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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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