Posted on 05/29/2006 11:37:26 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Edited on 08/06/2006 5:07:04 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A Reuters employee has been suspended after sending a death threat to an American blogger.
The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read: "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut."
It was sent to Charles Johnson, owner of the Little Green Footballs (LGF) weblog, a popular site which often backs Israel and highlights jihadist terrorist activities.
In the threat, the Reuters staff member, who has not been named, left his email address as "zionistpig" at hotmail.com.
Reporting the message to his readers, Johnson wrote on his website: "This particular death threat is a bit different from the run of the mill hate mail we get around here, because an IP lookup on the sender reveals that he/she/it was using an account at none other than Reuters News."
After bringing the threat to the attention of Reuters, Johnson was told by the news organization's Global Head of Communications, Ed
Williams: "I can confirm that an employee has been suspended pending further investigation. The individual was not an employee of Reuters' news division."
In an additional twist, Johnson traced the movements of the sender of the threat, and found direct parallels between the internet locations of the sender and Inayat Bunglawala, Media Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Bunglawala, who contirbuted an editorial to the Guardian website, has attracted negative attention in the past after making anti-Semitic outbursts, and has declared that the British media was "Zionist-controlled."
In the comment section of the Guardian, underneath his own editorial, Bunglawala denied sending the threat, blaming "Zionists" instead.
"That was not me! Methinks some Zionists are up to mischief," he wrote.
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If we had leadership today, we would have done the same to Fallujah for having brutally and unnecessarily murdered those contract workers. It is not that I desire to kill someone -- I have a specific purpose to accomplish in the annihilation. It would work and it would subject the people involved and it must be done. If not, we are going to incur horrific losses over time. ANYONE involved in ANY activity that will lead to the death of those who are trying to keep peace must be executed when found guilty. That includes photographers who fake photographs for propaganda purposes and those who would support such individuals. Failure to do so leads to ever more bloodshed.
Do me a favor. Instead of taking a lot of time to read and post replies here -- go research and find what Temuchin (Genghis Khan) did to the area which is present-day Herat when they opposed him. Then, get back with me.
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