Why did US base escape tsunami?

Tin foil hat alert! Biased BBC points us to this BBC nonsense.

Following the tsunami, conspiracy rumours have been circulating on the internet of how the US base at Diego Garcia managed to avoid casualties while other islands suffered huge losses.

The US Navy's official Diego Garcia website said the island wasn't hit by the devastating tsunami because it is surrounded by deep waters and the grade of its shores does not allow for tsunamis to build before hitting land.

Notice how the BBC refer to an answer by the US Navy, the inference being that since you can't trust the US, the BBC tells us so daily, you better not trust this answer. I guess the BBC doesn't have anyone bright enough to know what a 7th grade geography student knows.

Or, is this just another example by the BBC, of how the poor suffer while the rich US of A gets off without a scratch?

Why raise the question at all? All manner of conspiracy rumours circulate on the internet everyday.

Because the conspiracy theory suits the BBC's contrived question:

Is America a power for good or ill in the world? Was there a malign hand at work, or has America's role in the crisis in fact been a model of humanitarian leadership.

As biased BBC notes "Contemptible". Quite right.

At a time when America has pledged $350 million, private donations may exceed that, her military has hundreds of ships, thousands of sailors and all manner of planes helping in the relief, all the BBC can do is ask is America good or evil.

Let's not forget that all those military people helping out are risking their lives. Military operations alone are dangerous enough and now we have reports of some shots fired at the troops. Remember also, this area is full of radical Islamists and the US military could become a target.

How contemptible of the BBC to exploit a tragedy such as this to bash America. And we have to pay for the privilege.

One last observation that escapes the ever clueless BBC, the island of Diego Garcia is British territory. How ironic.
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