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| Norway shuts down anti-Bush site |
| 2004-11-05 |
| Norwegian police have shut down a satirical web site that called for the assassination of U.S. President George Bush, newspaper Aftenposten reported Thursday. The U.S. embassy in Oslo filed charges against Norwegian rap trio Gatas Parlament because a website they ran urged people to finance the assassination of the president. The group has said the content was meant as satire. "I think it is fairly obvious to everyone not working at the American embassy or in the police that this was not about killing anyone. The web site is a political campaign," said Aslak Borgersrud, of Gatas Parlament. Police have removed the site's content and replaced it with a copy of the police fax explaining and authorizing the shutdown. "The implicated will be called in for questioning in the near future," police lawyer Pal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said. He said the site was removed because it violated harassment laws. Convictions could carry fines or jail sentences of up to two years. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #1 [span class=ChannelingInstapundit] More crushing of dissent in John Ashcroft's Amer-er-er- . . ., uh, er, Norway. [/span] |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-11-05 10:54:25 AM |