous by calling the group of activists, "idiots."

            "The Anonymous hackers threatened in new video release that they will carry out a major hack operation on the Islamic State (idiots)," read a post from an ISIS statement posted in the privacy app, Telegram. "What they gonna hack...all they can do is hacking Twitter accounts, emails etc..."

            Rory Cellan-Jones from the BBC News was given the opportunity to have a written interview with the man behind the Operation Paris of Anonymous.

            In his report posted in BBC, Jones asked the head of the #OpParis about the aim of the operation and how can they measure its success.

            "Our main goal in this operation is to identify the perpetrators of the Paris terror attacks and all terrorist organisations linked to them, acquire intel to dig deep into the roots of their manpower, disable their propaganda and stop their reach on social media, release their information to the public, and flag down any threat to mankind," read the answer from #OpParis. "With #OpParis as a large scale op, we make use of our morale, experience, and our efficiency in effectively finishing off ISIS, not just in the Internet, but ISIS itself. We will not settle down by just simply putting ISIS off the Internet grid."

            Anonymous also said that no accounts are to be harmed after being confirmed to be not affiliated with ISIS.

            "It is difficult that we make a visible profile without having the absolute certainty, we do not share information as soon we have them in hand and we spend countless hours to investigate and verify it," read the statement. "We guarantee that we are not making false accusations to those who aren't actually involved."

             "The propaganda of ISIS is based on advertising their actions," answered Anonymous, when asked if it is better for ISIS affiliates to talk openly on Twitter than driving them underground. "We cannot fight them with guns and rifles, stopping their propaganda is an effective way to weaken their manpower and their presence in the Internet."