BBC Funded Islamic Terrorist's Paintballing

October 10th the BBC reported:

Five men have gone on trial accused of their part in a plot to create terrorist training camps in the UK.

Alleged terrorist training took the form of camping trips and paintballing excursions around Britain, said David Farrell, prosecuting.

Mr Farrell added that the trips were intended to "foster within the participants that they were training for 'Jihad' against the 'Kuffir', or non-believers".

And the journalists over at BBC already knew they'd paid for the whole party.

Trust them if you dare.

BBC 'took terrorist trainers paintballing':

The BBC funded a paintballing trip for men later accused of Islamic terrorism and failed to pass on information about the 21/7 bombers to police, a court was told yesterday.

Mohammed Hamid, who is charged with overseeing a two-year radicalisation programme to prepare London-based Muslim youths for jihad, was described as a “cockney comic” by a BBC producer.

The BBC paid for Mr Hamid and fellow defendants Muhammad al-Figari and Mousa Brown to go on a paintballing trip at the Delta Force centre in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2005. The men, accused of terrorism training, were filmed for a BBC programme called Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic, screened in June 2005.

The BBC paid Mr Hamid, an Islamic preacher who denies recruiting and grooming the men behind the failed July 2005 attack, a £300 fee to take part in the programme, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

It was alleged that Mr Hamid told a BBC reporter that he would use the corporation’s money to pay a fine imposed by magistrates for a public order offence.

Program researcher Nasreen Suleaman "felt no obligation" to report about the bombers to the police:

Nasreen Suleaman, a researcher on the programme, told the court that Mr Hamid, 50, contacted her after the July 2005 attack and told her of his association with the bombers. But she said that she felt no obligation to contact the police with this information. Ms Suleaman said that she informed senior BBC managers but was not told to contact the police.

Hey, after all, she got a "sense":

“I got the sense that he was already talking to the police. I referred it to my immediate boss at the BBC. I wasn’t told that there was an obligation. In fact it was referred above her as well. It was such a big story.” She added: “I don’t think it’s my obligation to tell another adult that he should go to the police.”

Maybe not. But it is your, and the BBC's, damned obligation to hand over information regarding mass-murdering terrorists to the authorities.

You know, as protection for you fellow citizens.

You can watch the video "Don't Panic, I'm Islamic" here.

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