July 08, 2005

The BBC on terror

PooterGeek is back. And he notes a strange distinction in the BBC's reporting of indiscriminate attacks on civilians:
The agents of Al-Qaeda who murder innocents in Iraq are different from the ones who murder innocents in the UK because the ones in Iraq are "militants", whereas the ones in Britain are "terrorists".
And USS Neverdock says the BBC has some explaining to do:
Perhaps the BBC would care to explain to the victims and their families, how this could happen since, according to the BBC's "The Power of Nightmares", this is all just a "myth".
For those who missed it, the BBC documentary's principal contention was that "the threat of terrorism to the West was a politically-driven fantasy".

How wrong can you be?