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UK police collar "violent jihad" website operator
 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. One web page posted soon after 11 September, 2001 saved by Archive.org includes an "urgent appeal to defend Afghanistan" and features defiant quotes from the Taliban threatening any nation that aids the US in its military operations. Another web page describes Abu Ubaidah, who it says died on a jihad in 2000 while fighting the Russians in southern Chechnya. The indictment claims that Ahsan, a 26-year-old London resident, distributed CDs and videotapes that were illegally "eulogising dead fighters, for the purpose of recruiting individuals and soliciting donations to support the mujahideen" and that he "possessed various materials, including literature supporting violent jihad throughout the world". Posted by: Fred 2006-07-23 |
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