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British Library Declines to Host Taliban Documents, Citing UK Terrorism Act

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the learn-from-history-or-be-doomed-to-repeat-it dept.

shortscreen writes:

For two years, academics worked to digitize and translate a collection of Taliban documents as part of the Taliban Sources Project (page currently appears to be down, but exists in Google's cache). As the project comes to a close, they've sought an institution to make the digital archive available to researchers around the world. However, the British Library, after reviewing a catalogue of titles, declined to host the documents. Their statement noted that“The Terrorism Act places specific responsibilities on anyone in the UK who might provide access to terrorist publications, and the legal advice received jointly by the British Library and other similar institutions advises against making this type of material accessible.”

[Ed. note] I've had a report that it is available on Bing's cache.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:13PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:13PM (#230971) Journal

    Well, one factor in de-westernizing Afghanistan was that the groups the US supported during the Soviet-Afghan war were religious dickheads who opened the door to other religious dickheads.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:44AM (#231150)

    Due to the conservative Christian powers that be feeling that having a similiarly fundamentalist religious regime would be the best way to handle those 'Heather' Soviets and their Atheistic ways!

    People often forget than Communism was also linked with a push against religion, which was often seen as controlling the masses in the same way television and consumer media does today.