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LONDON, Nov 5 (KUNA) -- Britain is calling Friday on the US authorities to
remove from a "jihadist" website a list of MPs who voted in favour of the Iraq
war and an appeal to harm them.
A Home Office spokesman said it was actively working to have the material
removed from the site - among those cited as an influence by a student who
tried to kill Labour's Stephen Timms.
In a post made yesterday, the site lists 395 politicians who backed the
2003 invasion in the House of Commons - many of whom are no longer MPs - and
gives advice on finding details of constituency surgeries.
It describes as a "heroine" Roshonara Choudhry, 21, who stabbed Timms twice
in the stomach at his surgery after watching extremist sermons online.
She was this week jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years for
attempted murder but the site said it hoped she would inspire others to
similar actions.
"We ask Allah to keep her safe and secure, to hasten her release and to
reward this heroine immensely," the site says.
Hundreds of videos inciting violence, including some linked to the
suspected al Qaida mastermind of the cargo plane terror plot, were removed
from YouTube yesterday.
The clips by Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-profile member of the terror group
thought to be behind the cargo bomb plot, were deleted from the video sharing
site and more were being examined today.
Choudhry claimed to have been inspired by the radical cleric's online
sermons.
Scotland Yard said it was aware of the website and was "making inquiries".
A Home Office spokesman said: "We should all stand up against extremists,
we will raise this with our overseas counterparts to encourage them to remove
this content from the website.
"We are determined to tackle extremism and always press for the removal of
jihadist material on the Internet. Where sites are hosted abroad our ability
to close them down is limited." (end) he.rk
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