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| Kavkaz closed down by Swedish prosecutor |
| 2006-05-07 |
| A Swedish prosecutor yesterday ordered two servers hosting a Chechen rebel website to be impounded. The website, www.kavkacenter.com, is very critical of Russian policy towards the breakaway republic Chechnya, and supports the Chechen armed struggle against Russia. "They came to the office and held a short meeting about our relationship to the client. Someone from the National Criminal Investigation Department also took part," the owner explained. "The prosecutor then decided to search the premises and to confiscate two servers." "I see this as an outrage. I don't agree with what's written on the website but I respect their right to free speech." The prosecutor's actions were spurred by a complaint from the Russian Embassy, according to the Finnish owner of the servers and the hosting company owner. The website is accused of incitement, according to the company owner. "The material in question is a number of pages in the site's letters pages in which an attack in Nalchik in October 2005 is praised," he told TT. News agency TT was reporting on Friday night that the internet address was linking to a temporary homepage with identical content, hosted in a server in Lithuania. Lithuania's supreme court recently decided despite Russian opposition that the website can remain up. However, by Saturday morning, the site's content appeared not to be accessible at the address. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 They'll just find a chinese server that won't ask any questions. |
| Posted by: Thragum Angugum3698 2006-05-07 11:41 |
| #6 Kavkaz has been closed down several times. It'll be back. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-05-07 09:03 |
| #5 All of that gatehered inteligence is useless if the lawyers will not let you act on it. The lawyers will not let you act on it 99.9% of the time. I submit these sites therefore offer little actionable inteligence value. Their only other purpose than recruting more jihadi is giving lawyers something to say no about. No dead jihadi, no dead islamo-fascists, no dead ben Laden, no value. |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-05-07 06:45 |
| #4 Intel thing SPoD, no one wants them to survive or even breathe our oxygen for 1 minute. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-07 06:36 |
| #3 I am no more upset by these baby killers having their website seized and shut down than I am by padeophiles having their stuff sized and shut down. Oh but they are the same. These are followers of that paedo clown are they not? |
| Posted by: SPoD 2006-05-07 04:19 |
| #2 I've got most of the www.kavkacenter.com download links..I'm sure many have downloaded them to hard copy. * unrelated General Question: I know a little about the wayback machine, but can you retrieve 'Blogger Account' comments from an existing blog that deleted it's own comments? |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-07 01:39 |
| #1 Kavkaz: Where a certain eastern med Soros fanboi got his info on Chechnya. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-05-07 01:27 |