“7/7 bomber linked to Israeli pair.”

That was the headline on today’s Ceefax page 111 and also on this BBC story on the webpage. Did it get your attention? It got mine. Here’s what the story actually says:

The man thought to be the 7 July bombings mastermind tried to recruit young Muslims with two other suicide bombers, a BBC documentary says.

Edgware Road bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan reportedly knew suicide bombers Omar Sharif and Asif Hanif, who blew up an Israeli bar in April 2003.

They weren’t Israelis. They murdered Israelis.

UPDATE: Whaddya know. It’s been stealth edited to “7/7 bomber linked to Israel pair.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: In fact the current headline is still funny. “Israel pair” Supremely uninformative, and still easily misunderstood to mean that they were Israelis rather than the killers of Israelis. The BBC has plenty of headlines longer than that: “7/7 bomber linked to bombers of Israeli club” would still have fitted into the space available.