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A Palestinian blogger, who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at Prophet Muhammad, was caught in a sting that used Facebook to track him down.
Over several years, Husayin is suspected of posting arguments in favour of atheism on English and Arabic blogs, where he described the God of Islam as having attributes of a primitive Bedouin. He used a fake name on his English and Arabic-language blogs and Facebook pages.
After his mother discovered articles on atheism on his computer, she cancelled his internet connection in the hope that he would change his mind. Instead he started visiting an internet cafe, which turned out to be a costly mistake.
The owner Ahmed Abu- Asal said that the blogger aroused suspicion by spending up to seven hours a day in a corner booth. After several months, a cafe worker supplied the captured snapshots of his Facebook pages to Palestinian intelligence officials and Husayin was tracked down and arrested.
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