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'''Gordon Corera''' is the BBC Newsnight's Security Correspondent  
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[[Gordon Corera]] has been a [[Terrorexpertise:BBC|BBC]] Newsnight Security Correspondent since 2004.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/gordoncorera.shtml Biographies: Gorgon Corera], BBC website, accessed 25 Jan 2010</ref>
  
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==Jihadi Conspiracy on the Internet==
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His biography on the BBC website says:
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On 16 January 2008, Corera was the presenter of the Newsnight program "Terrorist 007" on the Cyber-Al Qaeda.  The program reports about a young British-Muslim who was allegedly conducting "jihad" on the internet.  It is a sprinkling of allegations, quotations from terrorologists, and the imprisonment is taken as final proof of his mass criminal proclivities.  That is, spreading information translates to a heinous crime.
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:In that role he covers counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation and international security issues for BBC TV, Radio and Online.
  
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In the program ther are some curious comments.
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:He was previously a foreign affairs reporter on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme.
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:Corera: He viewed footage like this (unarmed civilians walking down the street in Falluja -- and bombed afterwards… the pilot exclaiming "Oh, dude"…) taken from the cockpit of a fighter jet as evidence of a western plan to wipe out Muslims across world. It is alleged that it shows innocent Iraqi civilians being killed in Falluja -- the real facts are unclear.
 
  
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Corera states that the fact that the young Muslim was incensed at what happened was taken from videos showing the killings of Muslims, but then the videos are merely "alleged" to have shown American crimes.  While in the program the "facts" are clear about what the young Muslims were up to, the American crimes in Iraq are "alleged" or merely unclear.
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:Gordon has also been a State Department Correspondent based in Washington DC and the US Affairs Analyst for BBC News.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/gordoncorera.shtml Biographies: Gorgon Corera], BBC website, accessed 25 Jan 2010</ref>
  
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NB: In this program Corera speaks from London, Washington DC, Bosnia... a minor segment produced at a huge cost.
 
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So what can be done to censor the internet.  Paxman ended: "tomorrow we will bring you the  Home Secretary's response on what can be done about use of the internet by terrorists."  There is a pattern here.  An obvious propaganda piece is created doing a hack job on an issue that some sectors of the government want to affect, e.g., censorship of the internet, criminalization of certain groups, demonization of certain groups, and presto, BBC Newsnight produces a hack job.  The following day the "Home Secretary will respond".  This Jihadi 007 fits in this pattern.
 
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===People Quoted in the program===
 
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*[[Aaron Weisburd]]
 
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*[[Evan Kohlmann]]
 
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*[[Peter Clark]] &ndash; Met Police
 
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*[[Amit Yoran]] &ndash; the "US's first cyber-security czar"
 
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==Contact, References and Resources==
 
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Latest revision as of 15:44, 25 January 2010

Gordon Corera has been a BBC Newsnight Security Correspondent since 2004.[1]

His biography on the BBC website says:

In that role he covers counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation and international security issues for BBC TV, Radio and Online.
He was previously a foreign affairs reporter on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme.
Gordon has also been a State Department Correspondent based in Washington DC and the US Affairs Analyst for BBC News.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Biographies: Gorgon Corera, BBC website, accessed 25 Jan 2010
  2. ↑ Biographies: Gorgon Corera, BBC website, accessed 25 Jan 2010
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