FC: FBI seeks to rid Net of Daniel Pearl video, threatens charges

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 16:10:29 PDT

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       FBI Seeks Pearl Video Ban on Net
       By Declan McCullagh
    
       3:06 p.m. May 23, 2002 PDT
       WASHINGTON -- The FBI has ordered an Internet provider to cease
       distributing the unedited video of journalist Daniel Pearl being
       brutally murdered.
       
       On Thursday afternoon, FBI agents from the Newark field office told a
       Virginia company to delete the 4-minute video, which a customer had
       posted on the ogrish.com site.
    
       Pro Hosters, located in Sterling, Virginia, responded by removing the
       video -- which has sprouted on scores of websites after Pearl, a
       38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter, was slain in Pakistan by a
       radical Muslim group.
       
       A videotape of Pearl's execution was delivered to a U.S. consulate in
       February, and a copy eventually appeared online. This month, CBS News
       broadcast a 30-second excerpt, which anchor Dan Rather defended
       as necessary to "understand the full impact and danger of the
       propaganda war being waged."
       
       Ted Hickman, the owner of Pro Hosters, said the FBI insisted the video
       be removed immediately and that agents also wanted the identity of the
       person who runs the ogrish.com site.
    
       [...]
       
       Sandra Carroll, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Newark office, said "the
       local office did investigate certain aspects" of the Internet
       distribution of the Pearl video.
    
    
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