YouTube Pulls Videos By Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Urging Violence Against West

Newser:

YouTube has pulled hundreds of videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, in response to pressure from British officials and a letter from New York congressman Anthony Weiner.

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[rotorhead1871]

09:28 PM on 11/09/2010

wow!!! was that a public service move??? or ??

[Aladdin Sane]

11:35 AM on 11/08/2010

Yeah, who needs this cleric when you've got the tea party?

[rotorhead1871]

11:55 PM on 11/04/2010

gee....no kiddding....how did it take this long??...anyone purporting or supporting personal or property crime...should be removed...ASAP.

[Caymus77]

10:28 PM on 11/04/2010

Good for Youtube. Terrorists should be denied a platform to promote their hatred.

[realitytrumpsbull]

11:15 AM on 11/07/2010

Yep, that sure kicks the soapbox out from under of the guy, for now. Problem is, there's still 'stuff' in that part of the world, and I think the guy making videos of himself is more of a symptom, than the problem itself, which is that underneath, there's still festering pockets of hate and discontent in that part of the world. And, whether it's progress, or Israel, or whatever the beef-du-jour happens to be, there'll be someone out there expressing it, most likely. But, this guy? His 15 minutes are up.

Maybe though, there's hope for the future, because with more people getting online, and being civil and reasonable in their communications, maybe long-term it'll be a peace-promoting influence in the region? Or, maybe not. Isn't this guy from Yemen, or somesuch? Well, those people are kind of screwed all the way around the block, no money, no real future...don't get to sit at the Big Table like their oil-wealthy neighbors...

[rotorhead1871]

09:34 PM on 11/09/2010

no one should get a platform for launching their hate war ......ever,,,,

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

05:17 PM on 11/04/2010

Does anyone here know what Awlaki said in the pulled videos?

[Hypocrites are Watching]

04:39 PM on 11/04/2010

Look am I just insane or just plain stupid (maybe just brain damaged naivety [is my bet]) to think would it be so bad to just sit down ask what we all as a people need/can do to stop this!!!?!??!? To get everyone involved no matter how small their voice! You wanna talk bravery that would be brave and courageous, much more than the bomb or the ArmaLite yet peace seems to be a dirty word. I know I lived in Belfast for many years and some people just don’t want peace they want death and as long as we let those who govern us throw stones at others it is never going to stop. I just cant take all this killing any more it is making me sick I feel it eating away at my spirit little by little and I am a vegetarian pacifist I can only imagine what this is doing to people of a more (how do I say) aggressive disposition!! Sure I get angry even frustrated but I couldn’t see my self killing anyone. There are far worse and better punishments when punishment is needed. But I’m sure my voice will by drowned in the tumult of those clamoring for blood. And those who are calling me wuss (and far worse). I wait and see what we shall become…..

[mulegino]

03:49 PM on 11/04/2010

Virtually all of these types of videos, as well as the audio footage- including the Bin Laden videos- is disseminated via two private intelligence companies with ties to Israeli intelligence and the Pentagon- INTEL CENTER and SITE INTEL.

The Pakistani press reported that Osama Bin Laden died circa 12/13/2001 in the Tora Bora complex, and reported that his funeral was held on December 16, attended by about thirty of his followers. The report of Bin Laden's death was reported by, among others, Dan Rather on CBS News.
Then President Musharraf of Pakistan confirmed that Bin Laden had died of kidney failure in December of 2001.
The current Pakistani President, as well as the late Benazir Bhutto, all agree that Bin Laden was dead- although Bhutto claims that he was murdered by Omar Sheik- although she didn't elaborate.
In any case, Bin Laden, in an interview in a Pakistani newspaper Ummat, in early October, 2001 categorically denied that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks.

Subsequent to December, 2001, there was a noticable decline of interest in getting "Bin Laden dead or alive" on the part of the US government, including Pres. Bush.

Subsequently Emmanuel "Bin Laden" Goldstein fortuitously reappears in staged video and audio before elections, peace talks, etc.

If these two companies are actively involved in the circulation of false and misleading video and audio, why should their information be taken seriously at all, other than to discover the ulterior motives behind it?

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

05:51 PM on 11/04/2010

Wow, Israel being implicated in a paranoid conspiracy theory!

Now there is something you don’t see very often on this site!

[nycpaladin]

01:21 AM on 11/06/2010

Oh, this numnut has be trying to put one over with this cr@p ever since this package bomb incident started. Try asking him to provide proof for his conspiratorial drivel, and don't hold your breath while you wait for him do provide it.

[tallen]

05:57 PM on 11/06/2010

>>Subsequently Emmanuel "Bin Laden" Goldstein fortuitously reappears in staged video

ROTFL!

You're a comedian!

[blitznstitch]

01:13 PM on 11/04/2010

What?! This is JUST now happening? Terrorist use our servers and networks to blast out their hatred to kill us -- and today is the day we say "no more" really? REALLY?

[mulegino]

11:07 AM on 11/04/2010

It does seem strange that these radical Jihadist videos can be traced to websites whose contact representatives give addresses located in Van Nuys, CA., and are disseminated on the web by SITE Intel, a Mossad front company whose president, Rita Katz is an Iraqi born Zionist whose father was hanged for spying against the Baathist regime in Iraq during the 1967 war.

[Rand]

12:49 PM on 11/04/2010

Right... Because there are no real radical Muslim clerics


Oh, COME ON!


I've condemned those who blame all of Islam for terrorism, and will continue to do so, but trying to claim that there are no Moslem terrorists can only be described as insanity or stupidity

[mulegino]

05:14 PM on 11/04/2010

I never implied no Muslim terrorists. I just pointed out that SITE Intel, run by a Zionist with ties to Israeli intelligence, is one of the two prime sources of these videos, some of which include figures who "convered" to Islam who were previously Zionists.

[Chagsameach5771]

12:53 PM on 11/04/2010

Prove it or you lie.

[William J Unverferth Sr]

09:15 AM on 11/04/2010

The old saying goes your right to swing your fist ends at someone else's face. So speech which incites to violence should not enjoy free speech. No right is unlimited.

[TeeSC]

02:18 PM on 11/04/2010

An interesting observation and thank you. Some people seem to think that "rights" are boundless.

[eric14]

09:06 AM on 11/04/2010

I do not object to the censoring of Videos devoted to killing me.

[SusanElizabeth1949]

01:59 PM on 11/04/2010

You Tube should pull ALL calls for violence, there is some damn ugly stuff over there.

[TeeSC]

02:17 PM on 11/04/2010

Nice and succinct. I agree with you.