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October 09, 2006

Media coverage of Islamist and neo-Nazi terrorism

Have just had an interesting e-mail from the Red Pepper discussion list. Pendle's local newspaper has reported that two men with links to the far right political party the BNP have been found with a large cache of weapons - including rocket launchers (plural), a nuclear/biological protection suit and "chemical components". This men allegedly had "some kind of masterplan"; one of the men had previously stood as a BNP council candidate.

What's unusual about this is that the story has not - so far as I can tell - made the national news at all. This is surprising: this is a pretty substantial weapons cache. This is also in real contrast to the way that Islamist terror is reported: where raids on Muslim suspects are reported even where nothing is found, this very successful police raid on the BNP didn't make the nationals at all.

PS: another member of the list has prodded the nationals to cover the story, so it'll be interesting to see if they do.

Posted by jon_mendel at October 9, 2006 11:28 AM