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Barbary pirates trump an American destroyer at the BBC
(Sorry, can't work out how to link the title to the "From Our Own Correspondent" article.)

Here's an example of the steady stream of bias that pours daily from the BBC. Saturday's From Our Own Correspondent had an article on an American destroyer off Mombasa that was aimed solely at discrediting and mocking America. Unless, of course, the writer intended to praise America when he wrote, "Wicked imperialists like to pick the best spots for themselves." Now people may ask why they don't see that particular bit of evidence of bias when they access the article on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7085188.stm

The reason is simple. It has been stealth-edited out. Fortunately, Google has a cache that still shows it. ItÂ’s three lines down:

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:xEH9h3FrvhsJ:www.freerepublic.com/
focus/f-news/1923979/posts+US+destroyer+Mombasa+harbour&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&ie=UTF-8

But that's not the only evidence of bias. It is rife throughout the article, kicking off with the link on the Africa page:

Kenyan embrace Why a US destroyer joined the dhows in Mombasa harbour ("embrace" indeed)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm

continuing with the title, dripping with sarcasm when juxtaposed against the text:

US Navy in Kenya goodwill mission

and ending with the extraordinary observation that an American naval officer had "helped suppress the Islamic Barbary corsairs of Algiers," as if ending the centuries-old unbridled and unprovoked savagery of the Barbary pirates and slave owners was a bad thing.

One wonders how the editor who deleted the bit about "wicked imperialists" could possibly have decided that the rest of this biased nonsense represented suitable output from an organization that apparently prides itself on its impartiality. This is the nth example I've found of the BBC siding with radical Islam over the West. BBC hacks have truly become apologists for Islamic terror, whether it is Islamic piracy of the past or the terrorists of today.


Posted by: Bryan 2007-11-13
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