Iraq Militants Launch Social Media Campaign

Militants who have taken control of large swathes of Iraq have launched a global online campaign urging Muslims to post messages of support for an Islamist state.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) aims to get one billion Muslims posting on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram "to support the Islamic State".

Thousands of tweets have been posted using two hashtags.

"Today after Friday prayers we will be launching with the help of God the largest media campaign in support of an Islamic state," tweeted @AL_Bttaar, one of the apparent orchestrators.

"Accordingly, we urge everyone to participate effectively, the turnout of Muslims to learn more about the Islamic state requires us to do more to support it."

An image outlining "duties" of those supporting the campaign is also in circulation.

Militants have posted images purportedly showing the massacre of soldiers

The duties include talking "about the lies that enemies try to pin on ISIS" and to "tweet the talks of Sheikh Al Baghdadi", an ISIS chief. The image also urges supporters to post translations in English.

Sky's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lisa Holland said ISIS is proving as capable on the web as on the battlefield.

"ISIS are using every tool available to them, from slick videos to Facebook and Twitter - and it has generated thousands of followers," she said. 

"They are calling on Sunni Muslims to join their jihad in a direct way not seen before.

"We've seen fairly unsophisticated videos released by Al Qaeda but this is quite different. ISIS knows how to use the media both in terms of publicising their gains but also promoting their propaganda.

"They even seem to have a media hub and clearly recognise the power of the internet to aid their cause."

Isis released a video showing captured Iraq military personnel

ISIS has used social media to release videos of its fighters parading around towns they have claimed in northern Iraq.

Last week a series of horrific images of Iraqi soldiers being murdered were posted online.

Meanwhile, a Twitter user - Abu Rashash Britani - who claimed to be a British ISIS fighter and published a stream of vile tweets - has had his account suspended.

The ISIS campaign came as the US announced it was deploying 300 military advisers to help the Iraqi government combat the militants.

They will be special forces and will staff joint operations centres for intelligence sharing and planning, officials said.

ISIS militants have seized one of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons factories - the Al Muthanna complex - as their push to Baghdad continues.

The group would not be able to produce chemical weapons with the material that remains there, officials said.

Elsewhere, the Baiji oil refinery, 130 miles (200km) north of the capital near Tikrit, has been transformed into a battlefield.

Troops loyal to the Shia-led government held off the ISIS insurgents and their allies who had stormed the perimeter a day earlier, threatening national energy supplies.

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