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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Reuters has stopped by Little Green Football blog already 16 times today, How many more death threats did they leave.
BUT, Not Breaking News. A bump or a cross link would be more appropiate.
Todays problems, however, seems simply a case of too much success.
He still has the photos up.Low Bandwidth LGF Enabled
So many people are trying to get in to Little Green Footballs this morning that our doors are starting to get jammed with HTTP requests. In English, this means its going to be a little slow around here for a bit. One web server can only do so much, even on a dedicated box.
In the meantime, Ive disabled a lot of the bandwidth/resource gobbling features on the main page (title logo and a bunch of other things) to try to open the doors a bit wider.
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I've actually used an adding machine like the one in your photo, in an accounting class in High School. So, I can say the he is holding the crank wrong. It should be held between the index and second fingers.
Lest we forget, the first person to "corraborate" Time's Haditha story on the ground was a Reuters photographer:
Haditha Reporter Was Jailed By US, Shares Name With Source | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/reporter-jailed-by-us-broke-haditha-has-familiar-name
Must be the Reuters internet bikini sales division.
Or perhaps the Internet Specialty Explosives Boutique at the Reuters site.
bttt
i agree, why is this in breaking news when the stroy is old?
...yeah, I guess he was an employee of the doctored leftist photos division.
Reuters needs to taken down because it has clearly been infiltrated by terrorists.
Is this double-speak? An employee, but not an employee of the news division? Who the hell is on their payroll, the terrorists?
Good thing you're a British citizen, you pig's behind. Here, you'd have started a war.
Rooters only has the terrorist propaganda division...
They do NEWS??
Now THAT'S a 'gotcha'.
If a muslim terrorist were threatening your life over revealing a faked photo...I wonder would your attitude be the same? Somehow I doubt it!!!
Just what kind of dog do you have in this fight?
Ah. No "news" divisions after all. I was worried for a few minutes.
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