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| Britain urges removal of "MPs hit list" from website |
| 2010-11-06 |
| (KUNA) -- Britain is calling Friday on the US authorities to remove from a "jihadist" website a list of MPs who voted in favour of the Iraq war and an appeal to harm them. A Home Office front man said it was actively working to have the material removed from the site - among those cited as an influence by a student who tried to kill Labour's Stephen Timms. In a post made yesterday, the site lists 395 politicians who backed the 2003 invasion in the House of Commons - many of whom are no longer MPs - and gives advice on finding details of constituency surgeries. It describes as a "heroine" Roshonara Choudhry, 21, who stabbed Timms twice in the stomach at his surgery after watching orc sermons online. She was this week jugged for life with a minimum term of 15 years for attempted murder but the site said it hoped she would inspire others to similar actions. "We ask Allah to keep her safe and secure, to hasten her release and to reward this heroine immensely," the site says. Hundreds of videos inciting violence, including some linked to the suspected al Qaeda criminal mastermind of the cargo plane terror plot, were removed from YouTube yesterday. The clips by Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-profile member of the terror group thought to be behind the cargo bomb plot, were deleted from the video sharing site and more were being examined today. Choudhry claimed to have been inspired by the radical holy man's online sermons. Scotland Yard said it was aware of the website and was "making inquiries". A Home Office front man said: "We should all stand up against orcs, we will raise this with our overseas counterparts to encourage them to remove this content from the website. "We are determined to tackle extremism and always press for the removal of jihadist material on the Internet. Where sites are hosted abroad our ability to close them down is limited." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 My heart goes out to the British. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-11-06 15:45 |
| #1 Some Brit politician could make much hay, if he very carefully worded a statement which says that calls for insurrection and murder might eventually force Britain to restore the death penalty, it having no other choice or means at its disposal to otherwise halt such crimes. "Individuals and groups that abhor democracy, the common law, and advocate murder and the violent overthrow of the government, cannot be dealt with using the civility merited by the civilized, both of which they despise. "Therefore, in the same recognition that civilized society must imprison the barbaric, it must also be understood that there are times when even imprisonment is not enough to deter the viciousness of the worst of these criminals. So it should be no surprise if society is inclined to exercise its ultimate authority to remove them forever as a threat against the innocent." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-06 09:48 |