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May 31, 2011

AP: UK delays release of anti-terror cartoon movie

by Raphael G. Satter
The Associated Press

(AP) — It was supposed to be a warning about the perils of joining the international jihad. But those behind "Wish You Waziristan" — a cartoon take on two young Britons' tortured journey to the heart of the Taliban insurgency — say officials have put the brakes on their government-funded counter-extremism project after being spooked by negative press.

The six-minute movie follows two England-raised Muslim brothers as they travel to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and back to Britain — where they're taken into custody.

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