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Clarifying.

Boobs at the Beeb.

“Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic.”

Charles Johnson asks: “Can anyone explain to me how this does not violate British law? Because Hamas is an officially proscribed terror group in the UK.”

“I have been dressed in what is an explosive belt, which the kidnappers say will be detonated if there is an attempt to storm the area,” Mr Johnston said. “They say they are ready to turn the hideout into what they describe as a death zone if there is an attempt to free me by force … It seems the answer is to return to negotiations, which I am told are very close to achieving a deal.”

Saw this at The Jawa Report: “One of Britain’s best-known writers has been nominated for the National Short Story Prize for a story inspired by watching videos of hostages being murdered by their Islamic captors.”
The writer is Hanif Kureishi. The story is “Weddings and Beheadings.” It’s told from the perspective of an Iraqi cameraman employed […]

War hero banned from the BBC
The London Telegraph reports that the bitter old BBC won’t air a drama about Britain’s youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero “because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.”
The subject of the drama was Private Johnson Beharry. Here’s the full citation of his […]

Paul Wood, a journalist of the BBC, has a new piece up at BBC Radio 4. It’s a 30 minute podcast that includes readings of military and Iraqi blogs in the war zone - some are featured in The Blog of War - Frontline Dispatches from Iraq and Afghanistan and milbloggers Jason Hartley and […]

Here’s the Beeb’s report.

If only CNN were honest enough to admit what the BBC now admits: They’re biased. They’re dhimmis. And they hate America! Via the Daily Mail:
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who […]

Caution: BBC at work.

Via Drudge, I see that the folks at BBC planted hecklers at a Conservative Party rally two weeks before Election Day in Britain.
Incredibly, the BBC defended itself, claiming the manufactured protesters were part of a “completely legitimate programme about the history and art of political heckling.”
This is even worse than this disgraceful incident, which occurred […]