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Man Jailed For Posting Gruesome Videos On Facebook

A British court has sentenced a man to five years in prison for posting gruesome beheading videos on Facebook, according to an AP report. The 42-year-old Craig Slee also put online links to a communique by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, that encouraged terrorism. In one of two Facebook pages he created, Slee inferred he was a member of the Taliban and claimed he had been on trips to Afghanistan. But counterterrorism police found Slee had no connection to any terrorist organization.

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