from The Dissident Frogman, a blog published by an atypical Frenchman, tres atypical:
The more I see it, the more it looks like the folks at the BBC are losing their understanding of the English language.Unless, of course, there is a better explanation for these repeated mistakes:
« An Italian court has given a life sentence to a woman linked to resurgent left-wing guerrillas the Red Brigades.
(...) The guerrillas are notorious for having kidnapped and killed the former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, in 1978.
(...)
The militants also said they were behind the 2002 murder of another labour ministry official, Marco Biagi. »
It's hard to fathom how the BBC could be so misled. I mean, even by French standards, these guerillas were left wing terrorists.
Nadia Unhappy Guerilla:
« Lioce has described herself as a "political prisoner" and "militant" and says she will appeal against the ruling. »
There you go. Nadia describes herself as a "militant", ergo for the Beeb "militant" she is.
That leaves us the "guerilla" question.
I must say I have an idea as far as this one is concerned. Yes, I do I have an idea, as you probably do too, but I need to find a link between the two, considering of course, that I'm still at the point where I expect the BBC to have at least a vague concern for basic coherence.
Sure, you could call me a naive fool and if you were to do that from behind your computer screen, you would have a reasonable chance to survive for some time (I'll find you eventually), but you would be wrong nevertheless.
Follow the second link under the related stories, from the original article (that's right under "See also"): "Red Brigades admit killing".
At the end of the article, we find this:
« (The Red Brigades) praise the perpetrators of the 11 September attacks against the US, saying that these demonstrate the "need for the forging of alliances between anti-imperialistic forces and revolutionary forces in the regions of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East." »
Get the link? The Islamofascists 'anti-imperialistic forces' in Iraq are fighting a guerilla war and the Leftists Red Brigades seeks to forge alliances with them, ergo the BBC calls the Red Brigades a 'guerilla group'.
Since we're trying to set things right as far as semantic is concerned, I believe we should really stop calling 'biased journalism' what is simply a great piece of Public Relations by the BBC for the benefit of the Anti-Imperialistic Alliance international terrorism.
And it's not as if we've never heard about that alliance, is it?
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