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Middle East:
Google Risks Muslim Backlash By Hosting Fitna
TechCrunch
Google is currently hosting controversial film about Islam Fitma.
The film has made tech headlines after Network Solutions suspended the site the film was to debut on, then Live Leak was forced to pull it following serious threats against the company from Muslims unhappy with the film. Live Leak’s explanation video above.
The film, ripped from Live Leak, is now available on Google Video here in full, and can also be found on YouTube. Warning on the film: there are graphic scenes in it.
What Google does now will be an interesting test for a company that claims “do no evil” as its company mantra. The video is hosted in the US, and we presume with part or full support of the creators of the film negating any copyright considerations, so ultimately it will be up to Google to decide between free speech and global jihad.
Link to Fitna on Google Video
Africa:
Somalia terror suspects to remain in custody
Asia:
Explosion in Southern Afghanistan Kills 2, Wounds 8
Europe:
2 charged in Denmark with preparing terror attack
Middle East:
My life in al-Qa'eda, by bin Laden's bodyguard
No. America:
Accused Saddam Agent Says He Met With Hillary at White House
So. America:
Mexican drug cartels borrowing tactics from international terrorists
So. Pacific:
Indonesia: prosecutors ask court to outlaw JI |
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Questions for the
Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?
Claudia Rosett, National Review
In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering
its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of
Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask why. Along with drawing
attention to Coughlin’s research, now circulating on the Internet, the
growing controversy has thrown a spotlight on Coughlin’s alleged nemesis at
the Pentagon, a top aide named Hesham Islam — whose tale deserves closer
attention. Not least, as a reporter for the Armed Forces Press Service
observed last year, it would make a great Hollywood blockbuster.
Hamas: Today's Master Showmen
Howard Linett, The New Media Journal |
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Spotlight
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Tablighi Jamaat: An
Indirect Line to Terrorism
Fred Burton & Scott Stewart,
Stratfor
Spanish police conducted a series of raids on apartment buildings, a mosque
and a prayer hall in Barcelona on Jan. 19, seizing bombmaking materials and
arresting 14 men who allegedly were planning to attack targets in the city.
Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said the detainees were
Islamists belonging to a “well-organized group that had gone a step beyond
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