Tim Blair

BBC ALARMED, LACKEYS ALERTED

This report may be slightly sexed-up:

Security bosses fear al-Qaeda are plotting to attack the BBC.

An alert was sparked when a Moroccan posing as a newspaper photographer was seen taking pictures of the TV Centre in White City, West London.

When he was challenged, he gave false details — and fled in a car driven by another Arabic looking man.

Security has been stepped up at all BBC buildings since the incident on Sunday.

I wonder if security would have been stepped up if a Norwegian had been taking photographs. Why does the BBC single out the swarthy? This obvious racism should be investigated. Meanwhile, as usual, LackeyWorld™ attracts the standard Islamoid attention:

A statement attributed to al-Qaeda has threatened "America's lackeys" with attacks similar to those in Madrid last week, singling out Japan, Italy, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Pakistan, an Arab daily reported today.

"To America's lackeys we say: a lackey of America has destroyed his future by allying himself with the tyrant of the century," said the text signed by Abu-Hafs al-Masri/al-Qaeda Brigades received by al-Qods al-Arabi newspaper.

"Learn your lesson, you lackeys of America, the brigades of death are at your gates," it warned.

Lackey us! Thanks for the warning, Abu-Hafs al-Masri/al-Qaeda people, but it really wasn’t necessary. Your brigades of death have been around long enough for some of us to get the message. Like Victor Davis Hanson, for example:

We overlooked 25 years of continued terrorist assaults from November 1979 in Teheran to the USS Cole, in part because multiculturalism and cultural relativism were so entrenched that we dared not condemn as evil and wrong those creepy people who believed in gender apartheid, fundamentalism, autocracy, anti-intellectualism, and anti-Semitism, but instead romanticized or at least ignored them.

The rest of the Hanson interview is recommended. One more extract:

The President has raised domestic spending by 8% per annum, lavished funds on health care and education, offered near amnesty to illegal immigrants from Mexico, appointed a plethora of minority judges, cabinet officials, and administrators, and committed more AIDs relief funds than all prior administrations put together-and is still  hated by our Left, simply because his demeanor, accent, religion, and even appearance don't validate the aristocratic Left's rhetoric about sex, class, gender, and the other. It really is a make-believe world in which a Barbra Streisand, Gore Vidal, or Arianna Huffington cheaply sound off from their estates about some purported cosmic evil fostered by poor deluded Americans hooked on K-Mart and NASCAR.