From: Gary Britt 

This judge's next case will be a large software patent dispute involving
web2 technology.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> "I haven't quite grasped the concepts."
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070516/wr_nm/security_britain_internet_dc_1;_ylt
=AlOlJt5aHpltqGbjIhRxcUpkM3wV
>
> 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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