Radical Cleric Still Speaks on YouTube

by SCOTT SHANE
The New York Times
March 7, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1179/radical-cleric-still-speaks-on-youtube

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON — From the shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., to the stabbing of a British member of Parliament, investigators have identified Anwar al-Awlaki's stirring online calls to jihad as an important instigator of terrorism.

So members of Congress last year appealed to YouTube to remove calls for violence by Mr. Awlaki, the militant American-born cleric now hiding in Yemen, and in an announcement reported around the world last November, YouTube agreed.

End of story?

Not at all. A quick search of YouTube today for "Anwar al-Awlaki" finds hundreds of his videos, most of them scriptural commentary or clerical advice, but dozens that include calls for jihad or attacks on the United States.

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