Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Libel/Contempt Avoidance

Readers of The Times (UK) may want to take note that the story in Wednesday's paper describing the central role of a Britain-based Internet-intensive Islamist activist in recent terrorism investigations, while drawing on a related Wall Street Journal story (subs. req'd), does not include the WSJ's information about the actual and screen names he used on various websites: Younis Tsouli, Irhabi 007. His name was known from his arrest last October, but the two media organisations are taking very different approaches to explicitly linking his activities to the recent spate of arrests.

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