Souad Mekhennet and Dexter Filkins
"From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhammad al-Massari runs a Web site that celebrates the violent death of British and U.S. soldiers. It is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, he says. Massari keeps up his Arabic-language Web site, Tajdeed.org.uk, in the face of a strict new law aimed at curtailing violent speech and publications. Just last week, the Council of Holy Warriors, a group affiliated with Al Qaeda, posted a declaration on Massari's Web site praising a suicide bombing in Iraq that killed or wounded 55 people. "If you kill our civilians, we kill your civilians," Massari said in an interview. Massari's Web site and his public remarks appear to violate the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, which makes it a crime to glorify or encourage political violence. Inciting violence has long been illegal here, but the new rules, drawn up after the London transit bombings of July 7, 2005, are designed to be much tougher."
[Cyber-crime; Law; Terrorism]
