From: "Rich Gauszka" 

"I haven't quite grasped the concepts."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070516/wr_nm/security_britain_internet_dc_1;_ylt=A
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge admitted on Wednesday he was struggling
to cope with basic terms like "Web site" in the trial of three
men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet Judge Peter Openshaw
broke into the questioning of a witness about a Web forum used by alleged
Islamist radicals.

"The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really
understand what a Web site is," he told a London court during the
trial of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws.

Prosecutor Mark Ellison briefly set aside his questioning to explain the
terms "Web site" and "forum." An exchange followed in
which the judge acknowledged: "I haven't quite grasped the
concepts."

Violent Islamist material posted on the Internet, including beheadings of
Western hostages, is central to the case.

Concluding Wednesday's session and looking ahead to testimony on Thursday
by a computer expert, the judge told Ellison: "Will you ask him to
keep it simple, we've got to start from basics."

Younes Tsouli, 23, Waseem Mughal, 24, and Tariq al-Daour, 21, deny a range
of charges under Britain's Terrorism Act, including inciting another person
to commit an act of terrorism "wholly or partly" outside Britain.

Tsouli and Mughal also deny conspiracy to murder. Al-Daour has pleaded not
guilty to conspiring with others to defraud banks, credit card and charge
card companies.

Prosecutors have told the jury at Woolwich Crown Court, east London, that
the defendants kept car-bomb-making manuals and videos of how to wire
suicide vests as part of a campaign to promote global jihad, or holy war.

The trial continues.

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