I only ask the question because I read that….
Among the newly released data from inside the secret compound is a series of video tapes. They show him sat in his compound, watching video footage of himself and rehearsing his lines for propaganda video. At one point there is a recording of his favourite TV channels and among those listed are Al Jazeera and the BBC’s Arabic service…
Sorry David, but Bin Laden didn’t need to pay the license fee to watch the BBC Arabic service because you and millions of others already pay it for him.
Bin Laden might not have had a BBC license but the BBC certainly licensed bin Laden.
Was just googling for info about the death of Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt today, in the Giro D’Italia.
Imagine my surprise when up popped a pic of you-know-who, stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the thousands of pics of the cyclist.
No prizes for guessing who the host website was.
Anyone care to explain the subliminal meaning of this strange phenomenon…?
Think the bBBC must have all things islam in its DNA.
Aha! it becomes clearer as to 😀 why he was caught at last: he believed what he saw on the Beeb!
That’s a good point. The BBC should charge a TV tax on anyone anywhere in the World who buys a TV. They could set up a special department with foreign trips, posh hotels, meetings with foreign Governments etc.
I would love to see a Beeboid walking into a Taliban house demanding the TV tax !
You jest well, Grant, but I can see the Taliban being quite happy to help fund the BBC. Examples from most bits of “neutral’ coverage over the last few years will explain why to anyone with eyes.
All Seeing,
Good point, I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe the Taliban already fund the BBC !
At times I think the BBC fund the Taliban.
Grant, Mark Thompson told Andrew Marr a few months ago that they were putting together a plan for a world-wide subscription service. Not sure if that would include the i-Player.
David – Yip, I knew that of course but was being a little wicked 😀 Grant and ASE make equally great points – maybe OBL was a commissioning Editor to World News? Just wonderin’
He only watched the BBC for an alternative to al Jazeera 😀 And then he would turn to MTV!
The BBC is always a reliable alternative when Al Jazeera’s Israel coverage isn’t anti-Semitic enough. Mark Regev does after all say he finds al Jazeera interviewers more balanced.
Al Jazeera is much more balanced; I don’t know how anyone can question this.
It may be because AJ considers itself first-and-foremost a news broadcaster whose credibility is based on the quality of its output. The BBC, on the other hand, is an ideologically-based propaganda machine with sacrosanct, institution status, that knows it can do what it wants without any fear of its munificent funding being withdrawn.
deegee,
I always had him down as a bit of a closet rock and roller. Something to do with the beat, well, dead beat anyway.
Let’s also remember that several Al Qa’eda operatives were found with a BBC World Service number in their posession. Either Al Qa’eda has a lot of press officers or they had this number for – ahem – ‘operational’ purposes.
hippie,
Maybe they are planning a terrorist attack on the BBC ! Or should I dream on ?
No doubt INBBC Arabic TV is especially flattered; its politically appeasing programmes are reaching its desired audience.
And Britsh taxpayers* pay for it.
(* In a couple of years, financial burden of Arabic TV and of World Service will be shifted on to licencepayers, as agreed at the last Government financial settlement re-BBC.)
INBBC Arabic TV has HQ at Broadcasting House, London (photo)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanmarks/2312501612/in/photostream/
This financing by the British public has to be added to all the lavish expenditure which British government provides for the likes of our non-ally, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, etc.
100 Osama bin Laden cartoons, which may not be appreciated at INBBC Arabic TV.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/cartoons-299527-death-patriotic.html?pic=1
Bloke with a turban and a beard. Religion of peace missing a trick there. Get offended and threaten to whack anyone involved and they’d be pulled before you can say ‘cultural sensitivities’. Perhaps less so in the US currently.
Possibly the BBC needs to ‘debate’ how ‘angry’ some folk are about such expression of opinion as art?
I thought he wasn’t allowed to watch TV because of the telly-ban.
BTW – did we ever find out whose phone number at the BBC was found in the posession of al quaeda suspects (as publicised via wikileaks)
Fred,
Like alcohol and adultery, that only applies to the plebs.
I suspect it was the same dude taht ETA contacted, can’t remeber his name. “Hey, terrorists and associated scum…I mean disidents, we’ll be your mouthpiece, just give us the exclusive”.
