The BBC and the 'so-called war on terror'

By Kerry Buttram in Biased BBC

Frank Gardner, so-called 'BBC security correspondent' provides an 'analysis' asking
Is US winning its war on terror? [emphasis added]

Much has happened in the past 12 months. Some of al-Qaeda's leading lights have been caught and interrogated. Saddam Hussein is no longer in power in Baghdad. Numerous plots and attacks have been thwarted. And yet, depressingly, the so-called war on terror is still with us. [emphasis added]

If we were to look at this purely in terms of military gains the answer would be obvious. The US has swiftly toppled two governments it considered to be rogue regimes - first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq. The Pentagon's supremacy on the battlefield is unrivalled and unstoppable. Its troops are holding down a sort of peace in both countries. But waging a war on terror is a complex business. In fact many in Britain are convinced that the regime of Saddam Hussein, brutal as it was, had little to do with terrorism per se. ….

I would suggest that those who are of Gardner's view read former Clinton advisor and anti-terror expert Laurie Mylroie's article as well as new documentary evidence showing a definite link between Iraq and al Qaeda. Why is the Beeb so determinedly disinterested in that sarin which has been confirmed?

There is more and the article ends with this:

Christopher Hitchens wonders why there is such indifference to stories which disturb the anti-war group-think which the BBC articulates so effortlessly.

So a Sarin-infected device is exploded in Iraq, and across the border in Jordan the authorities say that nerve and gas weapons have been discovered for use against them by the followers of Zarqawi, who was in Baghdad well before the invasion. Where, one idly inquires, did these toys come from? No, it couldn't be.…

What will it take for the BBC to be convinced that this is a real war?

I would add, it seems the BBC didn't consider the previous regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq as "rogue regimes". Otherwise why this comment?

The US has swiftly toppled two governments it considered to be rogue regimes - first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq.