Wednesday - December 17, 2008

BBC editorial guidelines say that words such as “terrorist” should be avoided. It’s a value judgment

Ya know this does get a bit out of hand and I find it very frustrating.  My uneducated guess having done no scientific survey on the subject, is that the public here are frustrated as well.  But the BBC is, (well think of the old Lilly Tomlin routine re. the phone company.) OMNIPOTENT!

“The BBC has been banned from using the word “terrorist” when reporting about the London and Glasgow car bombers,” according to a report in the Telegraph this morning.

During the Bombay (Mumbai) massacre, terrorists were referred to as “militants” although the BBC denied that it has anything to do with political correctness.

You see people. Clinton was right after all.  IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY, “IS.”

So okay. See the video and read the article and let me know what your “value judgment” is and how you view those whose intent is to to slaughter and maim in the name of a mere snackbar or a war in a foreign land.  That’s my “understanding” and I get the message alright.

Here’s an article from Express India that’s related to above.

RELATED ARTICLE

Bilal Abdulla was the passenger in a burning Jeep driven into Glasgow airport on June 30 last year in an attempted suicide attack.

The driver of the Jeep, Kafeel Ahmed, a PhD student from India, died a month later from the burns he suffered in the attack.

The pair had earlier tried to blow up two Mercedes cars packed with gas canisters and petrol cans that they had left outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London’s West End.

Woolwich Crown Court court heard the men also had two other cars in reserve and were probably planning a campaign of terrorist “spectaculars.”

Abdulla, 29, who was born in Aylesbury, Bucks, but brought up in Iraq, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.

A third man, Mohammed Asha, a high-flying junior doctor from Jordan, accused of offering finance and advice for the plot was cleared of all involvement.

The bombers met in Cambridge in 2004 when Abdulla was studying for his medical practice exams and Ahmed was doing a PhD in aeronautical engineering.

The court heard the men began planning their attacks in February 2007 and communicated regularly over the internet while Abdulla was working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and Ahmed was living in India.

Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, accused Abdulla of turning his “attention away from the treating of illness to the planning of murder.”

The car bombs outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub were packed with nails but one failed to explode because of ........ in detonator and the other because there was.......

(How smart of the newspaper to print what the mistakes were so others might learn from those mistakes.  Does the general public really NEED to know? Or would the only ones interested be potential terrorists.  I can not very well be critical of the newspaper and then post the goof-ups myself. Which is why I have left out the reasons why.  It’s the rule that when posting something, where there is a link or credit to be given, a link should be provided. And so I have done so.  Reluctantly. )

The club was packed with over 500 customers and Mr Laidlaw said it was “no more than good fortune that nobody died.”

Although the men had two others cars and further supplies of gas, petrol and electrical circuitry for the detonators, they dropped any plans to attack further targets.

The next day on Saturday June 30, the busiest day of the year at Glasgow airport, Ahmed drove a Jeep packed with gas canisters into the doors of the terminal building.

“Again fortune intervened to save those inside the terminal,” Mr Laidlaw said. “The Jeep became trapped in the terminal doors and despite the best efforts of the bombers and although there was a fierce fire, the jeep did not explode.”

As they crashed the vehicle against the doors, both Ahmed and his passenger, Abdulla, lit and threw petrol bombs in an attempt to set their vehicle alight shouted “Allahu Akbar” [God is great.]

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Posted by peiper     on 12/17/2008 at 03:32 AM   
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