Sunday, July 23, 2006

UK police collar "violent jihad" website operator : At the behest of the US government... / Silicon, 21 Jul 2006

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39160581,00.htm
Declan McCullagh
"UK police have arrested a British citizen on charges he operated Islamic fundamentalist websites that preached "violent jihad". The arrest of Syed Talha Ahsan on Wednesday came at the request of the US government, which released a 14-page indictment accusing him of selling books, videotapes, audio cassettes and CD-ROMs that glorified "violent jihad in Chechnya, Bosnia, Afghanistan" and of funnelling money to groups that are deemed illegal by the federal government. The websites including azzam.com, azzam.co.uk, qoqaz.net, and qoqaz.co.uk, tout the virtues of jihad, primarily against the West and allied nations."