July 28, 2016. L.B., the author of the piece, responds to comments:

So at the time I was of two mindsets:

1) That even though these images may not have yet been on the news, the Government had a sector that constantly kept surveillance over these sort of factions and entities. I felt that this was a movement already large enough to warrant their attention.

2) I also knew that when I’d retweet these images/accounts with certain hashtags or agencies addressed, those responsible would then see my actions. Now I had no idea what kind of danger that might actually put me in considering that these men were on the other side of the world, but to meddle in their agenda felt like something much bigger than myself. 
However, since 2002, the Army taught me to always be vigilant and report any suspicious activity to higher authorities. So I went against my apprehensions and over the course of two weeks, I retweeted about a dozen ISIS tweets containing images of car bombs, ISIS supporters showing their allegiance from around the world, and even the horrible images of gassed school children lying dead from apparent barrel bombs dropped by Assad’s regime. Granted, since so much of this was in Arabic, I could only visually surmise whom was on whose side; but I could always identify the innocent victims and they were usually children.

I would ask questions such as, “Does the US Gov. have eyes on this?” or “What’s the US doing to help the innocent children caught in this crossfire?” I addressed the following: @POTUS, @whitehouse, @jointstaff, and even @npr. I used the following hashtags: #pentagon, #syria, #assad, #terrorists #cia. Other than that, I wasn’t quite sure which other accounts to include. It was 2013 and I was still new to Twitter. Considering not one of the hundreds of tweets I “read” had anything to do with the United States, all mainly directed towards Assad and other high clerics, I wasn’t going to go to the local authorities with what I found. Unfortunately, I never received a response from those I addressed. I did, however, get retweeted or favorited by those against Assad and the ongoing war in Syria. But as I mentioned earlier in my post, I began to get “followed” by many of those ISIS accounts I retweeted or by other men who also were followers of them. This scared the hell out of me so with no response from the US government, I wiped my account of those retweets and blocked those whom appeared to be of ISIS support. If there was something more I could have officially done, I was unaware of it.