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Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong
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Boston bombing update
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Thatcher couldn’t reform the BBC, Kim Jong Un hasn’t been able to….let’s see what you can do….
And so it begins….Operation Smokescreen. When the 7/7 bombs went off the BBC went into overdrive to blame British society for the actions of the bombers….asking ‘What turned such bright, young British Muslims into terrorists?’ They had to change their tune fairly rapidly when they realised that wasn’t playing well with a Public that had just seen 52 people murdered and over 700 injured by men claiming to be … Continue reading
You couldn’t make it up……this from the BBC: Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong For the past 48 hours, internet users have been working with each other to piece together clues about the culprits of the Boston bombings. The result? They got it wrong – and left innocent people fearing for their safety. Many are now asking: should “crowd-sourced investigations” be stopped? Is this … Continue reading
The two Boston bombers are reported to be two Chechen brothers. They have apparently lived in the US for nearly a decade. Some background digging by the Atlantic Wire here: Note ‘Beliefs’….Islam The BBC made some startling claims, including that by their specialist security correspondent Frank Gardner, that the Boston bombers were most probably domestic, meaning white, right wing terrorists. This was based on no more … Continue reading
(Updates added below) Here’s how BBC Radio Five Live’s 1pm news bulletin dealt with the Boston bombing on Tuesday 16 April: listen to ‘BBC R5L news bulletin on Boston bombs, 16.4.13’ on Audioboo Jonathan Marcus: “The United States has a very large and well-developed group of radical extremists of their own. People I suppose you would categorise as being on the far-right, people who are opposed to federal authority, particularly … Continue reading
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