Police in Indian city crack down on 'Osama' mobile phone video clips By JOY BANERJEE Associated Press Writer LUCKNOW, India Police in a northern Indian city are cracking down on mobile phone video messages showing Osama bin Laden, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and grisly killings by American troops and hostage-takers in Iraq, an officer said Tuesday.
The two clips, which run for a total of 57 seconds, have been circulating in Kanpur city in Uttar Pradesh state. They show edited portions of videos purportedly released by bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group, Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhat C. Meena said by telephone from Kanpur. "Orders have been issued to start random checking of cell phones. If anyone is found carrying the Osama MMS, he will be charged with sedition," Meena said. He added that the MMS, or multimedia message, could be used to win sympathizers for al-Qaida and spread religious hatred. "We are baffled at the origin of this Osama clip and are trying to locate its source," Meena said. Kanpur, an industrial hub 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the state capital, Lucknow, has witnessed rioting between India's majority Hindus and minority Muslims. About 40 percent of Kanpur's 2.9 million people are Muslim. The city also hosts the headquarters of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India, a militant Muslim organization that Indian officials say has ties with terror groups in the insurgency-wracked northern region of Kashmir. Meena said the first clip shows militants riding on a tank and firing into the air, followed by pictures of Osama bin Laden firing a gun and motivating his followers to take part in "jihad" or holy war. It ends with pictures of the Sept. 11 attacks accompanied by the message: "Thousands killed, al-Qaida strikes." Meena said the second clip shows images purportedly of an American soldier slitting the throat of an Iraqi man and then severing his head, as well as suspected militants shooting an American woman in the head from point-blank range. Sanjay Dutta, a pharmaceutical company employee, said he had received the clips and quickly deleted them. "It did not have the senders' number or any identity showing from where it came," he said. 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