That comment begs the question, which Reuters division was he employed by?
The accounting department?
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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We already *knew* that they reveled in it...
Cheers!
May 29th is Breaking News?
How could they put a NON-EMPLOYEE on supsension?
Bringing back this fairly recent event in light of the events of today/yesterday, with the faked Reuters picture, and more threats to Charles at lgf from a Reuters IP address.
Non-employee to the "newsroom".
Reuters should immediately identify the one who made the death threats and ask whatever country this scumbag resides in to press charges.
Need teepee for my bunglawala!
"Not sure if you realized it, but Flip used to wear that dress after the show too."
Flip as black woman who has had her hair bleached blond speaking to a gaggle of her friends, "You don't think it makes me look too Polish, do you?"
The complete works of Reuters’ photoshopper Adnan Hajj are available here at Yahoo’s News Picture Museum.
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=adnan+hajj&c=news_photos
I'm thinking he needs some anger management classes
So what happen with the dude ... is he still on suspension .. or was he fired??
What's there to investigate? Fire him!
"the Reuters staff member, who has not been named, left his email address as "zionistpig" at hotmail.com."
The dude should be charged with a hate crime!!
ping...
Why isn't this being reported elsewhere?
Shouldn't news outlets be talking about pulled photo and death threat, not just one obscure site?
Tell the truth now: you made up this name, didn't you?
LOL!
In light of the fact that LGF broke the story about the fake photo, I think it is appropiate to see that they have been threatened by people working at Reuters.
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