Beheading plot: the video is mightier than the sword
Read Mick Hume's columns in The Times this week.
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Friday 2 February:
‘After the scare about “happy slapping” being filmed on mobile phones comes the panic about “happy decapitations” in Birmingham. Reports of an alleged plot to “behead a hero”, by kidnapping a British Muslim soldier and videoing his execution for the internet, have had a more explosive impact than another routine bomb plot….’
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