Posted on 07/10/2007 1:53:52 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
That Hamas and the BBC have close relations isn’t exactly a revelation. See here and here, for example.
But finally the BBC, the world’s biggest broadcaster, has itself admitted to being in touch with Hamas – the group that unlike other Islamic terror groups, has made a habit of deliberately targeting children (in school buses, bat mitzvah birthday parties, pizzerias filled with kids and so on).
A senior BBC executive has confirmed that the BBC held private meetings with Hamas – whose gunmen usually wear ski masks to hide their identity – in the days leading up to the release of reporter Alan Johnston.
In a new posting on the blog of the BBC News website, BBC Middle East bureau editor Simon Wilson confirms that he held meetings with Hamas leaders in Gaza and Damascus to discuss Johnston’s fate. In his piece, titled “The Joy of Alan,” Wilson hints he was ordered to do so by more senior officials at the BBC.
Wilson also reveals that he and several colleagues were nearly kidnapped themselves on one of their outings to Gaza:
One grim day, a group of masked and armed men apparently looking for a hostage turned up 20 minutes after one of my colleagues had just left a building in Gaza City. Shortly afterwards, a contact in a western intelligence service gave us chilling and compelling evidence that our every move was being followed by a car full of armed gang members.
The BBC isn’t the only organization apparently now cooperating with Hamas. Yesterday in an interview with Italy’s RAI TV, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Gaza’s Hamas rulers were forging ever-closer ties with al-Qaeda and inviting al-Qaeda operatives to enter Gaza. “Thanks to the support of Hamas, al-Qaeda is entering Gaza,” Abbas said.
Would Wilson and other BBC officials also now like to comment on this report in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida – especially located by my sources in Gaza – that Jaysh Al-Islam (the so-called Army of Islam group who were holding Johnston) received $5 million and a million Kalashnikov rifle bullets in the deal to release Johnston?
I think British TV license-payers are entitled to know what is done with their money.
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And if they aren't mad as Hades, they deserve what they get.
“One can only hope a reasonable proportion of these rounds were ‘gimmicked’ to detonate in the rifle...’
As Clarence Darrow replied to the insulted judge of the Scopes trial who said, “One hopes you are not impugning the honor of the court,” “One is entitled to hope.”
While I do understand that the BBC is apparently salivating over the prospect of starting to murder Jewish children again - after all, the job wasn’t properly finished by 1945, now was it? - I do not see how this is even remotely legal under modern anti terrorist laws. and Hamas is designated a terrorist group, yes?
i’d be interested in the followup of this story.
The British hanged Lord Haw Haw after WWII. Start the treason trials within the BBC. No vigilante justice, by the books law and order, those who aid terrorists need to pay the price.
If the BBC delivered arms to Hamas, according to American Constitutional law, Britain would be a non trade, terrorist sponsoring country as the BBC is a government news service.
What difference between the US State Department giving 20 Million in cash to Fatah and the British Government giving arms to Hamas is simply that they are not “our terrorists”, Fatah is.
Planting a military version of LoJack would be nice...(but, of course, that wouldn’t be considered fair).
Who woulda thunk Hamas were reloaders!?
The reporter should have been allowed to diem rather than give terrorist 5 million in seed money and millions of bullets all of which will kill far more than one reporter.
The heads of the BBC that did this belong in jail for life IMO.
LOL! I generally assume the media wouldn’t know a bullet from a cartridge if they had to swallow it. They use the terms interchangeably.
At least the AP Style Manual has a whole section on firearms to clarify such terms. Having a special section (for their reporters to ignore :-) does make it rather obvious how few in the media are familiar with such a topic. I guarantee that when I was an editor, though, this error was never made in stories I worked on!
Or, "on which I worked." ;-)
Not to worry, BBC,CBS and Perkie Katy are in negotiations to dock her salary to pay for the extortion money paid to HAMAS
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