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This is an archive article published on March 31, 2008

THE TERROR WEB

For more than a year, a Massachusetts-based Internet company hosted Leemedia.net, a website that taught its members how to outfit a suicide bomber...

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8226; For more than a year, a Massachusetts-based Internet company hosted Leemedia.net, a website that taught its members how to outfit a suicide bomber, aired Al Qaeda propaganda videos, and offered an 8220;exclusive8221; Taliban video showing the beheadings of three 8216;spies8217;. 8216;Lee8217; in Leemedia is an acronym for 8220;La Elaha Elallah,8221; meaning 8220;The True Path8221; in Arabic. The website was taken down earlier this month.

8226; Propagating hatred between India and Pakistan is a rage on social networking sites. Last year, a court in India issued notices to Orkut for hosting an anti-India group.

8226; There are a number of sites that challenge the truth of the Holocaust. Such Holocaust denial is explicitly illegal in 10 European countries 8212; including Germany and France 8212; and in Israel and is prosecutable in countries like Canada and Australia.

8226; The Hamas and Hizbollah both use the Internet as a part of their command and control structure. The official Hamas site contains a 8220;Glory Record8221; detailing almost a hundred armed exchanges. Whenever an Israeli soldier is killed, this is described as 8220;extermination8221; and, whenever a member of Hamas dies, this is characterised as 8220;martyrdom8221;.

8226; There are a number of sites with detailed bombmaking information. UK woke up to the situation with the revelation in June 2000 that the Soho nailbomber David Copeland had downloaded two relevant titles from the Internet.

 

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