Posted on 08/01/2005 7:26:12 AM PDT by abu afak
Albert Scardino has stepped down from the post of executive editor of the Guardian newspaper, just a week after the controversial dismissal of trainee journalist Dilpazier Aslam over his undeclared Islamist interests.
Rumours had circulated last night that Mr Scardino was about to leave, but sources at the newspaper today were at pains to point out that the departure was entirely unconnected with the Aslam affair.
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, said: "Albert Scardino, executive editor for the home and foreign departments, has decided to leave the Guardian in October, at the end of his second annual contract, to pursue online and entertainment projects. We wish him well for the future."
Earlier this week, union members at The Guardian held a meeting at the newspaper's Farringdon Road offices to discuss what action to take over the treatment of Mr Aslam, who although he was a member of Hizb'ut Tahrir, the extremist Islamist party, made no reference to this when he applied for the position, and this was not declared in the newspaper when he wrote on Islamic issues or filed a comment piece on the July 7 bombings.
Mr Aslams ties to the group, which is outlawed in several countries but operates legally in the UK were revealed by Scott Burgess, who runs the Daily Ablution blog...."
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Nice to see the Guardian take it on the chin. :)
PING..
and yes it is veronica!
al-Guardian is the most anti-Israeli and anti-American Daily in the West.
"the departure was entirely unconnected with this affair.." Righto..that's like saying the death of the person by exanguination was entirely unconnect to the bullet hole in his heart.
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