London Whitewash?

According to the latest Yahoo News Alert, London police have reported that the death toll has now reached 52.

The BBC, it appears, is already trying to distort the history of why those 52 people died as the words "terror" and "terrorism" are being scrubbed from their stories.

Examples:

GOOGLE:
Blast victims remain in hospital
BBC News, UK - Jul 8, 2005
... The Royal Free Hospital in north London said 13 were still in hospital ... a senior A&E consultant, said: "The characteristic injury of a terrorist incident is ...

BBC article:

Blast victims remain in hospital

The quote in the Google link is scrubbed--it's nowhere to be found.

GOOGLE:
Markets recover from UK bombings
BBC News, UK - Jul 8, 2005
UK and European shares rebounded on Friday, erasing the previous day's losses caused by terrorist attacks in London that killed at least 37 people. ...

BBC article:

Markets recover from UK bombings
World markets have swung from high to low and back again UK and European shares rebounded on Friday, erasing the previous day's losses caused by bomb attacks in London that killed at least 50 people.

The above were provided by Thomas Blumer of BizzyBlog. Michelle Malkin has more.

What possible purpose would it serve to send these words down the memory hole?

It keeps the public from demanding action. The action of the sort that the leftists who run the BBC don't want. Total Victory.

We must be ever vigilant about refuting this political correctness. Those people did not die in vain...they died for a reason.

9:30AM Update

Not only is the BBC whitewashing the attack, they [Update] the Associated Press[/Update] are trying to pin it on Jews. They fabricated a Blair quote in which the prime minister supposedly said that the attack was an outgrowth of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Turns out, he never said it. Little Green Footballs has the story.

And they give the blogosphere crap about journalistic standards and ethics...

7/12 Update - Related Post

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