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To: ExCane who wrote (6990)	4/24/2007 2:29:09 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

"Al Qaeda-linked young men circulated beheading clippings while sitting in UK" Malaysia Sun ^ \| Tuesday 24th April, 2007 \| Malaysia Sun story.malaysiasun.com (ANI) London, Apr 24 : Prosecution told a UK court yesterday that as many as three young men arrested last year on charges of terrorism distributed violent al-Qaeda propaganda, including footage of the beheading of hostages, through the Internet "while sitting in Britain" with the objective of inciting terrorism. The three men appeared before the Woolwich Crown Court and were accused of inciting terrorism abroad. They were said to have a "close affiliation" with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Younis Tsouli (23), Waseem Mughal (24), and Tariq al-Daour (21), allegedly played important roles in al-Qaeda's "media war" and had massive quantities of films, audio recordings, books and documents promoting the extremist ideology of Osama bin Laden and global jihad. Appearing for the prosecution, Mark Ellison told the court: "Possession of this material is strong evidence of the depth of their adherence to the cause. Collecting it, providing links for others to obtain it, applauding it, defending it - as we say these defendants did - as well as making it available to a wide audience on websites is strong evidence of the approval of it and of the ideology it seeks to justify." He added that the defendants, who were arrested in October 2005, were "intelligent young men" who appeared to lead normal lives. "Behind the apparent normality of their daily lives and for at least a year before they were arrested, the truth is that each of these young men firmly believed in, supported and set about inciting others to follow an extreme ideology of violent holy war," he said. Among the footage found in police raids on their homes in London and Kent were films of the beheading of the British engineer Kenneth Bigley as well as the executions of American, Korean, Japanese, Egyptian, Iraqi, Turkish and Bulgarian hostages, reported the Times Online. The footage of Bigley's death was found in a computer file labeled "The throat slitting of the Briton who Blair and his people would not help". Other video material showed him pleading for his life along with his fellow hostages, the Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong. Police also seized film of the beheadings in Iraq of the Americans Nick Berg and Paul Marshall Johnson Jr, and the murder in Pakistan of the US journalist Daniel Pearl. The videos contained scenes of hostages as their heads were severed. Other films found on the men's computers or on discs in their rooms included footage of suicide attacks in Iraq, the video wills of "martyrs" and stylised productions eulogising the 9/11 hijackers. According to the report, Ellison also told the court: "The effective recruitment of new adherents to the cause and the inciting of them to join in the fighting and killing and become mujahidin, if not also martyrs, is the very lifeblood of achieving the religious dominance that has its root in this ideology. The central importance of powerfully expressed and constructed media in that process, and having the means of distributing and pushing the message to those prepared to listen and likely to be persuaded to join in themselves, is at the very heart of advancing this ideology. This is the area in which these three defendants, we allege, were active. Each of them was adept at the use of computers and the internet and they each demonstrated by what they collected, by what they provided to others, by what they said on record on their computers, an avid adherence to the need for violent holy war."

To: ExCane who wrote (6990)	4/24/2007 9:24:53 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

IRAN: 'UNAUTHORIZED' MUSICIANS ARRESTED AKI ^ \| 4/24/07 adnki.com Tehran, 24 April (AKI) - Police in the Iranian capital Tehran are cracking down on underground musical groups in a 'moralization' campaign which kicked off over the weekend. Security officials carried out raids on three unauthorized recording studios and arrested six members of three diferrent rap and rock groups who had not received the green light to play from the ministry of culture and Islamic orientation. Among those arrested is a top rapper, Reza Pishro, who is very popular among young Iranians. His illegally sold CDs are best selling hits across the country. For the past two days, police have also been patrolling the apartment building of another star of Iranian rap music, Soroush Lashkari of the Hichkas (Nobody) group, who is at large to escape arrest. The latest album of the Hichkas, ''the jungle of asphalt', is considered homage to the Persian empire before it was "invaded by Arab bedouins to be converted to Islam" as one of the group's lyrics says. In the Islamic Republic underground music is very popular among young people and all previous attempts to stop this phenomenon have failed. According to unofficial estimates, over 150 rap professional groups are active in the country and illegally record albums. Some of them have even performed in concerts abroad. Under new rules which became effective over the weekend, police can arrest and detain women who do not respect the Islamic dress code.