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A Reuters Employee Threatens the Wrong Guy
Powerlineblog ^ | 5/26/2006 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 05/26/2006 5:21:05 PM PDT by Jameison

Earlier today, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs emailed us about a death threat he had received, apparently from an employee of Reuters in London. It's a complicated story; you can read it all here. LGF got an email from the obviously fictitious address, "zionistpig@hotmail.com." ("Zionist pig" is revealing, I think.) The subject heading was: "You bunch of wankers." That jumped out at me; to my knowledge, the only people who use the word "wanker" (Is it a word? Beats me.) are left-wing bloggers and their commenters. This was the text of the email:

I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut.... I would not, personally, consider that a death threat, although it's certainly an unpleasant message. We've gotten a lot worse from liberals, and I'm sure Charles has too. Nowadays, that's pretty much how liberals talk.

What struck me most about this episode is how technically skilled Charles is. The poor buffoon from Reuters who sent the email never knew what hit him. Charles was able to trace his IP address around the globe, and it quickly emerged that the miscreant was Inayat Bunglawala. This column by Bunglawala--an extraordinarily silly column, postulating that Christians and Muslims can get along if Christians just give up on the divinity of Christ--was apparently the source of the problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bunglawala; lgf; pwned; reuters
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Dontcha just love it when that happens?
1 posted on 05/26/2006 5:21:08 PM PDT by Jameison
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Charles was able to trace his IP address around the globe, and it quickly emerged that the miscreant was Inayat Bunglawala.

the offender in question

2 posted on 05/26/2006 5:27:00 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: freepatriot32
Now, that's a wanker....(which I believe is a British colloquialism for a masturbator).
3 posted on 05/26/2006 5:29:32 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: Jameison
The stupid twit thought he could "hide" on the Internet. Guess he knows better now.
4 posted on 05/26/2006 5:30:16 PM PDT by TechJunkYard (jail Cynthia McKinney for assault)
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"wanker" (Is it a word? Beats me.)

I am pretty sure it is a british slang word.

. So I looked it up.

.

But,

all I found was this:

.

Wanker:


5 posted on 05/26/2006 5:30:47 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("I don't think Pat Kennedy is crazy, he's just a drunk" -- G. Gordon Liddy (5-10-06))
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To: freepatriot32

Looks like a typical pencil neck leftist.


6 posted on 05/26/2006 5:31:07 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Jameison

They may know a lot about throat cutting but we still rule when it comes to sniper head and gut shots and precision bombs that take out scumbags in the midst of good people.


7 posted on 05/26/2006 5:31:52 PM PDT by joem15 (If less is more, then what is plenty?)
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To: Jameison

I understand how an IP address can belong to reuters.com, but how can it pinpoint the actual sender of the e-mail?


8 posted on 05/26/2006 5:33:03 PM PDT by opinionator
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The divinity of Christ? 3/4ths or more of the US population gave that up at birth and are staying the course. We oughta be getting along just fine.


9 posted on 05/26/2006 5:33:27 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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This column by Bunglawala--an extraordinarily silly column, postulating that Christians and Muslims can get along if Christians just give up on the divinity of Christ--was apparently the source of the problem.

Right after Muslims admit Mohamed was a murderous pedophile.

10 posted on 05/26/2006 5:38:19 PM PDT by Always Right
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He sure isn't much to look at is he?


11 posted on 05/26/2006 5:39:26 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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He looks like a nice, normal East Indian guy (FReeper Cool Guy, You still out there?)in the photo. The following is from a story about him being smeared in an odd mass email/fake news release attacking him:

"Inayat Bunglawala the spokesman of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) was allegedly arrested in a public toilet earlier this year. It was alleged that Mr. Bunglawala propositioned a male undercover police officer while standing at a urinal. Upon making an obscene indecent proposal to the police officer, bringing back memories of the George Michael case, the officer identified himself and arrested the MCB spokesman on the spot..."

The overall article states that this dasdardly accusation is totally unfounded, but upon further surfing I'm convinced that sadly, the worst of it is true: Mr. Bungholiowa is indeed a muslim.

And he must be pretty small for him to fit in a toilet. Maybe he too will be to small to go to prison.

12 posted on 05/26/2006 5:39:41 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Happy Birthday, Duke. You and those of your caliber are sorely missed.)
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13 posted on 05/26/2006 5:40:22 PM PDT by Sister_T (Kenneth Blackwell for Governor of Ohio!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Wikipedia got one right for a change.


14 posted on 05/26/2006 5:40:27 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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Reuters has responded to Mr. Johnson affirming that an employee -- not a member of the news staff -- has been suspended over the incident.

Imarat Bongwater has not been named as the culprit by Reuters.


15 posted on 05/26/2006 5:41:22 PM PDT by HKMk23 (We keep you alive to serve this ship. Row well, and live.)
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I bet there are some people here who could make him fit in a toilet just fine.


16 posted on 05/26/2006 5:42:23 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: freepatriot32

Check out this other page:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inayat_bunglawala/

Same format as the one linked at powerline, and it has this additional information:

"Inayat Bunglawala is media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain."

So he's not an employee but a "guest commentator" of sorts.

There's all sorts of stuff on the web about him.


17 posted on 05/26/2006 5:45:22 PM PDT by Shermy (Ronald Reagan was man enough to call an Amnesty an Amnesty.)
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I didn't see his email address there. Anyone find it yet?


18 posted on 05/26/2006 5:48:27 PM PDT by dmw
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To: freepatriot32

Looks more like a poofter than a wanker.


19 posted on 05/26/2006 5:50:29 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2006, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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To: opinionator
They can find out what workstation has that IP address, and at what time the email was sent. Then who was logged onto that workstation at that time was, most probably, who sent the email.
20 posted on 05/26/2006 6:06:55 PM PDT by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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