That the vulnerable old gentleman did NOT have a licence is the crime that the BBC would regard as being far more heinous than his somewhat disproportionate response to events as perceived on 9/11. Disappointing!
Why did Lambeth social services NOT tell him of his entitlement to a free licence at Tora Bora Community Centre-bleedin` Toricutz again!
Stll we are where we are-time to move on-and the BBC has “sent a signal” …albeit with Seals that DON`T cry whenever we book an air ticket!
The bias, mis-reporting and downright deceit of the BBC’s reporting of the attacks on christians in Egypt for me is the final straw. The BBC calls it “sectarian violence”, clearing muslims of all blame, merely waving it away as balanced violence between the 2 sides, each as guilty as the other. Islam is of course, the religion of peace. The editorialising is not just scandalous and disgraceful, it is a LIE. A hateful, deliberate lie. I dont say this lightly, but I hope those guilty at the BBC burn in hell.
‘Those who continue to pay the licence fee are no different to those who stood-by during the Holocaust.’
Discuss.
Absolutely – we should make a more determined effort to use this site as a rallying point for resistance to the bbc – things like co-ordinated campaigns to e-mail particularly biased beeboid tweets to our MP’s, for example. Inviting them to stop regurgitating the nonsense that the bbc is a national treasure, blah blah and to face up to reality.
Question, has anyone tried invoicing crapita for the administerative cost of returning unsolicitated junk mail ? Send the invoice, a couple of demands for payment, then register a claim in the small claims court ?
Yes; INBBC reporting on EGYPT is appallingly biased with typical pro-Islam, anti-Christian prejudice.
INBBC’s J. HEADS’s latest ‘reports’ are typical.
In contrast, ‘Jihadwatch’:
Egypt: Muslim rampage against Christians continues, now 12 dead, 232 wounded
INBBC’s hidden narrative is that after the Egyptian ‘uprising’ (enthusiastically supported by INBBC), Islam must really be a nice socialist ideology, like that of INBBC itself, and so must be propagandised for, as part of the global Islam-Left political alliance.
Also for INBBC on Egypt:
Egypt: 50,000 attend Muslim Brotherhood/Salafi rally: “The United Arab States and the United Islamic States are inevitably coming, and soon we will have one caliph to rule us all”
Grant makes an intersting link early in this blog.
I do think that the “more enlightened” BBC staffers are missing a trick here!
I forsee a programme here on “Fairtrade Opium”-lots of young pups in the field agonising about the money NOT getting to the Talibans development and Human Resources Fund as Islingtons party people might prefer.
No doubt, plenty BBC pioneers of the Rainbow Revolution are doing market research on “The Peoples Behalf”.
Ah…bless!
I lived in Northern Ireland during the 80s and 90s and to be honest I loved it. Yes there was the dangerous element. I mean if the Catholic husband of the woman I was seeing found out there would have been hell to pay. But he didn’t and I feel to this day I got one over the nationalistic bastard who only bought a British passport because it was cheaper than the Irish one. But that’s a story for another day. (And we wonder why there are problems to this day)
Anyway back to Osma bBC Laden and how he didn’t have a TV Licence. It was common knowledge that during the troubles the TV detector Van never went down the Falls Road. But oh how the bBC loved the Irish Nationalists. Funny that.
Pounce_uk. The detector van never entered the Falls Road because the inspectors were scared they would receive a bullet in the knee caps. It had nothing to do with BBC bias.
Does anyone know did BBC Northern Ireland employ an equal number of Catholics and Protestants during the troubles? Was the ‘British’ in BBC enough to scare Catholics from working for the BBC? Was the Ormeau Avenue site of Broadcasting House, Belfast a problem for Catholic employers? Was BBC Northern Ireland more or less pro Irish Nationalists than the main BBC from Bush House?
The BBC has been, and remains, decisively nationalist, Or, if you prefer, ant-British
The BBC has been, and remains, decisively nationalist, Or, if you prefer, ant-British
Could somebody be so nice in which to knock up a new board please….pretty please.
He didn’t need a licence.
Nobody does.
How many people would buy a car tax disc if there was a zero chance of being fined for not paying it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8472430/WikiLeaks-leaked-files-accuse-BBC-of-being-part-of-a-possible-propaganda-media-network.html