And so the sad landmark of 100 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan is reached and it provides the BBC with yet another opportunity to undermine the morale of our Armed Forces. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, were on foot patrol in Helmand Province when a scumbag Jihadist detonated himself. The blast killed three of our boys. Instead of examining what sort of deranged mindset encourages these homicide-bombers (Islam) the BBC’s defence correspondent Paul Adams instead questions the veracity of the progress our military is making and complains at the corruption of the Afghan government. I’m sure the next of kin will find this most reassuring – the subtext of course being that their men died in vain. Shame on Adams and the rest of the defeatist anti-military BBC.
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After the public complained, the text was amended.
It now reads: “Al Qaeda is unhappy with America and other countries getting involved in places like the Middle East.
“People linked to al Qaeda have used violence to make this point in the U.S.A, and in other countries.”
Dame Pauline, who headed the Government’s Joint Intelligence Committee and is described as the most formidable female diplomat Britain has produced, said the new version was even worse.
“It still says it’s all America’s fault, and now for daring to be involved in the Middle East at all,” she said.
“It wasn’t ‘people linked to’ al Qaeda who killed 3,000 people that day, it was al Qaeda itself.
“Osama bin Laden even boasted of the attacks. Is the BBC really saying that if you’re ‘unhappy’ it’s quite normal behaviour to murder people?
“Is the BBC so naive as to take al Qaeda’s propaganda at face value? Or is there something more sinister at work here?”
Dame Pauline, who is now a shadow security spokesman, added: “Al Qaeda make the manifestly false claim that America is part of an enormous Jewish-Christian conspiracy to dominate the world and kill Muslims.
“This is no secret – Osama bin Laden has said as much himself.
“We know that in the long run the struggle against terrorists is a battle for hearts and minds.
“How can we expect to win when our national broadcaster is parroting their line to our own children?
“There is only one set of people who are ever to blame for terrorist attacks and that’s the perpetrators themselves.”
Dame Pauline said the BBC was a “national treasure” and she had been proud to serve as a governor.
“But from time to time I have found myself asking questions about BBC’s attitude to terrorism. It even orders its journalists not to use the word terrorist,” she added.
“Although almost everyone in Britain quite rightly reacted with horror to the attacks of September 11, there was an ugly undercurrent that blamed America for being attacked.
“Just two days after the attacks the BBC screened an edition of the Question Time programme where they invited an anti-American audience that laid into the American ambassador, leaving him close to tears. In fairness, the BBC apologised for that outrage.
“Even though this was an appalling example of knee-jerk prejudice, at least it was meant for adults.
“I never imagined the rot would spread to the BBC’s children’s programmes. I was wrong.”
Dame Pauline has complained to the BBC’s head of journalism Mark Byford, who is understood to have defended the text as “clear and concise”.
Sinead Rocks, editor of the Newsround programme, said the first version of the text was several years old and should no longer have been available.
But she defended the new version, insisting it was not an attempt to “justify” the events of September 11.
“We feel it is entirely legitimate to question the motives of the people who carried out the attacks,” she said.
“Our contact with our audience has shown that their understanding is helped by events being put into some kind of context.
“We often have to translate complex and emotive issues into language appropriate for children. It’s a responsibility we take very seriously.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-484577/BBCs-Newsround-fed-youngsters-Al-Qaeda-propaganda-claims-ex-spy-chief.html
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Relatives’ fury as BBC pays expenses to disgraced Holocaust denier who ‘pestered bereaved families after the 7/7 bombing’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025385/BBC-hires-disgraced-Holocaust-denier-pestered-bereaved-families-7-7-bombing.html
As if to prove my point about where Al-BBC’s real sympathies lie….
“Relatives’ fury as BBC pays expenses to disgraced Holocaust denier who ‘pestered bereaved families after the 7/7 bombing’
By Daily Mail Reporter
Families of those killed in the 7/7 suicide bombings have launched a bitter attack on the BBC yesterday for paying expenses to a disgraced academic who believes the atrocities may have been an intelligence agency conspiracy.
At one point, Nicholas Kollerstrom telephoned the father of one victim to discuss whether his daughter’s body had been planted at the site of the Tavistock Square bus bombing.
Dr Kollerstrom, who denies the Holocaust, was carrying out research for his role in the BBC’s Conpiracy Files, a documentary about the theories surrounding the 2005 bombings on the London transport system that killed 52 innocent victims.”
Here we see Al-BBc using British tax-payers money to help shift blame away from the islamofascists. I wonder if the dhimmis at Al-Beeb will open a conspiracy file on Bat Ye’or’s “Eurabia” which explains why Europe went from a muslim population of tens of thousands in 1945 to the current fast-growing muslim population of over 50 MILLION in 2005 ?
It’s never quite explained why the ‘100 dead’ figure is such a damning indictment, just strongly implied that it is. In fact this is historically a fantastically low casualty figure for so long spent occupying an entire country. Much fewer than those killed in a single day of World War II.
MDC | 11.06.08 – 12:41 pm |
It’s never quite explained why the ‘100 dead’ figure is such a damning indictment, just strongly implied that it is. In fact this is historically a fantastically low casualty figure for so long spent occupying an entire country. Much fewer than those killed in a single day of World War II.
But that’s entirely beside the point in Leftoid land. You see, there is no legitimate reason for those 100 British lad to have been killed, as opposed to WWII.
Once the BBC has completely educated the populace into accepting that Afghanistan is another illegal war, which the UK got led into by Bush, then you’ll really start to hear it.