A Reuters employee was suspended after using the company's internet access to issue a threat saying "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut."
The e-mail was sent to Charles Johnson, who maintains the of Little Green Footballs blog.
Johnson said, "This particular death threat is a bit different from the run of the mill hate mail we get around here, because an IP lookup on the sender reveals that he/she/it was using an account at none other than Reuters News," adding "I think it's more than fair to say that Reuters has a big problem," according to YNet News.
Reuters spokesman Ed Williams said that "I can confirm that an employee has been suspended pending further investigation. The individual was not an employee of Reuters' news division."
Reuters Retracts Lebanon Photo
Relatedly, Reuters said it has retracted a photograph of Beirut, Lebanon, and credited to Adnan Hajj, after discovering that it was altered - and as reported at the Little Green Footballs blog. The photograph had shown two plumes of black smoke rising out of buildings in Beirut.
The retracted photograph was titled "Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj"
The LGF blog had noted that photograph "shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop 'clone' tool to add more smoke to the image .... Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There's really no question about it."
Reuters released a statement saying that, "photo editing software was improperly used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvience."
Tracing Sender Of Email
According to Israel Insider - a Jewish Social Network - "Johnson further traced the movements of the sender of the threat, and found direct parallels between the internet locations of the sender and Inayat Bunglawala, Media Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain."
Israel Insider further noted that "Bunglawala, who contributed an editorial to the Guardian website, has attracted negative attention in the past after making anti-Semitic outbursts, and has declared that the British media was 'Zionist-controlled,'" and added that "In the comment section of the Guardian, underneath his own editorial, Bunglawala denied sending the threat, blaming 'Zionists' instead."
"That was not me! Methinks some Zionists are up to mischief," he wrote, according to Isreal Inside.
"There is strong circumstantial evidence connecting Bunglawala to the threat, but there is no way for me to verify this for certain. Only a Reuters network administrator would have access to the necessary records," Johnson said, according to YNet News.
Original souce: Wiki News
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