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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.It's hard to fathom how the BBC could be so misled. I mean, even by French standards, these guerillas were left wing terrorists.
(...)The guerrillas are notorious for having kidnapped and killed the former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, in 1978.
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The militants also said they were behind the 2002 murder of another labour ministry official, Marco Biagi.
Let's digress a bit: incidentally, that's probably the reason why the French state sheltered some of them from a much deserved punishment. After all the cradle of modern terrorism is to be found within the walls of French faculties, and there's nothing so touching as to see the return of the prodigal sons.
Wanna strike a serious blow to the nest of terror? Bomb the Sorbonne¹. End of the digression.
To understand where the malfunction comes from, I guess we could see what the "woman linked to resurgent left-wing guerillas", namely Nadia Desdemona Lioce has to tell us.
But first, I'll go for another digression, because I'm in a digressive mood today: somebody please tell me this is a nom de guerre. Somebody please then proceed to tell me this stupid bitch has been reading Shakespeare, without knowing that this cool sounding name comes allegedly from the Greek "Dysdaimon", meaning "the unhappy one" or "the bereaved one". And somebody please do it quickly as I'm not sure I can contain that sarcastic laughter much longer. Thank you very much, this is the end of the second digression.
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
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
And it's not as if we've never heard about that alliance, is it?
1: What? 'course I'm serious!
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