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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   
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.”

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

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• Mein Kampf (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:16PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @11:16PM (#231025)

  So would you also tell World War II historians not to read Mein Kampf out of fear that neo-Nazi hate groups will get hold of der Führer's writings? The Taliban writings are of similar historical value to those studying the present era.

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