YouTube Yanks Videos Featuring Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
YouTube removed several videos, but this time the Google-owned video site wasn’t reacting to copyright concerns: Videos calling for jihad by American-born, Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki were taken down at the request of government officials from the United States and United Kingdom, The New York Times reported.
The two explosive devices that were intercepted on cargo planes last week likely helped to expedite the decision to pull the videos, as the Times reports that Awlaki has often publicly encouraged violence directed at the West.
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